אֶפְרַ֕יִם מַה־לִּ֥י ע֖וֹד לָֽעֲצַבִּ֑ים אֲנִ֧י עָנִ֣יתִי וַאֲשׁוּרֶ֗נּוּ אֲנִי֙ כִּבְר֣וֹשׁ רַֽעֲנָ֔ן מִמֶּ֖נִּי פֶּרְיְךָ֥ נִמְצָֽא׃
에브라임의 말이 내가 다시 우상과 무슨 상관이 있으리요 할지라 내가 저를 돌아보아 대답하기를 나는 푸른 잣나무 같으니 네가 나로 말미암아 열매를 얻으리라 하리라
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.