Mar
17
Miriam, Our Lady of the Zohar: A Hebrew Catholic Understanding
According to Jewish traditions Zohar is one of the names of Miriam referring to her as beautiful as the noon-day sun (chamah). This is alluded to, in the great Marian verse, in the Song of Songs 6:10.
Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array? The name Zohar also means radiant or dark light. The Zohar is in fact a Marian commentary on the Torah. This Lady of the Zohar, who is Miriam is not the Miriam sister of Moses but the Mystical Miriam, who is the suffering soul of Israel and the World. Miriam the sister of Moses is a type (behinat) of this Celestial Miriam.
This Celestial Miriam-Zohar is the created female Wisdom (Hokhmah/Binah) also called Sophia in Greek.
Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array? The name Zohar also means radiant or dark light. The Zohar is in fact a Marian commentary on the Torah. This Lady of the Zohar, who is Miriam is not the Miriam sister of Moses but the Mystical Miriam, who is the suffering soul of Israel and the World. Miriam the sister of Moses is a type (behinat) of this Celestial Miriam.
This Celestial Miriam-Zohar is the created female Wisdom (Hokhmah/Binah) also called Sophia in Greek.
