By Pinchas Giller
ISBN-10: 0791417115
ISBN-13: 9780791417119
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Masters of Torah, from the realm of the central pillar, in which at midnight King David arose 35 to unite with the Shekhinah (who is night)" ... 36 As intercessors between the text and its esoteric meaning, the maskilim are like shadkhanim, or matchmakers, brokering the union of the adherent with the Divine. The Tiqqunim and Zohar both employ various images of intercession in their portrayal of the maskilim. The mystics intervene between the highest levels of the transcendent and the prosaic dimension of present reality, through their mystical understanding of the Torah.
As the Master of the World has no personal name, or specific place, but every place is His realm, so the soul has no personal name or place in the body, rather the whole body is its realm, there is no limb empty of it. Therefore, one cannot contain the soul in one place, for then it would be absent in other jurisdictions, nor may one call it by one, two, or three names, to say that it 18 The Enlightened Will Shine is only ljokhmah, or Binah, or Da'at, but not more, for that would deny its other aspects.
Lot is known, in the place that He is revealed, the sin of Adam caused Moses to be unable to gaze upon Him, let alone another. lot 25 has fled from the thought in which Adam sinned. Therefore it says: ! was afraid because! was naked, so ! hid. 26 R. Eliezer seems to concede that the sin was of such magnitude that it had repercussions in Moses' spiritual possibilities. Nonetheless, he insists that the sin ruptured only the secondary sefirah I;bkhmah. Essentially he is arguing for the ultimate tran- The Myth of Chaos 39 scendence and abstraction in God, a principle clearly derived from philosophical rationalism.
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