Two women in marital union with one spiritual leader. What could the divine purpose be behind this arrangement? Why would Moshe, a holy master, the Mashiach (messiah/redeemer) of his generation and the one who spoke “mouth to mouth” with God need two women? Conversely, why would two women, spiritual masters in their own right, need to be in union with one man? Remember, Moshe is a man on a mission. He is the 26th generation from Adam. Twenty-six is the value of the Tetragrammaton, the essential Name of God, the code for the inner design of creation. At the time of Moshe, due to the Sinaic revelation and the uniqueness of that generation (known as the “Generation of Knowledge”), all creation was set for the completion of the tikkun for Adam’s eating from the Tree of Knowledge. What then was Moshe doing in a polygamous relationship with a Semitic Midianite, the daughter of a high priest, and a Hamitic Ethiopian queen?
The prototype of Moshe with two wives has its primal origins with Adam and his two wives. It is well documented throughout the Talmud, Midrash and Zohar that Adam had two wives -- Eve (Chava) and Lilith (Chava HaRishona/the First Chava). There is sorrowful confusion and misinformation about Adam’s first wife (who only later became known as the infamous Lilith), but this is not the place to unravel that great mystery. Suffice it to say that the first Chava, the sacred part of Lilith, was the spiritual “backside” to the “frontside” of the second Chava (Eve).
Both aspects required spiritual rectification. The “First Chava” was truly a “higher” mode of feminine energy, but because her divine root was in the extremely powerful energy of the “backside” she was also more vulnerable to spiritual infection. Because she ate from the “fruit” of the Tree of Knowledge (which actually occurred in stages) the First Chava became contaminated. She had to be separated out from the entire process of cosmic tikkun – for the time being. It is this aspect of Primordial Woman that became distorted and became known as the demonic Lilith. In her essence, however, she is holy of holies - an essential component to the grand tikkun of creation. The First Chava must receive her rectification before the present reality can ascend into a higher dimension – the original Gan Eden and beyond. The rectification of Adam’s second wife, Eve, received its tikkun throughout the remainder of the story in Genesis, and as she incarnated in the matriarchs and various other female personalities throughout history.
Both Eves received a significant rectification when their spiritual essences transmigrated into the generation of the Patriarch Jacob. It is for this reason that he married two women (two sisters!). Rachel was the second Eve incarnate and Leah was the first Eve incarnate. Jacob was none other than the essence of Adam incarnate. The set and setting were picking up where they had left off in Gan Eden. In the language of the Kabbalah the second Eve in her more rectified mode is now known as Rachel and the first Eve in her truly transformed state is now known as Leah. In other words, the dark, backside of Lillith has been restored into the “light” of Leah. These teachings are well known throughout the esoteric Torah, especially in Lurianic Kabbalah. This phenomenon is alluded to by the first letter of the three words “the Kushite woman that he took [in marriage]” are heh – aleph – lamed. Read backwards from left to right, i.e., from the “backside”, spell out the name Leah.[7]
Although the major parts of the cosmic readjustment of feminine divinity were completed with Jacob, Rachel and Leah, the process still required fine-tuning. Enter Moshe, Ish HaElohim – the Man of God on a mission from God. Moshe has incarnated that aspect of Jacob/Adam and his two wives – Tzipporah and the Kushite are none other than incarnated aspects of Rachel and Leah. Who was the Kushite woman that Moshe married? Was she Tzipporah by a different name or truly a different person? Are the Torah traditions contradicting each other? Was she [another woman] or wasn’t she?
Tzipporah and the black Kushite are indeed two distinct persons, yet they constitute a single spiritual entity. Just as the two Eves were “back to back” these two female figures are “back to back” with each other. As in the geometric form of the Mobius strip, they share a common wall, two surfaces with only one side. Tzipporah and the Kushite are spiritual twins that emanate from the same soul root. Tzipporah is the “front” and the Ethiopian queen is the “back”. The Kushite isTzipporah (i.e., her backside), yet the Kushite (a.k.a. the first Eve) is also a separate entity that is part of Tzipporah’s soul (a.k.a. the second Eve) in order for Moshe (a.k.a. Jacob and Adam) to complete their tikkun.
Indeed, “Kushite” simultaneously is both another woman and a euphemism for the beauty of Tzipporah. Within the “black” beauty of Tzipporah the Torah encoded a hidden mystery. The Torah spoke this double entendre, “Kushite”, to conceal the secret of Moshe’s black wife and his mission of cosmic tikkun going back to the original Adam and the first two Eves. Moshe’s second wife was another woman yet she also wasn’t. She really was black yet she also wasn’t. The mystery of Moshe’s second wife was that she wasn’t yet she also was. Only now you know the secret behind that which truly was. Was she or wasn’t she? The answer to this Biblical riddle lies in the Kabbalah Koan of Moshe’s black wife.
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