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| | Free-ResearchPapers.com - Kabbalah |
 | | Kabbalists believe that the secrets of the holy scriptures were taught by God to a group of angels in Heaven. | | | Kabbalists have faith that divine status can be reached through means of traditional magick to find the meaning in numbers and letters of the holy scriptures making Kabbalah very unique in it's beliefs. | | | Kabbalists believe that God is boundless and fills every aspect in both the spiritual Universe and the physical Universe. |
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http://www.free-researchpapers.com/dbs/b7/rcj19.shtml
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| | Tree of LIFE |
| | From the 15th century, attempts were made to harmonize kabbalistic ideas with Christian doctrines, and, although this tendency was derided by the Jewish kabbalists, it did serve to spread kabbalah beyond the Jewish community. | | | Once the halakhah was fixed, there was a tendency by the kabbalists to transform the lawfrom a code of conduct for the Jewish people to a universal secret law, and the mystical quest was to unravel the whole mystery of the relationship of God with the world. | | | Kabbalistic teaching and motifs entered the various *prayer books and thus spread to every *diaspora community. |
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http://www.bloomington.in.us/~okolicko/utzhayim.html
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| | Kabbalists didn't make a distinction between the words contemplation and meditation as is often prevalent in Christian mysticism. | | | These kabbalists state that the sons of the Jewish patriarch took the ideas of the kabbalah to the east with them some five to six thousand years ago. | | | There are some kabbalist teaching which point to a section of the Torah in which Abraham sends some of his sons to the east. |
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http://www.realmagic.org/writings/kabbalah/kabbalah.htm
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| | Kabbalistic Healing and Its Relevance to Modern Life |
| | The Kabbalists teach that in the beginning, God was all pervasive and all encompassing. | | | But a great and widely renowned Kabbalist, Issac Luria, stated almost 500 years ago that the time had come for this science to be brought out to the public and that the world was of sufficient maturity for these teachings to be given to everyone. | | | Ultimately, the meticulous map of the unseen world that is provided by the Kabbalistic teachings has the potential to teach us about the deepest sources of physical, psychological, and spiritual healing, not just for those of Jewish ancestry but for all who seek relief from suffering. |
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http://www.lightworks.com/MonthlyAspectarian/2002/January/feature1.htm
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| | This Tree is the central image of Kabbalistic meditation; for again, each sephirot describes a certain aspect of God, and taken together as the sephiroth they form the sacred name of God. | | | The ancient Kabbalists taught that the brilliant lights of the sephiroth constitute the sacred name of God. | | | The Kabbalist seeks two things: an union with God while maintaining a social, family, and communal life within the framework of traditional Judaism. |
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http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/k/kabbalah.html
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| | For the Gerona kabbalists the unification of the soul with its divine source through devekut is the climax of the spiritual life (25). | | | The Gerona kabbalists are unique in openly describing the spiritual life of the mystic and its relation to the mizvot. | | | The kabbalists, through their remythicization of Judaism, were able to bridge the gap created by the idea of a transcendant God. |
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http://www.chez.com/jec2/archfaierstein1.html
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| | Kabbalah: An Archetypal Interpretation/ Jung and Kabbalah |
| | For the Kabbalists, everything in the world, including inanimate objects such as stones, water and earth, has a soul or spiritual life-force which is to be found in the letters of divine speech from which they and their names are comprised. | | | Far from being antagonistic to any "psychologization" of the divinity, the Kabbalists and Hasidim held that the human mind is a mirror and, in some respects, the very origin of the theosophical realm. | | | This God, according to the Kabbalists, was both the totality of being and the abyss of complete "nothingness" (Scholem, 1987, p. |
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http://www.newkabbalah.com/Jung3.html
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| | Gematria & Numerology |
