I wonder if God is a duality, both male and female?
I was browsing through the 1917 Jewish translation of the
Book of Genesis when I came across this scripture and It started me thinking
about the nature and the gender of God.
I wondered if Adam and Eve were a duality before she was removed from
him.
The thought occurred to me that Eve was removed from Adam because he could not see her. He could
see that all of the other animals had partners.
He could not see his partner within himself.
I wondered if that is why I married, to seek the partner that
could be within me. Is this what men seek when they seek union with their other
half, of themselves? The spouse they choose to live with and share their time
with and create a new life with?
This led to the creation of this poem.
The Book of Bereishit (Genesis): Chapter 2
20-24 ... "but for Adam there was not found a help meet
for him. And HaShem G-d caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept;
and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the place with flesh instead
thereof. And the rib, which HaShem G-d had taken from the man, made He a woman,
and brought her unto the man. And the
man said: 'This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be
called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.' Therefore shall a man leave
his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be
one flesh."
JPS Electronic Edition, based on the 1917 JPS translation,
Copyright © 1998 by Larry Nelson
