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Kabbalah Online Magazine
Week of Devarim - Shabbat of Vision 5778
Vol. 14 No. 43, 3 - 10 Menachem Av, 5778 / Jul 15 - 22, 2018
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A note from the staff of Kabbalah Online in Tzefat
This year we will not fast on Tisha b'Av! — the day commemorating the destruction of the Holy Temples in Jerusalem (articles #3-5) --
that's because it falls on Shabbat, so the fast is postponed until sunset on Shabbat Day. It continues until we make Havdala on Sunday night. The 5th of Av (Monday night - Tuesday) is the 443rd "Hilula" (yahrzeit celebration) of the Holy Ari, Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, greatest of the Tzefat Kabbalists (articles 1-3)-- Join KabbalaOnline in Tzefat at ASCENT, and thousands of others all around the town for the annual pilgrimage and Tzefat celebration. The last three (#5-7) relate to Devorim, the first Weekly Reading in the fifth of the "Five Books of Moses." Dedication
To all the sincere students of the teachings of THE HOLY ARI and his successors, who are faithful in their attempts to understand and to explain the concepts according to the intentions with which they were recorded.
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The Holy Ari
— Rabbi Yitzchak Luria was undisputedly the greatest practitioner and expounder of Kabbalah since Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, author of the Zohar.
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Northern Exposure
— The first word of the Torah also alludes to hidden beginnings.
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| 3 Weeks of Mourning | |
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Injecting a Celebration
Every year on the 5th of Av he would complete an entire tractate of the Talmud, after which he would host a festive meal of meat and wine. |
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Seeking the Temple Site
— Had the Jews looked harder for the Temple site during the period of the Judges, they would have found it hundreds of years earlier.
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Shabbat of Vision
— The greatest joys emerge from the lowest of spiritual states.
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| Weekly Torah Reading | |
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Back to the Land
— Deuteronomy teaches us to keep the Torah relevant and alive.
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| Mystic Story | |
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Jesting in Earnest
— "What is this about your being 'a poor man'?! You had better leave my house at once!"
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