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At Mishkan Hakavana, we delve into the lineage of Kabbalah as transmitted by Ba’al HaSulam, Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, under the guidance of Rabbah Saphir Noyman [...]

The Mission of Tikkun at Mishkan Hakavana

The vision of the reformation at Mishkan Hakavana is in line with Baal HaSulam z"l.When we speak of tikkun, it is about removing the stone that blocks the well [...]

The Purpose of the Zohar: A Kabbalistic Tool for Tikkun

Zohar allows us a unison with the thought of creation. The purpose of the Zohar, as it declares itself, is to rescue or to allow us a tool, a meeting point—a [...]

The Right Way to Work in Existence

The spiritual work as a constant movement between two forces: attraction and rejection. The pull comes from the recognition that true reformation is impossible [...]

Managing in Chaos: Special Conversation with Rabbah Saphir Noyman Eyal

Managing in Chaos: Challenges and the Potential to Evolve into a Reformed RealityIn this thought-provoking conversation, Rabbah Saphir Noyman Eyal, founder of [...]

Blind Faith and Higher Mind in Kabbalah

Belief is the agreement to listen and to be part of a Higher Mind. That which decides that it wishes is a sentiment, the vessel, but faith or belief is beyond [...]

Good and Evil in Kabbalah and the Will to Receive

My Creator is concealed through nature, hiding within the ecology that surrounds us.In reflecting on the nature of Creation, it is important to speak not of a [...]

The Laws of Nature and Divinity in Human Nature

All philosophy or history of philosophy, of the Western world and some of the Eastern, is through looking at the laws of nature. Through observing the laws of [...]

Is the Creator He or She?

The Creator cannot be fully described within human language. In Hebrew, the term for Creator, Bo Ur-ee ("come and see"), is not a title or a sefira but a [...]

The Role of Israel

There isn't a definition of what Israel is now or what it should be. Israel can only be defined by the true effort that will allow us to become what we need to [...]

The Great Awakening and True Freedom in Kabbalah

When there is an awakening to the lack of ability to feel, then you feel the weight of the yoke—of what is required of you. Then you start to ask. Passover is [...]

Unification and Communion in Kabbalah

The Zohar emphasizes that the true purpose of spiritual work is to create unification. This unification is a deep communion between the parts of the nukba (the [...]

Opening, Gate, and Door: The Three Stages of Spiritual Ascent

The pathway toward spiritual unification and enlightenment is symbolized by the ark's structure. In Hebrew, the concept of tsad, side, which is related to [...]

Transmigration and Resurrection in Kabbalah

Transmigration refers to the process of the soul—or in this case, the spirit—journeying through cycles of refinement, working on reforming aspects of the will [...]

Awakening from Exile in Kabbalah

In the Book of Shemot the Israelites begin to question their state of exile and rediscover their identity. This process represents a universal journey of [...]

From Desperation to Joy in Kabbalah

The teaching delves into the transformative journey of moving from self-reliance and control to surrender and alignment with higher spiritual terms through [...]

The Kabbalistic Path to Reading Torah

Torah is a living entity. The path to understanding the true intention behind the Torah begins with recognizing that the Torah’s text requires a deciphering [...]

Rabbah in Conversation With Rabbi David Ingber on Baal HaSulam's Kabbalah

Rabbah Saphir Noyman Eyal and Rabbi David Ingber discuss the profound influence of Baal HaSulam on Rabbah's Kabbalistic studies and teachings. Rabbah explains [...]

Shakti Leadership: A Conversation with Nilima Bhat and the Rabbah

Shekhina, or Shakti, as a living essence. It’s not a mechanical creation, but a sensing, feeling entity. One can say that all of Creation, whether nature, [...]

The Prophecy of Baal Hasulam

In repositioning ourselves in relation to the teachings of Baal Hasulam, it's essential to understand the significance of names within the study. The process [...]

Left, Right, and Middle in Kabbalistic Work

This study explores the spiritual dynamics of left, right, and their transformation through Binah's influence. Initially, there is no differentiation between [...]

Direct and Return Light in Kabbalah

Direct light is our effort to feel the presence of the Creator — a light that does not waver, that stays with the same intention and the same restoring nature. [...]

