26 chapters · by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg
Safe Kabbalah, Part Three: Journeys of the Soul
Published by the Jewish Discovery Center. Every chapter is free to read below.
- Safe Kabbalah – Acting or Teaching? The belief in the Messianic Age and the Resurrection of the Dead – according to the Kabbalists – is not merely a further step in the journey of the…
- Safe Kabbalah – Against Your Will You Live; Against Your Will You Die All of the above has been sated succinctly by our Talmudic sages: “Against your will you must live.” Taken at face value this refers to the lack of…
- Safe Kabbalah – Divine Ecology: Reincarnation Reincarnation Is Jewish When the soul stands before the heavenly courts, angels carrying wagonloads of Mitzvot and transgressions, come before the tribunal to argue for and…
- Safe Kabbalah – Fundamental Principle of Judaism We can now appreciate why the belief in Moshiach is considered to be one of the fundamental beliefs of Judaism. To believe in a world that will not…
- Safe Kabbalah – G-d’s Justice Validated Some commentators, such as the Abarbanel, explain that both the belief in the Messianic Age and the belief in the Resurrection of the Dead are basic…
- Safe Kabbalah – Getting the Body Out of the Soul There is however a “hitch.” While the soul can be removed from the body very easily – through the process of death – the body (read: material…
- Safe Kabbalah – Heaven and Paradise: Where Is It? Heaven or Paradise, first of all, is not to be understood as a “place” in the spatial connotation of the word. It is not a place somewhere in outer…
- Safe Kabbalah – Is There a Heaven and a Hell? the Way Jews Know Jewish Theology Most Jews, if questioned as to what are the theological differences between Judaism and Christianity, will invariably answer: Heaven and Hell. They…
- Safe Kabbalah – Journeys of the Soul Ii Why? The question that everyone asks at one point in life or another. Why did G-d put us here? In the context of the soul, the question assumes…
- Safe Kabbalah – Journeys of the Soul One of the salient features of Kabbalah is its unified view of everything. When one looks at the world from the outside, one sees a multiplicity of…
- Safe Kabbalah – Knowing Your Mission At this point, one is entitled to ask a very simple but crucial question. If the soul that we possess was here before because it did something wrong…
- Safe Kabbalah – Mitzvot: An Artform Jewish Mysticism, introduces us to a deeper understanding of the centrality of the Messianic Age and its preeminence over the Afterlife. In addition…
- Safe Kabbalah – Moshiach: Purpose of Creation When G-d created the universe He created two realities. If we would want to use modern day terminology we can say that G-d created reality and a…
- Safe Kabbalah – Multiple Incarnations and Resurrection There is one outstanding issue with regard to reincarnation and Resurrection. As we will discuss in a subsequent chapter (Chapter 19), one of…
- Safe Kabbalah – Nature of the Soul We have already discussed the nature of the soul briefly in the very beginning of the book. Let us probe further into the dynamics of the soul The…
- Safe Kabbalah – Obstructions The first analogy is to a dam. When the waters accumulate due to obstructions that exist and block the flow of water, eventually the obstruction will…
- Safe Kabbalah – Realizing One’s Full Potential What reincarnation accomplishes is very simple. Whatever the soul messed up during its first stay in this physical world, it can make up when it…
- Safe Kabbalah – Realizing the Soul’s Potential There is also a second reason for reincarnation. It is very likely that a person can live a long, productive and righteous life, but still missed the…
- Safe Kabbalah – Resurrection: No Dropouts Following this line of reasoning, we have one more issue to settle. What added dimension do we gain from the Resurrection of the Dead? Haven’t we…
- Safe Kabbalah – The King and the Prince There is yet one more analogy from the human sphere that relates to a king and his son the crown prince. The king gives his only son, the heir to the…
- Safe Kabbalah – The Messianic Age: The Completion of the Palace the Second Goal In the last few chapters we have been discussing the mission of the soul in this world. Its goal is to struggle with the material world and the…
- Safe Kabbalah – The Resurrection of the Dead a Jewish Belief One of the most under-emphasized Jewish beliefs is the resurrection of the dead. This is in stark contrast to the way things were in the days of…
- Safe Kabbalah – Three Distinct Principles We must still understand why there is a need for three distinct principles.
- Safe Kabbalah – Three Donkeys In the Torah there is a reference to three great people and their donkey. Abraham saddled his donkey. Moses put his family to ride his donkey and the…
- Safe Kabbalah – Three Forms of Messianism While there are multitudes of messianic philosophies, they can all be reduced to three forms.
- Safe Kabbalah – Why the Descent of the Soul? Why would G-d take the soul, which is a part of Himself, and force it to descend into a physical world clad in a physical body? To make the question…