Shi'ur Qomahשיעור קומה

"The Measure of the Body": the corpus's most notorious text — the dimensions of the divine body, limb by limb, in units of millions of parasangs, with unpronounceable names for each member; rooted in the lover's inventory of Song of Songs 5. Maimonides wanted it burned; the Kabbalists read it as the measure of Adam Kadmon — not anthropomorphism but the discovery that scale itself breaks near the Throne: the numbers are meant to overflow the imagination that tries to hold them.