By James David Dunn, Nathan Snyder, Rabbi Ernesto Yattah
During this deep and strong ebook, the Kabbalah of Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534-1572) is translated from the unique passages of Hebrew. those luminous and sacred passages show the main profound teachings of the knowledge of God and of our universe, encouraged by way of the reality of the Torah. a few four hundred years sooner than Albert Einstein proposed his thought of Relativity of the outer universe to the clinical group, Luria disclosed to his scholars his thought of the internal universe and its evolution in the brain of the Ineffable. Seventy-seven years after the exile from Spain of the Jewish humans, in a small cost in top Galilee referred to as Safed, Isaac Luria was once to reply to not just the Jewish people's private questions of exile and homelessness, yet to provide an explanation for the interior worlds of the spirit and in their evolution that resulted in the last word delivery of our cosmos. it really is this evolution that displays the starting place and historical past of souls, in response to the lessons of Rabbi Luria.
Whether we're the results of cosmic purpose or twist of fate, God has attached us to those solutions and to the drama of construction that has made us. Window of the Soul is the 1st and simply entire collection of Isaac Luria's teachings from the unique passages of Hebrew. it really is superbly written, it's unique Kabbalah, and it opens doorways within the human middle which have been locked for millions of years.
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The light of en sof forms the light of Adam Kadmon and he is the inner being of the sefirot. 23 Therefore a vessel is a reality that has the quality of revelation. It mediates or transmits between one reality and another. When the thin ray of light moved into the tehiru, it assumed the mystical shape of Adam Kadmon. 24 But this divine equilibrium was soon to be broken by that which emanated from his eyes. Each of the ten points of light that exited the eyes of Adam Kadmon was cloaked in its own characteristic (vessel).
35 window of the soul Every element of Creation, from the Creator to the most insignificant pre-cosmic sub-particle, bore the mark of this catastrophe. The rich deep glow of divine sparks shone through the pre-cosmic dust (all deeply and tragically intermixed) that would eventually evolve to form the slag of klippoth and thereby set the stage for the appearance of humankind, that would evolve from the wreckage of this sefirotic world. “The Great Flood [was] like breaking of the vessels, as great abundance of water on the Earth .
40 The state of souls is linked inexorably with that of the fragmented disunity of Adam’s: And now behold what damage was done by his sin. Adam’s body was from the world of Yetsirah, but only his spirit resides there now. His existence is strewn among various levels. And his body and lower soul are now in this world, the world of Asiyah. 41 42 introduction: the second adam and the history of souls The worlds descended and asiyah mixed so completely with klippoth that they joined. Mankind, composed of matter and spirit, evolved from this resultant new world.