equipoise
noun
In Jewish tradition
Interpretation: In Sefer Yetzirah it is the balancing member of a group of three, which the tradition reads as the tongue or air placed between opposites.
Meaning
A state of balance, where weights or forces are equal. tree →
Examples
- To confirm this there are faithful witnesses; the world, year and man, the twelve, the Equipoise, the heptade, which God regulates like the Dragon, [40] (Tali) sphere and the heart. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- 41) Our author means to say that the water has a great disposition to unite itself with the caloric, thus for instance is the fire latent in steam, but the air equipoises them. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
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