If the problematic Shevira<\/i> process was a product of separation and differentiation, then its Tikkun<\/i> — its remedy — must lie in combination and unity. We\u2019ll be examining what went into that latter process in the course of this section<\/p>\n
This is assumedly rooted in the idea that before they sinned (and \u201cbroke\u201d the world\u2019s very underpinnings) Adam and Eve were a single androgynous being [1], and thus need to be one again; and in the idea that there hadn\u2019t been differentiation and incongruity until the \u201cupper waters\u201d and the \u201clower waters\u201d separated from each other [2], so all that must be reunited. The point is that it will all be rectified in the end — when \u201cGod will be (manifestly) one, and His name (i.e., His manifestations) will be one (with Him)\u201d (Zachariah 14:9).<\/p>\n
Notes:<\/p>\n
[1] Breishit Rabbah 8:1.<\/p>\n
[2] Ibid. 4:2-4.<\/p>\n
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