Good Afternoon Yamon Ki Yesepar;
Here is a mystery!
Genesis 5:2: “He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the day they were created.”
“A human being is only called Adam when male and female are as one.” Zohar 1:55b.
It is very interesting to note that in his original state, man was made of “adamah” ie. earth and air; breath is what characterizes living beings. The name Adam is derived from “dam” – blood which is an element of water. Remember what Jesus told Nichodemus? A man must be born of water and the Spirit? Jesus spoke to Nichodemus in Aramaic, had he used the Aramaic word for blood (damn) to this orthodox Jew in that particular context, Nichodemus might have been offended just as we are offended when we hear that word. And/or Jesus was using the word mayim to differentiate to Nichodemus that He was referring to atoning blood and not just the flesh. Water is often used to express the concept of atoning blood. We do the same ourselves when we speak of the cleansing waters or the cleansing blood.
The Talmud points out that “adamah” – earth also spells “adameh” – I resemble. This resemblance is to God. This is the word used Isaiah 14:14: “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will make myself like (adameh) the Most High.” When I was a student at Moody I was taught that this verse was taken out of context when used as a reference to satan, as it was really a reference to the King of Babylon and not satan as it is commonly used. However, in using the word adameh the writer is giving a remez (hint) that this also has another reference. The King of Babylon as a human, was already an adamah and thus would also be an adameh. Satan, however, is not an adamah nor is he an adameh. Satan was not given the “breath” of God, he is a spirit, He was not made in the image of God. The word “skin” is ohr and the word light is ohr. The only difference is that the first silent letter in light is aleph and the first silent letter in skin is ayin. Remember satan was the light bearing, suddenly man took that from him. Jealousy?
But back to the mystery of male and female being called Adam. Up to the point where the woman was yet to be created, man was made up of three elements earth, air and water (blood). Then God decided that it was not good (tov – not in harmony with God) when he was alone, so he created woman from the rib (side) of man. The kabbalah teaches Adam was a sort of Siamese twin that he surgically separated into two separate beings, male and female and thus you have the reason why Genesis 5:2 calls them both Adam. (You following this? Bet you think I am just making this up. Well, I’m not, this teaching is over 4,000 years old).
It was at this point that the words changed. Instead of adam, since he separated Adam into two separate beings, the words ish – man (aleph, yod, shin) and ishah – woman (aleph, shin, he) are used for the first time. The sages teach that this means that when adam – human was separated into man and woman the element of fire was added to their beings. By itself the aleph, shin spells aish-fire. Ironically the separation of gender is actually a completion of creation, for now humans are made up of all four elements.
Then when the yod is inserted into aish-fire (aleph, shin), the result is ish-man (aleph, yod, shin) and when the he is added you get ishah-woman (aleph, shin, he). Thus, when the man and woman are brought together, the man brings the fire of the yod and the woman brings the fire of the he. Ok here it comes, drum roll please, together the yod and hey spell “YAH.” You’ve got it Yamon Ki Yesepar, the name of God. Both man and woman are necessary to produce the image of God. In their sexual togetherness man and woman approach the image of God.
Is it any wonder why the enemy fills our society with pornography, sexual perversion, homosexuality, and cheapens the union between a man and woman.
But wait there is more. The numerical value of love (ahava, love between a man and woman) is 13. That happens to be the numerical value of echad – one. Echad is one in unity like a baseball team is made of many members but is one, echad, team. Thus when a man and woman come together to form one flesh, the numerical value is 26 (13+13) and guess what the numerical value of YHVH is? Do I need to say more? Note also the Name YHVH. The first two letters are masculine and the last two are feminine.
You get the mystery now of Genesis 26:2. Man was created in the image of God, both male and female as God was both male and female. But he separated man into two separate beings, male and female and when both come together, skin to skin, hand in hand, lips to lips etc., they become one again as God is one, to worship God as he original created Adam to worship. Any wonder why adultery was a capital crime under Hebrew law? Any wonder why the enemy is aggressively attacking the sexual union between a man and woman?
Sex between a husband and wife, then can be both a way to approach God and a way to bring God into the world. That is why it must be handled as something sacred and not made into a fetish or a business, and then it becomes a form of idolatry and vanity.
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