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Rejecting the Light;Maintaining our connection with the Creator

The Light is God’s bounty the Goodness of the One that the One wants to give all the created beings.It is dynamic, conscious, loving.  Why is it when the vessel for the light first receives it it rejects it according to Rabbi Ashlag, the Master Kabbalist. Do we reject light too? Why do we do that? Learn with Yedidah why initially rejecting the light is a positive step for the vessel and leads to something new. Click on audio link above

In the Bible we read about God being angry or jealous, or loving. We also have differrent names for God, E-l or the Lord of Hosts, or the sacred four letter Name of God. But the Master Kabbalist the Ari who lived in Safed taught that God is Unknowable and has no Name.  Yedidah discusses this issue but doesn’t leave it there,she asks does it matter for me in my life now? Surprisingly it does. Whatever Name I call God is the Light of God I attract to myself. These names are of God’s light. Join Yedidah for the full and fascinating discussion on The Names of God refer to the Light of God

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Sometimes life presents me with a situation which seems impossible to resolve. When sharing this with a friend I realized that this experience is not unique and I couldn’t help wondering why? The Creator created the worlds with increasing concealment in order to give human beings free choice.

Yedidah continues this discussion by looking at where freedom of choice really lies, based on Rabbi Ashlag’s article on “Freedom”. Click on audio

 Further on decisions

 

 

 

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The Holy Master the Baal Shem Tov teaches us that before we make any move we need to consider ourselves as having infinite free choice. After the event we need to consider that the move we chose was the one God wanted us to choose.

 

I considered this statement carefully. Does it match with my experience? I have to say it doesn’t. Before any event it feels as if I have one or maybe two choices available, certainly not a whole array of choices. I decided I need to go into this matter more carefully. After all, if a mere computer has a large number of choices just playing one move in a game of chess, how is it that I, a human being who is far more complex and sophisticated and dealing with life itself should have less?

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The body and the soul have three main channels to them’ according to the way the Divine channels, the Sephirot line up. These are the right hand line, the left hand line and the middle line. Our consciousness also lines up similarly, the right hand line being the consciousness of wholeness and perfection, that all is just as it should be, and the left hand line being the consciousness of where I really am. Which consciousness should I focus on? Which one is more real? Join Yedidah on audio Join Yedidah on audio Where I am and where I\’d like to be

 

 

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The garments of the Torah hide its essence. click here to hear Rabbi Yehudah Lev Ashlag’ teaching on the nature of the Torah

As we finish the period of counting the Omer, we look forward to the upcoming festival of the giving of the Torah, the festival of Shavuot.  The light of the Torah and the garments it is enclothed in in this world are not the same thing. Rabbi Ashlag, the great Kabbalist explains why the garments of the Torah, its do’s and don’ts , permitted and forbidden don’t always seem to us to be connected with God.  Yedidah  discusses his thought and reads an excerpt from Rabbi Ashlag’s Introduction to the Ten Sephirot as it appears in In the Shadow of the Ladder  published by Nehora Press.

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A friend asked me this week what do we do with our hurt feelings when someone, intentionally or otherwise hurts us. If we are not careful, harboring hurt feelings can cause us to fall into feelings of vengence, resentment, bearing a grudge or even hatred, and can lead us into transgressing many Torah mitzvot. Without denying our own truth there is a middle path that Rabbi Ashlag shows us in the Kabbalah wisdom. Join Yedidah by clicking on audio link      

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The idea exists in the Kabbalah that reality is actually a hologram. Each small piece has the whole within it. Is this just an interesting theroetical fact or, if we are able ourselves to view our reality in holographic terms could this help us in our life? We examine the proposition by looking at the very first sentence of the Bible and seeing how it contains within it an entire process. We then look at the concept of forgiveness and see how this principle can work for ourselves. Click on audio link below to listen to podcast. 10 minutes
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In the language of Kabbalah the male and the female represent the forces of giving and receiving; the dynamic dance beween the light and the vessel. In the union of opposites a new entity is formed, the possibility of receiving the light with the intention of giving. This represents the ultimate purpose of Creation. This dance is represented within each man and woman, between each other and in our relationship with the Divine. Rabbi Yehudah Lev Ashlag teaches us the spiritual roots of the entities in this world according to the language of the Kabbalah, the “language of the branches”

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In the Shema that we say every day, it says, “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” Where does one begin from ? and is it possible to command love anyway? Rabbi Yehuda Lev Ashlag z”l wrote on this subject in his Introduction to the Ten Sephirot. He looks at the stages of love between people . In this broadcast Yedidah looks at the very first stage of love this great Kabbalaist describes. Click on audio link below http://www.nehorapress.com/audio.asp