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Tikkun 70 – 97
The soul of a person is a male aspect and the creation of Adam. The body is a female aspect because it is a vessel for the soul.
Genesis 2:18
“ וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים, לֹא-טוֹב הֱיוֹת הָאָדָם לְבַדּוֹ; אֶעֱשֶׂה-לּוֹ עֵזֶר, כְּנֶגְדּוֹ”
“And the LORD God said: ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.”
The body/female that God created for Adam/soul was in order to give him a tool to work in this world. If a person merits taking the righteous path then the woman/vessel would help him achieve great light following the ways of the Torah.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
“וּמוֹצֶא אֲנִי מַר מִמָּוֶת, אֶת-הָאִשָּׁה אֲשֶׁר-הִיא מְצוֹדִים וַחֲרָמִים לִבָּהּ–אֲסוּרִים יָדֶיהָ; טוֹב לִפְנֵי הָאֱלֹהִים, יִמָּלֵט מִמֶּנָּה, וְחוֹטֵא, יִלָּכֶד בָּהּ.”
“I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.”
If a person takes wrong path and follows his evil inclination then the body/female/vessel traps the soul in physical and material desires.
Escaping the desire for the self will benefit greatly from using the body/female/vessel as a channel to draw more light to his life.
Proverb 18:22
“מָצָא אִשָּׁה, מָצָא טוֹב; וַיָּפֶק רָצוֹן, מֵיְהוָה.”
“He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from YHVH”
The Hebrew word רָצוֹן, translated here as ‘favor’, has the same letters as צנור, which means a ‘pipe’,‘channel’.
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Beautifull
may we all be
a clean pipe
a pure chanal
for the Light
to speak through us
with Bliss
with Love
Someone who does not know how to read these passages correctly might see it as misogynistic. …
“Ecclesiastes 7:26
“וּמוֹצֶא אֲנִי מַר מִמָּוֶת, אֶת-הָאִשָּׁה אֲשֶׁר-הִיא מְצוֹדִים וַחֲרָמִים לִבָּהּ–אֲסוּרִים יָדֶיהָ; טוֹב לִפְנֵי הָאֱלֹהִים, יִמָּלֵט מִמֶּנָּה, וְחוֹטֵא, יִלָּכֶד בָּהּ.”
“I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.”
So are passages like these where the catholic church gets their views on women?
Zion, why do you say ‘if somebody merits taking the righteous path’? You make it sound as if things are in the wrong order. How can you deserve or not deserve to be good before you are good?
Also beyond the obvious meaning that a good wife is a blessing and benefit to a man, is there a deeper, hidden meaning behind the words,“He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from YHVH”? Thank you!
Good question Chris and the answer is that your current life determined by your previous lives. If you worked harder in previous lives then this life you are on an elevated state and it is easier to be a ‘good’ guy.
Look around you and you will see that we are not equal. Each person was born with a different correction plan. Obviously everyone can achieve righteousness but it’s not always easy getting on the righteous path.
As for your next question Read my comment to Daliah’s on DZ 993
Thank you very much for your explanation Zion, but how can we be on an ‘elevated’ state if most of us can’t remember or don’t even know what we were or did in our previous lives?
I think the two main obstacles that stand in most peoples’ way of becoming righteous are ignorance and because they don’t want to enough. There are too many dangerous lies in today’s society.
Reuven raises an interesting point with:” I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.”
Is male chauvinism which gives birth to the patriarchy of the various churches and fundamentalists?
Of course not. At the very least, it is a metaphor.
The answer is self-evident: if the material world/body is female, and the spiritual world/soul is male, thenThe union of male/female is the creation of the channel to the higher worlds of spirit. Nothing less than a cosmic union.
To be ensnared by the world of matter is to lose the channel.
Lovely as it is, it is more than a metaphor. To assume the words themselves as material truth is to miss the point! (Further proof of the absence of poetry in all fundamentalisms!)