* The Shekinah is sometimes called the liberating angel, who Jacob in Genesis 48:16 refers to as "The Angel that redeemed me from all Evil." She is also the Guardian of the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden.
*Gershom Scholem, a great Scholar of Jewish Mysticism, tells us that the Shekinah was seperated from God, her lover, following the Fall of Adam and Eve. Only on Friday nights, the Eve of the Sabbath, are they reunited before being forced to part again.
*Not until all the original Light of Creation has returned to its Divine Source will the Cosmic Lovers be permanently reunited.
*Scholem writes: "To lead the Shekinah back to God and to unite her with him is the true purpose of the Torah." We are all involved in this process.
*Every act of love and compassion brings the heavenly couple closer together, in this sense, life is a love story.
*In essence, we are all lonely lovers seperated from our love, which can only be found at the very heart of our being.
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