January 1, 2012 – Page 2 – Kabbalah Wisdom

Purpose vs. Purposelessness

Purpose Purposelessness Mothering Making money for self agrandization Fathering For a woman not to mother Contributing For a man not to father

The goal of life is to create islands of purposeful meaningful activities in an ocean deluged by purposeless meaningless ones.

The greatness of God is that no matter how sublime blissful peaceful tranquil serene spiritually active your life may get – through God’s intervention which is constant – it will always get even more sublime blissful peaceful tranquil serene spiritually active.

God says “Love the convert for you know what it means to be a foreigner in a foreign land.” Why not just say love the convert? The answer is that human nature is such that like colors we can only see emotions that we have felt. Someone who is color blind canContinue reading “Love”

Another very powerful way for us to recognize everything, most notably ourselves, is to name the three operating systems the Kabbalah teaches us we have and can be influenced by, namely the mind, heart, liver; intellect, instinct and ego.

Intellect is God, for God is intellectual choices to do / choose good. Emotions are a Dog; for the Dog simply reacts to life as it suites his instinctual fears and loves i.e. he stays away from painful stimuli and is attracted to pleasurable stimuli. Ego is Hitler, for the source ofContinue reading “Another very powerful way for us to recognize everything, most notably ourselves, is to name the three operating systems the Kabbalah teaches us we have and can be influenced by, namely the mind, heart, liver; intellect, instinct and ego.”

The greatness of God, infinite goodness, is that he is just as much at home within you within time and space, just as much accessible, just as much – if not more concerned about you – than with the loftiest matters, for a parent may have limitations but as God unlimited He is just as much at home within you within time and space, then beyond time and space, the highest and the lowest are no further nor closer to infinty who can be there for all equally at the same tiem and still give them the space to be themselves.

What was the very first approach the devil The Yetzer Hara used to trick man, plunging the world into darkness and chaos?

1. Now the serpent was cunning, more than all the beasts in the field that the Lord God had made, and it said to the woman, “Did God indeed say, ‘You shall not eat of any of the trees of the garden?’” א. וְהַנָּחָשׁ הָיָה עָרוּם מִכֹּל חַיַּת הַשָּׂדֶה אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה יְ־הֹוָ־ה אֱ־לֹהִיםContinue reading “What was the very first approach the devil The Yetzer Hara used to trick man, plunging the world into darkness and chaos?”