There is another word and metaphor from food culture that better suggests to me what it means to “dwell in Beulah Land.” That word is marinate. When you marinate ingredients, something very different happens than when you marry ingredients. The process of marinating is to bring two distinct ingredients together, not so that they can lose themselves in each other, but so that each one becomes more distinctive, more unique, while at the same time the two together create a magical third, a tertium quid.