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Book of Zohar ((Itemsitems 666-71).6-71)
The Path of Kabbalah By Rav Michael Laitman PhD The Path of Kabbalah LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS By Rav Michael Laitman PhD Executive Editor: Benzion Giertz Editor: Claire Gerus Translation: Chaim Ratz Compilation: Shlomi Bohana Layout: Baruch Khovov Laitman Kabbalah Publishers Website: www.kabbalah.info Laitman Kabbalah Publishers E-mail: [email protected] THE PATH OF KABBALAH Copyright © 2005 by MICHAEL LAITMAN. All rights reserved. Published by Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 1057 Steeles Avenue West, Suite 532, Toronto, ON, M2R 3X1, Canada. Printed in Canada. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. ISBN: 0-9732315-9-9 FIRST EDITION: DECEMBER 2005 The Path of Kabbalah TA B LE OF CONTEN T S Part One: The Beginning .........................................................................9 Part Two: Phases of Spiritual Evolution ............................................... 70 Part Three: The Structure of the Upper Worlds .................................140 Part Four: Proper Study ...................................................................... 253 Part Five: Religion, Prejudice and Kabbalah ...................................... 306 Part Six: Genesis ................................................................................. 320 Part Seven: The Inner Meaning .......................................................... 333 Detailed Table of Contents ............................................................... -
Supernal Wisdom
Celestial Grace Temple English Zohar – Supernal Wisdom Zohar Book 7 - Supernal Wisdom: 40. Rabbi Yudai asked, “What does the word BERESHEET mean?” It is the wisdom, upon which the world, ZA, is established to enter the concealed supernal secrets, namely the Light of Bina. Here are the six Supernal and great properties, VAK de Bina, from which everything emerges. The six river mouths, VAK de ZA, that flow into the Great Sea (Malchut) were formed from them. The word BERESHEET consists of the words BARAH (created) and SHEET (Aramaic: six), meaning that six properties were created. Who created them? He who is unmentioned, concealed, and unknown: Arich Anpin. There are two types of Ohr Hochma (Light of Wisdom) in the world of Atzilut: 1. The original Light, Ohr Hochma of AA, called “the concealed Ohr Hochma.” This Light of Hochmais present only in Partzuf AA and does not spread to the lower Partzufim. 2. Ohr Hochma that descends via thirty-two paths from Bina, who ascended to Rosh de AA to receive Ohr Hochma and pass it to ZA. Hence, the word Beresheet means Be-Resheet, with-Hochma. However, this is not the true Ohr Hochma that is concealed in AA, but rather the Light that descends via thirty-two paths from Bina to ZA and sustains ZON. It is written that the world is established on the “concealed supernal secrets.” Copyright © 2014 celestialgrace.org 1 Celestial Grace Temple English Zohar – Supernal Wisdom For when ZON (called “world”) receive the Light of Hochma of thirty- two paths, they ascend to AVI, the concealed supernal secrets. -
The Erotics of Kabbalah Or How to Read Naughty Texts! Remember Those
The erotics of kabbalah or how to read naughty texts! Remember those chapters the bible school teacher missed out? Or the Rebbe in cheder, suddenly skipping “inappropriate” bits of the Talmud? Well here we are again in the Zohar And my earliest recollections were my father’s admonition NOT to read it! That Zohar…“full of erotica!” he claimed, that man from Vienna, the very city of sin! The city of Freud and the invention of innuendo! That man, my father! How do we read the notion of yichudim? Those couplings or copulations,1 Shall we sanitize it like Chabad (“a unification of supernal elements in (and by) one's mystical devotions in prayer”)? For yichudim literally means unification as in coupling as engaged in marital bonding between the male and female… So by what audacious slight of pen does kabbalah project such unifications onto the divine? We are told (Rabbi Akiva none the less!) that the book of Song of Songs is a metaphor for the holiest aspects of the divine-human relationship. An erotic poem is the only text that seems to come close to express such a love. Yet is fully described and incarnated in the fleshiness of the description of lovemaking. Despite its fleshiness it is called the “Holy of Holies” and we are repeatedly instructed to not take this literally, for how can something so holy be taken literally. So we are trained to read allegorically. The anthropomorphic statements about God were the first to be allegorized away by our embarrassed medievalists and we are told to midrashically “misread” the texts that depict in real time the lovemaking or yichudim described with such graphic detail. -
Shaar Hayichud the Gate of Unity by the Holy Rabbi Dov Ber of Lubavitch