The Meaning of Choose Life in Kabbalah

It is difficult for us to understand the issue of sacrifice because it goes straight into the ego and into the story of being victimized. It has the same [...]

Providence, Klipot and the Reformation of Sight

Our ability to conceive Hashgacha, Divine Providence, depends on recognizing its presence within reality. While all levels of reality are part of the Creator’s [...]

Tzimtzum Bet and the Foundation of Creation

Tzimtzum Bet is the base of all creation. There was no creation, something that can sustain life, sustain consciousness, sustain any structure, if there was [...]

Mitzvot, perception and the gift of getting lost

A challenge to one of humanity’s strongest inclinations: the desire to work only with what can be understood, defined and controlled. We naturally prefer the [...]

Pressure, perception and the search for the third line

There are two very different kinds of pressure: the outer pressure of survival, success and time, and the inner pressure that emerges within spiritual work. [...]

Not Understanding as a Tool in the Study of the Zohar

When we start with Zohar, which is so layered and concealed and needs so much preparation, the first thing that we will make is not understanding. There is a [...]

The Place of Lo Lishma in the Path of Spiritual Consciousness

It is the painful truth of being included in the reality, in the ecology of the will to receive for oneself, and being dominated by it. From within this state, [...]

Bread of Shame in Kabbalah

Shame (Busha) is the condition that activates the power of return, Tshuvah. It is not a psychological weakness but the beginning of the ability to return to [...]

The Heart of Stone (Lev HaEven)

There is a part within the will to receive called the Lev HaEven - the Heart of Stone - which cannot be reformed by individual effort. It is not “forbidden” in [...]

Divine Presence in Reality and Consciousness

The Divine Presence - the Shechina - is the living condition for existence, the aspect that nourishes, sustains, and enables human consciousness to be in [...]

Shame as a Transformative Force in Kabbalah

What we call “shame” begins after the Tzimtzum Aleph - a state where the creature initially has the potential to receive all the light and pleasure. The [...]

Left and Right - A Multidimensional System

Left and right are not an outcome of division in divinity, but an outcome of communion between low and high. They describe the terms of engagement through [...]

Israel Sabba and Tevuna: The Internal Structure of Binah

Bina is defined by the desire to be like the Creator, a nature of bestowal. At the same time, in order to actualize bestowal, she must relate to wisdom and to [...]

Sabbatical year and Jubilee in Kabbalah

The question of what Sabbatical and Jubilee have to do with Mount Sinai points to a root formula: everything that was given relates to its ability to be [...]

The Awakening of the Point in the Heart

The awakening of the point in the heart is a singularity — a single event that is, by its nature, a one-time occurrence. It comes from Above. It is not [...]

Spiritual Meaning of the Number Seven in kabbalah

The number seven, as it appears in the portion of the week dealing with counting the Omer, connects to a form of oath or promise. Within human consciousness, [...]

Segula in Kabbalah as a Transformative Principle

Segula is an ability that is not inherent within the vessel or within human consciousness. It is given by Binah. Malchut needs to arrive at a state of [...]

The Order of Work in Kabbalah

The English word “order” points to an orbit, a repetitive cycle that holds the pattern of intention. English operates at the level of the universe, the still [...]

Blessing and Sanctification in Kabbalah

Sanctification means giving life, choosing to give life to something. This choice does not come from above as a ready-made faculty but must arise from below. [...]

Malchut as the Womb of All Spirits

Malchut, as the womb of all spirits, brings souls into existence under conditions shaped by which of the three lines is dominant at their birth. Spirits born [...]

Angels as Inner Forces in Kabbalah

Angels are messengers of reformation but not of the purpose of creation, because the purpose of creation is to receive, not to bestow. Angels are close to the [...]

The Importance of a Group in Studying Kabbalah

Spiritual uniqueness, the Nibuy, cannot be defined by an individual on his own. It exists only through the surrounding ecology, through the group. Without a [...]

True Need and Spiritual Lack in Kabbalah

The Hebrew word HISARON, when translated as “deficiency,” creates the mistaken sense that something is wrong with one’s character. A more precise meaning is [...]

