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What is Kabbalah?

Lesson 1 – Part A

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The Wisdom of Kabbalah is not a belief, religion, or science. In fact, learning Kabbalah is a process of remembering knowledge already engraved on our souls, but we did not know how to connect to it, or to implement it previously. The Wisdom of Kabbalah is a combination of science, faith and the wisdom of life. The purpose of studying Kabbalah is to reach the Summit of humanities’ deepest desires – happiness, love, and peace and fulfillment.

The Wisdom of Kabbalah through the Ages and the Way it has Influenced Us

In order to understand our identity as a civilized human society, in the 21st century, no matter what our geographic location is, we must learn and understand the Wisdom of Kabbalah, as it will teach us; who we are, what our purpose in life is, what our role in society is and where we are heading as a society. The Wisdom of Kabbalah is actually the source of our desires as people of the free world. In Kabbalistic literature we will find the sources for the humanitarian principles we are proud of and for which we are ready to fight for. The principles that modern society is based on, such as; morality, values and ethics; everything is based on the Wisdom of Kabbalah.

How old is Kabbalah?

Many see Kabbalah as the soul of Judaism; the spiritual foundations and principles behind the stories, traditions, the Bible and its precepts, the primal framework, before other characteristics of religion or history were added.

Throughout history, Kabbalah was referred to as “The mother of all Wisdoms”.

There are those who believe that Kabbalah has existed since the time of Adam. However, the first time Kabbalah was introduced to mankind (according to the Kabbalists), the way we know it today, is believed to be some 4,000 years ago by Abraham the Patriarch – the first Kabbalist. The book of Genesis tells us that Abraham had passed on, “old and satiated”, which is quite a strange statement in connection with the death of a person; apparently, it implies that Abraham knew something we do not know. Abraham had probably, reached a state of “being”/spiritual completion that is unfamiliar to us today. Obviously, there’s still a lot that we can learn from Abraham today.

Supporting evidence for this argument can be found in the fact that Abraham’s character has been preserved in our collective memory for the last 4,000 years. Such honor and recognition is inconsistent with the limited amount of information that is available about Abraham and the life he led. Why was so much honor and respect reserved for Abraham? What was so special about him? Why was he so different from the other biblical figures of his day?

According to the Bible, Abraham was a kind and hospitable person who had occasional conversations with God, and yet there was something different about him. Something he did or the way in which he lived, made him familiar to almost the whole of the human race, even till today.

Who was Abraham the Patriarch?

In order to understand who Abraham was, we will try to follow his profession. Many think he was a shepherd. However, this is not accurate. In fact, only later in life, probably at around age 75, when he left the land of Haran to Canaan, did Abraham become a shepherd. Previously, Abraham was a city dweller, and according to Kabbalah, Abraham was not only the first Kabbalist but also the first Astrologer. We can find a hint that alludes to this in an ancient Midrash, which tells us “How Abraham came to know the Creator”. According to the Midrash, the young Abraham went out and saw the sun shining in the sky and thought it was responsible for everything that happens on earth, so he prayed to it. However, in the evening the sun set and the moon took its place. Abraham came to the conclusion that he was wrong and the moon is actually the ruler of the Universe, so he decided to pray to the moon and the stars instead. The next day, when the sun rose again, Abraham realized that there must be something else that rules them both. This led him to the recognition of the existence of the One Creator. According to Kabbalah, this story is part of the clue that reveals Abraham as an Astrologer, and how his gift with the stars led him to his revolutionary understanding of the structure of the Universe and the existence of the One Creator.

Later on, when Abraham worked in his father’s shop, which sold idols (a practice in direct opposition to his realization of the One Creator), the legend says that he smashed all the statues. This legend further serves to confirm the revolutionary message that Abraham was responsible for bringing into existence, the existence of the One God.

The Foundation of the Revolution that Spawned Many Revolutions

This is really a revolution in terms of the mental perceptions of the time. Abraham lived in the pagan city of Ur of the Sumerian ancient civilization. Studies of various mythologies show that the pagan way of thinking was very unpleasant. The deities of the ancients did not possess nice characters. Those deities were imbued with uncontrolled passions, ego driven, very irresponsible and unpredictable. Justice, love and compassion were not part of their everyday character traits. In fact, pagan mythology reflected a bleak worldview that was lacking hope or redemption of any kind, from a life full of pain and agony.

A very interesting study that later on became a bestselling book called, The gift of the Jews was published by Thomas Cahill – an Irish Catholic author. The study analyzed the Sumerian culture from its own texts. Cahill’s study found that the Sumerian language was missing expressions in the past and future tenses, which meant that the people of that time had a very particular way of thinking– An absolute belief that nothing could ever change for the better. This is an outlook on life, that holds that life is cyclical, and what was, will only repeat. This is a very fatalistic and pessimistic perspective of life. According to the study, Abraham the Patriarch invents a new way of thinking that did not exist before. The study says that Abraham, and later on the Hebrews, “…gave us the exterior and interior – the view of our world and our internal life… We dream Jewish dreams, hope Jewish hopes, most of our important words, such as – new, adventure, surprise, unique, individual, person, vocation, time, history, future, freedom, progress, spirit, faith, hope, justice – are the gift of the Jews” (Thomas Cahill, The Gift of the Jews). Thomas Cahill’s argument was that Abraham the Patriarch was the inventor of those words, words which had never been used before and since words have the power of creation, Abraham was responsible for creating a new world view.

What is the belief in One God? How does it relate to the Kabbalah?

Abraham established the One God concept. Meaning, there is not One God sitting in the heavens, but that everything is one, every part of this world, each person in this world – all is one. Past, present and future, heaven and earth – all are one. We all came from One and therefore we are all connected. We may not feel this connection or we might feel like we’ve been disconnected, but it is only in our minds, and as soon as we renew this connection, or return to our situation pre-disconnection, we will be able to control everything that happens to us and around us. This is the basis for the study of Kabbalah.

Abraham was responsible for the most important revolution in human consciousness of all time. From a place of total helplessness, everything is possible. Abraham’s Method, as expressed in every Kabbalah book, says that evil is an illusion and that the origin of the Creation and the world is good. Everything is an Image of God. This approach was considered to be so innovative for that time – A time when man had no rights, was treated with less than human dignity and had no control over his life.

Many years had passed before this concept became accepted in many parts of the world. However, there still exists today, in many parts of the world, where people are still struggling to achieve this revolutionary consciousness. It all started with Abraham the Patriarch.

Sefer Yetsira – The Book of Formation – The First Important Kabbalah Book

According to Jewish tradition, one of the most important books of Kabbalah is Sefer Yetsira – The Book of Formation, its writing is attributed to Abraham. This is not a religious book but a cosmology book that deals with the structure of the Universe and the forces that created the stars, the zodiac signs and actually our lives.

Although, it hasn’t been so emphasized, Hebrew Astrology has an important place in various fields of Judaism and Jewish literature, such as; the Talmud, the Zohar and Sefer Yetsira. The Zohar mentions that the Kabbalists knew the forces behind the Planets and the Signs of the Zodiac and that enabled them to rise above their influence. Meaning, the Kabbalistic understanding of Astrology, gives us the ability to control our destiny and rise above the influence of the stars. According to Kabbalah we are all blessed with Free Will and knowledge of the stars can never take that away from us.

Some of the greatest sages of Israel in the last millennium wrote commentaries on the Sefer Yetsira, among them, Rabbi Saadia Gaon (Egypt, 882/892 – Baghdad, 942), The Nahmanides (Gerona, 1194 – Israel, 1270) , The Rabad – Rabbi Avraham ben David (Provence, France, about 1125 CE – Posquières, 27 November 1198 CE), Rabbi Shabtai Donnolo (Oria, Italy, 913 – Crimea, c. 982), the Holy Ari, Rabbi Isaac Luria (Jerusalem, Israel 1534 – Safed, Israel, July 25, 1572) , The Vilna Gaon (Vilnius, Lithuania, April 23, 1720, Vilnius, Lithuania October 9, 1797) and more. All of those medieval commentators knew how important The Wisdom of Astrology was.

The Ten Commandments’ Message

While the innovative world view, described above, was actually the only inheritance of Abraham (and perhaps there were a few more like minded individuals of his time that shared his vision), the first time this vision is being bequeathed to an entire community was at Mount Sinai when the Hebrews received The Ten Utterances (known by mistake as the Ten Commandments).

According to tradition, Moses received the oral Torah on Mount Sinai. In Pirkei Avot, Mishna A, it is said that Moses received the Torah on Mount Sinai and gave it to Joshua. Not “taught”, but “gave” it to Joshua. Meaning, that Kabbalah is something beyond teaching, beyond words, or information, it is a type of consciousness, a life’s view, a long process of growth and improvement. As we acquire this state of mind we can complete our lives “old and satiated”.

According to Kabbalah, on Mount Sinai we received eternal life. The thing that bothers us most of all is death. Death, according to Kabbalah does not just relate to a physical death, it also relates to every situation where we experience an end, an end of a relationship, status, money, health, etc. The Wisdom of Kabbalah teaches that on Mount Sinai we received the cure for death, the consciousness to rise above the taste of death, and above the fear of dying. On Mount Sinai we got hope, that no matter how bad we can feel, we can always transform it, because good will always win.

This is really the message of Abraham. These principles have become the basis of modern society – The belief in every person’s right to dignity regardless of his or her religion, race, gender or economic background; A faith in the power of every person to solve his or her problems and to overcome any disabilities. All of these principles empower us to strive, fight and improve the society in which we live in and disagree with injustice and inequality. The battle still rages on and things are far from being resolved, because most people still do not understand the true essence of human freedom the way Abraham understood it. The key for that understanding is located within the Wisdom of Kabbalah.

