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How does Kabbalah define evil?
I’ve always looked at it as a lack of good. Just like darkness is the absences of light.
An article or two would very much be appreciated.
From Attaining the Worlds Beyond:
1. Can you please explain a bit more about “Malchut” and “Shechina”? I don’t really understand the difference between the terms/concepts.
2. I’m finding the “faith above reason” a bit of a conflicting statement. You guys say that Kabbalah is a science and not religion. While Science does a require a bit of faith, it seems like the concept is more religious in nature. Is this because the reading defines faith as “the awareness of the Creator?” Can you explain a bit more about why it’s considered a science?
Kabbalah Revealed
What are the three boundaries mentioned in the reading (page 103)?
Will we learn more about how to identify Reshimot and how to address them in later lessons?
In Kabbalah Revealed Reading, it talks about how Nature is synonymous with the creator and then goes on to say “The term “Creator” does not signify a supernatural, distinct entity, but the next degree that a human being should reach when pursuing higher knowledge…..Thus, the word, “Creator” is a personal invitation to experience the spiritual world.” Does this mean that Kabbalist don’t believe that a G-d exist in the normal Judo-Christian sense? That there isn’t a higher-all knowing power? Do they believe that the creator is essentially a higher state of Spiritual being, like a higher level of conscience? If so, then when the Torah is saying that G-d is talking and telling them Mitzvah and the laws of the Torah, who/what is that communicating with them?
I’ve always believed in a higher power of sorts so this paragraph has rocked me a bit.
To be able to see how we are all connected to each other and how we are connected to and interact with Ein Sof.
If the purpose of Kabbalah is to unite the whole of humanity in order to over come our Ego – why don’t Jews evangelize like Christians and Islam?
