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…