Editing Shekhinah (section)

===As feminine aspect===
[[Kabbalah]] associates the shekhinah with the female.<ref name="Mom" />{{rp|128, n.51}} According to [[Gershom Scholem]], "The introduction of this idea was one of the most important and lasting innovations of Kabbalism. ...no other element of Kabbalism won such a degree of popular approval."<ref>Gershom G. Scholem, ''Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism'' (Jerusalem: Schocken 1941, 3d rev'd ed: reprint 1961), p. 229 (quote).</ref> The "feminine Jewish divine presence, the shekhinah, distinguishes Kabbalistic literature from earlier Jewish literature."<ref>Tzahi Weiss, "The Worship of the Shekhinah in Early Kabbalah" (Academic 2015), p. 1 (quote), cf. pp. 5–8. [See "External Links" below for text of article].</ref>
<blockquote>"In the imagery of the Kabbalah the shekhinah is the most overtly female ''sefirah'', the last of the ten [[sefirot]], referred to imaginatively as 'the daughter of God'. ... The harmonious relationship between the female shekhinah and the six sefirot which precede her causes the world itself to be sustained by the flow of divine energy. She is like the moon reflecting the divine light into the world."<ref>Alan Unterman, ''Dictionary of Jewish Lore and Legend'' (London: Thames and Hudson 1991), p. 181. Cf. p. 175 re ''sefirot''. The 10th sefirot is [[Malkuth]] 'kingdom' or Shekhinah.</ref></blockquote>