The concept of Pardes in Kabbalistic and Jewish thought offers a deeper framework for interpreting the Hebrew Bible through multiple layers of meaning, particularly the Books of the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Numbers).
This approach, deeply rooted in mystical traditions and in Judaism often attributed to the Kabbalist Moses DeLeon, aligns with the medieval Christian “fourfold” method of exegesis (the interpretation of scripture).
The idea is to explore the text at four levels (known as PaRDeS):