Quotations

Rabbi Ben Ezra


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The One counts Himself, and on-one else counts him, and He is every number, He is root, and foundation and square and cube, and He is like the essence that carries all the cases, and every number is in His power, and He is in every number in deed, and He ispresent, and every number is present because of Him, and He is Ancient, and every [other] number is [re]newed, and He is the reason for every number, pair [even] and that is not pair, He is not a number, and will not multiply and will not divide.
.... and we knew that the coitus is divided into three parts [the] one to be fruitful and multiply and the second to alleviate the weariness of the body and the third to desire that is like the desire of the beast.