The Kabbalah Of Time

Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the Alter Rebbe, famously stated that we must "live with the times," thereby experiencing the teachings of the Torah related to each week of the year. Similar to the zodiac, where every month has its own symbolism, every week of the Jewish calendar also has a unique meaning. Kahane and Wainer explain that the calendar is the master key to unlock the hidden rationale behind the formal structure of ancient sacred texts, as well as to understand basic mystical concepts. When comprehended within the context of the Jewish calendar, these works reveal the spiritual energy of each week, serving as a practical guide for self-analysis and development. During this annual journey, we will learn to live with greater harmony, happiness and gratitude by learning from the Kabbalah, from age-old Jewish ethical teachings, and even from animals. The objective is to make the reader be in touch with the spiritual powers of each week, thereby improving ones daily conduct and rediscovering the universal song within each one of us: the song of the soul.

Time marches forever forward! Does it? One experience of time is that it does indeed forever march forward, but this is not the only way to experience the dimension of time.Time can also be experienced as a cycle, movement that constantly returns to the past, and brings it into the present and future. This cycle does not simply bring back memories of a long ago past that most have forgotten. The cycle of time is a constant present reviving in our minds archetypal lessons of universal values that are as old as time itself, and as immortal as is the human soul.When seen through the eyes of Torah, time becomes living and vibrant. The holidays and commemorations that fill the Jewish calendar are far from being mere rituals of religion. They are instead alive, conscious, and sentient, even as we are ourselves.When we embrace a Torah observance and a Jewish holiday, we are living it anew. It is no longer past; it is here, now! Torah reveals to us the secrets of the cycles of time, and shows us how, as the Sefer Yetzirah reveals to us, space, time, and consciousness are all one!As a practitioner and teacher of the Prophetic Kabbalah system, Rabbi Tzadok opens up for us the world of Living Time as seen through the eyes of Living Torah.Included in this book are essays of in-depth Kabbalah, meditative kavanot, archetypal psychology, alongside essays of practical down-to-earth wisdom about the fundamental truths by which we live.Also included are a number of Halakhic essays about ritual observance of the Shabat, and how Kabbalah plays a role in even the most Orthodox of Jewish Halakha.Secrets of the Cycles of Time thus has something for everyone, at all levels of learning. It is a book that you will read and reread from year to year, always finding new insights and treasures therein.

The Kabbalah of Time is an interactive investigation of two fundamental mysteries: the Absolute (God) and the Infinite (time-space). Everything that has form was shaped by the transitory nature of time. God, devoid of form, as presented in the Biblical text, is a God that does not belong to time. Using mystical teachings within Judaism to learn from the perspective of beyond time, Rabbi Nilton Bonder presents some intriguing questions and mysterious answers that can contribute to a better intimacy with reality. Viewing Creation as the Creation of time itself he proposes a countdown for the establishment of sequential time as we know it. Day 1: The Everlasting produces the Now. Day 2: The Now produces existence. Day 3: Existence produces death. Day 4: Death produces feelings. Day 5: Feelings produce intelligence. Day 6: Intelligence produces the past. Day 7: The past produces the future. Why would a Creator by nature be hidden and invisible? Can something exist without being inside time? Where did we come from and where do we go when we leave time? What if time could be understood as a place, a place that has no direction?

Time marches forever forward! Does it? One experience of time is that it does indeed forever march forward, but this is not the only way to experience the dimension of time.Time can also be experienced as a cycle, movement that constantly returns to the past, and brings it into the present and future. This cycle does not simply bring back memories of a long ago past that most have forgotten. The cycle of time is a constant present reviving in our minds archetypal lessons of universal values that are as old as time itself, and as immortal as is the human soul.When seen through the eyes of Torah, time becomes living and vibrant. The holidays and commemorations that fill the Jewish calendar are far from being mere rituals of religion. They are instead alive, conscious, and sentient, even as we are ourselves.When we embrace a Torah observance and a Jewish holiday, we are living it anew. It is no longer past; it is here, now! Torah reveals to us the secrets of the cycles of time, and shows us how, as the Sefer Yetzirah reveals to us, space, time, and consciousness are all one!As a practitioner and teacher of the Prophetic Kabbalah system, Rabbi Tzadok opens up for us the world of Living Time as seen through the eyes of Living Torah.Included in this book are essays of in-depth Kabbalah, meditative kavanot, archetypal psychology, alongside essays of practical down-to-earth wisdom about the fundamental truths by which we live.Also included are a number of Halakhic essays about ritual observance of the Shabat, and how Kabbalah plays a role in even the most Orthodox of Jewish Halakha.Secrets of the Cycles of Time thus has something for everyone, at all levels of learning. It is a book that you will read and reread from year to year, always finding new insights and treasures therein.

"The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah" resurrects this ancient body of knowledge to reveal eternal truths that profoundly impact contemporary spirituality. Experimental methods of practicing Hebraic sacred science are explored that explain, as never before, the meaning of the cosmological diagram of the entire Western esoteric tradition--the kabbalistic Tree of Life.

Alef, Mem, Tau also discusses Islamic mysticism and Buddhist thought in relation to the Jewish esoteric tradition as it opens the possibility of a temporal triumph of temporality and the conquering of time through time."

No one theory of time is pursued in the essays of this volume, but a major theme that threads them together is Wolfson’s signature idea of the timeswerve as a linear circularity or a circular linearity, expressions that are meant to avoid the conventional split between the two temporal modalities of the line and the circle.

This is the first translation with commentary of selections from The Zohar, the major text of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. This work was written in 13th-century Spain by Moses de Leon, a Spanish scholar.