Composting and Holy Vessels
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Share(ח) וְעָ֥שׂוּ לִ֖י מִקְדָּ֑שׁ וְשָׁכַנְתִּ֖י בְּתוֹכָֽם׃
(8) And let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.
Covering and Creation
Moses Cordovero, Pardes Rimonim 5:4, 25d (sixteen century)
When powerful light is concealed and clothed in a garment, it is revealed. Though concealed, the light is actually revealed, for were it not concealed, it could not be revealed. This is like wishing to gaze at the dazzling sun. Its dazzle conceals it, for you cannot look at its overwhelming brilliance. Yet, when you conceal it—looking at it through screens—you can see and not be harmed. So it is with emanation: by concealing and clothing itself, it reveals itself.
Shimon La’vi, Ketem Paz 1:124c (sixteenth century)
With the appearance of light, the universe expanded. With the concealment of light, the things that exist were created in all their variety.
This is the secret of the act of Creation. One who understands will understand.
(both texts from Daniel C. Matt, The Essential Kabbalah)
Moses Cordovero, Pardes Rimonim 5:4, 25d (sixteen century)
When powerful light is concealed and clothed in a garment, it is revealed. Though concealed, the light is actually revealed, for were it not concealed, it could not be revealed. This is like wishing to gaze at the dazzling sun. Its dazzle conceals it, for you cannot look at its overwhelming brilliance. Yet, when you conceal it—looking at it through screens—you can see and not be harmed. So it is with emanation: by concealing and clothing itself, it reveals itself.
Shimon La’vi, Ketem Paz 1:124c (sixteenth century)
With the appearance of light, the universe expanded. With the concealment of light, the things that exist were created in all their variety.
This is the secret of the act of Creation. One who understands will understand.
(both texts from Daniel C. Matt, The Essential Kabbalah)
The emergence of the biosphere from the operations of the other three geospheres, which we recognize as the origin of life, must have involved imposing constraints in two domains. At some point, physical space in which metabolic systems function must be limited to keep reactants from diffusing away. This can be accomplished by adsorbing material on surfaces, trapping i in interstices or enclosing it in vesicles. The second kind of space, mathematical in nature, is an information space....
Harold Morowitz, The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex, p. 73.
Harold Morowitz, The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex, p. 73.
Rabbi Mordecai Yosef Leiner “The Ishbitzer Rebbe” Mei HaShiloach
Parshat Tetzave
These are the garments they are to make: a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a fringed tunic, a headdress and a sash… Exodus 28:4
Behold, corresponding to the eight garments the Men of the Great Assembly established the in the blessing of the Sh’ma eight words: understand, discern, listen, learn, teach, guard, perform, fulfill (Your Torah) . . .
. . . “Fulfill” corresponds to the breeches because they cover the private parts (ervah). Ervah denotes the place through which a person is vulnerable to suffer a loss. As it says (Genesis 42:9) “You are spies! You’ve come to see “ervat ha’artz” the land in its nakedness.” Which is to say that through this the land could be conquered. And every place in a person where God created the ability to build an eternal edifice (בנין עדי עד)—there God created a possibility of loss, such that a person could lose everything. But through guarding oneself in this area, arises the ability to sprout from this place an eternal edifice.
Parshat Tetzave
These are the garments they are to make: a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a fringed tunic, a headdress and a sash… Exodus 28:4
Behold, corresponding to the eight garments the Men of the Great Assembly established the in the blessing of the Sh’ma eight words: understand, discern, listen, learn, teach, guard, perform, fulfill (Your Torah) . . .
. . . “Fulfill” corresponds to the breeches because they cover the private parts (ervah). Ervah denotes the place through which a person is vulnerable to suffer a loss. As it says (Genesis 42:9) “You are spies! You’ve come to see “ervat ha’artz” the land in its nakedness.” Which is to say that through this the land could be conquered. And every place in a person where God created the ability to build an eternal edifice (בנין עדי עד)—there God created a possibility of loss, such that a person could lose everything. But through guarding oneself in this area, arises the ability to sprout from this place an eternal edifice.