Dodi tzach v’adom dagul may’r’vava
My beloved is radiant and earthy
He towers above ten thousand. (Song of Songs 5:10)
To love God is to embrace the paradox of opposites. Tzach can mean pure, milk, scorching, white, dazzling, radiant. Adom can mean ruddy, red, wine, earthy. When I can know my Beloved with my expanded heart capacities, expanding beyond mere mental faculties of the rational, then I can embrace the contradictions of my life. Then the Divine rises up (above ten thousand) and takes priority. Then I can see, with God, that apparent contradictions all belong to the One.
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