Thought of the Day


When we awaken a Divine attribute in ourselves, we are drawing on the energy from its source in the world of the sephirot, which then flows down into us and out into the world.

Category: Weekly Seminar Summary

Weekly Teachings - Every Friday a teaching is posted on the site as a subject for study and contemplation during the coming week. The teaching guide the reader in using the teachings and practices of Judaism as a spiritual path that leads to God knowledge. They combine the wisdom of the Kabbalah, Hasidic Masters, and the Rabbis with the knowledge of the mystical and esoteric traditions of other faiths. The teachings provide a path that is both solidly anchored in the Jewish tradition and fully universal in its vision and understanding of the spiritual life. Here you will find all the past teachings under the category of Weekly Seminar Summary.

Weekly Webinar Summary: Session V: Reincarnation Continued

OUTLINE SESSION FIVE REINCARNATION CONTINUED   I.                   DIFFERENT LEVELS OF KARMA   Personal Karma -          Many of the events that will occur to us in this life are the result of what has happened to us in our past lives. They are the karmic debt that we have to pay in order to move ahead.

Weekly Webinar Summary: Session IV: Gilgul or Reincarnation

OUTLINE: SESSION FOUR REINCARNATION OR GILGUL I.                   REINCARNATION The term gilgul comes from the Hebrew verb lehitgalgel – to revolve or turn, and the noun galgal – wheel. -          Its central principle is that this life is only one part of a larger series of lives. -          We return to this world again and again [...]

Weekly Webinar Summary: Session Three: The Garments of the Soul

OUTLINE: SESSION THREE THE GARMENTS OF THE SOUL MAN’S BODIES OF MANIFESTATION  I.        Man has four bodies of manifestation in the physical world. -          There is the dense physical body, the astral body, the mental body, and the etheric body. -          Each serves a different purpose. -          Each has a definite effect [...]

Weekly Webinar Summary: Session Two: Our Soul Family

OUTLINE: SESSION TWO OUR SOUL FAMILY I. Our Soul Family Each of us has a place that we call home in the supernal realm.  In that place, dwell the souls that are part of our neshama or group soul, our soul family.

Weekly Webinar Summary: Session One

PART TWO: THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL OUTLINE: SESSION ONE THE NATURE OF THE SOUL  In Judaism, the higher nature of a human being is divided into five major components: the nefesh, the ruach, the neshama, the chaya and the yechida. Each of these expresses a different aspect of the soul.

Weekly Seminar Summary: Session VIII

                                                  SESSION EIGHT   In this week’s session, we investigated the third aspect of mind – daat or knowledge. We also explored the relationship between the body of sephirot and our [...]

Weekly Seminar Summary: Session VII

SESSION SEVEN THE HEAD CENTERS OUTLINE In this week’s webinar, we explored the two major head centers: hochmah/binah - wisdom/understanding and keter – the crown. These two centers play a key role in the development of our inner life.

Wisdom Webinar Summary: Session VI

SESSION SIX THE MIDDLE CENTERS: AN ELABORATION OUTLINE 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.

Wisdom Webinar Summary: Session Five

SESSION FIVE THE CENTERS: AN ELABORATION This week, we began taking an in-depth look at each of the sephirot or spiritual centers. In this session, we explored the three lower centers of malchut, yesod and netzach/hod.

Wisdom Webinar Summary: Session Four

SESSION FOUR: THE THREE CHANNELS OF ENERGY I. There are three energy pathways that run through our spiritual body. – The left-hand pathway is called the column of din or judgment. The right-hand is the column of hesed or mercy. The middle path is the column of rachamim or compassion. It is also called the [...]

Wisdom Webinar Summary: Session Three

                                                           SESSION THREE                          MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD: THE BODY OF SPIRITUAL CENTERS I. [...]

Summary of Wisdom Webinar Two

                                                      SESSION TWO                           THE GARDEN OF EDEN: THE DUAL NATURE OF A HUMAN BEING What is the [...]

Summary of Wisdom Webinar Session One

                                             SESSION ONE: INTRODUCTION                               AWAKENING THE HIGHER KNOWLEDGE – DAAT ELYON We began by discussing the goal of the [...]