Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. See Shekinah.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The Jewish name for the symbol of the divine presence, which rested in the shape of a cloud or visible light over the mercy-seat.
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Examples
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The removal of the Shechinah from the cherubim to the threshold of the temple, ver.
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The Shechinah is always attended with angels; it is so here (v. 10): Thousand thousands minister to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stand before him.
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A bright cloud is the symbolical seat of the Divine presence (Ex. 29: 42, 43; 1 Kings 8: 10; 2 Chr. 5: 14; Ezek. 43: 4), and was called the Shechinah (q.v.).
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Presence -- called the Shechinah -- dwelt continually in the Most Holy
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The Shechinah was the symbol, and in one aspect was a part, of that self-revelation.
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If Monty desired to fill the room with an unworldly atmosphere, and to raise the cloud "Shechinah" around his little altar, he knew by the solemn hush, as he turned to continue the Mass, that he had succeeded.
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The Hebrew characters spell "Shechinah" the compassionate female aspect of God in Judaism.
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It does seem that one could argue that the Incarnation happened at baptism---mostly because the concept of Λόγος (Logos) as understood by the earliest Jewish followers of Christ, it was particularly the Jewish concept of שכינה (Shechinah ) that was conveyed to them especially when the Shechinah was connected with Lady Wisdom.
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May God grant perfect rest to Leah Fishbane, on the wings of the Shechinah.
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Rabbi Yitzchal Luria tells us in "Gates of Holiness" that when we refrain from anger, we engender in ourselves a spirit of humility and the spirit of the Shechinah can rest upon us.
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