Parshat Noach

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The story of Noah and the great flood, the ark, the covenant of the rainbow, the Tower of Babel, and the generations from Noah to Abraham. Genesis 6:9-11:32.

Sparks of Holiness and Adam

Other Texts Peri Etz Hadar 3:13

We find it even in seemingly simple prayers. one. This passage, taken from Peri Etz Hadar, delves into this very concept, yearning for the reunification of these scattered sparks. ...

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Neshamah from Above

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 88:9

What does that even mean? Da'at Tevunot, a profound text of Jewish wisdom, delves into this very idea. It proposes that everything comes into being through either the "concealment ...

Soul

The Tree of Life and Abraham

Kabbalah Derech Etz Chayim (Ramchal) 1:16

We pour our energy into the fleeting, the temporary. But what about the big questions? What if, just for a little while, we shifted our focus? What if we dared to ask ourselves: Wh...

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Seven Chambers of Gehenna

Other Texts Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 2:5

to a fascinating idea from the Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah, a Kabbalistic text whose name hints at "unlocking the chambers of wisdom." It grapples with the age-old problem of suffering...

Hell/GehennaExile

Neshamah from Above

Other Texts Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 9:6

It’s a question that has plagued mystics and philosophers for centuries, and the tradition offers some fascinating, if mind-bending, answers. to a passage from Kalach Pitchei Chokh...

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Gates of Wisdom and the Rainbow

Other Texts Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 10:1

to a concept that tries to explain just that: how the Divine, the Emanator, chooses to reveal itself to the world. It's all about the Sefirot. What are the Sefirot? Think of them a...

Sefirot

Chambers of Heaven

Other Texts Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 30:23

The text presents us with a fascinating dichotomy. On the one hand, we have a world operating on reward and punishment, a balanced system where the Sefirot – those divine emanation...

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Divine Contraction and Hamiddah

Other Texts Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 30:35

And it all starts with a story of cosmic proportions. We're talking about Tzimtzum (צמצום), the primordial contraction. The idea that God, in order to make space for creation, with...

Creation

Adam and the First Humans of Shem

Other Texts Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 31:15

The text suggests that all these "subsidiary orders," each a world unto itself, are organized according to the structure of the Shem HaVaYaH, the sacred four-letter Name of God, of...

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