About Daat Elyon

Daat Elyon is an online center for the study of spiritual wisdom and the practice of contemplative techniques. Daat Elyon is a community of spiritual seekers connected by seminars (webinars), weekly teachings and online interaction. Read more…

Rabbi Yoel Glick

Rabbi Yoel Glick is a teacher of Jewish meditation and spiritual wisdom who has been teaching and guiding seekers on the path for over twenty years. He has taught in the U.S., Canada, Israel, Asia and Europe to audiences of all denominations.

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Weekly Teachings

The weekly teachings guide the readers in using the wisdom and rituals of Judaism as a spiritual path that leads to God knowledge. The teachings are both solidly anchored in the Jewish tradition and fully universal in their vision.

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Online Seminars

Join us for a unique series of seminars that offer a profound and expansive understanding of the nature and workings of the spiritual realm.The seminars combine the study of spiritual wisdom with the practice of meditation.

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Books

In his ground-breaking books, Rabbi Yoel lays out a path for seekers to the higher knowledge of daat elyon. His unique approach incorporates teaching from the Rabbis, Hasidic Masters and the Kabbalah with wisdom from the mystical traditions of other faiths.

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Thought of the Day

From the highest spiritual perspective, there is ultimately no such thing as failure, there is only the next step along our path to final liberation, and the next opportunity for us to grow as souls and as human beings.

Weekly Teachings

Every Friday a teaching is posted on the site as a subject for study and contemplation during the coming week. Here are the three most recent teachings. To find additional teachings visit the Weekly Teaching Archive.

Wisdom Webinar Summary: Session VI

SESSION SIX

THE MIDDLE CENTERS: AN ELABORATION

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This week we explored the middle centers of tiferet (beauty) and hesed/gevurah (mercy/power).

These two sephirot play a key role in our spiritual development as human beings and as souls.

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The Supernal Torah

 

We are told in the Kabbalah that God in the Ein Sof, the Absolute Reality, is pure infinite consciousness. How did this Infinite Consciousness become embodied in a finite world? How did this finite creation arise out of an Infinite Creator?

The sixteenth century Kabbalist, Rabbi Isaac Luria (also known as the Ari) provides us with an explanation. The Ari teaches that the limitless became limited, when the Infinite undivided Awareness became self-aware. This was accomplished through the formation of the Divine Mind – that is, by the containment of pure consciousness in a form of differentiated consciousness. The Kabbalah calls this original form the Supernal Torah. It contains all the thoughts, wisdom, knowledge and desires of the Creator. Read more…

Meditation for Tu B’Shvat: The Holy Apple Field

This is a meditation in honor of Tu B’Shvat based on this week’s teaching The Ground of Being.

Take time to visualize each step of the meditation and to immerse yourself in the experience.

Tu B’Shvat Sameach!

Yoel

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