Homelessness and speechlessness

pp. 148-170

in: Saleel Nurbhai, K. M. Newton, George Eliot, judaism and the novels, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Abstract

The kabbalists of Gerona held that for as long as the exile continues the Sefrot do not function normally; as they are withdrawn toward the source of the original emanation, Israel lacks the power to adhere to them truly by means of the Divine Spirit, which has also departed for above.4