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Kabbalah ranged where conventional Judaism would not. The sephirah inspiriting the material world--the Shekinah--was feminine; her hoped-for reuniting with the masculine Holy One introduced both a feminine divinity and frankly sexual imagery to Judaism. Angels and demons struggled in Kabbalistic pages, reincarnation was championed, number codes abounded. Sublime spirituality coexisted with "practical Kabbalah," the use of magic charms or amulets. Such aspects were profoundly embarrassing to the 19th century founders of Reform Judaism. Reform together with the similarly rationalist Conservative movement and modern Orthodoxy came to dominate American Judaism. After the Holocaust wiped out many...
...that same vehicle Ezekiel saw, way up in the middle of the air. Or does it signify the hidden Zaddikim of Hebraic tradition, the 36 secret saints who are born in every generation and are known to metaphysicians as the Chariot of God? Or does it simply mean the Shekinah, the presence of the Lord in every man alive...
...excellent from a theological point of view. Then somebody "does" Herbert Spencer's Philosophy of Style, and this is followed by a "literal translation" from Horace, happily named "The Bore"; it is not particularly well done, but comes as a blessed oasis in the desert of Denison. "The True Shekinah" is a racy bit of writing, which quite demolishes the friends of science, whom it accuses of having "lifted up their heels against us and against science too. They have polluted the temple of God, they have sprinkled swine's blood in the Holy of Holies, they have tried...
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