For additional study please enter the course “Kabbalah Level 1 – The Inner World of the Kabbalist” at Live Kabbalah University.

Lesson 1

Part A

What is Kabbalah?

Part B

The Zohar through History

Part C

Kabbalah’s Influence on the Development of Modern Science

Lesson 2

Reality and Illusion, the True World (Olam HaEmet) vs. The False Reality of the bodily senses and mind.

The Language of Branches – The Special Language of the Kabbalists

The Desire and its Fulfillment

Part A

The Rules of Life

Part B

The Way to Happiness

Part C

Logic as a Barrier

Lesson 3

How did it all begin? The Creation of the Universe, The Source of all Souls, What is every Soul made of?

The Big Bang Theory vs. Rabbi Isaac Luria’s Tsimtsum Theory.

What is the source of Evil in this world? The real motivation of the soul vs. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Part A

Where do we come from?

Part B

Being a Creator

Lesson 4

Good and Evil, Good Inclination and Evil Inclination: Duality as the Source for the Meaning of Life. Free Will: Logic vs. Faith.

Lesson 5

The Tikun doctrine: How everyday’s life is a mirror of the journey the soul is taking. Why do bad things happen to Good People? The Rules of Cause and Effect, Reincarnation in Kabbalistic Teachings.

Lesson 6

Being a Creator – How to understand feelings and emotions? How can we tell between good and evil? The guidance to define negative emotions and the way to transform them.

Lesson 7

Tools for spiritual change:

Our community.

The Hebrew letters as an expression of hidden cosmic forces and invisible frequencies – the building blocks of our reality. The marvelous story of the 72 names of the Creator through the unofficial history of the world.

Lesson 8

Basics in Kabbalistic Meditations.

The Name of 42 Letters, The “Ana VeKho’ah” – one of the major holy metitation in the Jewish mystical world.

Lesson 9

“Ets Ha’Haim” – The Tree of Life, Sefirot and Olamot (Worlds).

How is it that The Creator never changes but it looks like He does?

The Cosmology of Good & Evil

The Tetragrammaton.

Lesson 10

The Myths of Messiah, Resurrection of the Dead and the Hebrew Calendar. Prophets of the end of days according to the Kabbalah and the ability to differ between false believes and a guidance to a better future.

To listen to the lessons above, please enter :Live Kabbalah University.

Kabbalah Level 1 – The Inner World of the Kabbalist

The Zohar through History

Lesson 1 – Part B

The Golden Age of Jewish Mysticism at the End of the Second Temple Period

Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism thrived and grew in popularity, at the end of the Second Temple Period, about 1,500 years after Abraham the Patriarch (some 2,000 years ago). Evidence of this can be found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and also in the Midrash and the Talmud. This is the time during which the great Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai lived. It is also a time when Judaism became much more than just a religion or a body of laws to follow (Halakha). It became a way of life that was very popular among Jews and non Jews alike, throughout the Roman Empire. Stories in the Talmud share how this ancient wisdom became, a phenomenon whereby members of the world’s nations would ask advice and guidance from the Jewish sages who lived among them.

Writing of the Zohar and Lag Ba’Omer

Meiron – The entrance to Rabbi Shimon’s burial cave.

The great Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai, author of the Zohar (the most important book of Kabbalah), lived in Israel during the 2nd century C.E. To this day, his death anniversary is being celebrated, especially in Israel, to commemorate the incredible power of the Zohar, which he revealed to the world. According to the Zohar, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai knew he was going to leave the world on that day, so he assembled his closest friends and students and told them he was planning on leaving the world. However, before he left, he had to finish the creation of the Zohar. So his friends surrounded him and Rabbi Shimon dictated the final chapter of theZohar during his remaining hours. Legend says that during his last hours on earth, fire surrounded the house that did not allow anyone to enter except the people closest to Rabbi Shimon.

According to Rabbi Aba (who wrote down Rabbi Shimon’s last words), the last word Rabbi Shimon dictated before he died was, “Haim” (life). His soul departed shortly after and a smile was left on his face. Soon after, a huge crowd gathered around the house from the surrounding towns of Meiron and Tsipori. An argument broke out amongst the gathered, about where Rabbi Shimon was to be buried. Suddenly, Rabbi Shimon’s bed arose in the air and flew out of the house with everyone following. It stopped at an entrance to a cave that was blocked by a wall of fire. At that moment a Bat Kol (A heavenly voice) announced that this cave will be the burial place of Rabbi Shimon and invited everyone to celebrate his ascending to heaven. Since then, every year on Lag Ba’Omer (the death anniversary of Rabbi Shimon), it is a tradition to light a bonfire in memory of the fire surrounding Rabbi Shimon’s house as he completed writing the Zohar (followed today mainly by Israeli children).

The Discovery of the Zohar in Spain

According to tradition, the Zohar was hidden for many years until it was discovered in Spain in 1270 C.E. by Rabbi Moshe DeLeon (although there are some evidences for earlier texts of the Zohar). In a few short years the Zohar reached almost every Jewish community around the world (Europe, Central Asia, Yemen, India, North Africa, etc.). Due to its incredible spiritual power it impacted and influenced Jewish Law (Halakha), prayers, customs, philosophy and theology. Even though the Zohar was being distributed worldwide, it was accompanied by a decree on teaching it to the lay person. There was a fear and a concern that not everyone could be exposed to this ancient wisdom without being damaged by the intensity of the teachings. The rational was that, it was quite possible, that one might understand things the wrong way and use the wisdom inappropriately.

Golden Age of Tsefat and its Kabbalists

Safed (Tsefat) – The Old Cemetery

Kabbalah re-emerges once more, revitalized and re-invented, 250 years later, in the 16th century in the mystical city of Tsefat, Israel. This Renaissance happened, mainly thanks to the great Masters of Kabbalah; Rabbi Moshe Cordovero, The Holy Ari (Rabbi Yitshak Luria Ashkenazi), Rabbi Haim Vital and many more. For the first time, due to an abundance of books on the subject of Kabbalah, being published and available to the general populace, Kabbalah became user friendly. In addition to studying and learning Jewish Law (Halakha), Torah and Talmud, people could read books on Kabbalah that significantly helped to improve their daily lives. People were excitedly reading books dealing with; reincarnation, meditation, cosmology and studying the creation of the Universe and its secrets. The most famous and known authors of Kabbalistic literature during this time was The Holy Ari – Rabbi Yits’hak Luria.

The Decree on Studying Kabbalah and the Zohar is Lifted

Kabbalah continued to increase in popularity and the Kabbalists came to the conclusion, that from the beginning of the 16th Century, there is no longer any danger in studying Kabbalah. On the contrary, the very survival of the Torah study, faith and values depends on us studying Kabbalah as the continued existence of the Torah and Judaism depends on the soul and spirituality that Kabbalah imbues in them. Consequently, the decree and shroud of secrecy that had surrounded the study of Kabbalah had been lifted and people could openly benefit from this wisdom that had the potential to bring fulfillment, health, wealth, divine inspiration and joy to their lives.

The phenomenon of Kabbalah spread to the entire Jewish world and branched into two major schools in the modern age – the Sefardic Kabbalah and the Hassidic movement of Eastern Europe. Both were based on the writings of Tsefat’s Kabbalists of the 16th Century and mainly on the Ari’s writings.

The founder of the Hasidic movement was the Ba’al Shem Tov and its disciples established Habad, Breslev and the rest of Eastern European Hasidic movements. Amongst the Sefardic Kabbalists, the most familiar are; Rabbi Haim Ben Atar, Rabbi Abraham Azulai, RAMHAL (Rabbi Moshe Haim Lutsato), RASHASH (Rabbi Shalom Sharaabi), The Ben Ish Hai and many more.

From the beginning there was a free flow of ideas between the two movements and their followers, till this day.

Rabbi Ashlag – Initiator of Kabbalah’s Modern Revolution

Jerusalem, Har HaMenuhot – Rabbi Ashlag’s Grave site

Early in the 20th Century, Sephardic Judaism and Hasidism went through a process whereby once more Kabbalah was pushed into the background and it was thought that this ancient wisdom would be once more lost to the world. As a result of this process, traditional Judaism turned into a “dry”, mechanical, robotic experience that had lost its soul. Rabbi Ashlag arrived on the scene in 1922, in Jerusalem, and initiated a revolution whose waves are still felt today. For the first time in Kabbalah’s history, Rabbi Ashlag made Kabbalah accessible and available for everyone to study. In his writings he says that he found a great need to blow the iron barrier that stood between Kabbalah and the people, a barrier that had existed since the destruction of the Temple. He no longer wanted to live in the fear that Kabbalah could once more be hidden and forgotten for another generation. The time had come to bust things wide open. At the same time, another person arrived in Israel and his name was Gershom Scholem. He too feared the possibility that Kabbalah could disappear yet again, so he opened the Department of Kabbalah at the Hebrew University and became the founder of the Modern Academic Study of Kabbalah.

The monumental life’s work of Rabbi Ashlag includes a translation of the Zohar from Aramaic to Hebrew. It has the most comprehensive interpretation which allows us, the students, to understand in today’s language, the remarkable order and consistency that exists in the Universe, its rules and how and why they exist, for the sole purpose of granting us a life of utter and complete fulfillment. It is also remarkable to see the symbiotic relationship and interconnectedness between the Zohar and other major bodies of Jewish literature such as the Talmud, Torah, Midrash, Halakha, etc. In addition, Rabbi Ashlag wrote commentaries on all of the Ari’s important writings and he wrote and compiled an incredible group of essays that synthesized Kabbalah and its connection to the greatest modern and scientific disciplines, such as Quantum Physics, Modern Medicine, Psychology and more.

