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My heart is hungry and thirsty to know Hashem in a more intimate way, but a red flag is going up, as far as getting involved in Kabbalah. Firstly, is it not true that one must be completely observant of Jewish Law to understand Kabbalah teachings? Can you please tell me why they call the Shekhina HER? Are you involved with Kabbalah teachings? If so, has this brought you closer to the Holy G-d that we serve?
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Being totally observant of Jewish law certainly helps, but it's not required, either.
Kabbalah doesn't come from occult originally, but it's still often distorted by occultists for their own purposes- the same way many cults also base their agenda on distortions of Christianity or Buddhism. A lot of New Age groups also distort and simplify Kabbalah, too.
There's many great rabbis who are famous for being experts on Kabbalah, like Rabbi Isaac Luria, Rabbi Joseph Cordovero, and the Baal Shem Tov.
Chabad Houses often teach Kabbalah, you could contact them.
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In a day and age where Kabbalah is glamorized by entertainers, where does one go to truly learn more about it?
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To me Kabbalah is unmasking the infinity within the finite.
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Thank you for such a clear, concise article.
Very inspirational - the right article, in the right place, at the right time! (Or was I in the right place at the right time?)
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A very enlightening and uplifting glimpse.
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The Tzvi Freeman is astonishingly clear and most helpful in a search for Truth! Thank you.
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Your fluency and depth of explanation of Kabbalah leads me to ask the following: how do you think the beauty and truth of Torah is transformed into the prevalent Jewish culture ? I'm referring to the 'orthodox' culture that seems so stunningly vapid and bereft of creativity unless forced from the 'outside' to change. How does 'culture' evolve from wisdom to become a force for stasis? Any ideas?
Just wondering.
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Was Einstein an intuitive kabalist? It seems his ideas & opinions were knocking on the crust.
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Perhaps you are hinting that once orthodoxy stripped itself of Kabbala, it began to stagnate. I couldn't agree more. Kabbala is the soul of halacha--and we know what a body looks like without a soul. Stasis is a euphemism.
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I see you are from Detroit. Rabbis are located in the suburan areas (west bloomfield, oak park and southfield.) My guidelines of seeking a teacher include looking for the classes at established, quiet congregations. (Where everyone knows everyone, and the newspaper knows nobody!!) There is much to be careful of, so use your head. If the teacher seems overly self serviing or too careful to not step on toes that need a solid crunching, then look agian. Also, if you end up always far more confused than you started, look again. (This is true for any field, not just Torah studies.)
I appreciate this article very much, particularly R. Freeman's later response.
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So Kabbalah is nothing but what and how you do without interpreting or translating what and how you do.
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Steve K, I don't know how on earth or heaven you got that out of anything I wrote. But I love you anyways ;-)
Kabbalah literally means a tradition. It is a highly creative tradition of highly original souls, but a tradition nonetheless. There is a traditional, true understanding of the inner meaning of mitzvahs and there are interpretations that are simply not true.
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what happened with it? (I know the cave is still marked) what's the lineage of it after Ever? or, where can I look for this info?
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This wisdom is no more and no less than a sequence of roots, which hang down by way of cause and effect, in fixed, determined rules, interweaving to a single, exalted goal described as, “the revelation of His Godliness to His creatures in this world.”
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i have been reading books on kabbala for more than two years,although it have tranform me in many ways like from a negative person to a proactive person but i still find it very hard to activate the 72names, i want to dive into kabala deeping,how do i do that.
I also find kabbala very interesting it make one to understand the torah very well.how i wish the chabad will open a kinaset in Nigeria for we only have consevative judiam right now in my part of the country.
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is the star of david biblical?
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Star of david never mention in the Torah and it is not belong to Judaism.
Kabbalistic meaning of the Star of David -
The two triangles represent the descent of the souls from above downward and their ascent from below upward. The fact that they overlap stands for the Creator’s particular and general governance of Malchut (David).
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Is kabbalah traditional judaic teaching, or a more new age approach?
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I like kabbalsitic teachings. I am able to follow until mathematical mathematical models get too complex. So i remain on the bubble so to speak, and am happy enough to have gotten that far, and hold no illusions to delving further into math that is beyond me. I have enough trouble keeping up with practicing to learn to read Hebrew, learning the Siddur, simple Torah, customs, traditions, legends etc.
But, it's always nice to get a refresher of what kabbalah means since it takes various definitions. I hadn't heard yours directly, so thank you for putting it out there.
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I thought Kabbala was the philosophy made by human minds?!?
For every time you or anyone else quotes it you say "according to tradition"
Commentary on Torah is good for teaching
As long as it doesn't go against scripture.
Gd will judge those who try to put words in His mouth
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But will this put food on my table? This is mental onanism. There is enough in this world to overwhelm the mind. We call it sensory overload. As the old Jewish joke goes - when during the Shachret minyon , the the men are discussing Torah and truth - the rabbi slams his hand on the Bima and scolds the group with the admonishment - "keep Kosher and lets daven."
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Kabbalah/Chassidus has literaly changed my life; I live the Torah. Judaism feels alive!!! Looking now at Judaic law (Halachah) is like looking at concrete Kabbalah.
tis awesome!
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We are told of this inner sanctum time and time again- and therefore I could only be encouraged to look within, though the question is how.
Our body is one octave that receives impressions from objects on the same octave - matter.
the Emotional center is the next octave- where words are not needed but felt in truth- or disguised as desires depending on the current statis of mind.
Given we cannot see our essence with physical eyes due to the /shell/husk.. one must develop a bridge via the emotional octave within and maintain this connection untill a matching resonance is found to higher vibrations outide of us in this holy octave. In saying that- G-d knows if your faking, and if you do attain- you better be sincere with the 'right' thirst.
have I birthed my own jewish understanding via a sharing of the thirst King David had- a thirst for wisdom and truth over the body, afer having transmuted his worldly fleshy desires at the base- the top of the thigh.
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I've read before that a few recommendations prior to engaging in a study of Kabbalah is that you be a man of at least 40, married and in a stable environment as some have lost the wits about them, the account I read was of five who studied, one may have died, others went mad, only one prevailed in keeping his sanity. This and personal experiences have kept me frightenedly away from Zohar books. Other accounts I've read discussed the teachings and understanding thereof does not come from within the written and is to be understood. I was once an amateur astronomer and am an amateur mathematician of some sort now. I found interesting main-stream physics rebuttal of Him where for the big bang to mathematically be understood Euclidean Geometry is required and there are a few things thereof that are also requisites to set up the proof:
Geometry,
-rigin and
Dimension.
A dimension requires an origin to define it, origin is a term within geometry so arguably these requisites are in order.
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