| | Kabbalist James Trimm of the Society for the Advancement of Nazarene Judaism, who is allied with Avi ben Moredechai, the Qumran Bet webring, and Yair Davidy's Lost Tribes (which publicly rejects Jesus Christ) is in the process of writing a his own version of the New Testament called, "Semitic New Testament". | | | Most if not all Kabbalistic speculation and doctrine is concerned with the realm of the divine emanations or sefiroth, in which God's creative power unfolds... | | | What the Kabbalists looked for in the Bible was not primarily philosophical ideas, but a symbolic description of the hidden process of divine life, as it unfolds in the manifestations and emanations of the sefiroth. |
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http://watch.pair.com/HRgematria.html
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| | Bnei Baruch - World Center for Kabbalah Studies - The Open Book |
| | Until then, Kabbalists wrote their books as a story that tells of what they saw in the spiritual world, and not as a scientific description of what happens there, by way of extension of light from up downward, or the five phases in the vessel and the screen that dresses over it. | | | The thing is that once the Kabbalists have chosen the words in the “language of the branches” for the description of spiritual objects, they cannot change one word for another as they please. | | | A Kabbalist is named after the highest degree that he attains — the highest revelation of the Creator that he attains defines his name. |
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http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/book_18/chap_10.htm
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| | Jennie Dawson |
| | An important text for the Kabbalists is the Sefer Yetzirah, which means the “Book of Creation.” The author is unknown, but this was one of the first kabbalist texts circulated which interpreted creation from the Book of Genesis. | | | It is the goal of Kabbalists to achieve closeness to God, with him being the central authority. | | | In order to understand how kabbalists today apply the beliefs of Kabbalah to everyday life, it is important to understand the concept of the Ten Sefirot. |
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http://home.wlu.edu/~lubint/Touchstone/Kabbalah-Dawson.htm
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| | Q: In this Kabbalistic context God is described as radiance, energy, but in basic Judaism God is also anthropomorphic, interested in the world. | | | Thus the Kabbalistic tradition is not one of speculations about mysticism; it is full-fledged mysticism. | | | But most of the Kabbalists we have mentioned were not. |
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http://www.textfiles.com/occult/idel2.txt
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| | A QUESTION OF TRUTH - Is there truth in the Bible? |
| | All of the writing attributed to "John" has these kabbalistic symbols and is why the gospel is so different and more spiritual than the other gospels. | | | Kabbalists say that the first chapter of Genesis is the Kabbalist way of describing how creation came about. | | | It seems strange that Paul is using Kabbalistic language when writing to gentiles, having said they did not need the Jewish laws, but these are things of the spirit for all, and exist in mystical thinking in all religions. |
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http://www.tirzah.freeserve.co.uk/Kabbalism.HTM
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| | Within the Golden Dawn, Kabbalistic principles such as the ten Sephiroth were fused with Greek and Egyptian deities, the Enochian system of angelic magic of John Dee, and certain Eastern (particularly Hindu and Buddhist) concepts within the structure of a Masonic- or Rosicrucian-style esoteric order. | | | The term "Kabbalah" did not come into use until sometime in the 11th century, and at that time referred to the Jewish school of thought related to esoteric mysticism. | | | Many of the Golden Dawn's rituals were exposed by the legendary occultist Aleister Crowley and were eventually compiled into book form by Israel Regardie, an author of some note. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/kabbalah
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| | Kabbalists believe the Torah is God itself, and that an infinite store of wisdom can be uncovered by dint of scholarly research. | | | All Jews believe the written tradition of God's word was accompanied by an oral tradition of equal sanctity, the Mishnah, which together with the written texts constituted the Torah. | | | Though their mystical beliefs, which focused on the individual's direct communion with God through solitary study, sometimes set them apart from their mainstream coreligionists, many Kabbalists were teachers and judges highly respected by all Jews. |
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http://slate.msn.com/toolbar.aspx?action=read&id=2083845