Rabbi Ashlag passed away on Yom Kippur 1954, and his legacy of revealing Kabbalah to the world in a way that the lay person could use and relate to, will never be forgotten. His followers have continued to publish and encourage the widespread dissemination of Kabbalah. He is directly responsible for the mass movement of studying Kabbalah in the whole world today, a phenomenon that was seen only during the time of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai.

Rabbi Ashlag followed the huge footsteps of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai, and today, men and women can study Kabbalah and benefit from it in so many different, positive and exciting ways thanks to his efforts.

Rabbi Ashlag’s Doctrine can be extracted to a few principles:

The Universe is an organized flawless world, in which understanding and knowing the rules that make it move, can be available to everyone.

Studying Kabbalah can bring everyone closer to fulfilling their life’s purpose – A life of happiness, joy, spiritual “high” and satisfaction.

In order to achieve a life of happiness and perfection without experiencing pain and suffering, we have to connect to the Creator’s Light. This could happen only when we learn to love our fellow man with unconditional love. Therefore, the supreme value in every person’s life, is altruism and respecting every human being and treating one another with human dignity. In other words, altruism is not a moral, social, religious or rational value, but a tool and means that is the most rewarding, beneficial and practical.

Practicing altruism by this method will bring the person and the whole society to an era in which anguish and suffering will be eradicated forever.

We can see here a tangible expression of the revolutionary message of Abraham the Patriarch, the same message that influenced the history of mankind more than any other message; the message that praised the fact, that every person is created in the image of The Creator, and therefore he is entitled to human dignity and happiness; A message in which Rabbi Akiva well expressed: “Love your fellow man as you would love yourself” (Leviticus 19:18) is the main and inclusive rule in the understanding of the Bible and it’s rules.

For additional study please enter the course “Level 1 – The Inner World of the Kabbalist” at Live Kabbalah University.

Lesson 1

Part A

What is Kabbalah?

Part B

The Zohar through History

Part C

Kabbalah’s Influence on the Development of Modern Science

Lesson 2

Reality and Illusion, the True World (Olam HaEmet) vs. The False Reality of the bodily senses and mind.

The Language of Branches – The Special Language of the Kabbalists

The Desire and its Fulfillment

Part A

The Rules of Life

Part B

The Way to Happiness

Part C

Logic as a Barrier

Lesson 3

How did it all begin? The Creation of the Universe, The Source of all Souls, What is every Soul made of?

The Big Bang Theory vs. Rabbi Isaac Luria’s Tsimtsum Theory.

What is the source of Evil in this world? The real motivation of the soul vs. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Part A

Where do we come from?

Part B

Being a Creator

Lesson 4

Good and Evil, Good Inclination and Evil Inclination: Duality as the Source for the Meaning of Life. Free Will: Logic vs. Faith.

Lesson 5

Lesson 6

Being a Creator – How to understand feelings and emotions? How can we tell between good and evil? The guidance to define negative emotions and the way to transform them.

Lesson 7

Tools for spiritual change:

Our community.

Lesson 8

Basics in Kabbalistic Meditations.

The Name of 42 Letters, The “Ana VeKho’ah” – one of the major holy metitation in the Jewish mystical world.

Lesson 9

“Ets Ha’Haim” – The Tree of Life, Sefirot and Olamot (Worlds).

How is it that The Creator never changes but it looks like He does?

The Cosmology of Good & Evil

The Tetragrammaton.

Lesson 10

To listen to the lessons above, please enter :Live Kabbalah University.

Kabbalah Level 1 – The Inner World of the Kabbalist

About

Live Kabbalah site belongs to Universal Kabbalah Communities, a non for profit organization in the US:

Tax ID 90-042-2614 for Federal Tax purposes.

We are committed to helping create and/or support communities throughout the world that will provide a safe, loving environment for every human being who seeks to participate in the creation of a better world.

These communities are based upon the teachings of the great prophets of the Bible as well as upon the teachings of the Kabbalistic Sages that followed their vision.

OUR MISSION

Our mission is based on the Universal Truth that Love of the Creator is revealed when mankind displays that Love and respect to other human beings above and beyond ideology, race, religion, language or appearance. The mission of the Universal Kabbalah Communities is to empower individuals and communities to create a world of peace, love, joy, and harmony for humanity.

OUR VISION

Love your fellow man

• Rav Ashlag, the founder of the modern renaissance of Kabbalah had a vision of a “One World Spiritual Movement”. This is the movement of “Love your fellow man as yourself”.

• According to Rav Ashlag’s vision this is the way to bring the world to peace through social and economic justice on a personal level and among nations.

Beehive Group Based Communities

• Rav Yehuda Ashlag teaches that the only way a person can transform, function at his best, and achieve cleaving to The Creator is when the person is in a group of people that love him, care for him and support him to become a better, more free, loving human being.

• Live Kabbalah is committed to help creating and/or supporting communities throughout the world that will provide a safe, loving environment for every human being who seeks to participate in the creation of a better world. These communities will be based upon the teachings of the great prophets of the Bible as well as upon the teachings of the Kabbalistic Sages that followed their vision.

• The transformation achieved will bring “immortality,” which can be experienced every moment as joy, happiness, success and good fortune through the bliss of The Light of the Creator.

• This is based on the main principle of the Abrahamic faiths that every human being is created in the image of God and his soul is a divine spark of God. Therefore, every human being has been created for and is entitled to living a life of happiness, fulfillment and bliss.

THE WISDOM

• Traditional Teachings

The study of this global movement is based on the traditional tools of Kabbalah: The Bible, The Book of Formation (Sefer Yetsira), The Zohar (Book of Splendor), The Ari’s writings, Rav Ashlag’s writings, and many traditional Kabbalists whose teachings are also based on these main bodies of work.

• Modern Teachings

Live Kabbalah is open to researching and adopting some of the many modern methods and techniques that can support spiritual growth as long as those techniques align with traditional Kabbalistic teachings

MAIN PRINCIPLES

• Every human being is a spark of The Creator, therefore, a human soul is good by nature

• Love your fellowman as you love yourself

• No coercion in spirituality

• Every human being should be empowered and supported to be a creator in his personal life and in the movement

• Rituals and beliefs are subject only to the individual’s free choice and inner faith

OUR HISTORY

Kabbalah (in Hebrew) means “Wisdom that has been received”.

Adam

Kabbalah is the wisdom that explains the laws of the Universe, Life and God. Adam received this wisdom directly from God. Some traditions say that The Book of Raziel the Angel (Sefer Raziel HaMalakh) and others like it contain some of Adam’s wisdom.

Abraham the Patriarch

The wisdom was handed down through the generations from teacher to student until it reached Abraham the Patriarch. Abraham the Patriarch received revelations from The Creator that enhanced Adam’s wisdom. The Book of Formation (Sefer Yetsira) is the first great work of Kabbalistic writings in the history of Kabbalah. Abraham handed this Kabbalistic Wisdom to his son Isaac and to his grandson Jacob.

Moses

The line from Abraham continued until Moses, together with the whole nation of Israel, received (Kibel) the Torah from God on Mount Sinai. Moses handed down the wisdom to Joshua who handed it over to the Elders. The Judges received the wisdom from the Elders and the Prophets of the Bible received it from the Judges. The people of the Great Assembly (Anshei Knesset Gedola) received the wisdom from the Prophets and the Tannaim received it from the prophets. This lineage is described in the Mishnah in The Ethics of the Fathers.

Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai

One of the Tannaim is considered by Kabbalists to be the author of the Zohar , the main work of Kabbalah. The Zohar contains the foundations of Kabbalistic faith, traditions and rituals. After writing the Zohar, the wisdom of Kabbalah and the Kabbalists went into hiding because of persecutions. From that point on the wisdom of Kabbalah was hidden and the bestowing of the Kabbalistic Ordination (Semikha) occurred “underground” until the 13th Century.

The Ari (Rav Isaac Luria)

The Ari was the greatest Kabbalist of the awakening of Kabbalah in the post middle ages (16th Century). The Ari left us his writings through his main student Rabbi Haim Vital. The Ari created and organized The Wisdom of Kabbalah for the modern era. He based it on all the previous ancient Kabbalistic texts, specifically The Zohar and showed how all previous teachings are parts of one inclusive highly organized cosmology. The system introduced by The Ari is called after him The Lurianic Kabbalah and is the foundation of modern theology of Sephardic Judaism and of The Hasidic Movement founded by The Baal Shem Tov (18th Century).

Rav Yehuda HaLevi Ashlag

Rav Ashlag was the greatest Kabbalist of the 20th Century. Rav Ashlag is responsible for the renaissance of Kabbalah in our modern time. A student and teacher of The Hasidic Movement, Rav Ashlag managed to create a new way of teaching that is a synthesis of the intellect of Lurianic Kabbalah with the heart of the Hasidic way. Rav Ashlag’s works connected the teachings of The Zohar and the writings of The Ari into one system and laid the foundation for the synthesis between Kabbalah, Modern Science and Modern Philosophy. Rav Ashlag was a great believer of Spiritual Socialism based on the humanistic principles of Kabbalah as a way to heal the miseries of humanity.

Live Kabbalah

Teaching the Wisdom of Kabbalah and its Values

Live Kabbalah website has been established by students who feel the need to preserve the original teachings and to especially focus on the original vision of Rav Ashlag to combine the focus of the study of Kabbalah with the creation of spiritual communities.. These communities will be centered on building a safe, loving, supporting environment that will promote, enhance and support the journey of the individual towards cleaving to God, which is the only purpose of The Creation.

