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NASB | Jeremiah 7:18 "The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite Me. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Jeremiah 7:18 "The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods that they may offend and provoke Me to anger. |
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Bible Note: I'm sorry but I must comment. This is a question that deserves an in depth look at the Hebrew understanding of God and who he is. El which is the name for god actually means "head of the gods". An example would be Elohim which means "the most high god of holiness". The Christian understanding of God is rather a simplified "one god" and thats it..period. However Orthodox jews from ancient times have seen God as a masculine head deity with an emanating female force which is referred to as the "shekhina"(not sure of spelling). The Christian understanding or rather its mutation of the original view of God has the shekhina replaced by "Holy Spirit".."One in Being with the Father". For deeper reading and understanding of this please read on: The Jewish-Kabbalistic version of Shakti; the female soul of God. The idea was the God could not be complete, whole, until he was united with her. The Kabbalists believed that it was God’s lost of his Shekina which brought about evil. From the Hebrew Shekina means "dwelling place," giving the concept that God had no "home" without her. Like her Tantric counterpart Shakti, the Sh’kina was the source of all "soul" in the universe. The Gnostic Christians of the fourth century spoke of Sh’kina as a "spirit of glory" in who Beings of Light lived, as children in their mother’s body or home. Mani referred to the Aeons of sh’kinas or female spirits of the sacred year.Jewish mystics claimed the "outer garment" of the Shekina is the Torah, "Holy Law." Man becomes a Bridegroom of the Torah by study, symbolized in erotic imagery. He has to court her as he would a beautiful maiden. "She begins from behind a curtain to speak words in keeping with his understanding, until very slowly insight comes to him." The Shekina as the "Indwelling One" might be compared to the Latin I-dea, or Goddess Within. "She opens the door of her hidden chamber ever so little, and for a moment reveals her face to her lover, but hides it again forthwith…He alone sees it and is drawn to her with his heart and soul and his whole being.The love story of wisdom and Solomon is recorded in the Song of Solomon and throught Psalms and Apocryphal books such as Wisdom and Sirach. An interesting note that the Greek term for wisdom is "Sophia"--the name of the great greek goddess of wisdom. If one were to view the writings of Solomon in the greek sense we see the fullfillment of Shekhina in this ..the wisest man who ever lived! "The hexagram, which came to be known as the star of David, was introduced into Judaism in the Middle Ages via the Tantric influence on Medieval Jewish cabalists. Shekina is the Jewish Cabalist version of the Hindu Shakti, who when joined to Her male counterpart forms the perpetual sexual union believed to maintain life in the Universe. This reunion was symbolized by the Tantric mandala – Shakti (the downward pointing triangle) and Shiva (the upward pointing triangle).Israel’s sins caused the Shekina to leave the tabernacle, but some rabbis insisted that She returned when the second temple was built. It was God’s loss of his Shekina that brought about all evils. The Shekina is inseparable from God, as opposed to the holy ghost which borders on idolatry. Special thanks to: Rabbi Shraga Simmons Aish.com |