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Kabbalah Online Magazine
Week of Shelach 5780
Vol. 16 No. 39, 22 - 28 Sivan, 5780 / Jun 14 - 20, 2020
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A note from the staff of Kabbalah Online in Tzefat
This Shabbat is the yahrzeit-hilula of Rabbi Yonatan Ben Uziel (see article #2), the top student of the great sage Hillel. His burial site in Amuka Valley, outside of Tzefat, normally receives tens of thousands of visitors a year, especially those that heard it is a propitious place to pray to meet one's destined marriage partner.
Accordingly, the first article focuses on the theme of "soulmates." The article following provides interesting background on this seminal figure in Jewish history and scholarship. Articles 3-5 offer startling insights into the strange episode of the spies who tried to turn the entire Jewish people away from our entire Promised Land. Dedication
In memory of Rabbi MORDECHAI-TZEMACH ELIYAHU, one of the leading sages in the state of Israel in the last sixty-five years, a major judge of Jewish law for the Sephardic communities, a former chief rabbi of Israel and -- not so publicly known -- an accomplished Kabbalist, whose 10th yahrzeit is this Wednesday (25 Sivan / June 17). He is also the father of Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, whom we know personally from his 25+ years of service as chief Rabbi of Safed, and also from his active and enthusiastic participation in many ASCENT* outreach activities. (*the mother organization of KabbalaOnline.org)
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| Love & Marriage | |
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Soul Mates
Kabbalah teaches that a soul's heavenly source has male and female halves.
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| Send-a-Prayer | |
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Rabbi Yonatan ben Uziel
Help for the lovelorn from the top sage of Hillel
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| Weekly Torah Reading - The Zohar | |
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Transcendent Nothingness
Moses sent spies to determine what supernal spiritual level the Land of Israel is on.
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| Weekly Torah Reading - Contemporary Kabbalists | |
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Stronger than We and He
How could their spiritual elite fall so low as to question G-d's omnipotence?
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| Weekly Torah Reading - Chasidic Masters | |
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Misled Emissaries
It worked! When the spies entered the land of Israel, the most powerful and threatening of the inhabitants began to die in mysterious ways.
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| Ethics of the Fathers - Pirkei Avot | |
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3:7 The Gift of Wealth
A person not so deserving of life may still be allowed to live because others depend on him.
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| Mystic Story | |
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How to See Israel
A man from Tzefat visited Rabbi Avraham Dov of Avritch in Europe and spoke wonders in praise of the Holy Land.
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