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  Kabbalistic Healing and Its Relevance to Modern Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kabbalistic healing is rooted in the tradition of the sages, while remaining a living organic art and science that can be applied to the changing times.
But a great and widely renowned Kabbalist, Issac Luria, stated almost 500 years ago that the time had come for this science to be brought out to the public and that the world was of sufficient maturity for these teachings to be given to everyone.
The Kabbalists believe, contrary to many healing arts and sciences, that healing cannot be given to or done to or made to happen by the healer.
www.lightworks.com /MonthlyAspectarian/2002/January/feature1.htm   (1520 words)

  
 Body   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Almost all of the kabbalistic writings of this century were eclipsed by the publication of the Zohar in the middle of the 1290's.
Many Kabbalistic scholars believe that modern physics and science are only starting to figure out things that are laid out in the texts of the kabbalah, including kabbalistic references to the big bang and relativity.
These kabbalists state that the sons of the Jewish patriarch took the ideas of the kabbalah to the east with them some five to six thousand years ago.
www.realmagic.org /writings/kabbalah/kabbalah.htm   (3958 words)

  
 Bnei Baruch - World Center for Kabbalah Studies - The Open Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When one Kabbalist reads what another Kabbalist wrote, he can reconstruct the text and feel exactly what his fellow Kabbalist meant, just as a musician can reconstruct a musical piece that was written by a another composer 500 years ago through notes, or just as we mark the mathematical signs with notes that are numbers.
Kabbalists too can convey to one another the knowledge in our language, but within the words there is a completely different content that points to a sensation, act or an attainment of the ‘right’ result.
Until then, Kabbalists wrote their books as a story that tells of what they saw in the spiritual world, and not as a scientific description of what happens there, by way of extension of light from up downward, or the five phases in the vessel and the screen that dresses over it.
www.kabbalah.info /engkab/book_18/chap_10.htm   (2640 words)

  
 Kabbalah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The kabbalistic tree, which consists of ten Sephiroths, the ten "emanations" of God, consists of three pillars.
The tree of Qliphoths is usually called the kabbalistic Tree of Death, and sometimes the Qliphoths are called the Deathangels, or Angels of Death.
Within the Golden Dawn, Kabbalistic principles such as the ten Sephiroth were fused with Greek and Egyptian deities, the Enochian system of angelic magic of John Dee, and certain Eastern (particularly Hindu and Buddhist) concepts within the structure of a Masonic- or Rosicrucian-style esoteric order.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/kabbalah   (3350 words)

  
 Free-ResearchPapers.com - Kabbalah
Kabbalists have faith that divine status can be reached through means of traditional magick to find the meaning in numbers and letters of the holy scriptures making Kabbalah very unique in it's beliefs.
Kabbalists believe that the secrets of the holy scriptures were taught by God to a group of angels in Heaven.
Kabbalists believe that immortality can be grasped through the understanding of the letters and numbers included in the holy scriptures.
www.free-researchpapers.com /dbs/b7/rcj19.shtml   (1277 words)

  
 Kabbalah
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.
Christian Kabbalists compare Christ to Tiphareth for Tiphareth is thought of as the son of Kether (God) as being directly descended from it on the Tree.
The Kabbalistic idea that God contains all ideas and their contradictions definitely forms the bases for the magical laws of polarity and synthesis.
www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/k/kabbalah.html   (2867 words)

  
 Grizabella.net: Kabbalah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kabbalists, on the other hand, stressed the importance of full intention of both heart and body in the performance of all ritual actions while directing the intention to the appropriate sefirah (Ariel 140).
Specifically Kabbalists expected ritual to accomplish the harmony between judgement and mercy, the sacred marriage of masculine and feminine aspects of the sefirot, freedom of the Shekhinah from Sitra Ahra, and defense against the powers of Sitra Ahra (Scholem, On Kabbalah 130).
The symbolism was Kabbalistic, praising the wife yet referring to the Shekhinah (Ariel 150).
www.grizabella.net /relstud/kabbalah.html   (860 words)

  
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The mythic world view of the kabbalists must be seen in the context of the Medieval Jewish attempt to shape a coherent and consistent Jewish theology, which was stimulated by the challenge of Islamic philosophy and, at a later date, Christian scholasticism (3).
One of the important foci of both kabbalistic and philosophic theology is the role of the mizvot (commandments) in the theological framework and the reasons for the commandments.
The basic innovation which distinguishes the kabbalistic treatment of mizvot from that of the earlier rabbinic and contemporaneous philosophic attitudes was the former's assignment of cosmic significance to the mizvot.
www.chez.com /jec2/archfaierstein1.html   (6574 words)

  
 Jennie Dawson
An important text for the Kabbalists is the Sefer Yetzirah, which means the “Book of Creation.”  The author is unknown, but this was one of the first kabbalist texts circulated which interpreted creation from the Book of Genesis.
It is the goal of Kabbalists to achieve closeness to God, with him being the central authority.
This was interesting because it was written by a modern Kabbalist, and she was able to explain most clearly how to apply the religion to life.
home.wlu.edu /~lubint/Touchstone/Kabbalah-Dawson.htm   (2383 words)

