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From: lah@miro.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU (Commander RYN Leigh Ann Hussey)
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Subject: Re: men and women
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Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 04:07:13 EST
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Keywords: Adam Kadmon; Kabbalah

I prefer the Kabbalistic view, myself.  In the beginning, the primal
Adam was asexual ("Male and Female created He them.").  The "Fall" was
not so much a matter of sinning or knowledge of sin, as a splitting of
the perfect, unified being, the separation of G-d and the Shekhinah
(the feminine aspect of the divine).  The Kabbalists (as I perceive
it) see their duty to be reuniting the separated unity.

If one sees the primal being as a unity, it is easier to see equality
in the subsequent beings.

Did that make any sense?

Regards,
Leigh Ann