"Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers ..." --Ezekiel 29:3 Ezekiel's Hebrew word for "dragon" is tannim. It's the same word that, in its more common spelling tannin, is used in Genesis 1:21, "And God created great whales." … [Read more...]
Kabbalah, the Zohar, and the Rose (Part 1)
"Rabbi Hizkiah opened with the verse, 'Like a rose among thorns' [Song of Songs 2:2]. What is this 'rose'? The Community of Israel ..." That's the way the Zohar starts off. The Zohar, which first began to trickle into Jewish communal awareness around the year 1300, became over the next few … [Read more...]
