Results for "Basic Terms"
-
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 [...]
Watch and read -
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. [...]
Watch and read -
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 [...]
Watch and read -
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 [...]
Watch and read -
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 [...]
Watch and read -
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 [...]
Watch and read -
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 [...]
Watch and read -
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 [...]
Watch and read -
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 [...]
Watch and read -
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 [...]
Watch and read -
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 [...]
Watch and read -
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 [...]
Watch and read -
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 [...]
Watch and read -
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, [...]
Watch and read -
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 [...]
Watch and read -
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 [...]
Watch and read -
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. [...]
Watch and read -
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 [...]
Watch and read -
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 [...]
Watch and read -
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 [...]
Watch and read