Shaul Youdkevitch

Shaul Youdkevitch is the person behind Live Kabbalah.

Shaul Youdkevitch is an internationally renowned and revered spiritual teacher. Born and raised in Israel, Shaul always had a strong interest in science. While in college working towards a degree in biology, he met a Kabbalist and began to learn about the spiritual laws of the universe. He soon realized that there was a deep connection with these teachings and the laws of science. Shaul became fascinated by the comparison and set off to learn more and more about how the universe operates both physically and spiritually.

After several years of studying Kabbalah, Shaul was ordained as a Rabbi and began his career as a popular and sought after teacher. Since 1984, Shaul Youdkevitch has built up Kabbalah communities in Toronto, Boca Raton, Miami, Tel Aviv, Herzlia and other locations that still exist and are thriving today. He also has created a systematic way of teaching the esoteric principles of Kabbalah, so that it is obtainable and understandable to everyone. Kabbalah teachers all around the world currently use this educational model.

Through the study of Ancient Kabbalistic teachings, Shaul came to understand the Universal Truth that love of the creator is revealed when mankind displays respect to other human beings above and beyond their ideology, race, religion, language or appearance. His mission is to empower individuals and communities to create a world of peace, joy and harmony for humanity. That is why he has taught and continues to teach everyone the principles of Kabbalah: the old, the young, people of all faiths and all nations.

Shaul Youdkevitch started the Universal Kabbalah Communities in early 2008 as a resource to teach Kabbalah and empower others to become in full alignment with themselves and their life’s purpose. Like Kabbalist Rabbi Ashlag taught in the early 20th century, he believes that the only way a person can function at his best and achieve a true and lasting connection to the Creator is to surround his or herself with loving, caring and supportive people. He is working with individuals and communities all over the world to teach this very premise through Kabbalistic principles. As the Kabbalists before him, Shaul believes that by teaching small groups of people who come together to learn spirituality and support each other, we can truly transform the world.

Va’Et’hanan

The Zohar contends with the issue of “Tahnunim” (pleas for mercy), and responds by bringing up the story of King Hezekiah who was on a very high spiritual level, but chose not to marry despite being told to; the reason for this was that he envisioned through the Holy Spirit that he would produce an evil son. As a result, Hezekiah became ill, and the prophet Isaiah told him that it was decreed that he would die because he did not carry out the precept of matrimony. It is written, following the prophet’s leaving the palace: “Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the Lord” (Isaiah 38:2).

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The Zohar explains the power of the Torah, the “Tree of Life” for those who follow. The Torah teaches a person to walk the path of truth, i.e., to connect with who he truly is, so that, even if death has been decreed upon him it will be null and void. One should therefore immerse oneself in Torah (rather than only learn) day and night, and implement its laws.

Hezekiah had to humbly accept the ruling and understand that although he is imbued with the Holy Spirit, he nonetheless does not see the big picture. When he realizes this he surrenders his stance of being right and knowing, and begins to pray with the intent of connection and wholeness rather than remain stubborn over an egocentric request from the Creator. We learn here what it means to “beseech”—to connect with the Light of the Creator and return to ourselves.

When prayer comes from a place of anger, fear, frustration, a sense of victimization and selfishness, the likelihood of getting what we want is very slim. We need to connect to a place of receiving with the intent of making a difference, to a place of love and joy, of conviction in the Light and in “loving thy neighbor as thyself”. Therefore, “Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the Lord”—when he relinquishes what he thinks is just and instead connects to the Light unconditionally and with no ulterior motives, a miracle happens that changes the order of Creation. He receives another fifteen years of life and saves Jerusalem from defeat at the hands of the Assyrian army.

The purpose of the supplication prayer is to change us, change the one who is praying, and not the Creator. It is to enable us to grow and change the patterns by which we have been living and acting on. This, first and foremost, is the focus in parashat Va’Ethanan – the personal change that, if we haven’t managed to effect, will keep us stuck in the very situation from which we want to extricate ourselves. Over and over, until we return to ourselves.

Parashat Va’Et’hanan brings up two important points – “Shema Yisrael” and “The Ten Utterances” (known by mistake as the Ten Commandments).

The Zohar explains that the core of the “Shema Yisrael” prayer is the uniqueness in the name of G-d above and below. As each of the parts of our body has its function and connects to the activity of life, so it is with the world. Each one of us is a cell in the whole, in all of humankind. The purpose of the “Shema Yisrael” prayer is to connect our world with the abundance of the Upper Worlds, so that there is a constant flow of abundance from above. If we do not have the proper intent while praying the “Shema Yisrael”, the abundance does not reach us. As in the body the formation of a blockage prevents the flow of blood from reaching vital organs and impairs their functioning, in the world an obstruction manifests by way of destruction and disasters.

The “Ten Utterances” were revealed to the Israelites at a time of unity and harmony, as is written in Exodus “and the Israelites camped there by the mount”; the form of the verb “camped” in the Hebrew scripture is in the singular, as one body, one unit. In like manner, it is interpreted that the word inscribed in the passage “were inscribed on the tablets” should be read “liberated”: The word “harut” ( that could be understood by mistake as ‘inscribed’ חרוט), however, the sages point at the fact that the word is חרות “herut” – Freedom, Liberation, teaching us that we can be liberated from the angel of death through unity and oneness.

The moment that we form the connection with all the parts of our body, between ourselves and our surroundings, and with the upper Sephirot, the channels of energy, we then experience being one with all, the sense of “Shema Yisrael”. It is the power of life and freedom on the tablets. The power of prayer and true connection to ourselves and the purpose of our lives – the power of parashat Va’Et’hanan.

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About Kabbalah Communities

The Universal Kabbalah Communities (or UKC) is committed to helping create and/or support communities throughout the world that will provide a safe, loving environment for every human being who seeks to participate in the creation of a better world.

These communities are based upon the teachings of the great prophets of the Bible as well as upon the teachings of the Kabbalistic Sages that followed their vision.

OUR MISSION

THE WISDOM

Traditional Teachings – The study of this global movement is based on the traditional tools of Kabbalah: The Bible, The Book of Formation (Sefer Yetsira), The Zohar (Book of Splendor), The Ari’s writings, Rav Ashlag’s writings, and many traditional Kabbalists whose teachings are also based on these main bodies of work.

Modern Teachings – UKC is open to researching and adopting some of the many modern methods and techniques that can support spiritual growth as long as those techniques align with traditional Kabbalistic teachings

MAIN PRINCIPLES

• Every human being is a spark of The Creator, therefore, a human soul is good by nature

• Love your fellowman as you love yourself

• No coercion in spirituality

• Every human being should be empowered and supported to be a creator in his personal life and in the movement

• Rituals and beliefs are subject only to the individual’s free choice and inner faith

FORM OF WORSHIP

• Our form of worship is based on the prayers, meditations and rituals as described in the writings of The Ari (Rabbi Isaac Luria, a 16th Century Kabbalist from the city of Safed, Israel) and the subsequent teachers of Lurianic Kabbalah. However, every individual community may decide on the specific style and melodies on their own.

• These rituals are similar in scope and content to that of most Orthodox Sephardic congregations around the world.

OUR HISTORY

Kabbalah (in Hebrew) means “Wisdom that has been received”.

Adam

Abraham the Patriarch

Moses

Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai

The Ari (Rav Isaac Luria)

Rav Yehuda HaLevi Ashlag

Universal Kabbalah Communities – Live Kabbalah

The Universal Kabbalah Communities has been established by students who feel the need to preserve the original teachings and to especially focus on the original vision of Rav Ashlag to combine the focus of the study of Kabbalah with the creation of spiritual communities. These communities will be centered on building a safe, loving, supporting environment that will promote, enhance and support the journey of the individual towards attaching to The Creator, which is the only purpose of The Creation. This can be done only in a free democratic and spiritual environment. Since no human is immune to mistakes and ‘Power corrupts…’, every Kabbalah Community must keep a democratic structure with a viable system of checks and balances as it used to be in Jewish communities for millennia.

The Va’ad (Board) should be elected yearly by the paying members of the community.

The Gabbai (Treasurer) will be also elected yearly by the paying members of the community.

The Rabbi/s will be elected by the paying members of the community.

Rabbi Shaul Youdkevitch

Shaul Youdkevitch is a well known teacher of Kabbalah for people around the world since 1984. After teaching thousands of students and establishing Kabbalah based communities around the world he arrived to the need for an independent organization that will support Kabbalah students with study materials and guidance to establish communities based on Rabbi Ashlag’s teachings. The communities, according to Rav Ashlag and many Kabbalists need to be based on a democratic structure with checks and balances. Since this is an area that hasn’t been developed yet, Shaul established Universal Kabbalah Communities in early 2008 in order to support this much needed form of Kabbalah Communities.

About Kabbalah Communities

Our Vision

What is a Beehive?

Ground Rules for Beehive Groups

Kabbalah’s Influence on the Development of Modern Science

Lesson 1 – Part C

The Zohar describes (Zohar, VaYikra) that the Earth rolls as a ball, so while some are on top others are down; and while for some people the sun shines, for others it is dark; and there is a place where there is daylight all the time except, for a little time of darkness. The Zohar also says that there are seven continents and one of them is not populated.

We have to remember that those things were said in the 2nd century C. E. – a time when people thought the world was flat. Saying such things was much more than a new idea it was viewed as hallucinatory. However, this helps us to understand one aspect of how Kabbalah influenced the modern era.

The and the Discovery of America

One of the most famous icons symbolizing the end of the insular and dark era of the middle ages is the discovery of America. The leader of this historic campaign was Christopher Columbus, who went bravely and without fear of “falling into the other side” (because the world is flat) toward the west in order to find India.