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| | Introduction to Kabbalah: Key to Your Inner Power Book |
| | The hallmark of Kabbalah is its diagram of the ten sefirot (divine emanations or aspects of God), which Kabbalists call the Tree of Life. | | | According to Kabbalistic tradition, the priest Melchizedek revealed to Abraham the teachings recorded in the Sefer Yetzirah, an early mystical text that had enormous influence on Kabbalah. | | | Most importantly, Kabbalists developed an understanding of the mysteries of God that can help us unlock our spiritual power-the power that God endowed us with from the beginning. |
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http://www.tsl.org/Products/books/books/kabbalah_bk/introduction.html
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| | Kabbalists |
| | Kabbalists emphasise the importance of mystical formulas in the recitation of prayers. | | | Gilgoolem (Hebrew, Jewish) The cycle of rebirths with the Hebrew Kabbalists; with the orthodox Kabbalists, the "whirling of the soul" after death, which finds-no rest until it reaches Palestine, the "promised land", and its body is buried there. | | | With the Kabbalists, the divine name associated with Daleth was Daghoul. |
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http://www.experiencefestival.com/kabbalists
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| | He warns against all Kabbalists between Ramban and himself because Eliyahu has not appeared to them and their thoughts are based on human perception not on Kabbalah even though he recommends Zohar and the Book of Creation which were written in that time period. | | | Kabbalists not Messianist centered, but went for the origins of the world instead of the end. | | | The new Kabbalists believed in Death, repentance and rebirth as the keys to union with God, Propaganda spread and shaped new attitudes and customs. |
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http://yucs.org/~ben/brill/scholem.html
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| | Are Kabbalists Part of Judaism? |
| | Now, have a kabbalist say this to a needy and insecure person, and he will think the kabbalist is a teller of secret things, a holy man, a spiritual leader. | | | Modern Kabbalists-There are many stories of "Kabbalists" today who can foretell events, like predicting when a couple will have a baby, or tell people about themselves things that only they could have known, such as previous experiences, or give blessings that only after the blessing, come to fruition. | | | I have heard of people going to kabbalists, and are told that they will get married in the coming year. |
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http://www.mesora.org/kabbalists.html
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| | However, the Kabbalistic description of God as En Sof is far from the description of God described by Jewish religious writings such as the Torah, Tanakh (Bible), Mishna and Talmud. | | | Similarly, recall that the classical Greek religion was polytheistic, yet the ancient Greeks believed that Zeus was in fact the father of the gods in the Greek Pantheon. | | | The latter designation reveals the impersonal character of this aspect of the hidden God from the standpoint of man....It signifies "the infinite" as such; not, as has been frequently suggested, "He who is infinite", but "That which is infinite". |
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http://www.luckymojo.com/esoteric/religion/judaism/kabbalah/0004.jewcrit.rk
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| | Grizabella.net: Kabbalah |
| | Ritual life of the Kabbalists, however, was no different than that of traditional Jews for the most part. | | | Kabbalists also went a step further in their conception of prayer. | | | Words of prayer were seen as representing the sefirot and a means of meditation was also promoted by the Kabbalistic method of rising at midnight to study and praise God (Fine 17). |
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http://www.grizabella.net/relstud/kabbalah.html
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| | Sara Solovitch - Columns |
| | Q One of the claims of the kabbalists was that their teachings derived from the Garden of Eden. | | | Q It sounds as if the kabbalists were almost spiritual anarchists, upsetting the tradition. | | | The kabbalists say this explicitly: People can’t touch or feel that kind of divinity. |
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http://www.sarasolo.com/mn14.html
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| | Indeed, for the Kabbalist’s the distinction between God and humanity is largely illusory, and once this is understood, the author and reader of a sacred text in effect become two aspects of a single creating/interpreting reality. | | | Rather, the Kabbalists held that textual ambiguity leads to a multiplicity of determinate meanings, all of which were intentionally inserted by the divine author. | | | However because that which is hidden in the ancient text is infinite, the latter Kabbalists safeguarded for themselves as much freedom as if they had not been constrained by scripture at all. |