What Is Faith in Kabbalah

Faith is an art form, not in the sense of a special talent or occupation, but as hard creative work: bringing into being something that was not there before, [...]

Achishena: Hastening Time Through Conscious Partnership

Achishena — not simply “hastening,” but a conscious participation in the unfolding of creation. It is described as the ability to develop a vessel capable of [...]

Changing Fear to Gratefulness

Fear appears in layers. There is fear tied to lack of safety, when the fabric of order feels thin and unstable, and there is a higher trembling fear that comes [...]

Night, concealment and the path to revelation

Night is associated with exile, lack and the awareness that something essential is still missing. Rather than seeing this state as a problem, the teaching [...]

Love the Other as Thyself in Kabbalah

The commandment commonly translated as "Love your neighbor as yourself" is more accurately rendered as "Love the other as thyself." The Hebrew word re'acha [...]

Conditions for Connection with the Divine

It is possible to go through life assuming that religious observance automatically activates, influences, or bestows something, that the act itself establishes [...]

Spiritual Growth Through Faith and Group Work

Spiritual reality can only be perceived and activated within the ecology of a study group. Reading or studying alone is insufficient — like sperm and ovum that [...]

Mysticism Is Not The Purpose of Creation

Mysticism is not the purpose of creation because the purpose is not to disappear into the source but to become a vessel that can consciously receive and use [...]

The Meaning of Being in Exile in Kabbalah

Exile is the state of separation: separation from light, separation from God, separation from the awareness of the Creator's presence. Jacob points to a [...]

The Role of Bestowal in the Process of Creation

Everything that was created is the will to receive. The purpose of creation is to create a place in which the Creator can reveal itself, and so all that exists [...]

Corporal and Spiritual Relationships at Mishkan Hakavana

Sometimes there’s no relation between our corporal relationship and our spiritual relationship. You can have an affinity to someone in the group that is almost [...]

The Spiritual Responsibility of Israel

Most people who express hatred toward Israel have no explanation for it. They simply do not know. Usually, it has to do with complete ignorance. Yet there is [...]

The Test of Giving

In the study of the Zohar and the teachings of Vayikra, Rabbah Saphir Noyman Eyal exposes the painful but necessary realization of how little we truly give to [...]

Difference Between Wickedness and Evil

In Israel, the term "Rasha" refers to wickedness or evil, but it's important to clarify its meaning. In Hebrew, Rasha (or wicked) represents the will to [...]

Mishkan Hakavana's students shared experience

Meet the teachings of the Rabbah Saphir Noyman Eyal, the studying group, the sacred texts and the ways of studying Kabbalah in Mishkan Hakavana.

Nourishment and the Ego

In Kabbalistic teachings, the ego and the spirit represent two distinct states, each drawing its sustenance from different sources. The ego, or the "will to [...]

Artificial Intelligence as a Reflection of Human Limitation

Artificial intelligence is a way for humanity to invest in the research of itself. However far we go in its development, we will meet our own limitation in all [...]

What Is Forgiveness in Kabbalah

The working base is that the Creator wishes you to be His partner. To understand this, we need to understand forgiveness in its Hebrew sense, meaning how [...]

Human Suffering and the Suffering of Spirit

Drawing on her experience of treating people, Rabba Saphir Noyman Eyal identifies the most desperate aspect of human suffering: an inescapable cycle. Treatment [...]

Singing in Kabbalah: Preparation for Prayer

Music and the ability to sing were not given to humanity in vain. They can elevate the state of mind and give emotion an outlet. Yet the verses of song that [...]

Metatron Angel

Metatron, in the book of Bereshit, is the spirit of Hanoch, one of the first ten generations before Noah. Hanoch is taken while still conscious and becomes an [...]

The Root of Hatred

What is hatred, and what is its root in the higher world? Hatred is hatred of evil: of the wills in the body that resist or do not allow the Thought of [...]

Wickedness Within Spiritual Work

Defining the Work: The Dome of Spiritual RevelationWhen we speak of wickedness, selfishness, or the will to receive for oneself, it's important to understand [...]

The Last Generation in Kabbalah

The last generation can be understood as both a last chance and the greatest opportunity. Shekhinah (Divinity), or the way the Higher defines itself through [...]

