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	Chesed (Kabbalah) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chesed ("Mercy"; חסד) is the fourth Sephirah on the tree of life in the Kabbalah of Judaism.
		Chesed is therefore associated with charity and expansion.
		The name of God associated with Chesed is El, the archangel that presides over it is Tzadkiel, the order of angels that resides in it are the Chasmalim (brilliant ones) and the mundane chakra associated with it is Jupiter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chesed (423 words)

	Kabbalah
		Kabbalah, which is the spelling usually preferred by scholars, specifically refers to oral mystical teaching not normally revealed to the general population, but passed on from the adepts to the initiates.
		Although the Kabbalah is founded on the Torah, the Jewish scriptures and other sacred writings, it is no intellectual discipline; and the mystic is not to practice it in solitude, but is to employ it to enlighten humanity.
		The Kabbalah, which is based on the theory of the soul's descent from and ascent to God, is made up of ten sephirots instead of nine which is due to the influence of the Pythagorean theory.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/k/kabbalah.html (2867 words)

	SparkNotes: The Kabbalah: The Ten Sefirot
		Chesed, the fourth sefirah, is the first offspring of Binah, and represents “love” or “mercy.” It lies on the right side of the Tree of Life, the side associated with force and masculinity.
		Chesed is also identified with the biblical character of Abraham, the patriarch of the Jews.
		Kabbalah leader Isaac Luria, known as the sage of Safed, greatly expanded on the concept of Sita Aha, but not until the sixteenth century.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/kabbalah/section6.rhtml (2287 words)

	The Magician's Kabbalah by Frater PPE
		Chesed is the grand driving force of the Universe, and is often received as "love, grace or mercy in mystical experience.
		In Assiah, Chesed is the establishment of the Universe in the dimensions, and the generative archetype (reflected in the procreative and generative aspects of Netzach at a further stage of the creative process).
		As Chesed is taken to be the sphere of the Secret Masters, who are taken by many magicians to guide the process of manifestation from higher planes through human adepts, it is to be approached with due consideration.
	wolf.mind.net /library/magic/kabbalah/kab7.htm (1126 words)

	Tastiest Torah Treats
		Kabbalah is the part of Jewish tradition that most highlights this way of connecting with God.
		Kabbalah offers various ways to deepen our awareness and grow into direct knowledge of the spiritual, especially through meditation and through text study.
		Kabbalah has ancient roots, but as a distinct tradition in Judaism it begins in Provence (southern France) and Spain in the 1100s and 1200s.
	www.kolel.org /tastytreats/mod5.1.html (806 words)

	Judaism 101: Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism
		The areas of Jewish thought that most extensively discuss these issues, Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, were traditionally not even taught to people until the age of 40, when they had completed their education in Torah and Talmud.
		The mystical school of thought came to be known as Kabbalah, from the Hebrew root Qof-Bet-Lamed, meaning "to receive, to accept." The word is usually translated as "tradition." In Hebrew, the word does not have any of the dark, sinister, evil connotations that it has developed in English.
		Kabbalah was popular among Christian intellectuals during the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods, who reinterpreted its doctrines to fit into their Christian dogma.
	www.jewfaq.org /kabbalah.htm (1559 words)

	Isis Books & Gifts - Free Wiccan Pagan Article: Lesson 8: Chesed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chesed is the Concretion of the Abstract as we have crossed the Abyss of the Supernals.
		Chesed is the sphere of the formulation of the archetypal idea; the apprehension by consciousness of an abstract concept which is subsequently brought down the planes or levels of being and concretized.
		Chesed is Chokmah on a lower arc and Hod on a higher arc.
	www.isisbooks.com /chesed.asp (1488 words)

