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Garden of Sensory Delights

Posté par: Alexandra Topaz Il y a 1 année, 8 mois

‘Pairi-daēza’ means ‘walled garden’ in Persian, and is the origin of the Hebrew word for orchard, ‘pardes’, and also the origin of the English word for Paradise. Pairi-daēza is also related to ‘parigauda’, meaning a screen, which is the root of the Hebrew, ‘pargod’ - a key concept in Jewish mysticism that describes our veiled relationship to immanence. Pargod is  also related to ‘parochet’- the curtain veil in the Jerusalem temple’s holy of holies that only the high priest could enter once a year on Yom Kippur to offer atonement sacrifices of blood and incense.