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By way of our prayers and our practical commandments that we perform below, we need to cause a coupling of the male and the female, and we raise them up…
You already know that concerning all matters of supernal attainment, one needs to be alone in his house so that others will not disturb his thought, and he himself needs to…
In the Sephardic tradition, a “marriage contract” (ketubah), a symbolic betrothal of God and Israel, is read before the Torah reading on the first day of the holiday of Shavuot
The essence of divinity is found in every single thing—nothing but it exists. Since it causes every thing to be, no thing can live by anything else. It enlivens them; its existence exists in each…
The intention of the Supernal Emanator was for the choice [free will] of doing good or evil to be given to those in the lower realm, [and] for them to have reward or punishment…
I was in the midst of a large group of people who were there, close to a hundred people, among them scholars and heads of communities. And two men, who knew adjurations and many things, approached the…
The words of the perfect scholar, the divine kabbalist, R. Solomon ha-Levi Alkabetz (may the memory of the righteous be for the life of the World-to-Come):
Know that the pious one and myself, his…
One who uses the Ineffable Name in this world will have a great punishment, and the reason for this is that he mentions holy letters in impurity, and combines that which is holy with that which is…
For man to resemble his Creator according to the secret of the Supernal Crown he must possess, too, many of the chief qualities of the divine providence.
- The quality of humility includes all qualities…
If you prostrate yourself over the graves of the righteous, you need to have the proper intention, so that through your prostration, you will cause the soul of that righteous person to…