Kabbalah Session I, September 21-22...Hasidim: later renewal movement in modern Orthodox Jewish...
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Kabbalah – Session I, September 21-22
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Minute 23:
Minute 24: The Tradition of Perennial Wisdom (handout)
Minute 29:
Initial Bibliography:
Abraham, the First Biographical Novel. David Rosenberg
The Abrahamic Archetype: Conceptual and Historical Relationships Between Judaism,
Christianity and Islam. Samuel Zimmer (philosophical)
Kabbalah Decoder: Revealing the Messages of the Ancient Mystics. Janette Berenson-
Perkins (basic source document)
The Kedumah Experience: The Primordial Torah. Rabbi Zvi Ish-Shalom (metaphysics)
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism. Gershom Scholem (historical)
Jewish vocabulary:
Kabbalah: “(spiritual) tradition”, a two dimensional map of the way through this reality/suffering
Torah: first five books of the TNKH
Talmud: rabbincal writings and theology collected over the centuries
*Mishnah: wisdom outside the written tradition
*Midrash: rabbinical reflections on the stories of texts and stories
*Gemara: commentaries on the Torah
TNKH: Torah, prophets and wisdom texts
Halakhah: The Commandments, statutes, the laws, customs to be kept
Haggadah: the folk tales and tradition of the Hebrew world
Hasidim: later renewal movement in modern Orthodox Jewish stream, grounded in diaspro of
European experience. Ecstatics.
Ein Sof: The Infinite. Reality before time, outside of time, the Torah before time
Sefirot: Meaning emanations, are the 10 attributes/emanations in Kabbalah, through which Ein
Sof (The Infinite) reveals Itself and continuously creates both the physical realm and the chain
of higher metaphysical realms
Minute 62: Tree of Perrenial Wisdom (handout)
Minute 110:
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Minute 23:
Suffering of humanity in the world of duality
Minute 27: Shattering of the Ego
Minute 28: Play of darkness and light
Minute 34:
Minute 40
Minute 61:
76 min: The Abrahamic Story
78 min: The Angel teaching the ancient mysteries to Abraham
Minute 81
Minute 81
Tree of life (Handout 3 & 4)
Tree with root system
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Opening Meditation:
Faure’s Requiem – (a calling down):
Kontakion ( ascension)
Minute 45 & 51:
Minute 45:
Minute 66:
Minute 98:
Yellow and Green images to be shared NEXT weekend…