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| Try Not to Judge |
| By Shmuel Gavriel Tornek |
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| Negative emotional states such as anger and depression will cause you to be judgmental of others since they allow for a very limited and narrow perspective... |
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| The Moses of Every Generation |
| By Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh |
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| In each generation there is one unique individual who is the embodiment of Moses. The spirit of Moses emanates to all the wise men of the generation… |
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| Letter Filling |
| By Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh |
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| If you’re one of those people that never really understood the numerical allusions to Hashem’s name that we often see in Kabbala articles, this lesson is just for you… |
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| Edom and Yishmael |
| By Rebbe Shimon bar Yochai |
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| The Zohar says that in the future the children of Yishmael will stir great wars in the world. And the children of Edom [the West] will gather against them… |
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| Conditions for Learning Kabbalah |
| By Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri ob"m |
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| Rav Kaduri’s daily learning schedule consisted of much learning of Talmud and Jewish law; he wouldn’t permit the study of Kabalah to anyone that lacked proficiency in these areas. |
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| Limbs and Lights |
| By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum |
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| The spirit enters into the limbs and body parts, sending forth the radiation through the parts of the face that are related to those bodily limbs and organs. |
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| The Lights of Four Names |
| By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum |
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| The Divinite lights that emanate from the respective branches of Adam Kadmon, though initially far from one another, steadily come together and reveal a likeness of man. |
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| The Likeness of Man |
| By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum |
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| The Divinite lights that emanate from the respective branches of Adam Kadmon, though initially far from one another, steadily come together and reveal a likeness of man. |
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| Beyond Comprehension |
| By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum |
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| We cannot grasp the essence of Adam Kadmon; it is only the radiance of Adam Kadmon that can be understood, and this contains all the levels and teachings of the Kabbalah. |
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| The Body’s Radiant Splendor |
| By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum |
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| Man is made up of a soul clothed within a body built of apertures and cavities: the cavities are container vessels while the apertures are vessels of exit. |
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| The Second Radiant Splendor |
| By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum |
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| A second radiant splendor emerges from Adam Kadmon and stands over the first, "inner" radiant splendor of the face, which is thus like a glow within a glow… |
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| The radiance of Adam Kadmon |
| By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum |
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| The worlds of Vision, Hearing, Smell and Speech emerge. The forehead also emits its own radiance. Thus all the worlds are nothing but the shining glory of Adam Kadmon. |
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| The Name of HaVaYaH |
| By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum |
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| Hashem governs through the mystery of the various different names; the order of the four letters of HaVaYaH is what directs the other names and forms of address. |
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| The Likeness of Man |
| By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum |
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| The order of the Ten Sefirot can all be explained in accordance with the Likeness of Man, for they actually correspond to the human form in all its particulars. |
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