אֶפְרַ֕יִם מַה־לִּ֥י ע֖וֹד לָֽעֲצַבִּ֑ים אֲנִ֧י עָנִ֣יתִי וַאֲשׁוּרֶ֗נּוּ אֲנִי֙ כִּבְר֣וֹשׁ רַֽעֲנָ֔ן מִמֶּ֖נִּי פֶּרְיְךָ֥ נִמְצָֽא׃
Ephraïm, qu’ai-je donc de commun avec les idoles? Moi seul j’exauce, je vois tout; semblable à un cyprès toujours vert, je suis la source de tous tes biens.
Ezra ben Solomon
And his fruit is sweet to my mouth: The fruit of the Holy One, blessed be He, are the souls, as it is written: “From me comes your fruit” [Hosea 4:9]. Also “Light is sown for the righteous” [Ps. 97:11] and “Sweet is the light” [Eccles. 11:7].
Ezra ben Solomon
He is as majestic as Lebanon, Stately as the cedars.153 There follows a long quotation from Sefer ha-Bahir, Scholem’s sections 64, 67–69. In similar fashion Scripture states: “I am like a leafy cypress; your fruit comes from Me” [Hos. 14:9]. Souls are the fruit of the blessed Holy One. If Rava created a man,154b. Sanhedrin 65b. The reference is to the primary Talmudic source for the later Golem tradition. he returned it to dust, for it contained no power of the soul.