RAHAMIN = Tender Compassionate Empathetic Love
>Isaiah 49:15 "Can a woamn forget her suckling child, that she should not have COMPASSION (merahem) on the son of her womb? Even though she may forget, yet I will never forget you."
I consider this God's feminine love. This is confirmed by www.divinemercy.org in stating:
"While 'hesed' highlights the marks of FIDELITY to self and of 'responsibility for one's own love' (which are in a sense MASCULINE characters), 'rahamin,' in its very root, denotes the love of a MOTHER (rehem = mother's womb).
>Confronted by evil, rahamin is manifest as MERCY (divinemercy.org).
>In the mother-child relationshipo, love is completely GRATUITIOUS, not merited; therefore it constitutes an INTERIOR NECESSITY, an "exigency of the heart."
>rahamin nuances
-- goodness and tenderness,
-- patience and understanding, i.e.,
readiness to FORGIVE.
-- (in OT) salvation from danger, especially from enemies
-- forgiveness of sins (individual and communal)
-- readiness to fulfill the promise and hope, in spite of human infidelity
>HOSEA 14:16 "I will HEAL their faithlessness, I will love them FREELY."
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