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Topic: Ophanim

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		Ophanim works simultaneously as a physical exercise, breathing practice, meditation on breath, body awareness, and internal sound, attunement with the creation, clearing of the mind and renewal of internal energy.
		Ophanim has similarities with many eastern systems of yoga, internal exercise, and internal energy, but it is clearly rooted in the ideas of the Jewish mystical tradition.
		Ophanim is a way to both interact with and explore the abstract concepts of the Sefer Yetzira in the realm of the body, the most external part of the "soul".
	www.angelfire.com /pe/ophanim/Ophanim.htm (1582 words)

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		The purpose of Nefesh Haya is to teach and train teachers in the practices of Ophanim and in the specific system of Jewish meditation which we call “Prophetic Jewish Meditation”.
		Ophanim is the system of meditation integrated with body postures which works with the spiritual and energetic attributes of the Hebrew letters.
		The practices of Ophanim and Jewish meditation do not exist in a vacuum, but traditionally are connected with a full spiritual life which includes prayer (solitary and communal) and study.
	www.angelfire.com /pe/ophanim (683 words)

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		After years of labor and research in which she immersed herself in the study of Sefer Yetzira and related sources, she discovered that particular movements of the body related to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
		The practice of Ophanim is an embodiment of these teachings and is helpful in opening the paths of our "inner tree." The postures of Ophanim mirror the 22 letters and the breathing practice follows the path of the 10 spheres.
		The exile in the head was over." Ophanim is rooted in Sefer Yetzira, the first text of kabbalah. Its teachings and applications are universally applicable as the Tree of Life grows in all of us as it grows in all of life.
	www.yogamosaic.org /documents/OPHANIMbyRabbiMarmorstein_000.doc (575 words)

	Zohar: Genesis: Chapter XIX. Rabbi Simeon's Discourse on Prayer
		"These Ophanim form the wheels of the heavenly Mercaba, or chariot, by whom it is moved in four directions.
		These Ophanim also constitute the four mystic beings of the Divine Chariot having the forms of a man, a lion, an ox and an eagle, facing the four
		By the prayers of such souls, the four Ophanim become as one, and blended together as fire with water, and water with fire, as the North with the South and the South with the North, and also as the East with the West and the West with the East.
	www.sacred-texts.com /jud/zdm/zdm028.htm (851 words)

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