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...theology is wilder still--nothing less than the division of God's personality, which Judaism had always seen as a unity, into 10 interacting emanations, two of them female. One of these, the Shekhinah, was the Zohar's obsession, the portal through which it pulled believers willy-nilly into the divine drama. Only their prayer and good deeds could save her from hordes of demons and effect her mystic marriage to God's male aspect, a reunion described in sometimes erotic detail. "Without arousal below," de Leon noted, "there is no arousal above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Found In Translation | 9/16/2005 | See Source »

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