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http://www.newkabbalah.com/Torahtree.htm
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| | The Sefirot: Kabbalistic Archetypes of Mind and Creation by Sanford L. Drob |
| | As we have seen, the Kabbalists, on the principle that the microcosm perfectly mirrors the macrocosm, held that the sefirot were not only the dimensions of the universe, but also the constituent elements of the human mind. | | | The Kabbalists held that God's Gevurah or Din is the power behind the tzimtzum, the divine contraction/concealment through which Ein-sof created the worlds. | | | In contrast to Chochmah, which the Kabbalists symbolized with the nondimensional point of the Hebrew letter yud, Binah is symbolized by the letter "heh," |
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http://www.aril.org/Drob.htm
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| | The Sefirot, The Soul, The Self Glimpses into Jewish Mysticism |
| | The kabbalistic attitude to the Bible was a natural corollary of the overall kabbalistic belief in the symbolic character of all earthly phenomena. | | | In order to obtain the inner meaning of Torah the kabbalist adheres to three principles: the complete mystical name of God; the perception of Torah as a living organism; the infinite significance of divine speech. | | | Indeed, there was nothing, asserted the kabbalists, that possessed only an external aspect; every aspect of Torah could be examined for hidden meanings and inner realities. |
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http://www.emanuelnyc.org/bulletin/archive/115.html
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| | End of Times Prophecies |
| | I said to the Kabbalists that if they did not believe that I was a Prophet and a Seer of the future, then they could easily check out the statements of those witnesses and their Testimonies would show them that my word can be established as being true. | | | 60: As the Kabbalists were Jews and supposedly learned scholars then I did expect them to know more about their own religion and about the Doomsday Prophecy that the living God had fore warned about. | | | All of these things required some thought and organization but they were within the boundaries of possibility, if they could expand their horizons and prove their faith to the living God by following their religion and its laws and the advice and the staggering proposals of the living God’s Doomsday Prophet. |
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http://www.geocities.com/end_of_times/chapterthree.htm
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| | MyJewishLearning.com - Holidays: Kabbalah and Tu Bishvat |
| | For example, in kabbalistic [mystical] thought for centuries, trees that are mentioned in two passages of the Tanakh [Bible] have held special intensity of meaning. | | | Through much of the history of Rabbinic Judaism, a mystical strand of Jewish thought--sometimes at the intellectual and spiritual heart of the tradition, often at its institutional periphery--has danced with the Hidden Presence of God in the world, sometimes, the hidden presence of God in the earth itself. | | | So the mystical sense of God's Presence became charged with the earthiness of living close to the land. |
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http://www.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/Tu_Bishvat/TO_Tu_Beliefs/Kabbalah_365.htm
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| | Kabbalists believed the movement of the planets and sky could affect their lives," Rapport says. | | | The most popular belief is that the Zohar was written in Spain in the 13th century, although some Kabbalists believe it was written as long as 2,000 years ago. | | | According to tradition, it was not recommended to delve into Kabbalah unless you were male, at least 40, and already entrenched in Jewish knowledge. |
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http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/08/26/tem_0826kabbalahside.html
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| | Prof. Dugin On Exoteric vs. Mystical Judaism |
| | The origin of this dualistic perception stems from Christian Kabbalists who perceived Kabbalah as an ancient Jewish tradition that was not contaminated by Talmudic Judaism. | | | This perception of Kabbalah as the opposition of Rabbinic tradition is of course alien to the Kabbalists, who regarded Kabbalah as part of Oral Torah and as the superstructure of Halacha. | | | The distinction they made between Kabbalah and Rabbinic Judaism was motivated by their Christian suppositions and missionary zeal (By the way, this distinction encouraged Frank and his followers to present themselves as Zoharites and anti-Talmudists in their dealings with the church, before their conversion). |
