Chestnut (color) Chestnut (color) Chestnut is a colour, a medium reddish shade of brown (displayed right), and is named after the nut of the chestnut tree. An alternate name for the colour is badious. Indian red is a similar but separate and distinct colour from "chestnut". Chestnut is also a very dark tan that almost appears brown. The name "chestnut" derives from the color of the nut of the chestnut tree. The first recorded use of "chestnut" as a color term in English was in 1555. The color maroon is also named after the chestnut (via French "marron"). Deep chestnut is the
Anthropomorphism in Kabbalah Anthropomorphism in Kabbalah Kabbalah, the central system in Jewish mysticism, uses subtle anthropomorphic analogies and metaphors to describe God in Judaism. These include male-female influences in the Divine. Kabbalists repeatedly warn and stress the need to divorce their notions from any corporeality, dualism, plurality, or spatial and temporal connotations. As "the Torah speaks in the language of Man", the empirical terms are necessarily imposed upon man's experience in this world. Once the analogy is described, its limitations are then related to, stripping the kernel of its husk, to arrive at a truer conception. Due to the danger of impure material