Rosanne
I read all the threads in this forum, because I like the subject. Please have pity on this woman who was raised in a different mindset and has trouble getting past gobbly gook. The mystical Kabbalah indeed! Some posters make it so hard to understand- how about some plain talk? Some writers on the subject (authors) seem to live somewhere I don't- like in a sphere in behind Mars! I do not need to become a Rabbi nor do I want to tie a red string around my wrist - I can learn from you who post here as long as you understand that sometimes it seems to me, that I feel like I am trying to gatecrash conversations between higher beings. I don't think the message and meaning of the Kaballah will be diluted if it is explained in a less 'high flying' way. It may be a bit boring for those who have a great understanding, but I think you sometimes lose the poor old plodder like me. That is a real shame!
I had a Eureka moment when I read Umbrae's post, Thank God for small mercies ( well a large Mercy to be more precise) please consider the Lillies of the field, when some of us are just a plain daisy- low to the ground!
I had a Eureka moment when I read Umbrae's post, Thank God for small mercies ( well a large Mercy to be more precise) please consider the Lillies of the field, when some of us are just a plain daisy- low to the ground!
AMEN! (or is that 'ahhhh Men! Thanks Umbrae) ~RosanneUmbrae said:Kabbalah is also a way of life. It’s not simply books and words.
The Mishnah is the ‘oral code of laws’. It helps us live in four worlds, even though we are only aware of one (Asiyyah).
Kabbalah helps us understand that everything we do think and say in Asiyyah, resonates in the other worlds – and that eventually – everything evens out.
Yishuv Olam (settling the world) is a concept that comes from Genesis 2:15 where we were ‘assigned’ “to till and tend” the world. We are directed that we should try to increase the quality of life of not only ourselves, but of our fellow man – without creating want, to create abundance without creating need. It is central to the concept of living the Kabbalah.