Breaking the Bubble of Self: From Self-Observation to Contemplation

Breaking the Bubble of Self: Focus in Kabbalah and PrayerSitting in meditation or in prayer raises a real question: what should one focus on? When a point in [...]

Tikkun Olam: Reforming Perception, Not Reality

The mistake many people make when speaking about Tikkun Olam, especially those who do not speak Hebrew, begins with the meaning of Olam. They read it as [...]

Essence of Unification and Communion in Spiritual Work

The Zoar emphasizes that the true purpose of spiritual work is to create unification—a deep communion between the parts of the Nukba (the need or desire for [...]

Outside Pressure

The discussion explores how external pressures in life—such as health, finances, and relationships—serve as tests to our spiritual focus and priorities. Rather [...]

Role of isolation

The concept of Hidbodedut (isolation) in Hasidic terms, especially as seen in Rabbi Nachman’s teachings, is often misunderstood as a retreat or withdrawal from [...]

Death Transcending the Corporeal to Higher Realms

Rabbah Saphir Noyman Eyal reflects on the concept of being "uprooted from the world" and reframes it as a profound spiritual blessing rather than a threat. [...]

The Gift of Surrender

Exploring a paradox of spiritual experience—how, in moments of deep engagement, we sometimes feel disconnected, or even fall asleep. This phenomenon, she [...]

Surrender to See: Reading Reality Through Kabbalah and Humility

Explore the inner mechanics of spiritual awakening through the metaphors of buttoning and blooming—a gesture representing the act of closing and opening light. [...]

The Womb in Kabbalah

In Kabbalah, the concept of Bina is deeply connected to the womb. Bina is described as both a major receiver and a major restorer. It has the capacity to [...]

בְּרֵאשִׁית - Bereshit

There are a set of chambers of possibilities, and the entry point to each one has to do with the common conciousness - being ADAM (a true human) - in relation [...]

נֹחַ - Noah

Noah's Ark is a spectrum of light - a rainbow. It contains the promise for humanity, and it can be heard by a generation as a whole...or by the righteous. When [...]

לֶךְ לְךָ - Lech Lecha

The Torah portion Lech Lecha, or "Go Forth," explores themes of belief in oneself and the awakening of spiritual consciousness. It introduces the inner [...]

וַיֵּרָא - Vayera

There is a condition and understanding that everything is going after the beginning – every time the Torah portion appears, in these two portions – it is a [...]

חַיֵּי שָׂרָה - Chayei Sarah

The death of Sarah is paving a holding possibility in our corporal life for finding our way back to the root of our origin. The root of what it means to be [...]

וַיֵּצא- Vayetzei

A dream – isn’t loosing track, but rather a possible sanctification of hope.The dream is the hope of the awakening, being able to wake up to the presence of [...]

וַיִּשְׁלַח - Vayishlach

The Torah portions Vayetze and Vayishlach signify the difference between exile and the beginning of exodus out of exile – light of redemption and future or the [...]

מִקֵּץ - Miketz

The portion of Miketz takes place in Hanukah. Both the holiday and the weekly portion are moving in parallel lines. During this time is there is the [...]

וַיֵּשֶׁב - Vayeshev

"And Jacob Dwelled", meaning to sit and settle. So, where did he try to settle - in the land where his father was a stranger. He tried to create and gain [...]

וַיִּגַּשׁ - Vayigash

The last portion of Torah ended with Joseph being accused and Judah pleads for Benjamin.In the Zohar, the conversation takes place at night – in exile. So, the [...]

וַיְחִי - Vayechi

This portion of Torah – Vayechi – is the way to bring actuality from potentiality. When we speak about the death of one of the forefathers, Jacob, the [...]

שְׁמוֹת - Shmot

Our reading in the book of Shemot is the completion of the book of Genesis. It is obvious that it starts in a higher place, calling it Crown/Keter. The life [...]

בָּלָק - Balak

The portion of Balak. These are a few portions that deal with a different depth of transformation. Balak is the verge, what happens in the inner processes of a [...]

קֹרַח - Korach

I'll try to open up the issue that the portion of Korach is bringing to us and to look at it inwardly and outwardly at the same time because it speaks about [...]