Shaar HaYichud The Gate of Unity By The Holy Rabbi Dov Ber of Lubavitch Translated and Annotated by Shimon Markel Edited by Rabbi A. Markel Copyright © 2004 Chapter Thirty Three From all of the above1 we understand the matter of a single Hitbonenut-contemplation of the many particulars which come together as one general [overarching principle] that includes them all. This is similar to [the matter of] “Whatever HaShem desires He has done in the heavens and the earth etc”.2 The root of this “desire of HaShem” is rooted in the first source (which is called Yachid – Singular etc). This is the aspect of the essential Heyulie desire for kindness in the Essence of the Infinite Light (Atzmoot Ohr Ein Sof) which is [an] absolutely simple [singularity]. This [desire for kindness] is similar to the essentially good and kind nature embedded in the essence of the soul (as explained above in chapter ten). Once it arose in G-d’s will and desire to bestow goodness in a particular way from this general heyulie light,3 [this desire] descended with a great chaining down. [Nonetheless], all [this was] still within Himself [and was still] in the aspect of Infinity (Ein Sof), until this desire reached the aspects of Netzach and Hod of the externality of the vessel of the “Heart”. In other words, [it reached] the external emotions (Midot) of Malchut of the Infinite (Ain Sof), even though as it is there, [in Malchut of Ein Sof] it completely transcends the aspect of limitations of lights within vessels. Rather, it all is literally in an aspect of Infinity (Ein Sof), as “He estimated it within Himself”.4 Afterwards, there was a Tzimtzum [withdrawal] and it descended by means of the aspect of the Line (Kav) within the ten sefirot of Circles (Igullim) etc, until the aspect of Keter of Adam Kadmon.5 [Now, Keter of Adam Kadmon] is the source of the concealed desire (Ratzon HaNe’elam) which becomes revealed as the “desire for the desire” within Keter of Atik Yomin 1 This refers to all the preceding chapters (at least from ten through thirty two). -
El Infinito Y El Lenguaje En La Kabbalah Judía: Un Enfoque Matemático, Lingüístico Y Filosófico
El Infinito y el Lenguaje en la Kabbalah judía: un enfoque matemático, lingüístico y filosófico Mario Javier Saban Cuño DEPARTAMENTO DE MATEMÁTICA APLICADA ESCUELA POLITÉCNICA SUPERIOR EL INFINITO Y EL LENGUAJE EN LA KABBALAH JUDÍA: UN ENFOQUE MATEMÁTICO, LINGÜÍSTICO Y FILOSÓFICO Mario Javier Sabán Cuño Tesis presentada para aspirar al grado de DOCTOR POR LA UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE Métodos Matemáticos y Modelización en Ciencias e Ingeniería DOCTORADO EN MATEMÁTICA Dirigida por: DR. JOSUÉ NESCOLARDE SELVA Agradecimientos Siempre temo olvidarme de alguna persona entre los agradecimientos. Uno no llega nunca solo a obtener una sexta tesis doctoral. Es verdad que medita en la soledad los asuntos fundamentales del universo, pero la gran cantidad de familia y amigos que me han acompañado en estos últimos años son los co-creadores de este trabajo de investigación sobre el Infinito. En primer lugar a mi esposa Jacqueline Claudia Freund quien decidió en el año 2002 acompañarme a Barcelona dejando su vida en la Argentina para crear la hermosa familia que tenemos hoy. Ya mis dos hermosos niños, a Max David Saban Freund y a Lucas Eli Saban Freund para que logren crecer y ser felices en cualquier trabajo que emprendan en sus vidas y que puedan vislumbrar un mundo mejor. Quiero agradecer a mi padre David Saban, quien desde la lejanía geográfica de la Argentina me ha estimulado siempre a crecer a pesar de las dificultades de la vida. De él he aprendido dos de las grandes virtudes que creo poseer, la voluntad y el esfuerzo. Gracias papá. Esta tesis doctoral en Matemática Aplicada tiene una inmensa deuda con el Dr. -
Tanya Sources.Pdf
The Way to the Tree of Life Jewish practice entails fulfilling many laws. Our diet is limited, our days to work are defined, and every aspect of life has governing directives. Is observance of all the laws easy? Is a perfectly righteous life close to our heart and near to our limbs? A righteous life seems to be an impossible goal! However, in the Torah, our great teacher Moshe, Moses, declared that perfect fulfillment of all religious law is very near and easy for each of us. Every word of the Torah rings true in every generation. Lesson one explores how the Tanya resolved these questions. It will shine a light on the infinite strength that is latent in each Jewish soul. When that unending holy desire emerges, observance becomes easy. Lesson One: The Infinite Strength of the Jewish Soul The title page of the Tanya states: A Collection of Teachings ספר PART ONE לקוטי אמרים חלק ראשון Titled הנקרא בשם The Book of the Beinonim ספר של בינונים Compiled from sacred books and Heavenly מלוקט מפי ספרים ומפי סופרים קדושי עליון נ״ע teachers, whose souls are in paradise; based מיוסד על פסוק כי קרוב אליך הדבר מאד בפיך ובלבבך לעשותו upon the verse, “For this matter is very near to לבאר היטב איך הוא קרוב מאד בדרך ארוכה וקצרה ”;you, it is in your mouth and heart to fulfill it בעזה״י and explaining clearly how, in both a long and short way, it is exceedingly near, with the aid of the Holy One, blessed be He. "1 of "393 The Way to the Tree of Life From the outset of his work therefore Rav Shneur Zalman made plain that the Tanya is a guide for those he called “beinonim.” Beinonim, derived from the Hebrew bein, which means “between,” are individuals who are in the middle, neither paragons of virtue, tzadikim, nor sinners, rishoim. -
