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traditional Judaism, the cou-
ple says.
"In the United States, you
could do a field trip to
Borough Park and
Williamsburg (two centers of
the New York chassidic com-
munity) and it would be very
nice," Rabbi Weiman-Kelman
says. "Here, I do more days in
miluim (army reserve duty)
because they don't go to the
army."
Living in Israel has
presented the rabbi with
another challenge he didn't
Come my beloved
To greet the bride
The face of Shabbat
We will receive
lbday, the poem "Lecha
Dodi" is usually thought of as
a pleasant way of welcoming
Shabbat. To compare the Sab-
bath to a bride is to conjure
up an image of radiance and
beauty.
But to the mystics who
wrote it, "Lecha Dodi" was
nothing less than a coded for-
mula for the repair of a
universe in chaos.
It is the 16th century. The
Jews have been expelled from
Spain after a 1,000-year so-
journ there. Refugees settling
in Safed in northern Israel
seek to explain how such a
calamatous event could hap-
pen and how so many Jews,
given the choice of conversion
or expulsion, chose to em-
brace Catholicism.
The explanation was a
mystical myth about exile.
Not only were the Jews in ex-
ile, said the Safed Kabbalists,
building on an older mystical
tradition, but so was God.
Both earthly and heavenly
exiles were the result of im-
perfection - one temporal,
the other cosmic. The aim of
the mystic became to work for
the end of exile.
God has 10 aspects, or
sefirot, said the kabbalists. It
is the tenth of these aspects,
the Shekhinah, or Divine
Presence by which humans
are able to perceive God, that
wanders with Israel in exile.
The Shekhinah is also
God's female aspect. Thus,
she is known to kabbalists as
kallah - the bride - and
Shabbat.
And who is Dodi, the male
beloved of which "Lecha
Dodi" speaks? It is Tiferet,
another of the 10 sefirot.
Predicated on exile, Rabbi
Moshe Silberschein says,
"Lecha Dodi" is about "the
separation of husband and
wife. Yin and Yang. We have
to get them together."
The poem tells how. First,
Israel tells Dodi (Tiferet) to
meet his bride (Shekhinah).
Then n'kabbalah, "We will
greet Shabbat and somehow
give her the mystical energy
to meet Tiferet and create
harmony in the cosmos," Rab-
bi Silberschein says. "The
mystics believed that if the
Jews would daven Ma'ariv
(the evening prayers) correct-
ly, it would galvanize the
Shekhinah."
lb the mystics, fervent Fri-
day night prayer might lead
God's masculine and
feminine aspects to the con-
jugal bed and repair the
universe. Sexual relations on
Shabbat between earthly hus-
band and wife were seen as a
parallel to Divine harmony
above. "The mystics took this
very seriously!' the rabbi
says. "They said you cannot
love God unless you love a
woman!'
The The sexual metaphor
inherent in "Lecha Dodi" per-
vades the literature of the
Safed Labbalists. Rabbi
Silberschein says this is no
accident.
"When you talk about a
religious high, you need
frames of reference. What's
the metaphor for the ultimate
high? Orgasm. Maybe this is
one of the reasons mysticism
isn't supposed to be studied
until age 40."
Rabbi Silberschein says all
this esoteric speculation
about hidden codes and
divine attributes is not just
an intellectual exercise for
him. It is part of his daily life.
"My religion is not
something cold," says the
newly married rabbi. "My
wife is my shekhinah and I
am her tiferet."
-David Holzel
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