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http://www.kheper.net/topics/Kabbalah/Exoteric_vs_Mystical-BHH.html
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| | The Sefirot, The Soul, The Self Glimpses into Jewish Mysticism |
| | The early kabbalists, who linked the attribute of Will to the Ein-Sof, assert that it was with God’s Will that the world came into being. | | | Indeed, some kabbalists have maintained that because God’s essence exists at such a remove from human perception, one cannot even accord Him the attribution of volition. | | | Yet, as in all things kabbalistic (and Jewish), the argument for the preeminent role of the intellect in the process of Creation would have its day. |
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http://www.emanuelnyc.org/bulletin/archive/103.html
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| | Lurianic Kabbalah |
| | Thus, the Kabbalistic notion of Tikkun Olam, or "Repair of the World," is based on the principle that all things and actions in the world, no matter how seemingly trivial, are saturated with Holy Sparks, yearning to return to the state of premundane unity from which they fell at the creation of the world. | | | Suffice it to say that his doctrine of SheviretHaKelim, or "Shattering of the Vessels," was at their core and profoundly influenced all subsequent Kabbalistic theosophy. | | | Thus, the cosmogony of a 16th century Jewish Kabbalist was literally validated by modern science four hundred years later. |
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http://www.kheper.net/topics/Kabbalah/LurianicKabbalah.htm
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| | Bnei Baruch - World Center for Kabbalah Studies - The Open Book |
| | When we read their writings, although we do not feel what they felt when they wrote it, we awaken on ourselves an illumination from the spiritual degree the Kabbalist was at when he wrote the book. | | | While Kabbalists write the books of Kabbalah in our physical world, they also feel the spiritual worlds. | | | It is written in the Zohar that when we return from the last exile - meaning in our generation - we will come to a state called “the days of the Messiah”, and only then will we begin to actually need the Kabbalah and use it. |
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http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/book_18/chap_16.htm
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> God According To Kabbalists. |
| | As I see it at the moment, the highest "god" of Kabbalah Ayin (Nothingness / Emptiness) seems to be equivalent with the "mind" or "buddha" or however you call it - this unfathomable nonthing which is void of any attributes. | | | Chokmah is the highest perceivable emanation of God according to Kabbalists, but there is one still further that is at least implied. | | | I mean according to Kabbalists people living ~4000 years ago didnt need any rules for enlightment. |
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http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=6522
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| | End of Times Prophecies |
| | The reason I heard that he had been accepted as being that prophesied Prophet was simply because his birth date was on the 9th of Ab which some deluded Jews had decided was going to be that long awaited Prophets birth date. | | | The true Doomsday Prophet that God promised Moses he would raise up, choosing the International Order of Kabbalists of all people to oversee that mass Exodus of Jews world-wide out of those areas of land that are going to be devastated by future earthquakes and other apocalyptic disasters. | | | Who were all claiming without any Biblical evidence to be that End of Times Doomsday Prophet that the living God had promised Moses he would raise up. |
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http://www.geocities.com/end_of_times/chaptersix.htm
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| | The Lookstein Center |
| | In line with their general concern with Tikkun Olam - spiritually repairing the world - the Kabbalists regarded eating a variety of fruits on Tu B’Shvat as a way of improving our spiritual selves. | | | In the twentieth century, with the growth of Zionism and the founding of the State of Israel, the association of Tu B’Shvat with the land of Israel has gained even more significance. | | | As we enjoy this Tu B’Shvat Seder by eating the fruits and reading of their significance, we express our joy and thankfulness for the mystery and grandeur of nature, and renew our commitment to God 's land, Eretz Yisra’el. |
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http://www.lookstein.org/articles/tu_beshvat.htm
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| | Rabbi Chaim Vital |
