shalhebetyah <\/em> in Song of Songs 8:6 should be taken as a reference to Yah\u2019s own flame, and he connects the fire of Yah in the sanctuary with the fire of Yah in the love between lovers: <\/p>\n \u201cFor in Israel, in the dialectics of king and kingdom, the flame of God is constantly alight only on the altar at its centre; it communicates between heaven and earth . . . In the sanctuary, the union and differentiation of lovers is a collective process; there, symbolically, the wealth of the kingdom is reduced to ashes, merged with the divine flame, and renewed. \u00a0God, the source of life, is indwelling in the land, and guarantees its continuance. \u00a0The shrine is thus the matrix, an inner confine, and the earth, the generative flame. \u00a0There the king and the Beloved participate in the creative current that infuses the lovers at the centre of their world.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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) argues that the phrase shalhebetyah <\/em> in Song of Songs 8:6 should be taken as a reference to Yah\u2019s own flame, and he connects the fire of Yah in the sanctuary with the fire of Yah in the love between lovers: <\/p>\n