kabbalah basic
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kabbalah
Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag
Baal HaSulamTalmud Eser Sefirot The Study of the Ten Sefirot
The Study of the Ten
Sefirot
Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag
The Rabash
Dr. Michael Laitman
kabbalah.info
obshalom.org
Avraham Mordecai Gottlieb
What's the point of my life?
The Journey BeginsWith an
Inner Voice
The Torah was written in a highly symbolic language.
The Torahis a code for the individualsoul
Genesis 12:10- Abram in Egypt
Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
“Sweet”
“Bitter”
truth
“Truth”
“Lie”
Kabbalah books are written in the language of:
“Roots and branches”
Using worldly words to describe spiritual concepts
Branches = EffectRoots = Cause
Creator
Creatures
Light
Vessel
Pleasure
Will to Receive
Ohr =Light=PleasureKli =Vessel= “will to receive”
Will to Receive for oneself
VesselSelf love
EgyptEgoism
The desire to receive delight and pleasure
Pharaoh
A desire to bestow goodness upon others
Moses
Achieve “Dvekut” (attachment) with the CreatorCalled HASHVA’AT TSURAH – Equal Feeling
Separation=The opposite. Separateness between you and Creator at the feeling level
Left PillarWill to receiveTo understandSelf love
Right PillarWill to BestowThe love of others
To influence kindnesss
Rectify the will
To receive in order to bestow
The Middle Pillar
Job 19:26
In my flesh I will see God
The central symbol of the Kabbalah is the 10 sefirot. It is a cosmological symbol that expresses 10 manifestations of the One.
The Talmud
Four levels of Torah study
PeshatThe surface meaning of the text
RemezAllusions or allegories in the text
DerashRabbini or midrashic way of reading new
lessons into the text
SodThe hidden mystical reading of the inner secrets
of Torah
The Tree of SefirothKether Supreme CrownHokhmah WisdomBinah Intelligence Hesed Love or MercyDin Power Tifereth Compassion/BeautyNetsakh Lasting Endurance Hod MajestyYesod FoundationMalkuth/ Shekinah Kingdom
אותיות
כלים לקבלת
האור
נקבה
Exodus Chapter 1
• 15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah; 16 and he said: 'When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, ye shall look upon the birthstool: if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
Exodus Chapter 4
• 2 And the LORD said unto him: 'What is that in thy hand?' And he said: 'A rod.' 3 And He said: 'Cast it on the ground.' And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. 4 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Put forth thy hand, and take it by the tail--and he put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand--