We at the Bnei Baruch Learning Center are so excited about the upcoming Kabbalah Fundamentals Summer Course, starting on Wednesday 4 August @ 8:00pm EDT (U.S.)… that we can’t wait to get started!
So the week before the course starts, we’ll be holding a free public preliminary live Q&A session with you to celebrate the upcoming course.
We invite you all to post just one question that’s itching away at you, and get it answered at the live event. Maybe you have a question about Kabbalah itself, or how Kabbalah can help you in a certain situation you’re facing, or how Kabbalah explains all kinds of events occurring in our world, or any variety of concepts, such as whether we have free choice, how we perceive reality, why we feel pain and pleasure, or countless other things…
Kabbalah encourages the asking of questions to progress, so here’s an opportunity to ask your first question and get it answered live!… Just write your name, e-mail, and the question you have in the comment form below, and you’ll get reminder e-mails with a link to the live event where we’ll answer your question.
AND… By sending us your question using the comment form below, you’ll go into the draw to win a number of book & CD giveaways!
We’ll be updating about this event regularly on this blog, and providing new, special preview Q&A material leading up to the event to help you prepare. Here is the first of many of these: a free PDF for you to download, containing an interview between Dr. Michael Laitman and Don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements.
Life works in such a way that all cells must become mutually dependent on each other in order to build a living body. Nature created a regularity by which the adhesive that joins the cells and the organs as a living body is the relationship of mutual consideration among them. Thus, it follows that the force that creates and sustains life is a force of giving and sharing. Its objective is to create a life based on a mutually considerate existence, harmonious, and balanced among all its elements.
Humanity can benefit from seeing examples of mutual dependency in Nature, in order to inspire us to develop such relationships among ourselves. By achieving mutual consideration, trust and love among people, we will discover a whole new life of balance, harmony and completeness.
In order to promote this message of harmony, we are offering a book package containing the softcover versions of From Chaos to Harmony: The Solution to the World Crisis According to the Wisdom of Kabbalah and Bail Yourself Out: How You Can Emerge Strong from the World Crisis, to anyone who adds text to the above video that encases the above message. The prizewinners will also have their text added to the above clip, and it will be published on the site Illuzia.net.
To enter, simply write either one or both of the following options in the comment section below, together with your e-mail address where it asks for it: 1) Imagine there is a black screen at the end of this video, and you could write the text that appears in this screen. Write something that creatively captures the above message (Word Count Limit = 15 words) 2) Imagine there is a black screen both at the start and at the end of the video. Write the text that appears in each of these black screens. Write something that creatively captures the above message (Word Count Limit = 15 words per screen)
We will be selecting the winning entry on Tuesday, 21 July, 2009, and will announce the winner on this blog on that same day.
If you are interested in learning more about this message, then you are encouraged to read the following sections from the book From Chaos to Harmony:
We will publish the winning answer in the Kabbalah Newsletter of Tuesday, 3 March, and send out the prizes in the same week. (Subscribe to the Kabbalah Newsletter by leaving your e-mail address in the “Kabbalah Newsletter” box in the right sidebar.)
To enter the competition, in the comments section below, leave your
name
contact e-mail, and
write Kabbalah’s solution to the crisis in your own words, in a 140 to 220 word count limit.
The writing style can be anything you like: informative, creative, personal, a bulleted list… The answer with the most “Wow! Factor” receives the prize.
We are continuing the “Misconceptions of Kabbalah” posts with this one on numerology…
PART OF AN ENTRY SENT BY MARY DARE:I thought the Kabbalah had something to do with Numerology. Since I had never been good with numbers, I stayed away from it…
Numerology and Kabbalah
FROM THE BOOK: The term numerology did not exist in authentic Kabbalah; contemporary scholars linked the two. Although numerology is not an accurate term to describe Kabbalah’s treatment of numbers, there is probably no better word to use if you want to translate the Hebrew term Gimatria into English.
Gimatria, in simple terms, describes a Kabbalist’s experience of the divine. In Kabbalah, the ego performs Yihudim (unifications) with the Creator. The shape of Hebrew letters depicts such unifications through dots and lines over a white background. The dots and the lines symbolize the states of the Kabbalist, who perceives the Creator. The white background symbolizes the divine light, the Creator.
In Hebrew, each letter of the 22-letter alphabet is assigned a specific number… The correlation between letters and numbers created a way for Kabbalists to describe to each other what they experienced in a concise and accurate manner. For example, the word Nega (affliction) and the word Oneg (pleasure) have the exact same letters (in a different order) and, therefore, the same numeric value. The inversion in the order of letters indicates that when affliction is corrected (from egoism to giving), a person experiences pleasure.
We are continuing to post responses to the “Misconceptions of Kabbalah” competition…
ENTRY SENT BY JANNET:My encounter with Kabbalah was when I went to the library and out of curiosity borrowed the book entitled “Qabbalah Magic.” It told of what magic you can achieve and things you can acquire by performing all these rituals. However I didn’t finish the book as I felt it wasn’t what I was looking for.
Myth: Kabbalah Is All About Magic
FROM THE BOOK: It is a common mistake for people to think that Kabbalah deals with fortune telling, revelations of the past, and the study of the present. The definition of Kabbalah is the revelation of the Creator to people in this world today, not after death. Perhaps some draw this parallel as a result of the perception of secrecy that surrounds Kabbalah.
Either way, Kabbalah has no connection to magic. In fact, Kabbalah forbids fortune telling or any attempt to find out about the destiny of the physical body. The body is temporary, negligible, and, thus, insignificant. It is not worthy of attention beyond the question of how it serves the soul.
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