19 chapters · by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg
Safe Kabbalah, Part Two: The Fourth Dimension
Published by the Jewish Discovery Center. Every chapter is free to read below.
- Safe Kabbalah – Awakening from the Dead-Remez There is, however, another more remote connotation to our expression of gratitude when we say Modeh Ani. While it cannot be debated that Modeh Ani is…
- Safe Kabbalah – Don’t Withhold – Drush If Drush is the process by which we look beneath the surface for some deeper message other than the obvious one, then Modeh Ani should be understood…
- Safe Kabbalah – Drush Drush derives from the word that means to investigate or probe. Very often when a text says something it means more than what meets the eye. It is not…
- Safe Kabbalah – Four Dimension-Pardes Torah, as Divine wisdom, is the single most overt expression of G-dly energy in the world. But, even Torah, in order for it to be understood by us,…
- Safe Kabbalah – Four Dimensions: So What? Conclusion We may now have developed a greater appreciation for Torah and Sod in particular. No longer is Torah viewed as a one-dimensional law book, but as a…
- Safe Kabbalah – It Sounds Greek to Me The Talmud relates that King Ptolemy of Egypt summoned seventy-two sages of Israel and asked them to translate the Torah into Greek. He then placed…
- Safe Kabbalah – Kabbalah: An Integral Part of Torah But, alas, even when we study Torah we might not feel the Divine character that it possesses. Our minds may be so clouded that even when we study…
- Safe Kabbalah – P’shat These four levels can be translated and explained as follows: P’shat refers to the simple level of interpretation. The word P’shat is related to the…
- Safe Kabbalah – Remez If P’shat is the simple meaning of the text, Remez is the alluded meaning.
- Safe Kabbalah – The Barriers Removed A story is told of the famed Rabbi Moshe Alshich, one of the greatest rabbis of his time, who lived in the city of Tzefat in northern Israel. Tzefat…
- Safe Kabbalah – The Chassidic Contribution The 19th of Kislev is the anniversary of the release from prison of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812). