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Akiva teaches the people two great teachings which are really one. First, he points to the Hebrew words for man and woman — I-Y-SH (×יש) and I-SH-A ×שה)). They are made up of two sets of letters. The first set of common letters — I-SH — appears in both man and woman. These two letter together, comprised of the Hebrew aleph (A)( × ) and shin (SH) (ש ) letters, form the word Eish — fire – ×ש. Fire represents sex and passion. The Y((×™ and A (×”) which appear respectively in the Hebrew man and woman words are in Hebrew Yud and Hei — ×™×” . These are the letters of the name of God.
×יש = man
×שה = woman
×ש = fire
×™×” = Yah, the name of God
When man and woman come together in sacred union, God is a third partner in their intercourse.49 They participate not only in the potential creation of new life below in the visible world, but also create new life above, in the divine128. They not only fulfill themselves in Eros, but they fulfill God. “The Shechina dwells between them.” Akiva is suggesting no less than that the Shechina which dwells between the cherubs in the Temple, now dwells between man and woman in sexual union.
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