שלשים ושתים נתיבות פליאות חכמה
חקק יה
יהוה צבאות
בשלש ספרים בספר וספר וסיפור:
Chapter 1:1 - The Three BooksWisdom's thirty-two marvelous paths
Yah engraved
The Becoming One who holds many
Within three books:
tome, tally and tale
(olam: world - space,
shanah: year - time,
nefesh: animating consciousness - body-soul).
Translation by Rabbi Jill Hammer, Return to the Place: The Magic, Meditation and Mystery of Sefer Yetzirah
The following text translations are quoted from Rabbi Rami Shapiro's book Embracing the Divine Feminine: Finding God through the Ecstasy of Physical Love -- the Song of Songs Annotated and Explained
Who is Lady Wisdom?
I am the deep grain of creation, the subtle current of life.
God fashioned me before all things:
I am the blueprint of creation.
I was there from the beginning,
from before there was a beginning.
I am independent of time and space, earth and sky.
I was there before depth was conceived,
before springs bubbled with water,
before the shaping of mountains and hills,
before God fashioned the earth and its bounty,
before the first dust settled on the land.
When God prepared the heavens, I was there.
When the circle of the earth was etched into the face of the deep, I was there.
When the stars and planets soared into their orbit, when the deepest oceans found their level and the dry land established the shores, I was there.
I stood beside God as firstborn and friend.
My nature is joy, and I gave God constant delight.
Now that the world is inhabited, I rejoice in it.
I will be your true delight if you will heed my teachings.
Follow me and be happy.
Practice my discipline and grow wise.
God fashioned me before all things:
I am the blueprint of creation.
I was there from the beginning,
from before there was a beginning.
I am independent of time and space, earth and sky.
I was there before depth was conceived,
before springs bubbled with water,
before the shaping of mountains and hills,
before God fashioned the earth and its bounty,
before the first dust settled on the land.
When God prepared the heavens, I was there.
When the circle of the earth was etched into the face of the deep, I was there.
When the stars and planets soared into their orbit, when the deepest oceans found their level and the dry land established the shores, I was there.
I stood beside God as firstborn and friend.
My nature is joy, and I gave God constant delight.
Now that the world is inhabited, I rejoice in it.
I will be your true delight if you will heed my teachings.
Follow me and be happy.
Practice my discipline and grow wise.
Proverbs 8:22-32
She is intelligent, holy, unique, subtle, flowing, transparent, and pure;
she is distinct, invulnerable, good, keen, irresistible, and gracious;
she is humane, faithful, sure, calm, all-powerful, all-seeing,
and available to all who are intelligent, pure, and altogether simple.
She is the mobility of movement;
she is the transparent nothing that pervades all things.
She is the breath of God,
a clear emanation of Divine Glory.
No impurity can stain her.
She is God's spotless mirror reflecting eternal light,
and the image of divine goodness.
Although she is one,
she does all things.
Generation after generation she slips into holy souls,
making them friends of God, and prophets;
for God loves none more than they who dwell with Wisdom.
She is more beautiful than the sun,
and the constellations pale beside her.
Compared to light, she yet excels it.
For light yields to dark,
while she yields to nothing.
She stretches mightily throughout the cosmos
and guides the whole universe for its benefit.
she is distinct, invulnerable, good, keen, irresistible, and gracious;
she is humane, faithful, sure, calm, all-powerful, all-seeing,
and available to all who are intelligent, pure, and altogether simple.
She is the mobility of movement;
she is the transparent nothing that pervades all things.
She is the breath of God,
a clear emanation of Divine Glory.
No impurity can stain her.
She is God's spotless mirror reflecting eternal light,
and the image of divine goodness.
Although she is one,
she does all things.
Generation after generation she slips into holy souls,
making them friends of God, and prophets;
for God loves none more than they who dwell with Wisdom.
She is more beautiful than the sun,
and the constellations pale beside her.
Compared to light, she yet excels it.
For light yields to dark,
while she yields to nothing.
She stretches mightily throughout the cosmos
and guides the whole universe for its benefit.
Wisdom of Solomon 7:22-8:1
I grasp you to me,
and pull you into my mother's house,
into her bedchamber
and onto the very bed on which I was conceived. Song of Songs 3:4
and pull you into my mother's house,
into her bedchamber
and onto the very bed on which I was conceived. Song of Songs 3:4
"Wisdom leads you into her mother's house, indeed onto her mother's bed, deeper into the feminine mysteries, the dark interior where all opposites unite and where Wisdom and the seeker of Wisdom become one. Wisdom's Mother is YHVH (proverbs 8:22), the Unknown and Unknowable Is-ing that gives rise to all things."
Journey #1
Wisdom's house rests on many pillars.
It is magnificent and easy to find.
Inside, she has cooked a fine meal and sweetened her wine with water.
Her table is set.
She sends maidens to the tallest towers to summon you.
To the simple they call: Come, enter here.
To those who lack understanding they say:
Come, eat my food, drink my wine.Abandon your empty life, and walk in the way of understanding.
It is magnificent and easy to find.
Inside, she has cooked a fine meal and sweetened her wine with water.
Her table is set.
She sends maidens to the tallest towers to summon you.
To the simple they call: Come, enter here.
To those who lack understanding they say:
Come, eat my food, drink my wine.Abandon your empty life, and walk in the way of understanding.
Proverbs 9:1-6
Journey #2
Wisdom Speaks
Your mother conceived you in this place
and birthed you beneath this apricot tree,
and it is here that I will awaken you.
Your mother conceived you in this place
and birthed you beneath this apricot tree,
and it is here that I will awaken you.
Set me as a seal upon your heart, שִׂימֵ֨נִי כַֽחוֹתָ֜ם עַל־לִבֶּ֗ךָ
as an insignia upon your arm (זרוע)
for love is as strong as death,
passion as fierce as the grave (שאול);
its smallest spark is a flash of fire
igniting an inferno.
Song of Songs 8:5b-6
as an insignia upon your arm (זרוע)
for love is as strong as death,
passion as fierce as the grave (שאול);
its smallest spark is a flash of fire
igniting an inferno.
Song of Songs 8:5b-6
