Editorial notes: This essay moves from a brief reference to the Mishnah Shabbat to Kabbalistic categories mentioned in passing referring to Shabbat and everyday affairs, on to Midrashic analogies and the desirability of being true to oneself and ends with applying Kabbalistic terms to the crucial importance of the material world. This is related to the Fifth Commandment of honouring one’s parents...
{Part 1 – 06/11/2016} Trying to get a fix on the best way to think about this… 3**-2**** with itself. Cf. Noah’s ark cf. “tell them you’re my sister” per Ohr Hachayim cf. until Schem until Alon Morah > Per Otiyot > Per Ramban re. Schem re. Levi and Shimon >> Add ref to Yosef >> Could even add re. the “missing” numbers cf. what the...
{Part 1 – 14/05/2017} I wonder at the sequence of the holidays overlaying the parashiot, moving from Shemot to Purim to Pesach to Vayikra to the omer and Behar, approaching Shavuot, having past the point of 33 (lamed gimmel which burn like a fire). How does one enter a spiral gate? Every time you went through it, you would follow a circular path needing to enter it again. At each half-way...
{Part 1 – 09/01/2017} How do we move ourselves forward in time? The Haftorah echoes David preparing for death (as does Yaakov in the parashah), instructing his son (and Yaakov does this in the blessing, and in the meaning of Vayechi Yaakov). There are many difficulties. We are drowned by our own suffering (Zohar Vayechi 216), and we are hidden by our flaws (Dvarim 31.18). This is a terrible...
I could never find an audience in my mind, and so I have invented the unborn child’s face to address. Hello, child of Judah and Benjamin and Levi, sons of Israel, son of the one who was laughed at, son of the Nations. I don’t know what your parents taught you. I don’t know what the world is telling you, nor what you think of all these things. If you are anything like I was at your age, then you...
B/S: W/u about letter ayin, connecting Yaakov’s ladder, and Absolute truth/law vs absolute beauty; the idea for samech sofit within reish. which implies the waning of the moon and thus explains how the Mishkan can be built from within Malchut, and thus links to the rope of Kadosh which links to Korach’s judgment which links to the red cow but also, in general, the two goats of Yom...
[Editor: This is more “charity case” less “business proposal”] Begin by introducing the experiential state of sati as resulting from instructions The concept of bare attention The concept of purity of experience Pause to introduce bhakti yoga as experiential and resulting from instructions Situating bhakti by comparison within mindfulness of deportment theory Pause to introduce form vs concept...
[Editor: Poor and looks barren] This is probably antithetical to the goal Not happy with this. Plan: Opening room for hope [Optional section, dry but makes methodology justified – how to test belief systems [Optional section: cleaning the board; religion vs Judaism, and implications for approaching a test here. Marking targets for pilot investigation in principle Specific example route...
{Part 1 – 25/10/2016} Schema: Form of high Will for sake of Name Intend to read by this manner Intend to read by the manner of #1 and the result of #2 Intend to realize the balance between kindness and severity of result of #3, whilst reading in the manner of #1, with the result of #2 Intend to realize the balance between Left and Right L2, i.e. between those things that are...
A map to a pathway: Dear You[1], We can tell each other how our life has been, which in essence (and writ small) is a tiny postcard, or map of where/what we’ve done and how we got there. The Earth is a single globe, and everything is One (everyone understands this in their own way, but we mostly agree that All is Greater than the self which separates itself from it). This means that every map in...
