Many believe Ecclesiastes contains the most beautiful “poetry” found in the Old Testament. Hemingway titled his first significant novel using a sentence from Ecclesiastes (1.5): “The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.” |
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Cabala is an ancient Jewish philosophy built upon a tradition of mystical interpretation of Scripture. The map describing cabala is called the Tree of Life; it is composed of ten “numbers” or “spheres.”
Keter is the highest of these spheres (Sephiroth in Hebrew). When we experience this realm, all separateness and fragmentation are gone; all is one. |
