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Zohar: Genesis: Chapter LXI. Symbolism of the Colors of the Bow in the Cloud

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Said Rabbi Eleazar: The three primal colors become differentiated into many shades and hues and, as such, are symbols of the divine life and its numerous descending grades of holiness that merge and blend imperceptibly into the evil, just as the animal glides into the vegetable rendering it difficult and almost impossible to distinguish where the one ends and the other begins. The colors of the rainbow have each of them twenty-seven73b different shades and similarly the principle of holiness…

Zohar: Genesis: Chapter LXI. Symbolism of the Colors of the Bow in the Cloud

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