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From the viewpoint of the Bible and its Talmudic, Midrashic and Kabbalistic commentaries, a complex set of questions, with multiple ramifications, may be asked concerning the relation between God (unicity) and the question of duality as well as that of differentiation/separation with respect to the concept of sanctity/distinction with the idea of transcendence as the overall paradigm. The biblical text signals a process that begins with an androgynous model (Adam) in which God (unicity) and the duality (masculine and feminine) encompasses a radical alterity between Man and Woman inferring a combined specific sexuality in terms of rights, pleasure and procreation that thereby excludes the homosexual act. However, a Kabbalistic reading reconfigures the relationship between the unity and duality "From Above" with respect to what is happening "From Below." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]