The Zohar And Darwin Essay

H uman beings have evolved from lesser advanced life forms, for hundreds of thousands of years or longer; however, human’s rapid progression in intelligence appears to have increased suddenly in just the past ten thousand years. During this period, the belief in a monotheism heritage (the belief in one God) became cultivated from a Divine source. Recently, through discoveries concerning human’s DNA, scientists have found a complex genetic coding system believed to be an exquisite ‘language’ composed of approximately 3 billion genetic letters, an immensely complex instruction manual. Encouragingly, this finding goes light years beyond the controversial evolution theory of Darwin. Plausibly, the amount of information in a single cell’s DNA persists as roughly equivalent to 12 sets of The Encyclopedia Britannica, an incredible 384 volumes of detailed …show more content…
The booth, we are told recalls the “kindness” of God in the wilderness where the cloud of Aaron was the “kindness” and Israel was adorned as a bride for God. Thus, when a man sits in his booth, he is still under the Shekinah, and Abraham and five other righteous ones and David make their abode with him, to round out the number seven. That is, we are by the feast taken into a Mystery of seven Patriarchs, which recalls Philo’s allegories; and Rab Hamnuna the Elder tells how he stood at the door of his booth to welcome these visitors, a passage reminiscent of Abraham’s welcome of the holy visitor, which meant so much to Philo. The peculiar allusions make sense when we know that in the Zohar, the Shekinah, or the cloud, was a sexual coming of God to Israel, and Moses had intercourse with it. Here is Israel, which is the bride, but by implication (it was probably too bold to say outright) the individual Israelite who went into his booth, the Shekinah, at Tabernacles shared also in this ineffable