Introduction To Kabbalah: The Sephirotic Tree And Primordial Man Youtube Flashcards
What means receiving?
It is the traditional reception of the inner teachings of the Torah.
-a system used to decipher the “true” message of the Jewish scriptures
- biblical characters are interpreted as allegorical representations of the creative process, attributes of God, and the formation of the physical world from its higher spiritual deminsions.
Kabbalah
What is the center reference of Judaism with a range of meanings, it can most specifically mean the first 5 books of the 24 books of the tanakh, usually includes the rabbinic commentaries.
Torah
What is called mikra or Hebrew Bible, is the canonical collection of Jewish text, which is also a textual source for the Christian Old Testament.
3main parts include
Torah (teaching), nevi’im (prophets), ketuvim (writings).
Tanakh
The Jewish faith has how many hebraic traditions and what are they?
2
A) written tradition
B) oral tradition
The written tradition consist of what books?
Tanakh mainly which includes the Torah
- Talmud
- Mishnah
- Gemara
The Hebraic Written Tradition is a collection of different books that explain what 4 knowledges?
Religious Law
Communal Law
Daily Observances
Commerce
The Oral Tradition in the Jewish Tradition which was what?
Kabbalah
There are 3 categories of Kabbalah which are?
- Magical
- Meditative
- Intellectual
Allegorical Kabbalah
Gematria - Geometry - each letter has a numerical value
Notarikon - Short-Hand Writer - Each Hebrew word is seen as an acronym and each letter creates a new word
Temurah - Cipher system used to interpret the Hebrew words by switching various letters for other letters according to prearranged tables.
There are all what?
Kabbalistic Tools
Gematria is Kabbalah means what?
Each letter in Kabbalah holds a numerical value
What part of Kabbalah uses the words as acronyms?
Notarikon
The cypher system in Kabbalah is called what?
Temurah
Atbash, Avgad, Albam are ciphers of Temurah. How do they work?
Atbash - replacing first with last letter of Hebrew alphabet. A=Z, B=Y, C=X etc.
Avgad - replacing each letter with the preceding letter a=b, b=c, c=d
Albam - Replacing first letter of alphabet with the twelfth and so on a=l, b=m, c=n
The most important form of Kabbalah is?
Allegorical Kabbalah
Biblical figures represent different “Attributes” of GOD which is explained on what?
Tree of Life.
Abraham = Chesed Isaac = Geburah Jacob = Tiphereth Moses = Netzach Aaron = Hod Joseph = Yesod David = Malkuth
What was taught in the first mystery schools of the Hebrews?
Kabbalah
Name a few of the Kabbalistic Texts.
Book of Formation - Oldest 1st Centry
Book of Illumination
Book of raziel HaMalakh the Angel
Book of Radiance - Most influential
Sefer Yetzirah
Sefer HaBahir
Sefer Raziel HaMalakh
Sefer HaZohar or The Zohar from Medieval Era written in Aramaic
The Sephiroth Tree of Life represents what?
It is both in a macrocosm and microcosm scale.
Process of creation
The tree of life has how many Sephiroth and how many channels?
10 and 22
Kether is the first sephirah which represents what?
Will - it is the initial desire to create and the primal source of all creative activity.
The second sephirah is Chokmah which represents what?
Wisdom - this is the initial flash of insight of the will to create
Chokmah is the first aspect of our intellect because?
Wisedom is the highest form of intellect.
Binah is the 3rd sephirah which represents?
Understanding - development, gestation and unfolding of the conceptual details implicit in the ideas originating in Wisdom.
Or it is the process of analyzing how to go about actually “creating”
Daath isn’t counted as one of the 10 Sephiroth but is included in the tree of life. It represents?
Intimate coupling of wisdom + understanding = Knowledge
This “action” of Daath gives birth to emotion
