Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Shoshanna Walker" <rosewalk AT concentric.net>]

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( ).
> >