Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A visible manifestation of the divine presence as described in Jewish theology.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Talmud also introduces the term Shekhinah to connote God’s presence in the world.
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The Shekhinah is the feminine aspect of the male God who reunites with the godhead in a monthly or weekly cycle.
Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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Whether the Shekhinah is a “she†or an “it,†then, depends on a number of factors: on what period of Judaism you choose as your reference point, on whether you have recourse to mystical imagery and on how literally you feel that this imagery — which undoubtedly is startling in conventional Jewish terms — should be taken.
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The shadow is the "Shekhinah" evidence of the presence of God.
Latest Articles 2009
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This was called in Hebrew "Shekhinah", the evidence of the presence of the One who dwells.
Latest Articles 2009
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Perhaps that is why the Zohar understands that "the sukkah is the Supernal Mother God's female aspect, Shekhinah who shelters you like a mother shelters her children" Zohar 3:255b.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: Everything I Needed To Know, I Learned From My Kids And The Stars Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson 2011
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Jews currently have seven different names for God, and one of those names is the feminine Shekhinah, the Holy Presence, which guided the Jews during their 40 years in the desert.
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I have had to discover Judaism on my own, educate myself, and learn what it means to be a Jewish woman who worships Shekhinah (the feminine presence of God).
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In 1978 Erlich published No tempo das acácias, translated into English as The Time of the Acacias: On the Way to Shekhinah.
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New York: 1981; The Time of the Acacias: On the Way to Shekhinah (trans. into English by Frank Murphy in collaboration with the author).
elfflame commented on the word Shekhinah
n. Jewish & Christian Theology the glory of the divine prescence, conventionally represented as light or interpreted symbolically (in Kabbalism as a divine feminine aspect).
Origin mid 17th cent: from late Hebrew, from sakan 'dwell, rest.'
April 26, 2020
elfflame commented on the word Shekhinah
"He sang, or rather he chanted, and the few snatches I caught here and there spoke of divine suffering, of the Shekhinah in Exile..."
Night, by Elie Wiesel
April 26, 2020