  
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Kabbalists in 1492 were a small group of esoterics who didn't have a desire to spread their ideas.
Kabbalists of safed were the centers of the new Kabbalist movement.
He warns against all Kabbalists between Ramban and himself because Eliyahu has not appeared to them and their thoughts are based on human perception not on Kabbalah even though he recommends Zohar and the Book of Creation which were written in that time period.
yucs.org /~ben/brill/scholem.html   (1446 words)

  
 Tree of LIFE
Once the halakhah was fixed, there was a tendency by the kabbalists to transform the lawfrom a code of conduct for the Jewish people to a universal secret law, and the mystical quest was to unravel the whole mystery of the relationship of God with the world.
Although the influence of labbalah was limited in the area of halakhah, the kabbalists created fresh *aggadic material and completely re-interpreted much early *midrashic aggadot.
From the 15th century, attempts were made to harmonize kabbalistic ideas with Christian doctrines, and, although this tendency was derided by the Jewish kabbalists, it did serve to spread kabbalah beyond the Jewish community.
www.bloomington.in.us /~okolicko/utzhayim.html   (701 words)

  
 Are Kabbalists Part of Judaism?
Modern Kabbalists-There are many stories of "Kabbalists" today who can foretell events, like predicting when a couple will have a baby, or tell people about themselves things that only they could have known, such as previous experiences, or give blessings that only after the blessing, come to fruition.
For the rest of their stories, many times a kabbalist will say a general statement about a person, seeing that a person's personality is, for example, hot tempered.
Now, have a kabbalist say this to a needy and insecure person, and he will think the kabbalist is a teller of secret things, a holy man, a spiritual leader.
www.mesora.org /kabbalists.html   (503 words)

  
 Gematria & Numerology
What the Kabbalists looked for in the Bible was not primarily philosophical ideas, but a symbolic description of the hidden process of divine life, as it unfolds in the manifestations and emanations of the sefiroth.
Kabbalist James Trimm of the Society for the Advancement of Nazarene Judaism, who is allied with Avi ben Moredechai, the Qumran Bet webring, and Yair Davidy's Lost Tribes (which publicly rejects Jesus Christ) is in the process of writing a his own version of the New Testament called, "Semitic New Testament".
The Kabbalists, who considered themselves to be Orthodox Jews, believed that the Torah holds interpretations that are deciphered and accessible to the sages or prophets alone.
watch.pair.com /HRgematria.html   (8516 words)

  
 A QUESTION OF TRUTH - Is there truth in the Bible?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kabbalists say that the first chapter of Genesis is the Kabbalist way of describing how creation came about.
The tree of life was represented by Moses in the menora candlestick with its central column, the foot representing the kingdom, and the arms on the left are "form" and the arms on the right are "force"; as there is yin and yang in the east as the active and passive.
It seems strange that Paul is using Kabbalistic language when writing to gentiles, having said they did not need the Jewish laws, but these are things of the spirit for all, and exist in mystical thinking in all religions.
www.tirzah.freeserve.co.uk /Kabbalism.HTM   (2433 words)

  
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But for some Kabbalists at the beginning of the Thirteenth Century the major figure was not R.
Thus the Kabbalistic tradition is not one of speculations about mysticism; it is full-fledged mysticism.
But that is not the case for all Kabbalists: not all of them were oriented toward society.
www.textfiles.com /occult/idel2.txt   (2703 words)

  
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The midrashic and later Kabbalistic view that there are seventy layers of meaning in scripture, corresponding to the seventy nations of the world, suggests that one should understand Torah and Kabbalah, as well as the world as a whole, from multiple cultural and linguistic perspectives.
Indeed, for the Kabbalist’s the distinction between God and humanity is largely illusory, and once this is understood, the author and reader of a sacred text in effect become two aspects of a single creating/interpreting reality.
The Kabbalistic “system,” as I have described elsewhere, is both a system and not a system, both constructive of a world-view and deconstructive of itself, and is hence compatible with both religious and post-modern sensibilities.
www.newkabbalah.com /Torahtree.htm   (8507 words)

  
 Kabbalists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kabbalists is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Kabbalists emphasise the importance of mystical formulas in the recitation of prayers.
Gilgoolem (Hebrew, Jewish) The cycle of rebirths with the Hebrew Kabbalists; with the orthodox Kabbalists, the "whirling of the soul" after death, which finds-no rest until it reaches Palestine, the "promised land", and its body is buried there.
www.experiencefestival.com /kabbalists   (1390 words)

  
 Kabbalah: An Archetypal Interpretation/ Jung and Kabbalah
For the Kabbalists, everything in the world, including inanimate objects such as stones, water and earth, has a soul or spiritual life-force which is to be found in the letters of divine speech from which they and their names are comprised.
The psyche (and by this the Kabbalists refer not only to the psyche of man but the world-soul as well), is a structure of significance and meaning, and the key to understanding both man and the world is to be found in those hermeneutic disciplines that apply the methods of textual interpretation to the world.
The doctrine of the fallen sparks evolved into the Kabbalistic /Hasidic view that each individual is responsible for redeeming sparks of spiritual energy in all of his encounters with himself, others and the world.
www.newkabbalah.com /Jung3.html   (7361 words)

