kabbalah Basic

kabbalah

Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag

Baal HaSulamTalmud Eser Sefirot The Study of the Ten Sefirot

The Study of the Ten

Sefirot

Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag

The Rabash

Dr. Michael Laitman

kabbalah.info

obshalom.org

Avraham Mordecai Gottlieb

What's the point of my life?

The Journey BeginsWith an

Inner Voice

The Torah was written in a highly symbolic language.

The Torahis a code for the individualsoul

Genesis 12:10- Abram in Egypt

Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

“Sweet”

“Bitter”

truth

“Truth”

“Lie”

Kabbalah books are written in the language of:

“Roots and branches”

Using worldly words to describe spiritual concepts

Branches = EffectRoots = Cause

Creator

Creatures

Light

Vessel

Pleasure

Will to Receive

Ohr =Light=PleasureKli =Vessel= “will to receive”

Will to Receive for oneself

VesselSelf love

EgyptEgoism

The desire to receive delight and pleasure

Pharaoh

A desire to bestow goodness upon others

Moses

Achieve “Dvekut” (attachment) with the CreatorCalled HASHVA’AT TSURAH – Equal Feeling

Separation=The opposite. Separateness between you and Creator at the feeling level

Left PillarWill to receiveTo understandSelf love

Right PillarWill to BestowThe love of others

To influence kindnesss

Rectify the will

To receive in order to bestow

The Middle Pillar

Job 19:26

In my flesh I will see God

The central symbol of the Kabbalah is the 10 sefirot. It is a cosmological symbol that expresses 10 manifestations of the One.

The Talmud

Four levels of Torah study

PeshatThe surface meaning of the text

RemezAllusions or allegories in the text

DerashRabbini or midrashic way of reading new

lessons into the text

SodThe hidden mystical reading of the inner secrets

of Torah

The Tree of SefirothKether Supreme CrownHokhmah WisdomBinah Intelligence Hesed Love or MercyDin Power Tifereth Compassion/BeautyNetsakh Lasting Endurance Hod MajestyYesod FoundationMalkuth/ Shekinah Kingdom

אותיות

כלים לקבלת

האור

נקבה

Exodus Chapter 1

• 15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah; 16 and he said: 'When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, ye shall look upon the birthstool: if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

Exodus Chapter 4

• 2 And the LORD said unto him: 'What is that in thy hand?' And he said: 'A rod.' 3 And He said: 'Cast it on the ground.' And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. 4 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Put forth thy hand, and take it by the tail--and he put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand--