1) In this introduction, I would like to clarify matters that are seemingly simple. Matters that everyone fumbles with, and for which much ink has been spilled, attempting to clarify. Yet we have not reached a concrete and sufficient knowledge of them. And here are the questions: What is our …
Preface to the Book of Zohar
1) The depth of wisdom in the holy Book of Zohar is enclosed and caged behind a thousand locks, and our human tongue too poor to provide us with sufficient, reliable expressions to interpret one thing in this book to its end. Also, the interpretation I have made is but a ladder …
Introduction to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah
1) It is written in The Zohar, Vayikra, Parashat Tazria, p 40, “Come and see, all that exists in the world, exists for man, and everything exists for him, as it is written, ‘Then the Lord God formed man,’ with a full name, as we have established, that he is the whole of everything …
Acronyms Used in This Appendix
ABYA – Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, Assiya AK – Adam Kadmon BYA – Beria, Yetzira, Assiya SVAS (Still, Vegetative, Animate, and Speaking) HaVaYaH – Yod, Hey, Vav, Hey HBD – Hochma, Bina, Daat HGT – Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet KHB – Keter, Hochma, Bina KHB TM – Keter, Hochma, Bina, Tifferet, and Malchut NHY – Netzah, Hod, Yesod NHYM – Netzah, Hod, Yesod, Malchut NRN – Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama NRNHY – Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida YHNRN – Yechida, Haya, Neshama, Ruach, Nefesh