Michael Rufman

December, 26, 1958 - Berlin
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Shekhinah

Each phenomenon of the spiritual world has a “body” (the phenomenon itself) and a “soul” - Shekhinah, the feeling, the awareness that it is the creation of the Most High - this is the Divine power that is usually revealed to the prophets, and is also the first goal of the mystic

The Absolute, considered in terms of space and time as His presence, especially in an earthly context, when He sanctifies a place, a certain object, a person or an entire people - the revelation of the holy in an unsacred environment - is the Shekinah

Kabbalistic literature uses the property of the Shekhinah to be the main battlefield between the forces of good and evil. Shekhinah is closer than other sephirs to the created world, so she is the main object of Satanic machinations. It is the duty of man and other sephirs to protect the Shekhinah from the machinations of the forces of evil

Christianity assimilates the personal understanding of the Shekhinah and develops, based on the synthesis of the concepts of the Shekhinah and Greek Wisdom, its concept of the Wisdom of God — Sophia. Wisdom in relation to God is His will that suits the world. She is described as an "artist" who builds the world according to the laws of the divine craft

Thus, the concept of the presence of the Absolute in the world, expressed in the idea of the Shekhinah, reflects the widespread idea of the "Immanent" face of the Absolute, spiritualizing Nature, finds expression in the peaks of monotheistic philosophy
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