More Lunar Poetry
Kabbalistic, based on Jewish folk story about the moon. In myth it is said that she was once nearly as bright as the Sun, and asked God that the Sun be diminished. For her treachery, she was diminished herself. It is said that in the Messianic times, the moon will be restored to its former brightness, which will be like the the light of seven days.
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The poem is sort of my own interpretation, based on a few different things.
In the Kiddush Levanah, we pray for the moon to be redeemed. This is because the moon, which is the feminine divine, is like humanity. Pride is what diminishes our light.
Dually, this poem is meant to reflect the disharmony brought about by the sin of eating the fruit. When the fruit was seperated from the bough, so was, on some level, the feminine divine from the masculine divine. Also, this sin, the sin of taking the imminent away from the transcendent, is like the sin of idolatry. In this development, it is my interpretation, at least, that the feminine divine was divided into plural divinities, such as angels, demons and gods, and the light of the whole, and also the manifest power of humanity, was lessened thereby.
The lights (divine sparks) must be gathered back into her before she may be redeemed.
If you prefer, say that the sun and the moon were created as equals, and that this was during the creation of the seven days, before Sabbath, and that when she went to diminish herself, she diminished herself by only one light, being a near perfect reflection of the Sun's power. And then, during the second creation, after the world was transformed by the sin of the fruit, she was diminished further, and that this diminution was by another five lights, such that the night is now much darker than the day, and not simply slightly darker.
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