מִשְׁפָּטִים - Mishpatim

Deepening The Kabbalah Foundations – MishpatimThe portion of Mishpatim entails a large scope.First, we need to perceive that this portion completes the Yitro [...]

בַּמִּדְבָּר - Bamidbar

What does the Torah book of Bamindbar (desert) about? And, more specifically the portion of Korach? We see that in the wildness, the desert, the harnessing o [...]

בְּהַעֲלוֹתְךָ - Behaalotcha

The turning point, which I'm trying to convey, is that up until this moment in ourselves, we were running away from Egypt. This is the turning point: we're [...]

בְּשַׁלַּח - Beshalach

בֹּא - Bo

The book of Shemot, and the important 6 portions of the book of Shemot (Genesis), there is set or a ladder of coming into setting ourselves as a vessel, as [...]

קְדוֹשִׁים - Kedoshim

להמשך לימוד צפו בסרטון

כִּי תֵּישָׁא - Ki Tisa

You got to the place where basic questions are steering up, and so are notions and feelings that belong to the study, in order to see the meaning of it. It has [...]

תְּצַוֶּה - Tetzave

This time, as it is understood by the spirit, i's not only a question of being able to hear and to respond to the calling, to the invitation, but is an [...]

תּוֹלְדֹת - Toldot

The Torah portion describes a crucial point in time.We begin to see patterns – difficulty to give birth. This is an integral part of the stories of the mothers [...]

וַיַּקְהֵל - Vayakhel

It is clear that after the small, precise shattering of the previous portion, they [the people] offered to reform, or how to reform. The first act of Moshe is [...]

שְׁלַח לְךָ - Shlach Lecha

להמשך לימדו צפו בסרטון

יִתְרוֹ - Yitro

Revelation – a concept that is very foreign to our perception, especially in the 21st century, especially after the destruction of the second temple. The main [...]

Rosh Hashana: Preparation for the New Year

During the period of Elul to Rosh Hashanah, individuals are encouraged to bring themselves to a state where they are open to higher intervention. This is not [...]

The Three Inner States of Yom HaKippurim

The contemplation and inner conversation of Yom HaKippurim dances around atonement, forgiveness, and absolution (kaparah, slicha, and mechilah). These three [...]

The Kabbalistic Meaning of Sukkot

The holiday of Sukkot is emphasized as the most universal, a time of inviting the higher into our lives. It is the only holiday where joy, or “gladness of [...]

Hanukkah: Kabbalistic meaning and interpretation

There were, one can say, first candle of Hanukkah, which has to do with, as I said before, the name of it, has to do with the joining of parts, which are sort [...]

Purim in Kabbalah: Hidden Guidance and Spiritual Preparation

Each month carries a unique spiritual structure, offering renewal and completion. The month of Adar, leading up to Purim, is especially significant as [...]

Passover as the First Counted Month in Kabbalah

Passover (Pesach) marks the beginning of the spiritual count and the first month of the cycle, the month of Nisan. This beginning is not only a point in the [...]

Lag BaOmer: From Separation to Connection

This teaching describes Lag BaOmer as a moment within the Omer journey where the vessel—our desire—becomes aware of its own state of separation and begins to [...]

Shavuot in Kabbalah: Preparing the Vessel to Receive Torah

Shavuot in Kabbalah is understood as the culmination of a preparation that unfolds during the counting of the Omer. The counting is not only a calendar [...]

The Call of Elul - Preparation for Teshuva

The month of Elul invites spiritual renewal. We have 40 days until Yom Kippur to prepare our teshuvah, our (re)turning towards the Higher. Yet Elul marks a [...]

Streets of The River Study Kit

In this study kit we learn how to bridge the gap between the tool and the light, the streets and rivers combination comes from the Zohar. In Hebrew Street is [...]

Meeting Kabala Digital Study Kit

Kabbalah, especially the Book of Zohar, addresses the spiritual quest of our time               iDiscover how the Zohar decodes Torah and how it extracts [...]

Untying the Book of the Zohar Digital Study Kit

Standing Correctly at the Gate

Vision The Tikkun (reformation) at Mishkan Hakavana, by Baal HaSulam, is realized through the study of Kabbalah. When a new person arrives and sees us for the [...]