[Avodah] Steps/Stages

[Zev Sero]

Jonathan Baker wrote:

> So too here: Ana Bekoach was constructed to correspond to the name of 42,
> with the acrostic Kroa Satan, etc.  But the 42 stages long predate any 
> of our kabbalistic concepts, by at least a thousand years.  Where's the
> connection?  Otherwise, it seems too much like empty symbolism.

You're begging the question.  You're assuming that "our kabbalistic
concepts" are merely a human-constructed system, that there really is
no such thing as "shem MaB", and therefore that the 42 legs of the
journey from Egypt to the Jordan could not have *in fact* been a
reflection of that Name.

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