While the Lurianic Kabbalah is highly complex and recondite in its symbolism and ideas, its understanding of the meaning of life is neither hidden nor obscure: It involves the endeavor to realize objective values in the face of the obstacles, suffering, and tragedies of this world. This view if life-meaning follows from what I have […]
Read MoreAbstract: Creative negation, wisdom, understanding, love, power, beauty, endurance, splendor, foundation, sovereignty – the ten dimensions of the Kabbalists’ universe form a guide not only to the godhead’s inner nature but to the psychological development of the human personality. The forty-nine days between Passover and Shavuot are known in Jewish tradition as the sefirat ha-Omer, […]
Read MoreKabbalist’s have long utilized the image of a tree to depict the growth and development as well as the organic unity of the ten Sefirot that are said to be the archetypal elements of creation and thus the basic value structure of the world. The following “Tree of Life” (Etz Chayyim) is based upon the Kabbalah of Rabbi Isaac Luria […]
Read More