Rabbi Abraham Zacuto was an instructor and mentor to Columbus. At the end of the 15th century, the great astronomers and navigators were Kabbalists, a guild whose knowledge of the stars and The Book of Formation (Sefer Yetsira) gave them great expertise in astronomy and navigation. Rabbi Abraham Zacuto was among the leading scholars of that time who made the connection between science and the knowledge of Judaism. He had a great influence on the royals of Spain and Portugal that financed the quests for discovering new lands. Being a Kabbalist, Rabbi Abraham Zacuto received his knowledge about the earth from the Zohar. It is clear that the knowledge he had, he passed on to his students and Christopher Columbus was among them. He was also the one who advised King Manuel I of Portugal to send Vasco da Gama to his historic journey around Africa and guided Vasco da Gama and prepared him for the famous journey.

The Da Vinci Code and the Zohar

Many books have been written about the history of science and the link between the popularity of Kabbalah in 17th century Europe (among non Jewish scholars) and the foundations of science the way we know it today. An evidence for that can be found in many principles mentioned in the best seller “The Da Vinci Code” whose origins are found in Kabbalah. In another best seller, “Jews, God and History”, Max I. Dimont claims that studying Kabbalah in the 17th century contributed to the scientific revolution of that century. Earlier, the Zohar was translated to Latin and was very widespread among European scholars. The Zohar’s approach toward the exemplary order of universal rules and the fact that nothing happens without a reason influenced many in the birth of research looking for consistency and a reason for every phenomenon in the world.

Anyone who considered himself to be a leading scholar in the world of science in 17th century Europe learned Kabbalah. Science in those days mixed several fields of mysticism, alchemy, etc. Secret orders of that time, such as the Freemasons, learned and developed their own interpretation of the Zohar and the basics of Kabbalah in order to maintain control of human’s destiny and bring an end to human suffering.

Kabbalah: Newton, Leibniz and others

In his book, “The religion of Isaac Newton”, Frank E. Manuel writes that Isaac Newton was convinced that Moses knew and controlled all of the secrets of science. He also believed that on Mt. Sinai we were not given a religion but, the knowledge and the secrets to control the forces of nature. Newton invested most of his time trying to solve the secrets of Kabbalah and finding the connection between the building of the Mishkan (The Tabernacle – a portable temple carried by the Israelites in their journeys), mentioned in the book of Exodus, and the rules of the universe and its structure; and he was not the only one. Leibniz, father of modern mathematics, also wrote that the perfect society of the future, called Utopia would be based on Kabbalah, mathematics, mysticism and mechanics; meaning that the people, who established modern science, learned and based their knowledge on Kabbalah.

Those philosophers were convinced that the ancient Kabbalists had a tremendous influence on important philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato and whenever humanity leapt forward, it was Kabbalah that pushed, inspired and lead to a new revolution, which supported humanity in another step toward the final goal of completeness and peace.

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Lesson 1

Part A

What is Kabbalah?

Part B

The Zohar through History

Part C

Kabbalah’s Influence on the Development of Modern Science

Lesson 2

Reality and Illusion, the True World (Olam HaEmet) vs. The False Reality of the bodily senses and mind.

The Language of Branches – The Special Language of the Kabbalists

The Desire and its Fulfillment

Part A

The Rules of Life

Part B

The Way to Happiness

Part C

Logic as a Barrier

Lesson 3

How did it all begin? The Creation of the Universe, The Source of all Souls, What is every Soul made of?

The Big Bang Theory vs. Rabbi Isaac Luria’s Tsimtsum Theory.

What is the source of Evil in this world? The real motivation of the soul vs. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Part A

Where do we come from?

Part B

Being a Creator

Lesson 4

Good and Evil, Good Inclination and Evil Inclination: Duality as the Source for the Meaning of Life. Free Will: Logic vs. Faith.

Lesson 5

Lesson 6

Being a Creator – How to understand feelings and emotions? How can we tell between good and evil? The guidance to define negative emotions and the way to transform them.

Lesson 7

Tools for spiritual change:

Our community.

Lesson 8

Basics in Kabbalistic Meditations.

The Name of 42 Letters, The “Ana VeKho’ah” – one of the major holy metitation in the Jewish mystical world.

Lesson 9

“Ets Ha’Haim” – The Tree of Life, Sefirot and Olamot (Worlds).

How is it that The Creator never changes but it looks like He does?

The Cosmology of Good & Evil

The Tetragrammaton.

Lesson 10

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Ki Tisa

This week’s Parasha (story) is famous especially since it tells us the terrible story of The Golden Calf, however, the story of The Golden Calf follows few stories that are, seemingly, unrelated to the main story, what is the purpose of these stories?

Half a Shekel Contribution

Parashat Ki-Tisa (Parashat – The story of) opens with the words: “When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay God a ransom for his life at the time he is counted’. This is how most translations translate this verse (Exodus 31:12); although, the Hebrew words “ki tisa” mean, simply, ‘when you raise’ and not ‘when you count’ or ‘when you take census’ and the commentators ask why the Torah does not choose a command expression, such as “count all of the Israelite”?

The Zohar explains that when we count things we limit. ‘To count’, liSPoR (לספור) in Hebrew, is from the word SePhaR or SaPaR (/חתך/ספר/גבול – border/frontier/cut), meaning that whenever we count we limit the Light of life. Focusing on counting our blessings takes the bliss out of it. Hence, we need to be busy with how can we add virtues and good deeds into our lives and not to dwell on those we already have. When we are focused too much on what we have achieved in the past we are in danger of limiting more growth, creativity and success.

Whenever we question how come our gains are not in direct proportion to our efforts, we actually counting our virtues redeem and waste them. Hence, and according to the Zohar, we need to focus on the efforts and on our goals and leave the accountings to The Creator since we never know how much effort is really needed in order to remove Bread of Shame in a way that will reward us real success.

The procedure of the census in the desert was done not by counting people but by counting the contributions they’ve made, half a Shekel per person – “Each one … is to give a half shekel, according to the Holy shekel, which weighs twenty Gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to God” (Exodus 30:13).

During Biblical times the Shekel was divided into twenty units, meaning half a Shekel is ten units. The number 10 is the letter Yod (י) – the symbol of perfection of the Tree of Life and it’s ten Sephirot. The word Yod (יוד) contains the letter י of the ten Sephirot and the letters ו (Vav – 6 in six) and ד (Dalet – 4) that together adds into ten – this is in order to teach us a very powerful lesson: Every time we want to connect to The Light, it has to be through a process that is involved with 20 Sephirot (10+10).

The first ‘ten’ stand for “I want” – our desire to receive, however, the laws of our universe do not allow us to be constantly in a state of “I want”, which is the frequency of ending and death – the opposite to endless and life. Focusing on our desires only, draws Light that is called ‘Direct Light’. Connecting to ‘Direct Light’ only is disastrous and it has the effect of a short circuit, burning and destruction. In order to connect to life and to The Light, the source of life in a constructive way, we need to create ten Sephirot of “returning Light” – the power of giving and sharing to our fellowman. If we want to receive the entire infinite abundance of The Creation we also have to share back, and the more we desire the abundance the more we need to give back and to create a greater ‘returning Light’ for our fellowmen.

The Half Shekel that the Israelites used to give every year is the connection to the ‘Returning Light’ that helped them to gain great strength that keeps abundance and bliss within. This Light is the vessel that holds the bliss – a vessel made of the power of giving, sharing and total devotion.

Ki Tisa, ‘When you raise’, this is the Mitsva to heal ourselves by raising above selfishness, raising ourselves 10 levels of the ‘Returning Light’.

The Golden Calf Syndrome – The Disease and Its Remedy

Parashat Ki Tisa tells the famous story of The Golden Calf. Although this event happened some 3,400 years ago, The Golden Calf is the symbol of humanity’s race for vanity and selfishness. This race leads always to destruction, pain and loss. The reason that the Parasha starts with the story of The Half Shekel is that the consciousness of The Half Shekel carries the healing for humanities disease called ‘The Golden Calf Syndrome’ – teaching us that creating a ‘Returning Light’ in our lives by giving and sharing, and also when it is not so comfortable to do so, is the way for creating the Light that will protect us from failures, defeats and death.

Connecting to The Half Shekel Today

Giving Half Shekel is a tradition that continued along the generations. The time for it is before or during Purim. The amount is the worth of 9.6 gr of pure Silver. On March, 2022 this is 24 ILS.

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The Qetoret (Ketoret)

After the ‘Half Shekel’ story, we have one of the most powerful and mystical stories in the whole Torah that is the story of The Temple’s Incense (Exodus 30:34-38). The Zohar is teaching us that reading or scanning and contemplating this story 3 times a day has tremendous powers of protection. Obviously, this is another remedy for the ailments of The Golden Calf Syndrome we all suffer from.

The Thirteen Attributes

After The Sin of The Golden Calf Moses’ reaction can be a very power lesson for us. The immediate reaction of most people to a failure of such magnitude (This is a failure for Moses as a leader) is guilt, despair, anger etc, However, Moses response is totally out of the box, his response is the most amazing example for the ultimate spiritual response to a disaster. Moses is praying to The Creator saying, what we can summarize in few words: ‘All that You have given us by now has proven itself as insufficient in order to remove evil from people’s hearts, please give us something more powerful.’

The Creator in response is giving Moses what is known as The Secret of The Thirteen attributes. The ability to draw healing and cleansing from the highest realms – The Keter, while The Torah can bring the powers of healing from Zeir Anpin only.