Lesson Four Mystical Experiences, Ascetic Practices
LESSON FOUR MYSTICAL EXPERIENCES, ASCETIC PRACTICES TEXT ONE --- Shlomo Alkabetz, in Joseph Karo’s Maggid Mesharim, introduction Know that the saint and I, his and your humble servant, belonging to our company, agreed to stay up all night in order to banish sleep from our eyes on Shavuot. We succeeded, thank God, so that, as you will hear, we ceased not from study for even a moment. This is the order I arranged for that night. First, we read the Torah with a pleasant melody from the beginning until: And the heaven and the earth were finished. (Gen. 2:1-3) Then we read: In the third month (Ex. 19:1) to the end of the section. Then in the section Mishpatim from: And unto Moses he said (Ex. 24:1) to the end of the section. Then in the section Va’etchanan from: And Moses called unto all Israel (Deut. 5:1) to the end of the section: Hear, O Israel. (Deut. 6:9) Then in section V’zot ha-berakhah from: And Moses went up to in the sight of all Israel. (Deut. 34) Then we read the haftarah: Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year (Ezek. 1) and the haftarah: A Prayer of Habakkuk. (Hab. 3) Then the Psalm: The heavens declare (Ps. 19) and the Psalm: Let God arise. (Ps. 68) Then we read the alphabetic acrostic without the songs. Then we read the whole of the Song of Songs, the whole of Ruth and the final verses of Chronicles. All this we did in dread and awe, with quite unbelievable melody and tunefulness. -
The Eight Gates of the Kabbalah of the Ari'zal the Most Comprehensive
KosherTorah School for Spiritual Studies KosherTorah School for Biblical, Judaic & Spiritual Studies P.O. Box 628 Tellico Plains, TN. 37385 tel. 423-253-3555 email. [email protected] www.KosherTorah.com Ariel Bar Tzadok, Director, Rabbi Kabbalah – Shemoneh Shearim The Eight Gates of the Kabbalah of the Ari'zal This is one of the largest collections of audio lessons on the Lurianic Kabbalah available in English. All lessons taught by R. Ariel B Tzadok of the KosherTorah School This is a thirty (30) lesson audio (MP3) series covering many different topics from most of the Shemoneh Shearim, the Eight Gates of the Kabbalah of the Ari'zal. Many of these topics have never before been recorded, or discussed in English. The topics include: 1. Secret of the Stature of Adam Before the Fall. 2. Secrets of Cain Souls. 3. Secret of the Four who Ascended into the Pardes. 4. Secrets of Redemption & the Mashiah Ben Yosef. 5. Kavanot of Hanuka. 6. Secrets of Torah Observance. 7. Secrets of Pulse Reading. 8. Secrets of Forehead (Face) Reading. 9. Seeing/Sensing the Holy Name YHWH. 10. Secrets of Reincarnation. This is an outline of each lesson: Sha'ar HaPesukim, Bereshit, Secret of the Stature of Adam Before the Fall. Lesson 1 - An overall introduction into the collective construct of the hive-mind soul of the Adamic race. This lesson extracts all the intricate kabbalistic metaphors of the Ari'zal system, and explains them 1 Copyright @ 1997-2017 by Ariel Tzadok. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be forwarded, reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including email, photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. -
288 Sparks of Genesis and Boundary-Bulk Physics
288 Sparks of Genesis and Boundary-Bulk Physics According to Bernard Pick's 1913 work The Cabala on a sacred-texts.com web page: "... the Zohar is ... [a] production ... of ... thirteenth century ... Spain ... by Moses de Leon (1250-1305) ...". According to web pages by Rabbi Moshe Miller about Arizal on the www.safed- kabbalah.com web site: "... Rabbi Yitzchak Luria (the Arizal) ... 1534-1572 c.e. ... set out to explain ... the kabbalistic literature ... particularly Zohar ... There are five areas of focus in the Arizal's teachings ... : • the concept of tzimtzum (G-d's self-contraction, so to speak) through its various stages ... • Prior to creation, there was only G-d and His infinite revelation of Himself, the Or Ein Sof, filling all existence ...[ corresponding to the letter Aleph (first of the Hebrew alphabet) placed before the First Verse of the First Book Genesis of the Torah and the dimensionless Empty Set ...] the tzimtzum ... established a radical distinction between Creator and created (from the viewpoint of the created, although not from the viewpoint of the Creator ... ), ... so that creation comes about by way of a "quantum leap" ... [ corresponding to the first word of the First Verse that begins with Genesis letter number 1 Bet and ends with Genesis letter number 6 Tav and 1 the 0-dimensional Natural Numbers created from the Empty Set by the Peano unitizer operation 0 -> {0} = 1 as described by David Finkelstein in his book "Quantum Relativity" (Sprimger 1996) the 1-dimensional Real Numbers created from the Natural Numbers -
