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Receiving Holiness: Understanding Judaism through Kabbalah
The spiritual meaning of many Jewish customs, practices and observances has become lost. This book by a scholar and professor of Kabbalah and Judaism revives the kabbalistic understanding of Judaism. It is both an introduction to the philosophy and theology of Kabbalah as well as a summary of basic Judaism.
Kabbalah provides a spiritual foundation to Judaism by conceiving of the Divine as flows of light-like potencies emanating from an unknowable source. These flows can be received by individuals enabling one to become a co-creator, an ethical person, a receiver of insight (revelation) and a receiver of the feeling of holiness.
Traditional Jewish ritual, prayer and ceremonies understood kabbalistically, enhance the flow and our abilities to receive. Thus lighting candles, making kiddish, citing blessings, placing teffilfin, circling in wedding, funeral and Sukkot services, waving the lulov, observing Tu Bishvat and Passover seders and many other aspects of Jewish life serve to open the gates and stimulate reception of holiness. These potencies bestow the wisdom, intelligence, kindness, power, harmony, principles, emotions, need-awareness and closeness to God that enable one to become a co-creator in ongoing creation and an ethical and balanced human being. Receiving the flow reveals meaning and direction for one's life.
Kabbalah provides a spiritual foundation to Judaism by conceiving of the Divine as flows of light-like potencies emanating from an unknowable source. These flows can be received by individuals enabling one to become a co-creator, an ethical person, a receiver of insight (revelation) and a receiver of the feeling of holiness.
Traditional Jewish ritual, prayer and ceremonies understood kabbalistically, enhance the flow and our abilities to receive. Thus lighting candles, making kiddish, citing blessings, placing teffilfin, circling in wedding, funeral and Sukkot services, waving the lulov, observing Tu Bishvat and Passover seders and many other aspects of Jewish life serve to open the gates and stimulate reception of holiness. These potencies bestow the wisdom, intelligence, kindness, power, harmony, principles, emotions, need-awareness and closeness to God that enable one to become a co-creator in ongoing creation and an ethical and balanced human being. Receiving the flow reveals meaning and direction for one's life.
236 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 3, 2013
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