One’s own self is well
hidden from one’s own self: of all mines of treasure, one’s own self is the
last to be dug up.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Quote of the Week 255 - True Universality
True Universality does not
consist in knowing much but in loving much.
-- Jakob Burckhardt
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Quote of the Week 254 - The Delight of the Invisible
What delights us in
visible beauty is the invisible.
--Marie von
Ebner-Eschenbach
Sunday, February 3, 2013
The Kabbalah of the Unicorn
The
Kabbalah of the Unicorn
In
lieu of the Quote for the Week this Week, I present the following.
A
few months back, I made a two-part presentation at the Vedanta Center of
Atlanta on the Book of Job. (The audio recordings of these sessions are
available in the “links” section of this blog, in the right column). In
preparation for this presentation, I came across something at the end of the
Book of Job that had not previously caught my attention, but this time, my
spiritual radar perked up on encountering these passages. They recite that in
the aftermath of his ordeal, Job was restored in greater abundance than he ever
had in the past. Included in this new abundance were seven new sons and three
new daughters. A few things that caught my attention about this recitation:
here is one of the infrequent occurrences in the Tanak where an unusual
prominence is attributed to females in a variety of ways. First, the names of
the daughters are provided, but not the names of the sons. Usually, it is the
other way around, where men’s names are provided, but not the names of women,
wives and daughters. Second, it is emphasized that Job gave his daughters an
inheritance, just like their brothers. This appears quite extraordinary, and a
more radical extension of the limited inheritance extended to women under
certain circumstances related in the Torah concerning the daughters of
Zelophedad (I leave it to the reader to research this for themselves, if they
are not already familiar with it). Lastly, but not leastly, concerns the
significance of the names of these three daughters, particularly the third one,
Keren-happuch. My intuition and limited research about this unfolded many
interesting connections. I also realized that my limited knowledge of the
nuances of Biblical Hebrew would restrict my full exploration of all of the
aspects of this subject and its various connections. So I commissioned a study
of this subject on a deeper level by Rabbi Gershon Winkler, a scholar and
practitioner of traditional Jewish teachings and uncommon kabbalistic and
shamanistic roots underpinning the Jewish tradition. Below is a result of his
research that I wanted to share due to its profound insights and inspiration. I
highly recommend the works of Rabbi Winkler, particularly his book, Magic of the Ordinary. You can check him
out further at his website, www.walkingstick.org.
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