What Stops the Plague? ~ I: Rabbi Akiva’S Students Miriam Gedwiser ~ Sefirah 5781
What Stops the Plague? ~ I: Rabbi Akiva’s Students Miriam Gedwiser ~ Sefirah 5781 Rabbi Akiva’s Students 1. Talmud Bavli Yevamot 62b Sefaria/Koren transl (modified) מתני׳ לא יבטל אדם מפריה ורביה MISHNA (61b): A man may not neglect the mitzva to be אלא א"כ יש לו בנים ב"ש אומרים שני fruitful and multiply unless he already has children. Beit זכרים וב"ה אומרים זכר ונקבה Shammai say: One fulfills this mitzva with two males, and שנאמר (בראשית ה, ב) זכר ונקבה :Beit Hillel say: A male and a female, as it is stated בראם: .(Male and female He created them” (Genesis 5:2“ מתניתין דלאו כרבי יהושע דתניא רבי The Gemara comments: The mishna is not in יהושע אומר נשא אדם אשה בילדותו accordance with the opinion of Rabbi Yehoshua. As it is ישא אשה בזקנותו היו לו בנים taught in a baraita that Rabbi Yehoshua says: If a man בילדותו יהיו לו בנים בזקנותו שנא' married a woman in his youth, and she passed away, he (קהלת יא, ו) בבקר זרע את זרעך should marry another woman in his old age. If he had ולערב אל תנח ידך כי אינך יודע אי זה children in his youth, he should have more children in יכשר הזה או זה ואם שניהם כאחד his old age, as it is stated: “In the morning sow your טובים seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand; for ר"ע אומר למד תורה בילדותו ילמוד you do not know which shall prosper, whether this or תורה בזקנותו היו לו תלמידים ”that, or whether they both alike shall be good בילדותו יהיו לו תלמידים בזקנותו Ecclesiastes 11:6). -
English-Siporay-Masi
Table of Contents Salutation .................................................................. 4 Introduction............................................................... 6 1. The Lost Princess ................................................. 14 2. A King and an Emperor ........................................ 23 3. A Lame Son ..........................................................42 4. The King Who Decreed Forced Conversion….…..62 5. The King’s Son - Made of Precious Stones ……. 70 6. A Humble King .................................................... 75 7. A Fly and Spider .................................................. 80 8. A Rabbi and His Only Son ................................... 89 9. The Clever One and the Simple one ..................... 95 10. The Burgher and the Pauper ................................125 11. The King’s Son and the Maid’s Son Who Were Exchanged ......................................................156 12. The Prayer Leader ............................................. 186 13. The Seven Beggars ............................................ 245 Salutation Excite to see the power of your master, who illuminates for us the Torah from the Heavens, to give us life this very day and for all eternity, and in our bondage, our G-d has not abandoned us, and He has pitched upon us kindness in every generation, and he sent us saviors, righteous rabbis foundations of the world, to show us the way, the early ones already traversed, and His mercy has not been withheld at every time and at every hour, and he has been -
The Path of Kabbalah
1 of 273 The Path of Kabbalah Kabbalist Michael Laitman 2 of 273 Part One: The Beginning .............................................................................................5 Chapter 1.1 - The Great Illusion................................................................................... 6 Chapter 1.2 – Between Creator and Creature........................................................... 8 Chapter 1.3 – The Evolution of the Soul................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.4 – The Awakening of the Point in the Heart....................................... 15 Chapter 1.5 – Kabbalah as a Means .......................................................................... 19 Chapter 1.6 – Land Marks........................................................................................... 21 Chapter 1.7 – From Above Downward ..................................................................... 25 Chapter 1.8 – Cause and Consequence ..................................................................... 27 Chapter 1.9 – What is Between This World and the Next?.................................. 29 Chapter 1.10 – Faith Above Reason........................................................................... 31 Chapter 1.11 – Freedom of Choice – To Operate Above Nature........................ 33 Chapter 1.12 – Questions and Answers..................................................................... 35 Part Two: Phases of Spiritual Evolution ...................................................................49