@km

What is the Shekinah?

@shortstories

it is Jewish occultism, some kind of female aspect of god

@km

Does HaShem have some kind of female aspect?

@shortstories

Shekinah is a goddess in Jewish paganism (Kabbalah)

"According to the cabbala, the universe is ruled not by one god but by several deities, of various characters and influences, emanated by a dim, distant First Cause. Omitting many details, one can summarise the system as follows. From the First Cause, first a male god called ‘Wisdom’ or ‘Father’ and then a female goddess called ‘Knowledge’ or ‘Mother’ were emanated or born. From the marriage of these two, a pair of younger gods were born: Son, also called by many other names such as ‘Small Face’ or ‘The Holy Blessed One’; and Daughter, also called ‘Lady’ (or ‘Matronit’, a word derived from Latin), ‘Shekhinah’, ‘Queen’, and so on. These two younger gods should be united, but their union is prevented by the machinations of Satan, who in this system is a very important and independent personage. The Creation was undertaken by the First Cause in order to allow them to unite, but because of the Fall they became more disunited than ever, and indeed Satan has managed to come very close to the divine Daughter and even to rape her (either seemingly or in fact – opinions differ on this). The creation of the Jewish people was undertaken in order to mend the break caused by Adam and Eve, and under Mount Sinai this was for a moment achieved: the male god Son, incarnated in Moses, was united with the goddess Shekhinah. Unfortunately, the sin of the Golden Calf again caused disunity in the godhead; but the repentance of the Jewish people has mended matters to some extent. Similarly, each incident of biblical Jewish history is believed to be associated with the union or disunion of the divine pair. The Jewish conquest of Palestine from the Canaanites and the building of the first and second Temple are particularly propitious for their union, while the destruction of the Temples and exile of the Jews from the Holy Land are merely external signs not only of the divine disunion but also of a real ‘whoring after strange gods’: Daughter falls closely into the power of Satan, while Son takes various female satanic personages to his bed, instead of his proper wife."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Shahak

@shortstories

The Nazis love his book “Jewish History, Jewish Religion” because it portrays Jews in a bad light.

@km

Whenever YHWH is used in the Old Testament text Orthodox Jews reading the text out loud say one or more other substitute words corrupting the text

I am very doubtful that the creator deity in the Old Testament is called HaShem on account of how the Orthodox Jews corrupted the pronounciation of YHWH replacing it with substitute words

I would suspect that HaShem is a substitute word used by Orthodix Jews & not the correct name for the Old Testament creator deity or another deity altogether

@shortstories

when you read the Jewish Bible (Tanakh) in the original Hebrew you say Adonai when there is the name of God, YHWH.

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/840-adonai

@km

So you agree they intentionally are sayinh YHWH incorrectly and substituting it with Adonai when the text does not say Adonai at that location

But you actually trust them about HaShem being correct?

@shortstories

"But you actually trust them about HaShem being correct?"

HaShem means the Name, that's correct

@km

But the Old Testament creator deiry is not named, "the name"

@shortstories

nice trolling