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...Human power is extremely limited, and is infinitely surpassed by the power of external causes; we have not, therefore, an absolute power of shaping to our use those things which are without us. Nevertheless, we shall bear with an equal mind all that happens to us in contravention to the claims of our own advantage, so long as we are conscious, that we have done our duty, and that the power

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Review (1966) of:On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism, by Gershom G. Scholem After Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941), the selections from the Zohar, and Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and Talmudic Tradition (1960), this translation of Professor Scholem's essays on the rituals and symbolism of the Kabbalah is most timely. The titles of the five chapters suffice to convey to the reader

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The Tree of Life, the depiction of the Sephiroth of the Kabbalah, is the primary symbolic pattern of modern Western occultism. It is greatly used even by organizations not of the Kabbalistic traditions.Each of the ten emanations within the Sephiroth is called a Sephirah, and together they form what is called the Tree of Life. This Tree is the central image of Kabbalistic meditation; for again,

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Il popolo ebraico è l'unico popolo al mondo che chiama Dio col termine: Il Nome (Ha-Shem). In ciò gli Ebrei si meritano davvero l'appartenenza ai popoli semiti. Infatti tale connotazione deriva dal discendere da Shem, uno dei tre figli di Noè, e Shem vuol dire "nome". Di qui si può intuire l'estrema importanza che i nomi in particolari, e le parole o le lettere in generale, rivestono nella

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"God desired... to make Torah great and glorious." (Isaiah 42:21)Part of what makes Torah -- the whole sum of Jewish teachings and traditions -- great and glorious is that it becomes more varied and rich with the contributions of each one of us. All of us are involved in making the Torah greater, enlarging and shaping the Judaism of today and the future. Not that any of us can decide what we want

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Extrait du livre "L'Arbre de Vie" du Cabaliste le ARI Sache qu'avant la création, seule existait la lumière supérieure qui, simple et infinie, emplissait l'univers dans son moindre espace. Il n'y avait ni premier ni dernier, ni commencement, ni fin, Tout était douce lumière harmonieusement et uniformément équilibrée En une apparence et une affinité parfaites, Quand par Sa volonté furent créés

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Many people feel that Judaism is lacking in images of God -- ways to imagine the divine. When we open a traditional prayer book we quickly find God called King, Father, Lord; other metaphors or images are rarer. Lacking a wider range of images can impoverish our feelings and ideas about the divine, and leave us with very limited access to the fullness of reality in all its holiness. There is a

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The mind and the body are one and the same thing, which is conceived now under the attribute of thought, now under the attribute of extension.--Spinoza (Ethics, Pt.2, Prop.21)Kabbalah is many things: oral traditions, rituals, meditations, magical practices, books of philosophy and theology, stories... It could be a lifetime of learning. The Zohar is part of the Kabbalistic tradition; it was

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From: KOLEL ZOHAR AND KABBALAH: A CRASH COURSEIntroductionThe Zohar, the Book of Radiance, is revered, even feared, but rarely studied. Yet it is an exhilirating and challenging text, as compelling today as when it became known in thirteenth-century Spain. This course is an invitation to explore the Zohar from a liberal Jewish religious perspective. It includes introductory essays on Zohar study,

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Kabbala reveals how the Infinite interacts with humanity The Kabbalah is about understanding God.This brings us to a major paradox, because how can we -- who are finite -- understand God, who is Infinite.Ein SofThe Kabbalah describes God as Ein Sof, which in Hebrew means "without end." Colloquially, of course, we are accustomed to use "infinite" whenever we refer to something "very, very big" or

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