If you can’t get yourself to one of the many Kabbalah Centers around the world, you don’t need to fret. There are many alternative ways of drinking from the inspiring fountain of wisdom of the Kabbalah, and of course one of those ways is by reading a book, or books.
One fascinating book you might want to try is Michael Berg’s latest, called, “Secrets of the Zohar: Stories and Meditations to Awaken the Heart.”
This book is specially designed to help students of the Zohar to access its deep mysteries in a simple and straightforward fashion that goes straight to the heart.
The most famous stories of the Jewish sages are dealt with here and deciphered to reveal the inner meaning behind the charm and interest of the original story. Each story offers a special meditation, and parts of the Zohar itself are presented, in the original Aramaic text as well as the English translation right by its side. Now there is no reason not to scan and read aloud to drink from the full waters of the Zohar’s mysterious waters to quench your thirst and become spiritually transformed.
Listen to a fascinating video from the Kabbalah Centre in which Michael Berg explains the power of the month of the astrological sign of Gemini. Michael Berg is a co-director of the Kabbalah Center along with Rav Philip Berg and Karen Berg. Together they teach the wisdom of the ancient tradition of the Kabbalah, making it within reach of all who strive to understand its great secrets.
Kabbalah is an ancient philosophy that is much more than theory. The point of Kabbalah is to bring clarity, freedom and wisdom to its adherents and to motivate them to action. The Kabbalah Center sees its function as bringing this great philosophy into the lives of countless ordinary people so that they can transform themselves, their relationships, and finally the world.
At the Kabbalah Centre we believe that the purpose of our lives is to receive complete and ultimate fulfillment. When we achieve our potential the starting point of our being is giving and sharing which leads us to improved personal relationships and ultimately improved community and global relationships. Through this transformation the world becomes perfected.
Ultimately the goal of life is to perfect the world and the Kabbalah Centre sees itself as the vehicle which will bring this transformation to the world.
The wisdom of the Kabbalah is thousands of years old. The greatest sages of the Kabbalah taught that each and every person is born with the amazing potential to be great. The Kabbalah is the way to reach that potential.
The Kabbalah Centre is the place where the ancient wisdom meets the modern world. It is the mandate of the Kabbalah Center to bring to as many people as possible the keys to unlock the doors to the secret places of their souls.
People have been wondering what the Kabbalah is for thousands of years. What is its attraction? What is its potential? How can I learn it and discover its secrets? The Kabbalah Centre is the place where these questions are asked, and answered every day. First it is important to dispel any myths that might have developed about Kabbalah. As the world’s oldest spiritual wisdom, Kabbalah is not an easy way to make someone fall in love with you or to transform straw into gold.
Kabbalah is a discipline which takes dedication to understand an incorporate into one’s life. Kabbalah holds the key to the secrets held within the universe and the deepest hidden places of the human heart. The great teachings of the Kabbalah explain the workings of the physical as well as metaphysical nature of all of us.
As I mentioned in my last blog, Isaac Asimov wrote a cool short story many years ago, long before I knew about the Kabbalah Centre and the 72 names, which I found intriguing at the time, and find astounding now. So the story goes like this: some computer scientists have programmed some incredibly powerful computers, (probably like last year’s slower laptops, but what the heck), to run through every possible combination of Hebrew letters which can be combined to compose the (almost) infinite number of the names of God. I don’t remember how long the program actually ran for in the story, but it was long, maybe even years. But when the scientists knew that the calculations were about to complete, they all gathered together to see if the predictions of what would happen would really come true. Gotta go.
Sorry to keep interrupting my story, but here is the last installment (I hope!) So if you remember from what I said in my last two blogs, these scientists have all come together to see what will happen when their super computer has finished creating all the possible names of God. (In the story the number is a lot more than 72, but I think the basic idea is really the same.) As they are sitting together, discussing what the ancient traditions (perhaps they mean Kabbalah!?) have predicted what will happen if anyone could ever know all the names of God, they see the stars above their heads in the heavens beginning to blink out, one at a time. It is the end of the universe, at least as we (and they of the story) know it. A great story which I think relates perfectly to what the Kabbalah Centre hopes the dissemination of its teachings will accomplish. To be continued.
A long time ago, when I was in High School, I believe, I read an amazing story by Isaac Asimov which blew my mind. How could I know then that so many years later I would find out that Asimov must have known about the idea of the incredible power of the 72 names? Maybe he learned about it at the Kabbalah Centre? It just occurred to me that the story also uses the power of the computer to change the world. More about this later.
Maimonides stated, in his monumental Mishneh Torah that, “The foundation of all foundations, and the pillar of all wisdom is to know that there is God… All the beings of the heavens, and the earth… came into existence only from the truth of God’s being.” This is a fundamental belief of Judaism, and in fact is the basis of all Kabbalist thought about God as the source and fundamental basis of all of creation and existence. Indeed, the Kabbalah is a universal philosophy and system of beliefs, as taught by the Kabbalah Centre and Rav Berg.
March 2, 2009 at 2:19 pm
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Michael Berg of the Kabbalah Center sends out online course material via email. He wrote, “We live in a world of cause and effect, with time creating space between action and reaction. That’s why the Light rarely comes in the moment we do something, positive or negative.”
Interesting. What he is saying is that there is a time delay between when you do something to when you get the full results of that action. This means that one must be patient so that he waits until the full ramifications – positive or negative – take place. Learn Kabbalah to further understand this.
If you can’t get yourself to one of the many Kabbalah Centers around the world, you don’t need to fret. There are many alternative ways of drinking from the inspiring fountain of wisdom of the Kabbalah, and of course one of those ways is by reading a book, or books.
Kabbalah is an ancient philosophy that is much more than theory. The point of Kabbalah is to bring clarity, freedom and wisdom to its adherents and to motivate them to action. The Kabbalah Center sees its function as bringing this great philosophy into the lives of countless ordinary people so that they can transform themselves, their relationships, and finally the world.
The wisdom of the Kabbalah is thousands of years old. The greatest sages of the Kabbalah taught that each and every person is born with the amazing potential to be great. The Kabbalah is the way to reach that potential.
l? How can I learn it and discover its secrets? The Kabbalah Centre is the place where these questions are asked, and answered every day. First it is important to dispel any myths that might have developed about Kabbalah. As the world’s oldest spiritual wisdom, Kabbalah is not an easy way to make someone fall in love with you or to transform straw into gold.