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[Christy Lee-Engel]

  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!)

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