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Kabbalah 365: Daily Fruit from the Tree of Life
Every day is a chance for a new beginning-an awakening. Start each day with the gift of time-tested wisdom from the Kabbalah. Kabbalah 365 is a unique collection of rare Jewish mystery and understanding. People from all walks of life are finding their paths illuminated within the Kabbalah. Each selected reading, one for every day of the yearly cycle, encourages honest contemplation, true inspiration, and deep reflection. Here are just a few * If you are in a hurry to get to an appointment, and you are riding on a train that is moving too slow, do you think you will arrive at your destination any faster by getting up and running through the train? Likewise, when the time is right for you, you'll be arriving at your destination-no sooner, no later. In the meantime, make sure you are on board. * If you are rubbing two sticks together and are having difficulty lighting a fire, move to another place and try again. Likewise, if you are having difficulty in the place where you are, shift to another place. Experience the vastness and riches of the Kabbalah with Kabbalah 365, which ably preserves the integrity of the original texts, some translated here for the first time, and renders insights in easy-to-understand language.
320 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 2004
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January 1, 2022
Such a joyful daily routine that helped me to embrace and learn about my spirituality in a whole different way.
August 3, 2016
OK, so I am not a student of the Kabbalah. All I really knew about it was from reading about the experiences of Peter Himmelman and Madonna, two of my music heroes. The author apparently lives in a remote area of my home state, New Mexico. I picked this as a daily reading book precisely because of my lack of exposure.
Not knowing much about the Kabbalah, it is hard to comment on the author's selection of passages. I personally found that the first 45 to 60 days or so of quotes on the four directions (North, East, South, West) became a bit tedious. (I suppose I could have tolerated three passages per direction = 12, or perhaps having them spread out throughout the entire year, but I did end up feeling that maybe the Kabbalah was only about a compass and nothing more.) Eventually, the author expands the readings into more mystical realms, with dream interpretations, famous magical rabbi stories, and others.
The book has, wonder of wonders, a functioning index, which is a rarity.
Here's my favorite reading:
Although very poor, Rabbi Hanina ben Do’sa was a worker of miracles. Once, his wife asked him if he could possibly work some miracle to get hold of some of the premium stored up for them in Heaven, so that they might be able to use it in advance during their time on earth. Rabbi Hanina prayed and a hand emerged from the sky grasping the leg of a golden table. He took the leg from the hand and put it aside to sell its gold on the morrow. That night, he had a vision of everyone in Heaven seated at sturdy golden tables while he and his wife were seated at a golden table with only three legs. When he came to, he shared the vision with his wife and asked: “Is it alright with you that everyone in Heaven has a table with all its legs while our table has a leg missing?” She said: “What should we do? Can you pray that the leg be taken back?” He prayed, and a hand appeared from the heavens and took it back. When the elders heard about this, they exclaimed: “Greater is the miracle of the leg being taken back than the leg being given in the first place, for we have a tradition that Heaven gives but never takes back.” —Babylonian Talmud, Ta’anit 25a
Winkler, Gershon (2011-05-11). Kabbalah 365: Daily Fruit from the Tree of Life (Kindle Locations 2346-2347). Andrews McMeel Publishing LLC. Kindle Edition.
Not knowing much about the Kabbalah, it is hard to comment on the author's selection of passages. I personally found that the first 45 to 60 days or so of quotes on the four directions (North, East, South, West) became a bit tedious. (I suppose I could have tolerated three passages per direction = 12, or perhaps having them spread out throughout the entire year, but I did end up feeling that maybe the Kabbalah was only about a compass and nothing more.) Eventually, the author expands the readings into more mystical realms, with dream interpretations, famous magical rabbi stories, and others.
The book has, wonder of wonders, a functioning index, which is a rarity.
Here's my favorite reading:
Although very poor, Rabbi Hanina ben Do’sa was a worker of miracles. Once, his wife asked him if he could possibly work some miracle to get hold of some of the premium stored up for them in Heaven, so that they might be able to use it in advance during their time on earth. Rabbi Hanina prayed and a hand emerged from the sky grasping the leg of a golden table. He took the leg from the hand and put it aside to sell its gold on the morrow. That night, he had a vision of everyone in Heaven seated at sturdy golden tables while he and his wife were seated at a golden table with only three legs. When he came to, he shared the vision with his wife and asked: “Is it alright with you that everyone in Heaven has a table with all its legs while our table has a leg missing?” She said: “What should we do? Can you pray that the leg be taken back?” He prayed, and a hand appeared from the heavens and took it back. When the elders heard about this, they exclaimed: “Greater is the miracle of the leg being taken back than the leg being given in the first place, for we have a tradition that Heaven gives but never takes back.” —Babylonian Talmud, Ta’anit 25a
Winkler, Gershon (2011-05-11). Kabbalah 365: Daily Fruit from the Tree of Life (Kindle Locations 2346-2347). Andrews McMeel Publishing LLC. Kindle Edition.
May 24, 2008
I love this enlightning book, I read passages all the time. I personally dont adhere to the talmund although I live my life aligned with the torah. This book provides excellent insight into both and many other teachings.
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