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The Way to Happiness

Lesson 2 – Part B

The Importance of Knowing Your Goal

In every field of endeavor that requires a high competitive level, such as sales and sports, the first thing that is taught, is goal setting and the ability to focus on the goal, as a condition for success. Without knowing the goal, we are doomed to wandering through life, aimlessly, with a feeling of despair and being lost. Therefore, in order to succeed in any action or task, first, we have to set and define the goal, the more detailed and precise it is, the greater the chance of success. In general, the majority of people, who set goals, succeed in life, but what does it mean to “succeed in life”? And how does one define the goals that will ensure “success in life”? In fact, many people who look like they have “succeeded in life”, will say “no”, when asked if they feel like they have achieved their goals. It seems that most people don’t consciously set goals for their life and it’s actually rarer still to meet people who have achieved their goals. In conclusion, it is fair to say that most of us just don’t know how to define our purpose/goals accurately and properly

What, then, is the purpose of life?

According to Kabbalah, our purpose in life revolves around our desire to fulfill ourselves in all areas of life, to be more precise –Kabbalah says that the “desire to receive” is the essence of the human being. Where does this “desire”, big or small, come from? Kabbalah explains that the “desire” comes from the soul. Rabbi Ashlag – founder of the modern Kabbalah movement and writer of the “Sulam” (ladder), an interpretation of the Zohar, – explains that the word Neshama (the soul) is defined as; evaluation of size, of the capacity of a vessel, the amount a vessel can hold. Accordingly, the “soul” is a tool that measures/holds the person’s “desire to receive”, big or small.

People with great desires do great things, for better or worse, and people with small desires do little things, for better or worse. The size of the soul determines the power of the individual. Now, if every action we make, everything we do, is with the end goal of receiving for ourselves and fulfilling our desires, then what is that thing that we are trying to receive? How do we know if what we crave is really good for us? This is really important to understand, because no matter what we desire, the ultimate goal is to feel a sense of completion and being full, satisfied on a level that surpasses the realm of immediate gratification. Long term and enduring fulfillment is the goal. This is not as easy as it sounds, as unfortunately, our desires and goals are taken from and influenced by our environment, our physical reality, and any goal that is solely derived from this place, is bound to leave us empty, dissatisfied and leave us with the general feeling that something is missing.

So what are we looking for?

Everyone agrees that when we set ourselves a target, in which we invest energy and time, we expect to feel a good feeling when it’s been achieved. This feeling can be described with words like satisfaction, security, peace, love, fulfillment, strength, power, and more. If we knew at the beginning of a chosen path that those feelings would not materialize, we would probably stop walking the path and stop trying to achieve the goal.

Most people when asked what the purpose of their life is, say that they want to find their destiny, and when asked why, they respond – to attain fulfillment. This is the ultimate feel good goal. So, therefore, the purpose of their life is to feel good and not to find their destiny. Others will say, their purpose is to help others, but also here, it’s not the helping they enjoy, it’s the good feeling they get from helping. Someone else might say he wants to see his kids grown up and settled with a good life, but even here, the real outcome of that goal, are the good feelings that a person feels knowing his kids are in a good place and the hard work of childrearing is completed successfully. Feeling pleasure, love, happiness, joy (just to mention a few) contribute to an incredible sense of fullness, and all of the above emotions cannot be defined or measured by physical means, but what’s important to note, is that all of these feelings are descriptively used when people attempt to define the purpose of life. So what is this sense of fullness?

For many it is not easy to describe, but fortunately anyone can recognize the feeling when he meets it. In fact, it can be described as a sort of spiritual fullness that manifests physically, in many ways. According to studies, people eat less when they are in a mode of creativity, growth, sharing and love as a direct result of the good feeling that fills them up. In contrast, when one feels empty he tries to fill himself with food he doesn’t need or consumes/buys products he doesn’t need. Experience has shown us that such behavior is successful only in the short term. So how do we know when we are really full, full with long term and enduring satisfaction? If we look back and examine the times when we felt this full sensation, we would notice that it was easier to love others; we were happier, felt healthier, were more tolerant of others and felt like we had to share this feeling with others. This is a sure sign that we were tapping into long term, enduring, and spiritual fulfillment.

A Secret Sense of Satisfaction/Fulfillment

So what is this sense of fullness? What is that thing that fills us when we feel fulfillment? Of course, it is not a material thing and the Kabbalists called it “Light”. This is a spiritual light. A spiritual energy and it’s existed since the creation of our world – ” And God said: ‘Let there be light.’ And there was light.” (Genesis 1:3). This is a spiritual light that was created before the physical light (since the sun, the moon and stars were created on the fourth day). Everyone, at one point or another in their life has felt and experienced this light. It’s best described in the following way.

Kabbalists say that one cannot give what he does not have, so when we are full of love and light, it is possible for us to share this with others, we transmit calmness, happiness and joy. The opposite is also true, when we are empty; it is only possible for us to spread sadness and despair. This is then the measure whereby we can know if we are spreading light or darkness. Others will be a mirror for us and give us immediate feedback as to whether they are receiving feelings of love/light from us.

This, therefore, leads to the first Law of Life, according to Kabbalah, the law that defines our purpose in life. What we want is to be filled with Light, an inner spiritual Light. We feel this Light when we are surrounded by love, filled with love and experience satisfaction in our family life and careers. We experience an inner peace, sense of security and tranquility that endures. How do we achieve this and where do we find this “Light”? Answers to these and other burning questions will be found in the next article.

For additional study please enter the Kabbalah Beginners’ Course “Level 1 – The Inner World of the Kabbalist” at Live Kabbalah University.

Lesson 1

Part A

What is Kabbalah?

Part B

The Zohar through History

Part C

Kabbalah’s Influence on the Development of Modern Science

Lesson 2

Reality and Illusion, the True World (Olam HaEmet) vs. The False Reality of the bodily senses and mind.

The Language of Branches – The Special Language of the Kabbalists

The Desire and its Fulfillment

Part A

The Rules of Life

Part B

The Way to Happiness

Part C

Logic as a Barrier

Lesson 3

How did it all begin? The Creation of the Universe, The Source of all Souls, What is every Soul made of?

The Big Bang Theory vs. Rabbi Isaac Luria’s Tsimtsum Theory.

What is the source of Evil in this world? The real motivation of the soul vs. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Part A

Where do we come from?

Part B

Being a Creator

Lesson 4

Good and Evil, Good Inclination and Evil Inclination: Duality as the Source for the Meaning of Life. Free Will: Logic vs. Faith.

Lesson 5

Lesson 6

Being a Creator – How to understand feelings and emotions? How can we tell between good and evil? The guidance to define negative emotions and the way to transform them.

Lesson 7

Tools for spiritual change:

Our community.

Lesson 8

Basics in Kabbalistic Meditations.

The Name of 42 Letters, The “Ana VeKho’ah” – one of the major holy metitation in the Jewish mystical world.

Lesson 9

“Ets Ha’Haim” – The Tree of Life, Sefirot and Olamot (Worlds).

How is it that The Creator never changes but it looks like He does?

The Cosmology of Good & Evil

The Tetragrammaton.

Lesson 10

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Kabbalah Level 1 – The Inner World of the Kabbalist

THE LIVE KABBALAH COURSE – level 3 – Spiritual Coaching

Posted on January 28, 2025

THE LIVE KABBALAH COURSE – level 3

Spiritual Coaching

Based on ‘The Path of the Just’ by The RAMHAL, the Zohar, Rabbi Isaac Lurie & other great Kabbalistic works

Teacher: Rabbi Shaul Youdkevitch

Course opening date:

Sunday, 11 Shevat 5785, Feb. 9, 2025

Time:

Sundays, 6:45pm Jerusalem time, 11:45am EST, 9:45am MT/Mexico City, 8:45 PST

The video recordings will be available for members only, together with the course materials.

Place: on ZOOM

30 sessions

Cost: Donation of your choice (min. 28$ monthly donation)

Members of The Live Kabbalah Membership Plan are automatically enrolled to the course without the need to register and pay additionally.

The course will be broadcast live on Zoom.

The links will be sent regularly to all those registered for the course.

The recordings will be sent to registrants by email and WhatsApp, the recordings will be uploaded to the course website.

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The Prayer/ Meditation: Ana BeKho’aḥ – The Name of 42 Letters

The prayer ‘Ana BeKho’aḥ‘ is based on what is known among Kabbalists as ‘The Name of 42 Letters’, this powerful combination of letters in famous for its holiness, and is known to give the ability to overcome obstacles and judgments, the illusion of matter and the limitations of logic.

Sources and Meaning

Ana BeKo’ah Amulet / Persia, 18th Century / Israel Museum

The prayer known as ‘Ana BeKho’aḥ’ is attributed to the rabbinic sage Rabbi Nehunia Ben Hakana, known also as the author of Sefer Hakana, one of the earliest Books on Kabbalah (1st century CE). Like many prayers in the Siddur, this prayer is named after its first two words. This important prayer has seven verses and is sealed by the eighth line Barukh shem kevod malkhuto le’olam va’ed (Blessed is His glorious name His kingdom is forever) that is also used after the first line of the Shema Yisrael prayer.

This Hebrew prayer appears in every Siddur (Prayer Book) in many places:

In the beginning of Shaḥarit, the morning prayer- in the section that recites the Morning Temple Offerings (Korbanot)

In Kabbalat Shabbat (welcoming the Sabbath) before the song Lekha Dodi.

In the Bedtime Shema

It is recited during the funeral service.

The Name of 42 Letters

Each of the 7 verses of the “Ana BeKho’aḥ” prayer has 6 words. That 42 letter sequence is made up from the first letter of each word (acrostic) of the prayer and comprises what is known in Kabbalah as ‘The Name of 42 Letters’, one of the most important names of the Creator.