	Notes on Kabbalah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chesed corresponds to the creative aspects of leadership, and early texts are one-sided in characterising this by love, mercy and majesty.
		Chesed and Gevurah are the sceptre and sword of a king; there are many statues of medieval kings in British cathedrals which show a king seated with the sceptre of legitimate authority in one hand and the sword of temporal might in the other.
		In Kabbalah the King corresponds to the sephira Tiphereth, the union of Chesed and Gevurah.
	www.indotalisman.com /kabbalah8.html (3958 words)

	Other Articles
		The Behinnot: Dialectics In The Kabbalah of Moses Cordovero
		Gershom Scholem, whose own interpretation of the Kabbalah was itself influenced by the philosophy of German idealism, once remarked that Moses Cordovero's doctrine of the behinnot exemplifies the application of dialectical thinking within a Kabbalistic framework.
		On a deeper level, the Kabbalah leads us to the view that the ultimate constituents of the world are not the things presumably within it, but rather the perspectives we can take upon it; a theme which was later taken up in German Idealism.
	www.newkabbalah.com /behi.html (1547 words)

	Kabbalah - Define
		"Kabbalah" is a doctrine of esoteric knowledge concerning God and the universe, asserted to have come down as a revelation to the Sages from a remote past, and preserved only by a privileged few.
		Kabbalah stresses the reasons and understanding of the commandments, and the cause of events described in the Torah.
		Kabbalah includes the understanding of the spiritual spheres in creation, and the rules and ways by which God administers the existence of the universe.
	www.milechai.com /judaism/kabbalah.html (1055 words)

	The Sefirot: Kabbalistic Archetypes of Mind and Creation by Sanford L. Drob
		Chesed is the first of seven lower sefirot which are conceived of in the Kabbalah as the moral middot (traits), and therefore have a direct impact upon human character and hence, according to tradition, are the ready focus of self-improvement.
		Chesed reflects God's unlimited benevolence toward creation and it is only natural that it develops after sefirah Binah which represents the first inkling of a finite created world.
		Chesed and Gevurah are each "relative truths," for it is only from a limited point of view that Chesed is, for example, "the principle of creation," or Gevurah, as limitation, the principle of a finite world.
	www.aril.org /Drob.htm (9140 words)

	Kabbalistic Astrology - WiccanWeb.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Inner structure of the soul or the Tree of Life Trestleboard is used to chart the placements of the various planets and signs of the zodiac.
		Chesed is position 4 of the Tree of Life and is associated with the keyword Lovingkindness.
		For example, if Chesed is placed in the sign of Capricorn, then we would want to focus our attention on developing our organisational skills and maintaining a sense of responsibility even when we would prefer to remain carefree.
	www.wiccanweb.ca /wiki/index.php/Kabbalistic_Astrology (2204 words)

	The Ten Sefirot: Chesed
		Chesed is associated in the soul with the desire to embrace all of Creation and bestow upon it goodness.
		As the expansive force which impels the soul to connect with outer reality, chesed inspires, and thus implicitly accompanies, all the other expressions of emotive force which succeed it in the soul.
		The spiritual state identified in Chassidut as corresponding to the sefirah of chesed is that of ahavah (love).
	www.inner.org /sefirot/sefchesd.htm (425 words)

	Project Mind Mapped on the Tree of Life
		Chesed is a reflection of the infinite compassion of the Creator and the devotion of Binah.
		In the realm of the lower Sephirot, Chesed is Keter.
		Tiferet is the balance between and synthesis of Chesed and Gevurah.
	www.projectmind.org /treeoflife.html (1430 words)

	arguments for the Kabbalah of Samael - Gnostic Forum
		Kabbalah is the thread that ties together all aspects of occult Gnosticism by bringing the aspects of consciousness together under various aspects of the Tree of Life.
		Kabbalah should be used as a tool for the intimate Self-Realization of the Inner Being.
		The difference between the Kabbalah of occult Gnosticism and other pseudo-esoteric institutions, is that Gnosticism still has the mystery of Daath and gives direct teachings related with the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
	www.gnosticteachings.org /forum/index.php?showtopic=572 (761 words)

