would rest his head. God then performed a miracle and made all the stones into one. According to another tradition, Jacob placed all the stones under his head and they were fused together as one (Legends of the Jews, 1:284). This stone, in another legend, was the Foundation Stone, the rock in the Temple of Jerusalem upon which the Ark of the Covenant rested (ibid., 1:284-85). In Kabbalistic tradition, Jacob’s pillow is the Stone of Foundation, the ’even shetiyyah, the central point of the world. The stone is the point from which the world was created and expanded in all directions. The stone is also associated with the Shekhinah, the feminine aspect of God, the immanent divine presence in the world. The Shekhinah is often depicted as a stone or a foundation upon which the world rests. Jacob’s pillow is thus a symbol of the divine presence in the world, and Jacob’s dream is a vision of the divine plan for creation (Tree of Souls 359).