Malkuth/Shekinah

Malkuth also known as "Shekinah".

God's Presence, Kingdom

The Shekinah is a Talmudic concept representing God's dwelling and immanence in the created world. It was equated with the personified spirit of the People of Israel. According to a Rabbinic tradition, the Shekinah shares in the exiles of the Jewish people.

Therefore, the redemption of the people of Israel is linked to the remedying of the alienation within God him/herself, introducing a bold new element into traditional Jewish Messianic philosophy.

It is through the Shekinah that humans can experience the Divine. She is said to be the female essence of "God".

The passivity of the Shekinah is often emphasized (equated with its femininity), as the recipient of forces from the higher Sephiroth.

In the Biblical sense she was seen as The Matriarch Rachel and sometimes as King David.

Primordial man imagined this essence to be found in the human Mouth. The Shekinah is often portrayed as a bride or princess whose male lover is the composite of the nine upper sephiroth, represented by the prince/bridegroom Tiphereth.

It is associated with the following Names of God:

Adonai (Lord)
The last letter "he" in the four-letter name of God ("the Tetragrammaton").
Elohim (when it receives more influences from the Left Pillar).

Other images and symbols associated with Malkuth/Shekinah are:

The Moon, which is the passive reflector of light from the sun.
In a manner appropriate to the redemption of God and Israel, the moon renews itself each month.
Bride
Queen
Daughter / Princess
Matron
The erotic and romantic phrases of the Song of Songs and Prophetic imagery is evoked to represent the longing of the male and female elements of the Godhead.
Pool, sea,, wellspring, gathering of the waters,
Earth, dry land (when deprived of nourishment from Chesed).
Bedrock.
Rose
Mirror
"I"
Garden of Eden
The Oral Torah
Throne of Glory
The Tree of Knowledge
Blessing
Freedom
All

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