Parshat Bereshit

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Covers the creation of the world in six days, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the first sin, Cain and Abel, and the generations from Adam to Noah. Genesis 1:1-6:8.

Foundations of Kabbalah

Kabbalah Petichah LeChokhmat HaKabbalah 37:1

The Kabbalah, with its intricate maps of the divine, offers a fascinating answer. And it all starts with light... and a little bit of a cosmic collision. Specifically, we're talkin...

Sefirot

Foundations of Kabbalah

Kabbalah Petichah LeChokhmat HaKabbalah 38:5

In Kabbalah, the ancient Jewish mystical tradition, we find a fascinating explanation, rooted in the very structure of creation itself. Specifically, we're talking about the concep...

Sefirot

Gateway to Mysticism and Surrounding

Kabbalah Petichah LeChokhmat HaKabbalah 39:1

In Kabbalah, they talk about this too, but in terms of light – specifically, how the Ohr Makif, the Surrounding Light, interacts with the Ohr Pnimi, the Inner Light. And it's all a...

Sefirot

Gateway to Mysticism

Kabbalah Petichah LeChokhmat HaKabbalah 39:2

Today, we're diving into a fascinating passage from the Petichah LeChokhmat HaKabbalah ("An Introduction to the Wisdom of Kabbalah") to explore one such movement. The text speaks o...

Mysticism

Foundations of Kabbalah

Kabbalah Petichah LeChokhmat HaKabbalah 40:1

Kabbalah, that ancient wellspring of Jewish mystical wisdom, offers some fascinating insights, and today we’re going to peek into one of them. We’re talking about the difference be...

Mysticism

Gateway to Mysticism and Havaya

Kabbalah Petichah LeChokhmat HaKabbalah 44:1

In Kabbalah, the ancient Jewish mystical tradition, they explore these intricate connections, especially between the masculine and feminine principles. It's not always smooth saili...

Sefirot

David and the Heavenly Realms

Kabbalah Heikhalot Rabbati 7:1

That feeling is at the heart of the Heikhalot literature, mystical Jewish texts that describe ascents to the heavenly realms. And there's a passage in Heikhalot Rabbati that just… ...

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Throne of Glory

Kabbalah Heikhalot Rabbati 10:3

The ancient mystical text, Heikhalot Rabbati – one of the key works of the Heikhalot literature, focused on heavenly ascent – gives us a glimpse, or rather, an auditory experience ...

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Throne Mysticism

Kabbalah Heikhalot Rabbati 11:1

It's a powerful, intimate glimpse into the relationship between us and the Divine. The text imagines God saying, "For I have no pleasure in all My world which I have created like i...

Mysticism