Quotes:Tzaila

H. P. Blavatsky

Tzaila. A rib; see Genesis for the myth of the creation of the first woman from a rib of Adam, the first man. It is curious that no other myth describes anything like this “rib” process, except the Hebrew Bible. Other similar Hebrew words are” Tzela, a “fall”, and Tzelem, “the image of God”. Inman remarks that the ancient Jews were fond of punning conceits, and sees one here — that Adam fell, on account of a woman, whom God made in his image, from a fall in the man’s side. [w.w.w.]

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Tzaila