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# imminence

«imminence» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The state of being about to happen, or of being very near** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The state of being about to happen, or of being very near. (The text uses it where "immanence", God's presence within the world, is meant.) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/imminence/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The Sefer Yetzirah's translator links wind with God's nearness. Tradition treats the divine breath or spirit (ruach) as the way God is present in the world.

### examples

- Wind is of course the herald of the storm, the Biblical symbol par excellence of the divine theophany, making wind a potent symbol of divine imminence. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/imminence/#x1)
- Perhaps capturing an intermediary concept between the immaterial divine imminence and the material wind is ‘wisp’, meaning both a small breeze and a phantom presence, but ‘Holy Wisp’ is a rather underwhelming expression. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/imminence/#x2)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «imminence» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/imminence/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.