The Kabbalah of the Unicorn

Introduction

While I was preparing for a two-part presentation at the Vedanta Center of Atlanta on the Book of Job, I came across something at the end of the Book of Job that had not previously caught my attention, but this time, my spiritual radar perked up on encountering these passages. (The audio recordings of these sessions are available at the “More Audio” page on this website. There is also a chapter in my book Dimensions that is adapted from these presentations.) These passages recite that in the aftermath of his ordeal, Job was restored in greater abundance than he ever had in the past. Included in this new abundance were seven new sons and three new daughters, to replace the ones who had lost their lives as parts of the ongoing ordeal Job had endured.

A few things that caught my attention about this recitation: here is one of the infrequent occurrences in the Tanak (the Jewish Bible) where an unusual prominence is attributed to females in a variety of ways. First, the names of the daughters are provided, but not the names of the sons. Usually, it is the other way around, where men’s names are provided, but not the names of women, wives and daughters. Second, it is emphasized that Job gave his daughters an inheritance, just like their brothers. This appears quite extraordinary, and a more radical extension of the limited inheritance extended to women under certain circumstances related in the Torah concerning the daughters of Zelophedad (I leave it to the reader to research this for themselves, if they are not already familiar with it). Last, but not least, concerns the significance of the names of these three daughters, particularly the third one, Keren-happuch.

My intuition and limited research about this unfolded many interesting connections. I also realized that my limited knowledge of the nuances of Biblical Hebrew would restrict my full exploration of all the aspects of this subject and its various connections. So I commissioned a study of this subject on a deeper level by Rabbi Gershon Winkler, a scholar and practitioner of traditional Jewish teachings and uncommon kabbalistic and shamanistic roots underpinning the Jewish tradition. You can find the result of his research and its profound insights and inspiration on this website under the “More Articles” section, “The Kabbalah of the Unicorn”.

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There is an audio in the “More Audio” page of this website of a presentation I made at the Vedanta Center called “Moses, Job’s Daughters, Unicorns and Raja Yoga” separate from the “Karma and the Book of Job” audios. I highly recommend the works of Rabbi Winkler, particularly his book, Magic of the Ordinary. You can check him out further at his website, www.walkingstick.org.