  
 The Sefirot: Kabbalistic Archetypes of Mind and Creation by Sanford L. Drob
For the Kabbalists, the structures of the mind are said to be equivalent to the elements of the world itself.
As we have seen, the Kabbalists, on the principle that the microcosm perfectly mirrors the macrocosm, held that the sefirot were not only the dimensions of the universe, but also the constituent elements of the human mind.
This, I believe, is why the Kabbalists insisted that an element of each of the sefirot is contained in each of the others, and that during the Omer period, the individual must work on each of the sefirotic combinations and permutations.
www.aril.org /Drob.htm   (9086 words)

  
 Read   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This Kabbalist oral tradition contended that God is perceivable as 10 different potencies or forms of light (known collectively as the sefirot).
Kabbalists believe the Torah is God itself, and that an infinite store of wisdom can be uncovered by dint of scholarly research.
Though their mystical beliefs, which focused on the individual's direct communion with God through solitary study, sometimes set them apart from their mainstream coreligionists, many Kabbalists were teachers and judges highly respected by all Jews.
slate.msn.com /toolbar.aspx?action=read&id=2083845   (376 words)

  
 End of Times Prophecies
I said to the Kabbalists that if they did not believe that I was a Prophet and a Seer of the future, then they could easily check out the statements of those witnesses and their Testimonies would show them that my word can be established as being true.
On the 24th of December 1995 I wrote to the Kabbalists, and I advised them to warn the Jews to Exodus world wide out of the areas of lands that I had warned them were definitely going to be destroyed by apocalyptic earthquakes at that future Time, killing millions of them almost instantly.
On the 14th of August 1996 I wrote to the Kabbalists again after formulating a plan for the Exodus of all of those descendants of Abraham world-wide, out of areas of land that are going to be devastated by those future earthquakes.
www.geocities.com /end_of_times/chapterthree.htm   (3525 words)

  
 Sara Solovitch - Columns
Because the general line was that prophecy had died with the last of the biblical prophets and would not return until the Messiah.
The kabbalists realized the negative effect that philosophy has had on traditional observance, in terms of peoples’ commitment to tradition.
Q One of the claims of the kabbalists was that their teachings derived from the Garden of Eden.
www.sarasolo.com /mn14.html   (1286 words)

  
 SpiritSite.com Daniel Matt The Essential Kabbalah
The kabbalists grew adept at walking the tightrope between blind fundamentalism and mystical anarchy, though a number of them lost their balance and fell into one extreme or the other.
Remarkably, despite their startling ideas and sometimes shocking imagery, the kabbalists aroused relatively little opposition, compared to some of the famous Islamic Sufis and Catholic mystics such as Hallaj and Meister Eckhart.
The kabbalists made the fantastic claim that their mystical teachings derived from the Garden of Eden.
www.spiritsite.com /writing/danmat/part2.htm   (305 words)

  
 Introduction to Kabbalah: Key to Your Inner Power Book
As one Kabbalist wrote, "From 1540 onward, the most important commandment will be for all to study [Kabbalah] in public, both old and young.
The hallmark of Kabbalah is its diagram of the ten sefirot (divine emanations or aspects of God), which Kabbalists call the Tree of Life.
According to Kabbalistic tradition, the priest Melchizedek revealed to Abraham the teachings recorded in the Sefer Yetzirah, an early mystical text that had enormous influence on Kabbalah.
www.tsl.org /Products/books/books/kabbalah_bk/introduction.html   (972 words)

  
 Articles - Bahir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Among medieval Kabbalists it became known as Sefer ha-Bahir, taken from the comment in the Book of Job, "One verse says: 'And now men see not the light which is bright (bahir) in the skies'" (Job 37:21).
Kabbalists acribed authorship of the Bahir to R. Nehunya, a rabbi of the Mishnaic era, who lived around 100 CE.
Medieval Kabbalists write that the Bahir did not come down to them as a unified book, but rather in pieces found in scattered scrolls and booklets.
www.gaple.com /articles/Bahir?mySession=a1f7c8e4320f7a16d443485a10cab16b   (1030 words)

  
 Kabbalah - a mystical vision
The Jews added two important works to Kabbalistic lore, namely the books known as the Sepher Yetzirah, reputed to have been written in the 2nd century AD, and the Zohar, dating from the 13th century.
The Zohar came to the attention of Christian scholars shortly thereafter, and sparked an interest in the Kabbalah on the part of a wide range of European mystics and occultists.
These Gentile Kabbalists likewise added much fresh material to the tradition, as did the Theosophists, the Golden Dawn, and now numerous new age thinkers and writers.
www.near-death.com /experiences/judaism05.html   (684 words)

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