“Hevruta” – Summary of Previous Lessons:

The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah

This week’s Hevruta focuses on an active reading of Baal HaSulam’s article “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”.

The goal is to review and internalize the main ideas from the lessons learned so far.

What We Will Do

1. Read the article together.

2. Write down questions that arise during the reading — anything unclear, surprising, or inspiring.

3. Share the questions within the Hevruta group.

4. Choose one key question that appears most frequently or feels most essential.

5. Discuss this question together as the main point of the session.

Purpose of the Task

• To deepen understanding of the core concepts studied so far.

• To prepare for the next topic: "The Language of Roots and Branches" (Lesson #5).

• To practice group thinking and collaboration.

Meeting Summary:

Kabbalists discovered that all four spiritual worlds—Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya—are structured identically. Everything that exists or happens in a lower world is an exact imprint of what exists in the world above it, like a seal and its imprint.
Therefore, every element in this world (the “branch”) has a corresponding spiritual source (the “root”).

Because branches precisely reflect their roots, Kabbalists created a unique language: the Language of Branches. They use names of physical objects and phenomena to describe spiritual forces and processes, since each physical form points to a specific spiritual root.

This language allows Kabbalists to communicate their spiritual attainments accurately from person to person and across generations. Unlike ordinary languages—which lose precision over time—the language of branches is based on fixed natural definitions and therefore remains clear and reliable for spiritual research.

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Related Materials:

Video: Kabbalah Fundamentals, episode 2: "The Language of Kabbalah" >>