On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead by Gershom Scholem

Author:Gershom Scholem [Scholem, Gershom]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 978-0-307-78702-6
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-03-29T16:00:00+00:00

We must emphasize one other element, which goes beyond what we have thus far seen concerning the symbolism of the tenth Sefirah: namely, the inner dynamics of the Sefiroth within themselves. The Bahir speaks, not only of the downward movement of the Shekhinah in its mission to earthly beings as Wisdom and daughter, but also of its upward movement. In an extremely bizarre parable in S §101 (M §152), we read:

This is compared to a king, who had a beautiful and fragrant vessel, which he loved very much. Sometimes he placed it on his head, that is, as the tefillin of one’s head; sometimes he placed it on his arm, as the knot of the tefillin of one’s arm; sometimes he loaned it to his son, that he might sit with it; and sometimes it was called his throne.

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