Welcome Christy! It is so good to have your words shine for us on the list Happy Passover Tova
averb...@post.tau.ac.il -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Christy Lee-Engel Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 9:52 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: oslist core purpose Dear OSlist members--for you: "Maybe the most important Kabbalistic teaching on love comes from the realm of cosmology, where the biblical mystics introduce to us a beautiful and important idea that enormously affects how we live our lives. The idea in two sentences: The world does not come into being through divinity stepping forward in a creative gesture. Quite the opposite--God steps back in a movement of sacrificial withdrawal in order to create the world. God creates an empty space, and only then, in that space, can the world emerge from the divine womb of being! 'But how can that be?' we ask the mystics. 'Isn't the whole point of the God idea that divinity is infinite and everywhere? How can God just step back?' 'This,' respond the biblical mystics, 'is precisely the mystery of love.'" --Rabbi Marc Gafni, The Mysteries of Love warm wishes, and thank you all for all of the space you continuously create, Christy Lee-Engel Seattle p.s. I shall post a proper introduction some other time--briefly, I am a recent new subscriber, had the fortunate and extraordinary experience of participating in the practice of peace on whidbey island, and I guess I have been a "lurker", "butterfly" and "sponsor" (still learning the language!) * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System at the Tel-Aviv University CC. * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html