שבירה ShevirahXReshit Chokhmah
XVIGate of Humility 1:1–8

וענותך תרבניThe Humility of God

ve-anvatkha tarbeniIn Gamatria ↗

The Highest comes in by the smallest gate.

Anavah comes from being humbled, bowed. Strikingly, the gate first finds it in God, exalted above all. Through a Tanchuma passage on 'Your humility made me great' (Psalm 18:36), de Vidas shows God adorning Eve as a bride, visiting the sick Abraham, burying Moses; telling Israel 'I have wearied you', not they Him; waiting for Ezekiel in the valley, entering by a small gate, and standing while Abraham sits.

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