And the wings of the Shekhinah, are the ‘covering of the blood’ of a beast or bird’, for they are the wings of the dove, and they are ‘the wings of precept’ which cover their blood, so that ‘the dogs that are brazen’ do not rule over them, who are angels of destruction, and so that the prosecutors of sin do not recognize them, thus is: (Deut. 12:23)... the blood is the soul (naphesh), and the dust which covers it alludes to: (Deut. 32:43)... and will appease His land, His people.
And furthermore: the Shekhinah is ‘the examination of the indicators (simanim)’, of a beast or bird, of people who are compared to beasts, animals and birds, about whom it is stated: (1 Sam. 14:34)... and you will slaughter with ‘this’ (zeh) – ‘examine like this’,cxxSee BT Ḥullin 17b – for they are suffering afflictions, as they have established: (Ps. 44:23) For Your sake we are killed all the day, and they never lapse in prayer on any day, and the blessed Holy One ‘examines’ them with many afflictions.