	The Ten Sefirot: Netzach
		Netzach is associated in the soul with the power to overcome those obstacles which stand in the way of realizing one's chesed aspiration to bestow goodness upon Creation.
		In Kabbalah, a word or concept reflects its meaning and presence to the level below it by means of "generating" its spelling.
		Chesed consists of three letters: chet (8), samech (60), dalet (4).
	www.inner.org /sefirot/sefnetz.htm (534 words)

	NOEL RESELLA- The Cabala
		Kabbalah: From the Hebrew word QBL meaning 'an oral tradition', the esoteric and mystical division of Judaism.
		The Kabbalah presents a symbolic explanation of the origin of the universe, the relationship of human beings to the Godhead, and an emanationist approach to creation whereby the Infinite Light (AIN SOPH AUR) manifests through different SEPHIROTH on the TREE OF LIFE.
		Occultists identify Chesed as the ruler (but not Creator) of the manifested universe; and he is characterised as stable, wise, and merciful by contrast with his more dynamic opposite, GEBURAH.
	nouelresella.20m.com /cabala.html (1756 words)

	GraceWatcher's Studies in Kabbalah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hermetic Kabbalah) have been studied and practiced outside of Judaism for so long that they have a distinct identity in their own right, and no, you do not have to be Jewish to study them, any more than you need to be English to study the Law of Gravitation.
		Many of the source texts of Kabbalah are commentaries on the Bible, and derive their insights using a variety of devices, such as puns, anagrams, gematria (letter manipulations) and cross references to the same word in different contexts.
		Kabbalah was progressively bundled with Pythagoreanism, Neoplatonism, Hermeticism and Rosicrucianism to form a snowball which continued to pick up traditions as it rolled down the centuries.
	hometown.aol.com /gracewatcher/kabbalah.html (11573 words)

	Tree Of Life
		The sefirot are: keter (crown), chochmah (wisdom), binah (understanding), chesed (expansiveness), gevurah (restraint), tiferet (splendor), netzach (perseverence), hod (surrender), yesod (foundation), and malkhut (manifestations).
		Many people are studying the Kabbalah now as they search for their roots - the origins and greater understanding of creation - and the messages of God.
		Kabbalah can be spelled several different ways - each seemingly correct.
	www.newthoughtkabbalah.com /treeoflife.htm (2274 words)

	Jewish Spirituality - Kaballa 101
		The imagery of Kabbalah, which examines God's actions through metaphor, can never lead to the creation of images or the suggestion that the One God exists in fragments.
		The sefirot of chesed, gevurah, tiferet -- kindness, strength and beauty -- have an interrelationship that serves as a model for understanding the relationships between the other sefirot.
		The dynamic of interaction between the three sefirot of "action" can be compared to a courtroom where kindness, chesed, is the defender and judgment gevurah/din the prosecutor.
	www.aish.com /spirituality/kabbala101 (1052 words)

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		This notion of salvation, Simon says on the same page, "encapsulates all the principles of Kabbalah, all the traditions concerning the divine, knowledge of heaven, visions of the prophets, and meditations of the blessed." The next several sections of Reuchlin's first book is comprised of a series of Old Testament references to almost-saviors.
		According to Gematria, "He wanted to be called by the letter S." In the art of Kabbalah this is equivalent to "in mercy." Now according to Notaricon, the letter M stands for "in the middle of" (understood, the four letters YHWH).
		Thus the phrase is altered to read: "He wanted to be called by the letter S in the middle of the four letter YHWH." Enos would take from the Tree of Life in accordance with the angel's message, and redeem the world, as a Godlike man bearing the name YH-in mercy-WH.
	www.digital-brilliance.com /kab/chriskab.txt (9373 words)

