HieroniMusing originally posted October 10, 2001 Which of us today is not more aware of the frailty of our lives? Who among us is not in some way grieving for the security of what we had in sensibility alone, but which no longer exists? Who asks of themselves each day, in what ways did I […]
Journey
the wearing on the outside of the right shoe’s sole made clear he had pain when he sat one wondered if it was from his job or some child hood fall from a tree or a bike or a deeper wound of abuse and the other foot whose toe evidenced scuff marks a kind of […]
God’s Whispers
Babies touch the hem of God, each facial relief a permanent etching of light in a dark universe illuminating. Eons of whispers, gently breathing, exhalations as sweet as lillac in bloom. What form so demure that even to think harshly of them beckons angels for absolution. Baby, my child, what heavenly architect should on each […]
Deep Heart Waters
When younger, unrequited love compelled the heart and strained the throat. A salt water harbor. There the crashing waves keeping tempo–a melody set against the moon of prayers filling round — fate’s dancers in gloss and silvery web, walking on water in an arc. But when the pull of love goes out, her costumery become […]
City Scapes
the wetness of the air was made obnoxious by the fact that stale pipe smoke clung to it like a vine that is merciless in its steady devouring under the veil of its greenery unmerciful killing occurring under the guise of life the smell of the street’s garbage left from a few days living rotten […]
Bliss’s Revenge
It was late but not for eternity to scratch its name across their bodies. Not too late for wet dew of love gently misting perfumes and body caldorns leaving scars to find them – to tattoe them with imagery of where the seas return to the caves where deep wtaers and hallowed chambers sing where […]
The Orchard
It was the light that held a suspended note an echo from one range to another in between universes like the pitch between sleep and falling in space steep with a cushion how one imagines weightlessness the echo was melodic first a chord that hearkened sounds of apple orchards being picked and baskets being hauled […]
A New Spring
the field held a silent note suspended as though by eons which carried was impregnated with the message of divine things whether by whisper, by touch or delight of laugh released showering as though a star fall they fell to earth landing at each other’s finger tips it was more than the flesh brighter than […]
REVEALING OF THE DESIRE
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(From the book Shamati by Kabbalist Y. Ashlag) The basic, primary principle is to increase the will, for that is the basis upon which the structure builds and the strength of the construction is measured by the strength of its foundation. Many things compel one to labor, but they do not aim at the cause. […]
Comprehending the Spiritual
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January 09, 2003 (From the book Shamati by Kabbalist Y. Ashlag) We distinguish among many levels and many distinctions in the (upper, spiritual) worlds. And it is known that when one speaks about levels and distinctions, one speaks (only) regarding the souls’ comprehension of what is received from these worlds; according to the principle that […]
JOY WITH A QUIVER
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(From the book Shamati by Kabbalist Y. Ashlag) Joy is considered to be love, which is being. It resembles a man building himself a house, but neglecting to make hollows in the walls. It turns out that there is not a way for the man to enter the house. Therefore a hollow, a space must […]
WHAT ARE THE THREE BODIES IN A MAN
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(From the book Shamati by Kabbalist Y. Ashlag) Man is made of three bodies: A) The inner body, in which the holy soul is dressed. B) The Noga shell. C) The serpent’s skin. In order to save one from the two outer bodies, so that they do not interfere with the holy one, and in […]
Talk from Heh B’Av, the Yarzheit of the Holy Ari (z”l) (RAB)
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May 28, 2000 5:49 AM Given in Tsfat, 5759 delivered by: Rabbi Avraham Brandwein, Dean, Kol Yehuda Tzvi POB 14056 Jerusalem, Israel fax: 972-2-5823276 B”H This week also includes Tish’a B’Av, the day commemorating the destruction of both Temples. The Gmarah [Gittin 55b] tells of the period of the Destruction. Jerusalem was laid waste because […]
SPIRITUAL SUBSTANCE AND ITS SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION
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by I.Krakovski (scholar of Rabbi Y.Ashlag) 1) There is no single substance existing in the world, whether it be that which we experience through the senses, or that which we perceive through the mind, which is not comprised in the Creator. Everything emanates from Him. Therefore, what we know as contrary, or unrelated substances, in […]
Attaining the Spiritual
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(From the book Shamati by Kabbalist Y. Ashlag) The spiritual – is the Awakening from Above, then why is the Awakening from Below necessary? What must be done in order to merit the attainment of the spiritual, is beyond man’s comprehension, because it is beyond human reasoning to grasp how could such a thing (to […]
THERE IS NONE ELSE BESIDE HIM
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(From the book Shamati by Kabbalist Y. Ashlag) It is written that there is none else beside Him, meaning there is no other power in the world with the ability to do anything against Him. And what man sees, namely, that there are things in the world which deny the household of Above, is of […]
THE REASON FOR THE HEAVINESS ONE FEELS UPON DISMISISNG BEFORE THE LORD
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(From the book Shamati by Kabbalist Y. Ashlag) When a person is wishing to work within self – denial before the Creator, without considering his own benefit, and he is leaving his family and friends for the sake of humbling himself before the Creator, he is having reached a situation where as if the whole […]
God, Prophecy and Torah
The body and prophecy are inseparable just as the soul of the Prophet and closeness to the Creator, are fashioned in partnership. Prophecy is intended for correcting of behavior, prediction of the future, or to avert danger from a threat to national defense or natural disasters. Study of Torah (the word of God), and practicing […]
Prophecy: Supreme Language of the Soul
Prophecy distinguishes itself from all other arts and intuitive talents. It delegates to the Prophet an unequalled status among their peers as the Creator’s representative. They are found to be of good character, wise judgment, merciful hearts, righteous and diligent in study, teaching, and practice of their faith. Prophecy as the supreme language of the […]
Kabbalah – The Creator’s Blue Print
The Torah is the Creator’s blueprint for creation; Kabbalah’s Etz Chayim its decoding map for understanding the secrets of the written and oral teaching of the Torah. The map represents Adam Kadmon, the primordial man from which all of the worlds originate. “This Adam Kadmon acts as a filter through which the light of the […]