| | He began teaching the kabbalistic insights he had received from his master to his many disciples and thus he became the revered leader of a significant group of kabbalists. | | | Rabbi Chaim's father, Rabbi Yosef was famed as an expert scribe whose tefillin were much sought after, having been written in holiness and purity, and with special kabbalistic intentions. | | | Within a year of his initiation into the Arizal's teachings, Rabbi Chaim had become famous throughout Israel and the Diaspora as one of the great kabbalists. |
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http://www.kabbalaonline.org/Safedteachings/otherkab/Rabbi_Chaim_Vital.asp
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| | False Messiahs and Fad Kabbalists By Reb Lazer (Guest Post) 15 Teves 5765 |
| | Kabbala, that person is an impostor, a spiritual criminal, and certainly not a Kabbalist. | | | If the fad Kabbalist meditates day and night but goes around | | | Hashem's name, and I'll achieve the same 'tikkun' in the spiritual realm." Such a fad |
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http://www.hasidicgentile.org/C1212258334/E648256082/index.html
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| | Kabbalah Made Easy Harry Potter and the Kabbalists Eyes |
| | Of course fiction is not reality, but merely what we would imagine is going on in another realm, yet some of the things in Harry Potter do have a basis in the history of Kabbalah. | | | It is especially interesting to note that the one thing none of the magicians are able to do in Harry Potter is bring the dead back to life, yet this was known to be a talent that many kabbalists had during the Talmudic era. | | | But a holy person well versed in Kabbalah can manipulate many of the laws of physics. |
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http://www.kabbalahmadeeasy.com/prevarticles/harrypotter.html
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| | The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large |
| | The position of classical Judaism was that the essence of God is unknowable: "Thou canst not see My Face." The Kabbalists sought not only to define and characterize the Godhead—through a kind of spiritualized cosmogonic physics—but to experience it. | | | Kabbalah had been shunned for its claims of ecstatic ascent to the hidden sublime; it had been scorned for its connection to folk religion and magic. | | | It is the greatest confirmation of my view of the central importance of Tradition, though of course in a new sense of the word." He named his idea "the philosophy of the Hebrew language" and exclaimed, prophetically, "Oh, if only someday these things could be the focus of my worthy labors!" |
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http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?020902crat_atlarge
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| | Gematria |
| | The Kabbalists of the 13th century seriously believed that the Old Testament was written in a hidden code inspired by God. | | | Entire verses were numerically added up and interpreted in such a fashion. | | | The Kabbalists also used gematria to search for the holy names of God thinking, as so many others have, that these names such as the |
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http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/g/gematria.html
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| | Articles - Bahir |
| | The Bahir contains commentaries explaining the mystical significance of Biblical verses; the mystical significance of the shapes of the Hebrew letters; the mystical significance of the cantillation signs and vowel points on the letters; the mystical significance of statements in the Sefer Yetzirah ("Book of Creation"); and the use of sacred names in magic. | | | The Hebrew word "sefirot" was first described in Sefer Yezirah as corresponding to the ten basic numbers, and did not possess the meaning that later Kabbalists gave to it. | | | It is in the Bahir that we find the first discussion of the Kabbalistic concept of Sefirot as divine attributes and powers emanating from God. |
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http://www.gaple.com/articles/Bahir?mySession=a1f7c8e4320f7a16d443485a10cab16b
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| | Spirit Voyage Music : The Divine Doctor |
| | He is an industrial engineer, master Kabbalist and teacher of Kundalini yoga. | | | By reading and practicing these sacred teachings, you will nurture your energy, expand your consciousness, purify your mind, and renew yourself. | | | The Divine Doctor is for all yogis, Kabbalists, doctors, serious health practitioners and anyone who desires to achieve self-healing and help others heal through the application of profound meditations and practical techniques. |
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http://www.spiritvoyage.com/shopping/detail.cfm?PC=9071
