Netzach: I translate it as “endurance” and as “eternity.” “Eternity” fits when I imagine the sefirot as qualities of the…
Month: April 2015
Tiferet: Plotinus on Beauty
Beauty: I see it in flaming sunsets, soaring raptors, astonishing works of art. I want those experiences to last forever; they seem…
Tree of Incomparable Beauty
Recently, a new artisan storefront opened near my Main Street home. As I like to support local artisans, I wandered…
Gevurah: Aristotle on Judgment
Virtue is a state of character concerned with choice of the mean between two extremes, i.e., a mean relative to…
Chesed: Plato on Love
Do you know the wise woman Diotima, a fictional character in Plato’s dialogue Symposium? Six learned, drunken men discuss their…