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  • From: "Shoshanna Walker" <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] what is SPYR ?
  • Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 12:56:53 -0400



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
> > (the water above and below the RQY( ).
> >




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