The Talmud teaches that “In the merit of righteous women, our ancestors were redeemed from Egypt”. Redemption is intrinsically related to women, malchut (sovereignty/kingship), & the Divine feminine dimension.
God’s Infinite Light originates at a level that is beyond this world, physically inaccessible to us, but it is filtered down through the Sefirot until it reaches the malchut, out of which it shines onto us in our finite world. Infused in our tefilot (prayers) is the concept of Mashiach & the final redemption, which is intrinsically related to women. Kabbalistically, the sefirah of malchut renews all of existence & reflects the feminine dimension.
Femininity is what gives birth to all kindness, love, and the future and final redemption. Biologically, we see that the male is the giver and the female receives, nurtures, and proceeds to give much more than what she received. When the female receives over one million sperm cells, she only selects one, and from her one fertilized egg, she gives back a complete life, an infant. There is a receiving, but what comes from that is completion. The future is female, because the future comes from completion of a moment, of an action. R’ Aryeh Kaplan explains that masculinity is giving, but the essence of femininity is receiving and completing. Whereas masculinity parallels Yetzirah, which is “something from something”, the femininity of Malchut parallels Asiyah, which is “completion.” The Sefirot, the way the world was built and our interaction with it, are a balance of chesed (loving-kindness) and gevurah (judgment/restraint), or masculinity and femininity.
The Mishkan (sacred sanctuary) is the home that we are tasked to build as a dwelling place for the revelation of the concealed. We must all learn from women how to build a temple of generosity within & around us.
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