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Making the Mishkan - Vaykhel-Pequdei | Kabbalunch

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One student's journey along the 32 paths of the Tree of Life. KABBALUNCH ONE STUDENT'S JOURNEY ALONG THE 32 PATHS OF THE TREE OF LIFE. Making the Mishkan - Vaykhel-Pequdei. Making the Mishkan - Vaykhel-Pequdei. Vaykhel-Pequdei reads like a poorly written feature piece in. From start to finish we find incessant descriptions of curtains, carpentry, and craftsmanship. All of this in service of the description of the. Which begs the question - what the hell is the. Is the diminutive of the Latin word. I prop...

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Black Lives, Blue Lives - R' Ashlag on Pursuing Peace | Kabbalunch

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One student's journey along the 32 paths of the Tree of Life. KABBALUNCH ONE STUDENT'S JOURNEY ALONG THE 32 PATHS OF THE TREE OF LIFE. Black Lives, Blue Lives - R' Ashlag on Pursuing Peace. Black Lives, Blue Lives - R' Ashlag on Pursuing Peace. Police presence in Ferguson, MO (Aug 17). Turning to the texts of Kabbala, and particularly Ba'al haSulam (R' Yehuda Ashlag), we find a different binary in assessing social strife - rather than evaluate events in regards to people v. police, Rav Ashlag suggest...

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Dangerous Dining - Eating Animals in Kabbala (Part II) | Kabbalunch

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One student's journey along the 32 paths of the Tree of Life. KABBALUNCH ONE STUDENT'S JOURNEY ALONG THE 32 PATHS OF THE TREE OF LIFE. R meir ibn gabbai. Dangerous Dining - Eating Animals in Kabbala (Part II). Dangerous Dining - Eating Animals in Kabbala (Part II). R meir ibn gabbai. This post is a follow-up to last week's look at pre-Lurianic Kabbalistic attitudes toward meat-eating. As we saw last week, the kabbalistic idea of gilgulei neshamot. We eat meat and who. Is now expanded to a much more compr...

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"For Love is as Strong as Death": The Case for Tu bAv | Kabbalunch

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One student's journey along the 32 paths of the Tree of Life. KABBALUNCH ONE STUDENT'S JOURNEY ALONG THE 32 PATHS OF THE TREE OF LIFE. For Love is as Strong as Death": The Case for Tu bAv. For Love is as Strong as Death": The Case for Tu bAv. In all of the Tanakh, there is only one place where we get a sense that death has any parallel in the raw power it has to affect our lives:. This is the only place where we see that death has a rival for the title of 'most-powerful.' It is love. Temples, the fall of...

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"But Not in Number": One and Many in Hebrew Grammar | Kabbalunch

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One student's journey along the 32 paths of the Tree of Life. KABBALUNCH ONE STUDENT'S JOURNEY ALONG THE 32 PATHS OF THE TREE OF LIFE. But Not in Number": One and Many in Hebrew Grammar. But Not in Number": One and Many in Hebrew Grammar. This post was originally published over at State of Formation. A wordle of the text of the Tanakh. The language of holiness) but also about the way we understand God. There are four commonly cited examples of this grammatical phenomena:. Face' is just a face, right?

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The Stone Statue: Rambam's Letter to Yemen and Modern Judaism | Kabbalunch

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One student's journey along the 32 paths of the Tree of Life. KABBALUNCH ONE STUDENT'S JOURNEY ALONG THE 32 PATHS OF THE TREE OF LIFE. The Stone Statue: Rambam's Letter to Yemen and Modern Judaism. The Stone Statue: Rambam's Letter to Yemen and Modern Judaism. A portrait often thought to be of Rambam. Perhaps the most exemplary document we have, encouraging Jews in their faith and inspiring them to unity, is R' Moshe ben Maimun (Rambam)'s letter responding to the community of Yemen. Had, only a generatio...

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It's the Thought that Counts: The Gift of Tora | Kabbalunch

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One student's journey along the 32 paths of the Tree of Life. KABBALUNCH ONE STUDENT'S JOURNEY ALONG THE 32 PATHS OF THE TREE OF LIFE. It's the Thought that Counts: The Gift of Tora. It's the Thought that Counts: The Gift of Tora. One artist's depiction of matan Tora. A story is told, that. One day a learned scholar was walking past the field where the shepherd had his flock and overheard him saying this prayer. He stopped and said: “You fool - don’t pray like that! Is rather a tricky word to pin down&#4...

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The End of Adjectives - R' Uziel on Jewish Unity | Kabbalunch

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One student's journey along the 32 paths of the Tree of Life. KABBALUNCH ONE STUDENT'S JOURNEY ALONG THE 32 PATHS OF THE TREE OF LIFE. The End of Adjectives - R' Uziel on Jewish Unity. The End of Adjectives - R' Uziel on Jewish Unity. Rav Uziel, z"l. I own three different siddurim. Prayer books) and anxiously alternate between all three; one is ashkenazi,. Reflecting the customs of Jews from Europe, one is edot hamizrach. According to the customs of Jews from Muslim lands, and the third is nusach haAri.

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A Room Containing All the World: Desire and the Divine | Kabbalunch

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One student's journey along the 32 paths of the Tree of Life. KABBALUNCH ONE STUDENT'S JOURNEY ALONG THE 32 PATHS OF THE TREE OF LIFE. A Room Containing All the World: Desire and the Divine. A Room Containing All the World: Desire and the Divine. From the beginning of the sefirotic system with the publishing of the Bahir. And the flourishing of Azriel's school in Gerona, there has been a persistent and unresolved debate over how to consider the first sefira. Darkness, absence ( ayin. Two of the founders ...