	SparkNotes: The Kabbalah: Important Terms
		Chesed is associated with God’s right shoulder or arm and lies on the right (masculine) side of the Tree of Life.
		As the mediator of Gevurah and Chesed, Tiferet balances mercy and judgment.
		In The Essential Zohar, Rav Berg, the current spiritual leader of Kabbalah, describes Torah simply as “truth.” To kabbalists, Torah means a commitment to accepting the truth that “God is One,” and that every kabbalist must act righteously to restore God to its original state of oneness, or wholeness.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/kabbalah/terms.html (2245 words)

	C A B A L A This is a simple discourse on some of the major facets of the Cabala. It is al
		O R I G I N S Kabbalah: From the Hebrew word QBL meaning 'an oral tradition', the esoteric and mystical division of Judaism.
		In the Kabbalah, all manifestations are said to have their origin in the AIN SOPH AUR and the successive emanations of the Godhead reveal aspects of his divine nature.
		She is also the Supreme female principal in the process of Creation and, via the process mythological correspondences, is associated with such deities as The VIRGIN MARY, RHEA, ISIS, and DEMETER.
	www.skepticfiles.org /mys4/qbldefs.htm (1497 words)

	The Kabbalah Series
		The Kabbalah is the deep Secret Knowledge of the Jewish Religion.
		In general Kabbalah describes how G-d emanated and created the worlds out of His Own Infinite being through a process called the Tzimtzum - the Lessening (of the Infinite Light).
		This is not always possible since we are presenting the Kabbalah from a Jewish perspective.
	www.accessnewage.com /articles/mystic/kab01.htm (606 words)

	Perceptions On The Parsha - Acharei Mos/Kedoshim - Torah.org
		In fact, according to Kabbalah, Yom Kippur is not only rooted in the origins of creations, but, it is also rooted in the future as well, as in, "Olam HaBah," or, the World-to-Come.
		CHESED (Kindness): In Kabbalah, Chesed is compared to water, because it is like unbridled potential.
		This is why, in the Torah, Avraham's test were all in the area of Gevurah, forcing him to withhold chesed, and Yitzchak's tests were in the area of Chesed, forcing him to be less judgment-oriented.
	www.torah.org /learning/perceptions/5761/achareimos.html (3993 words)

	Kabbalah 101
		Chesed, Gevurah and Tiferet are purely emotive; Netzach, Hod, and Yesod are pragmatic.
		Chesed "Loving-kindness" corresponds to the emotion of Ahava: Love of G-d.
		The primal Chesed force reflects G-d's desire to endow man with whatever possible, while the contradicting Gevurah force restrains it.
	www.jewish-holiday.com /kabalattributes.html (629 words)

	Chesed Boomerang - Mile Chai Jewish Books and Judaica
		How to recognize the "boomerang effect" of chesed and be inspired by it.
		What the most common types of chesed are and how to put them into effect.
		Why chesed is a healthy and constructive response to personal suffering.
	www.milechai.com /text3/boomrang.html (342 words)

	[P]ause - [S]top Listing C A B A L A This ia a simple discourse on some of the major facet
		Taken as a whole, the tree of life is also a symbol of the archetypal man -- ADAM KADMON, and the sephiroth have a role resembling that of the CHAKRAS in YOGA.
		Chesed is asscociated with Gods ZEUS (Greek), and JUPITER (Roman).
		Tiphareth: The sixth emanation on the Tree of Life.It is the sphere of beauty, harmonizing the forces of mercy (Chesed) and Judgement (Geburah), higher on the Tree.
	www.skepticfiles.org /mys3/introcab.htm (1616 words)

	JewishJournal.com
		Recently, he published “Connecting to God, Ancient Kabbalah and Modern Psychology,” a book that asserts the congruity of the two disciplines.
		Weiss found that by using the 10 Kabbalistic Sefirot (divine filters/vessels for divine energy) as behavioral tools, he was able to help many patients have breakthroughs, and find their way out of paralyzing and dysfunctional behaviors.
		The next three — chesed, gevurah, and tiferet (splendor), are the emotive sefirot.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=14738 (779 words)

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