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| | The quotation above, from a disciple of the Kabbalist R. Israel Baal Shem Tov, is a traditional Kabbalistic view: that the creation is in a damaged and imperfect state, and the Kabbalist, by virtue of his or her state of consciousness, can bring about a real healing. | | | -- Many Kabbalists view the Torah as the word of God and Hebrew as the language of creation. | | | -- Some Kabbalists believed that they were the inheritors of PRACTICAL techniques handed down from the time of the Biblical prophets, and it is not impossible or improbable that this was in fact the case. |
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http://www.luckymojo.com/esoteric/religion/judaism/kabbalah/var200112kabbalahmagic.txt
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| | Kabbalists & Mystics |
| | She had just lost custody of her son (from a previous marriage) several months ago, but made no mention of it to the kabbalist. | | | And if someone has Ruch HaKodesh, a Divine Spirit, I am certain he won’t abuse it in such a fashion as present day kabbalists do. | | | In such states, one would benefit a world of difference by seeking counsel from a chacham, a wise man, not the phony mystics and kabbalists who feign super-human knowledge, but have to charge $4.95 per session. |
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http://www.mesora.org/Kabbalists2.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Kabbalah |
| | As Scholem stated elsewhere in reference to the Kabbalists, "Like all mystics, they were at once conservatives and radicals" in "The Messianic Idea in Judaism" Schocken Books NY 1971 page 48. | | | Kabbalah, by its very nature, is not a unified study or set of beliefs, but the thinking of many, varied mystics over centuries. | | | This isn't a 'how-to' book on Kabbalist 'magick' as so frequently appears on the shelves of esoteric bookshops. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0452010071?v=glance
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| | About the Kabbalists of Bnei Baruch |
| | The leaders of "Bnei Baruch" are dynamic driving force of accomplished scholars of kabbalah who are dedicating their lives to pass on not only teachings but also the concealed spiritual way to enter the Upper World. | | | There came a wise man, filled with understanding, Rav, Gaon, the holy Kabbalist Yehuda HaLevi Ashlag, Rav in Givat Shaol, who has the spirit of the Creator and is blessed from the source of blessing...." | | | You are listening to a simplified and reduced midi version of a kabbalistic melody, which was composed in accordance with the laws of the upper worlds by the Kabbalists Y.Ashlag and B.Ashlag according to their impression from the upper spiritual worlds. |
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http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/abouteng_old1.htm
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| | SpiritSite.com Daniel Matt The Essential Kabbalah |
| | We have lost this nature, the most ancient tradition, as the inevitable consequence of tasting the fruit of knowledge, the price of maturity and culture. | | | The kabbalists made the fantastic claim that their mystical teachings derived from the Garden of Eden. | | | The kabbalists grew adept at walking the tightrope between blind fundamentalism and mystical anarchy, though a number of them lost their balance and fell into one extreme or the other. |
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| | Books.MusicaBona.Com Berg Yehuda: Kabbalists Do It Better |
| | Kabbalist and author Yehuda Berg emphasizes that the seed of sexual pleasure is not purely physical, but instead is charged with the energy of the human soul, and seeks to trigger awareness for readers of the spiritual purpose and cosmic role that sex plays in the grand scheme of things. | | | Yehuda Berg is in the process of completing the first-ever Chumash (or Pentateuch--the Five Books of Moses) with Kabbalistic commentary. | | | An associate director for communications of The Kabbalah Centres, he lives in Los Angeles. |
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http://books.musicabona.com/item/1571893431.html
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| | The Kabbalah Centre - History |
| | Indeed, one of the most important aspects of Kabbalah is the passing of its teachings from master to student over many generations -- and today it is Rav Berg who carries on the legacy of Kabbalah by bringing its wisdom to the world. | | | These great kabbalists realized that the time was not yet right to make this wisdom available to humanity in general. | | | Meanwhile, intolerance and fear caused those in power to criminalize the study of Kabbalah and to persecute those who dared to undertake it. |
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http://www.kabbalah.com/k/index.php/p=about/history
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