Rabbi Neḥunia Ben Hakana, like other rabbinic sages in his era, 1st – 3rdCentury CE, feared the potential loss of knowledge and secrets of the Torah (seeing the exile and The Dark Ages coming) and sought to preseve it for future generations. This was the reason that Our Sages wrote down the Mishna, the Zohar and, afterwards, the Talmud. The prayer “Ana BeKho’aḥ” was a way of encoding and hiding The Name of 42 Letters in the Siddur, (prayer book). Until this day few know the secret of this prayer.

The Acrostic – the sequence of the first letter of each word of each of the 7 verses appears in many prayer books alongside its corresponding line.

According to the Zohar one reads the words in pairs while also concentrating on the first letters (initials) in pairs. This is because every combination of 6 initials (first letters of each word of a line) corresponds to the 6 wings of the Seraphim (Angels, Isaiah 6:20), and the wings of the Seraphim are placed in pairs. The purpose of this prayer, in principle, is to elevate our mundane world and our mundane, limited consciousness (Malkhut, Asiya) to higher levels.

Origin of ‘The Name of 42 Letters’

The Name of 42 Letters existed from the dawn of creation and is encrypted in the first 42 letters of the story of creation in Genesis, from the Bet (the first letter in the Torah) of Beresheet until the letter bet of Vavohu. A complex mathematical formula transforms the first 42 letters of Genesis into the holy Name of 42.

Home Protection – Ana BeKho’aḥ Wall Tapestry

The Powers of ‘The Name of 42 Letters’

The power of the ‘Name of 42’ endows the user with the ability to transcend from the illusions and limitations of physicality with its’ emptiness, and the restrictions that are associated with our reality. These limitations force us to have to make an effort to elevate above them in order to connect to true spirituality. Usage of this name is essential to the process of spiritual elevation.

Because of the Kavana (meditation, meaning and intention) of this holy name, the times to recite it are:

Shaḥarit – The Morning Prayer, after reciting the Korbanot (temple offerings) in order to allow elevation to the upper realms or worlds in the beginning of this important morning connection.

Friday night, before Lekha Dodi. At this time the worlds ascend and we need this prayer to help us ascend to Shabbat

Sephirat Ha’Omer – The Counting of The Omer.

Bed Time Shema – before going to bed, in order to support the soul who needs to ascend to the place of quarry or well of souls (according to the Tikunei HaZohar)

Before a person departs this world, when a person feels that his time to depart has come, after the Vidui (confession & confirmation).

During the funeral service, in order to help the deceased to elevate to the upper worlds.

Any time there’s a need to elevate above the confusion and stress of daily struggle.

The most common way Kabbalists meditate on the ‘Name of 42’ is by contemplating on the 6 initials formed from the first letter of each word of each of the seven verses.

Sephirot

Each sequence of the 7 acrostics of the seven verses of the Ana BeKho’aḥ has the ability to connect us to one Sephira or a spiritual dimension above the illusionary and physical world. Using each permutation is like a secret password that enables us to access the treasure chamber in the upper worlds filled with light, power, energy and wisdom.

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah each one of the seven sequences controls a range of aspects of our reality. The seven Sephirot are expressed in the material world in many forms, for example, the spiritual dimensions that control each of the seven planets or one of the seven days of the week.

It is written in the Gate of Meditations (Sha’ar HaKavanot), of the Writings of the ARI, the holy ARI of Tsfat (Safed), that without the prayer Ana BeKho’aḥ, one would not be able to elevate from the physical world and ascend to higher levels of meditation or prayer. Therefore it is worthwhile to recite the ‘Ana BeKho’aḥ’ every morning before we start our daily actions. Because of its great importance, ‘The Name of 42’, the Ana BeKho’aḥ, is encoded in every important prayer in the Hebrew Prayer Book, and through this we are allowed to elevate to much higher spiritual levels and to control the channels of abundance that are so important for the success of our lives. ‘Success’ is achieved when we experience a flow of abundance and good fortune, meaning a manifestation of ongoing flow of spiritual energy from the higher worlds to all aspects of our lives, both material and physical.

The power of exercising this prayer/meditation, the Ana BeKho’aḥ, every morning, according to the teachings of the holy Ari, is to elevate us up and above the illusory physical world, above our limited perceptions (thinking within the box) and above our limited and used up belief systems. The result will be newly acquired abilities to break through and to reach higher levels of consciousness that will result in more elevated ways of experiencing our reality and a higher awareness – different and more fulfilling.

It is possible to use this prayer during the day without limit, not only in the beginning of the day. It can be used before any important task, when a challenging problem appears or at any time there’s a need to connect to higher, more elevated levels (worlds). Connecting to the higher worlds where an abundance of wisdom and life force is flowing is what allows us to change and grow in quantum leaps. The Ana BeKho’aḥ prayer helps us to open up (and receive) the bliss that is needed in order to achieve true positive change.

Throughout the generations, the Ana BeKho’aḥ prayer was very important to the Kabbalists who knew how to use the enormous power of the holy and powerful letters’ combinations in order to improve their destiny, to elevate beyond the restrictions of logic and to fulfill the soul. Therefore it is possible to find the Ana BeKho’aḥ and its letter combinations, the ‘Name of 42’, on the walls of many old synagogues.

Atara – Tallit Collar Embroidery – Ana BeKo’aḥ

Kavana (meaning, meditation & intention) of the seven letter combination of the Ana BeKho’aḥ Prayer:

The first verse, Ḥesed:

אנא בכח. גדולת ימינך. תתיר צרורה: אבג יתץ

This verse connects us to the Sephira of Ḥesed (Loving-Kindness), the first of the seven Sephirot (of Ze’ir Anpin). The Sephira of Ḥesed represents the power of unconditional love, compassion and sharing. The numerical value of the acrostics of the words of this first verse אבג יתץ (506) equals אהבת חנם – unconditional love. According to the Kabbalists, this verse has the power of all the other verses combined, and it connects us directly to the frequency of Ets Ḥaim עץ חיים The Tree of Life, a parallel universe where all are one, before the Fall of Adam, before the breaking of the world of unity. This is a reality of truth without the limitations of physicality, and without obstructions created by negative energy. By contemplating and meditating on this sequence of אבג יתץ we are connected to a reality of completion, true unity, and truth. Connection to this frequency focuses us on our true spiritual work. This sequence gives us the power to overcome the illusion of the limitations of space and time.

According to the Zohar this combination controls the cosmic window, among other things, to the planet Saturn and the zodiac signs of Capricorn and Aquarius (both controlled by Saturn).

The Second Verse, Gevura:

קבל רנת. עמך שגבנו. טהרנו נורא: קרע שטן

This verse connects to the Sephira of Gevura. The acrostics of the words of this verse are: קרע שטן. The power of this verse according to the ARI is to return to the state of perfection of the spiritual worlds that were torn and descended into the lower worlds. The power to tear up and cancel the illusion of Satan (negative) Consciousness in ourselves and to cancel or sweeten the judgments; the desire to receive for oneself alone, and all the judgments experienced by way of our anger, hatred or other negative, selfish emotions. We use this combination during the sounding of the Shofar on Rosh Hashana to cancel all the judgments according to the holy ARI. The numeric value of the letters קרע שטן equals that of the word תשכח Tishkaḥ (728), to forget. We use this combination with the intention that we want to forget the limitations that the Satan Consciousness binds us to, limiting us by having the false belief that we are not able to overcome the limitations we are facing.

According to the Zohar this controls the cosmic window, among other things, to control the planet Jupiter and the zodiac signs of Sagittarius and Pisces.

The Third Verse, Tiferet:

נא גיבור. דורשי יחודך. כבבת שמרם : נגד יכש

This verse connects to the Sephira of Tiferet.

The acrostics of the words of this verse are: נגד יכש

There are two permutations in this sequence:

1. נגד has the numeric value of the word Zan (57). The number 57 represents spiritual abundance, and worldly livelihood. This combination signifies that the abundance will only flow into our lives when we resist our innate nature to take for ourselves alone. Only when we resist the sefishness and transform it to caring and sharing will we open and connect to the flow of abundance in all our actions.

2. יכשappears in the verse מי שמך לאיש (Who made you our judge?). Moses used this combination in the Torah (Exodus 2:14) to kill the Egyptian, and its power is to take out of any living being the good sparks and light contained within their Klippot ( negative forces), in order that there not remain any life force for the evil within. In this situation the evil will wither and die and then the energy of life can be restored. This combination is able to help us renew and return ourselves to a pure, embryonic, state.

According to the Zohar this permutation controls the cosmic window, among other things to the planet Mars which controls the zodiac signs of Aries and Scorpio.

The fourth verse, Netsaḥ:

ברכם טהרם. רחמי צדקתך. תמיד גמלם. בטר צתג

This verse connects to the Sephira of Netsaḥ.

The acrostics of the words of this verse are: בטר צתג.

From this verse we receive the spiritual ability to draw vision, confidence and certainty that are the prerequisite for true victory. This power enables us to rise up after we have stumbled, to finish what we started, to work vigorously, to overcome obstacles and remove all doubt in order to complete the most difficult tasks.

According to the Zohar, this permutation controls the cosmic window to the Sun, among other things, which controls the zodiac sign of Leo.

The fifth verse:

חסין קדוש. ברב טובך. נהל עדתך. חקב טנע

This verse connects to Sephira Hod.

The acrostics of the words of this verse are: חקב טנע.

This verse helps us in asking to see the secrets of the universe and the truth above logic and the five senses.

According to the Zohar this permutation controls the cosmic window to the planet Venus, among other things, which controls the zodiac signs of Taurus and Virgo.

