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Perush 'Al ha-Torah - Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati – Death by a kiss
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Perush 'Al ha-Torah - Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati – Death by a kiss
Know that, just as the ripe fruit falls from the tree, it no longer needing its connection [to the tree], so is the link between the soul and the body. When the soul has attained whatever she is able to attain, she cleaves [deveqah] to the supernal soul and will remove its raiment of dust and sever [itself] from its place and will cleave to the Shekhinah and this is the meaning of ‘death by a kiss’