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Kabbalah Online Magazine
Week of Matot - Masei 5780
Vol. 16 No. 43, 20 - 26 Tamuz, 5780 / Jul 12 - 18, 2020
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A note from the staff of Kabbalah Online in Tzefat
Starting Rosh Chodesh Av (Wednesday), the semi-mourning strictures of the 3 Weeks leading up to Tisha b'Av intensify — see articles #6,7 about The Nine Days.
This Shabbat, before the Tisha b'Av 24 hour fast, has a special name: "Shabbat Chazon" — "The Shabbat of Vision" — see article #5. Articles #3-4 are for the Weekly Reading, the first one in the Fifth "Book of Moses", called Devarim ("Deuteronomy"). The 5th of Av (Saturday night - Sunday) is the 447th "Hilula" (yahrzeit celebration) of the Holy Ari, Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, greatest of the Tzefat Kabbalists (articles 1,2, 6,7). Join KabbalaOnline in Tzefat at ASCENT, and other visitors and local residents for the annual pilgrimage and Tzefat celebration. Dedication
In memory of Aharon HaKohen, elder brother of Moses and the very first High Priest, whose date of passing [Rosh Chodesh Menachem-Av] is the only one recorded in the Torah (Massai. 33:38)
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| Classic Kabbalah - Safed Kabbalists | |
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Rabbi Moshe Cordovero
— His work is called Paradise.
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Four Who Entered Paradise
— They ascended to Heaven by using the Holy Name.
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| 3 Weeks - Mystical Classics | |
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2 Tabernacles for 2 Realities
— The sanctuary on earth is opposite G‑d's sanctuary in Heaven
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| Ethics of the Fathers - Pirkei Avot | |
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1:14 "If I Am Not…"
— "In what way is my worship important to G·d?"
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| Weekly Torah Reading - Mystical Classics | |
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Self-Contemplative Warriors
— Kabbalah teaches that victory is guaranteed when one's soldiers are righteous.
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| Weekly Torah Reading - Contemporary Kabbalists | |
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The 42 Journeys of Our Lives
— There are forty-two spiritual journeys each of us makes throughout our life.
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| Mystic Story | |
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An All-Purpose Kaddish
— He wrote an exceedingly generous check for 20,000 kroner, but who was he? How did the gentile wife know more than the great rabbis?
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