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Kabbalah Online Magazine
Week of Acharei-Kedoshim 5778
Vol. 14 No. 31, 7 - 13 Iyar, 5778 / April 22 - 28, 2018
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A note from the staff of Kabbalah Online in Tzefat
Is it a system of contemplative meditations? Is it an ancient storehouse of magical manipulations of nature? Read all about it in our lead article this week The 2nd article presents insights for the 3rd chapter of Pirkei Avot (the Mishnaic tractate of 'Ethical Principles'), of which we study one chapter each Shabbat until Shavuot (and many repeat the cycle through the last Shabbat before Rosh Hashana). Articles 3-5 are for the double Weekly Reading: one for each and one for the combination, while #7 is a wild chasidic story also relevant relevant to a main theme of both Readings. The little known biblical holiday of Pesach Sheini is the subject of our sixth article, which this year takes place on Sunday of next week. Did you save some matza! (Those of you in Israel should click to Parshat Emor for articles on the Weekly Reading there.) |
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| What is Kabbalah? | |
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Contemplative vs. Practical Kabbalah
— Kabbalah Iyunit and Kabbalah Maasit
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| Pirkei Avot - Ethics of the Fathers | |
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3:10 Satisfaction
— Just as every person is a microcosm, so is the entire Jewish people a single spiritual organism.
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| Weekly Torah Reading | |
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Yom Kippur Lottery Tickets
— The essential nature of man is the desire to receive.
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From the Eye to the Soul...and Back
— It is praiseworthy to look at positive things.
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After-Death Experience
— Our task is to anchor our desire for the Infinite.
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| 2nd Passover offering | |
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On a Distant Journey
— "The Congregation of Israel is adorned with crowns at Passover time, and does not remove these adornments for thirty days." (Zohar)
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| Mystic Story | |
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Payment at Last
— The man in Vienna was so frustrated he didn't know what to do. He decided to ask his wife's opinion.
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