[b-hebrew] what is SPYR ?
Shoshanna Walker
rosewalk at concentric.net
Thu May 15 12:56:53 EDT 2008
The Ari z"l explains that the place of "pure marble stone" is where the higher and the lower waters unite. Here one must not call out 'water-water,' as if to divide the higher and lower waters. "The place of pure marble stone" is the place of truth--the Divine power to bear two opposites simultaneously; in the words of Rabbi Shalom ben Adret: "the paradox of paradoxes." Here "the exaltation of God" and His "closeness" to man unite with the "lowliness of man" and his "distance" from God.
There is also a Talmudic passage on why the word water is said twice
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