Dealing with dilemmas
Have you ever found yourself in the uncomfortable position of being asked to do more than you really can? Of feeling afraid to say no when you know deep within you that what you are being asked to deal with is a bit beyond your capability? Interestingly enough, this is the very position the highest spiritual entity in the very first of the spiritual worlds found itself in…
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Yom Kippur : A chance to reclaim our true identity
Which is the real me? We have a body of skin, bones, muscles, etc., that is given life by the nefesh behami the animal soul. Within this there is the point source of the holy sooul, the neshamah which is part of the essence of God. On Yom Kippur we have the opportunity to release this precious part of ourselves from the bondage of the animal soul and its confusing behaviour and rediscover our real selves.
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Changing our outlook on Rosh HaShanah
Do you feel upset and anxious when it comes around to the High Holy days? So many of us do. Many of the symbols associated with Rosh HaShanah, the Book of Life, the day of Judgement have been distorted over the centuries. Now with our knowledge of Kabbalah we can learn what “life” really is and how the shofar is the instrument of compassion.
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Enjoying the month of Elul
So many people dread the run up to the high holy days. They feel guilty about what they didn’t do all the year or/and anxiety about the year to come. But it needn’t be like that at all. The month of Elul is the opportunity for a good inner spring-clean and there is a real joy in that!
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Further on Decisions
Sometimes life presents me with a situation which seems impossible to resolve. When sharing this with a friend I realized that this experience is not unique and I couldn’t help wondering why? The Creator created the worlds with increasing concealment in order to give human beings free choice. Yedidah continues this discussion by looking at where freedom of choice really lies, based on Rabbi Ashlag’s article on “Freedom”.
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Decisions
The Holy Master the Baal Shem Tov teaches us that before we make any move we need to consider ourselves as having infinite free choice. After the event we need to consider that the move we chose was the one God wanted us to choose. I considered this statement carefully. Does it match with my experience? I have to say it doesn’t. Before any event it feels as if I have one or maybe two choices available, certainly not a whole array of choices. I decided I need to go into this matter more carefully. After all, if a mere computer has a large number of choices just playing one move in a game of chess, how is it that I, a human being who is far more complex and sophisticated and dealing with life itself should have less?
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The meaning of the Akedah
The great Kabbalist, the Ari informs us that the essence of God is unknowable. Even the highest angels have no conception of Him as He is in Himself, as He has no Name.
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Where I am and where I'd like to be
The body and the soul have three main channels to them,according to the way the Divine channels, the Sephirot, line up. These are the right hand line, the left hand line, and the middle line. Our consciousness also lines up similarly, the right hand line being the consciousness of wholeness and perfection, that all is just as it should be, and the left hand line being the consciousness of where I really am. Which consciousness should I focus on? Which one is more real?
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