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Kabbalah Online Magazine
Yitro 5774
Vol. 10 No. 20, 11 - 17 Shevat, 5774 / January 12 - 18, 2014
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A note from the staff of Kabbalah Online in Tzefat
Special Tu b'Shevat issue.
Here in Safed, at Ascent, we will be celebrating our 31st annual Kabbalistic Tu B'shvat Seder — see the lead article — on 15 Jan. 2014, 8:08pm.] Five articles are for Tu B'Shvat, plus two for the Weekly Reading. The 4th article is from our exclusive translation online of "Tuv HaAretz," a major book of Kabbalah about the Land of Israel. Dedication
By the staffs of KabbalaOnline
and Ascent-of-Safed
for the soul elevation of Chana bat Asher Siev, on the occasion of the fourth yahrzeit on 18th Shevat (Sat. night, Sun. 1/19/14) ALSO: Erev Tu b'Shvat (1/15/14) is the yahrzeit of Rabbi Daniel Frisch (d. 2005), author of the Matok Midvash ("Sweeter than Honey") increasingly popular Hebrew commentary on the Zohar and Tikuney Zohar. Most of our Zohar writers rely heavily on his explanations. |
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Tu B’Shevat: Basics
— Meet the New Year for the Trees.
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A Land of Wheat…and Date Honey
— The greater the efforts we expend in attaining, sustaining, and promulgating Divine consciousness, the deeper we dig into the core of our souls.
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New Year of Delight
— Tu B'Shvat is a ripe time for resolving to put pleasure into everything we do.
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Manna and Fruits of Israel
The fruits for which Israel is famous are rooted in the spiritual worlds |
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Two Names of G-d
— Studying the Torah and fulfilling its commandments enable us to contain the transcendent Divine consciousness.
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The Conversion of Jethro
— He had been a worshipper of "every form of idolatry"; what convinced him that Judaism was true?
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Tropical Oranges in a Russian Winter Orchard
— It was the 15th of Shevat, and they had no fruit, so the Baal Shem Tov said to drive the sleigh off the main road and into the fields.
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