The sixth verse:

יחיד גאה. לעמך פנה. זוכרי קדושתך. יגל פזק

This verse connects to the Sephira of Yesod.

The acrostics of the words of this verse are: יגל פזק.

The numerical value of these six letters is 230 ירך (– thigh, hip). This is the name for victory in every battle of life (The Book of Root of Names, Rabbi Moshe Zakut).

“This name reveals the Bliss that is coming through the Yesod, therefore, this name should be used in order to reveal the wisdom in the 6th millennium”. (Adir BaMarom, Rabbi Moshe Haim Luzzatto)

According to the Zohar this permutation controls the cosmic window to the planet Mercury, among other things, which controls the zodiac signs of Gemini and Virgo.

The seventh verse:

שוועתנו קבל. ושמע צעקתנו. יודע תעלומות. שקו צית

This verse connects to the Sephira Malkhut.

The acrostics of the words of this verse are: שקו צית.

This permutation connects to the treasure of endless fulfillment which is waiting for us in the final days. Connecting to this name gives us unlimited power in times when we are weak and empty.

According to the Zohar this permutation controls the cosmic window to the Moon, among other things, which contols the sign of Cancer.

After completing all seven verses,

ברוך שם כבוד מלכותו לעולם ועד

‘Barukh Shem Kevod Malkhuto LeOlam Va’ed’

is said in order to embody (seal) the prayer since this is one of the holy names of the Creator (just like the priests and the people were saying in The Temple in Yom Kippur after each time The Holy Name was heard). This last line is pronounced silently except on Yom Kippur.

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How to use the Ana BeKho’aḥ:

The Zohar explains that the Ana BeKho’aḥ helps us to elevate to the spiritual world and, as we recite the words, angels come to take us to higher dimensions. The words of the Ana BeKho’aḥ can be seen as what activates the wings of the angels. There are 7 angels each with 6 wings. Each pair of letters corresponds to a pair of wings that elevates us. Therefore we say the words in each verse in pairs.

There are a few levels of using this powerful prayer:

The simplest level is to read the words of the prayer. After completing each verse, contemplate, for a while (without pronouncing), on the 6 letter acrostics of that verse. Focus on your desire to elevate your consciousness beyond the limits of reason, logic and emotion. As is known, the use of logic and emotion that brought us to a certain level can only strengthen its hold on us in this reality. Our desire, every day, is to rise over the logic and emotions of yesterday and reinvent ourselves. This goal can be achieved, according to the Kabbalists, when we invest time and energy in our spiritual work. This, first of all, begins with thoughts of unconditional love; that is the necessary condition to connect to the endless light, boundless wealth, wisdom and unity that emanates from the Creator. When we do our job as humans, we can return the universe to the state that the Creator created it – perfection and harmony. Therefore it is worthwhile to begin the day with the prayer Ana BeKho’aḥ, and to use it whenever we encounter a frightening situation of confusion, chaos or woe. Even without meditation, when time does not permit, just concentrating on the letters is beneficial.

A higher level is to say the the prayer slowly, stopping after each verse of the Ana BeKho’aḥ and with intention (saying it with all your heart and soul), at the same time looking at the letter combinations according to what was written above. We concentrate on the letter combination and imagine the white light of the creator flowing through the letters filling our life with light, perfection and balance. There is no limit to the time of the prayer and each of the permutations. Everything is according to need.

At a more complex level, we add to the previous Kavanot the permutations of two letters per each month according to Sefer Yetsira (The Book of Formation) written by Abraham the Patriarch. In order to do that, use the chart below, find the month (according to the Hebrew calendar, and concentrate on the two letters of the month after completing the contemplation over the verse that rules the planet of that month. Imagine and visualize the flow of abundance coming through the two letters of that month and visualize how this flow solves your challenges and elevate you above the obstacles gracefully. Then you can use your imagination to clean (purify) and to illuminate the areas in your life that you need to transform or fix, elevating your thoughts, instincts and aspirations.

The days of the week are ruled, each by the corresponding verse, 1-7, Sunday – Shabbat

Month

SignLetterPlanetLetterLettersLine

Tevet

Capricorn

עSaturnבעב

אבג יתץ

Shevat

AquariusצSaturnבצבאבג יתץ

Kislev

SagittarusסJupiterגסגקרע שטן

Adar

PiscesקJupiterגקגקרע שטן

Nisan

AriesהMarsדדהנגד יכש

Ḥeshvan

ScorpioנMarsדדננגד יכשAvLeoטSunככט

בטר צתג

IyarTaurusוVenusפפו

חקב טנע

TishreiLibraלVenusפפל

חקב טנע

SivanGeminiזMercuryררז

יגל פזק

ElulVirgoיMercuryררי

יגל פזק

TammuzCancerחMoonתחת

שקו צית

The Prayer Ana BeKho’aḥ and the Jewish Prayer Book – The Siddur

For generations the prayer of Ana BeKho’aḥ was inside the regular order of the prayers all over the Jewish world. It is found in the Morning Prayer in the Korbanot (morning offerings), in the Bedtime Shema, in Kabbalat Shabbat (Friday night welcoming of The Shabbat Service) before Lekha Dodi.

Shema Yisrael and Ana BeKho’aḥ

Because of the enormous importance of the ‘Name of 42’ as a powerful tool to transcend above the limits of the physical world of illusion and logic, it can be found encoded in every important Jewish prayer. For example, the first paragraph of the Shema Yisrael (Deuteronomy 6:5-9) contains 42 words and each word corresponds to one of the 42 letters of the ‘Name of 42’. There are excellent prayer books where this name of 42 can be found in the words of the verses in the Shema prayer.

The Amidah (The Silent Prayer or Shemoneh Esreh)

Another example is the prayer the Shemoneh Esreh also known as the Amidah, which is the second most important prayer after the Shema. The first blessing contains 42 words according to the Sefer Ha Zohar and according to the wisdom of Kabbalah; each word corresponds to one of the letters of the ‘Name of 42’ in order. In some prayer books this is not the case because of errors and omissions in printing during hundreds of years and previously, during centuries that the books used to be copied by hand.

The Kadish and Ana BeKho’aḥ

Another important prayer in the prayer book is the Kadish, one of its central sentences is the important verse comprised of the words: VeYisthabaḥ, VeYitpa’ar, VeYitromam, VeYitnaseh, VeYithadar, VeYit’aleh, VeYit’halal. These 7 words have each six letters (in Hebrew) – 42 letters. Each one of the 7 words begins with the letter Vav that has the value of 6 (each Hebrew letter is being used also as a number), 7X6=42.

For further study on this prayer, meditations and kavanot please enter the University of Live Kabbalah.

The Ana BeKho’aḥ and the ‘Name of 42’ in art, charms and jewelry

Because of the profound importance of the Ana BeKho’aḥ as a prayer tool especially in times of trouble, the ‘Name of 42’ has been central to designs in many historical Jewish artworks. This theme is woven into the dominant theme of hanging pictures on the walls of Synagogues in Jewish communities throughout the entire world. Almost all synagogues possess art like this on their walls, in North Africa and Europe, especially on the wall facing Jerusalem.

This theme repeats itself in the art of jewelry created in various Jewish communities, east and west, and is also standard in many charms created with these combinations. A display of these works can be found in the Perfect World Museum.

The Ana BeKho’aḥ in the original Hebrew with transliteration

Planet Signs

חסד Hesed

אָנָּא בְכֹחַ. גְּדֻלַּת יְמִינֶךָ. תַּתִּיר צְרוּרָה: אבג יתץ

Saturn ב Capricorn ע Aquarius צ Ana BeKho’aḥ. Gedulat Yeminekha. Tatir Tserura

גבורה Gevura

קַבֵּל רִנַּת. עַמֶּךָ שַֹגְּבֵנוּ. טַהֲרֵנוּ נוֹרָא: קרע שטן

Jupiter ג Sagittarius ס Pisces ק Kabel Rinat. Amekha Sageveinu. Tahareinu Nora

Tiferetתפארת

נָא גִבּור. דּוֹרְשֵׁי יִחוּדֶךָ. כְּבָבַת שָׁמְרֵם: נגד יכש

Mars ד Aries ה Scorpio נ Na Gibor. Doreshei Yihudekha. Kevavat Shomrem

נצח Netsah

בָּרְכֵם טַהֲרֵם. רַחֲמֵי צִדְקָתֶךָ. תָּמִיד גָּמְלֵם: בטר צתג

Sun כ Leo ט Barekhem Taharem. Rahamei Tsidkatekha. Tamid Gomlem

הוד Hod

חֲסִין קָדוֹשׁ. בְּרֹב טוּבְךָ. נַהֵל עֲדָתֶךָ: חקב טנע

Venus פ Taurus ו Libra ל Hasin Kadosh. Berov Tuvekha. Nahel Adatekha

יסוד Yesod

יָחִיד גֵּאֶה. לְעַמְּךָ פְנֵה. זוֹכְרֵי קְדֻשָּׁתֶךָ: יגל פזק

Mercury ר Gemini ז Virgo י Yahid Ge’eh, Le’amekha Fene. Zokherei Kedushatekha

מלכות Malkhut

שַׁוְעָתֵנוּ קַבֵּל. וּשְׁמַע צַעֲקָתֵנוּ. יוֹדֵעַ תַּעֲלֻמוֹת: שקו צית

Moon ת Cancer ח Shav’ateinu Kabel. Ushema Tsa’akateinu. Yode’a Ta’alumot

(Silently) בָּרוּךְ שֵׁם כְּבוד מַלְכוּתו לְעולָם וָעֶד:

Barukh Shem Kevod Malkhuto Le’olam Va’ed

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