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Individual passages from Pardes Rimonim, indexed for close reading, source verification, and myth source-checking.
Some traditions suggest there isn't just one Lilith, but two! It's Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year, a day of atonement and intense prayer for the Jewish people. But, accord...
Rabbi Moshe Cordovero counts creation on God's fingers. In Pardes Rimmonim 1:1:6-7, the heavens and earth are not made through an abstract force. They are shaped through the ten se...
The letter aleph becomes a map of the cosmos. Pardes Rimmonim 1:6:4-6 imagines divine light moving like sunlight striking a polished mirror. The light descends through the sefirot ...
Malkut stands at the border where one world ends and the next begins. In Pardes Rimmonim 2:7:11-12, Cordovero describes the chain of worlds as a series of thresholds. Malkut is the...
Ein Sof is not another rung on the ladder. Pardes Rimmonim 3:1:6 draws a hard boundary between the unknowable Infinite and even the highest sefirah, Keter. The sefirot receive from...
Knesset Yisrael, the Assembly of Israel, is not only a name for the people below. In Pardes Rimmonim 23:11:21, Cordovero identifies Knesset Yisrael with Shekhinah and Malkhut. She ...
