Reddit reviews God Is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism
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> -Hebrew tends to be more direct, vivid, and concrete than Western languages
What is meant by this? It is my understanding that most Hebrew words have multiple possible meanings (English often has 2 or more meanings for a word as well) - great example: adam could mean "a human being" or "humanity" (just like "man" in English could mean either).
Not only this, but the original Hebrew had no vowels, so there was the possibility that what was written could have been multiple words. So "adam" could have been "edom", which means "red" or could mean a red sauce of some kind.
Consider the following by Rabbi David Cooper in "God Is A Verb":
>The Hebrew language is constructed in a way that vowel substitutions can dramatically change the meaning of a word. It is like seeing the letters PN as a word, which could be pin, pan, pane, pain, pen, peon, pine, or pun. Usually we can derive the meaning of a word in the Written Torah through the context in which it is used, but some sentences could leave us wondering. For example, imagine reading a sentence that says, "If you know how to properly work with a PN, you will qualify for a million-dollar reward."
Its not christian at all. There's no ambiguity in christianity. Angels choose to either be good or evil, and if they choose evil its not for some ambiguously questionable failing, but a deliberate choice to be evil. Demons falling because of some ambiguous attempt to serve G-d even better than what he wants sound more islamic or something. It would have no coherent place in christianity.
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It was in this book, from an alleged rabbi. It even mentions that some angels are envious of humans because humans have free will, but then goes on to describe a lot of specific stories in the zohar that sound like there is very much a possibility of rebellion. From my last thread here, I was told that the talmud more or less openly accepts that there are demons, and the idea of there not being any in judaism is semi modern, despite being presented as a long standing truth.
You're describing mysticism.
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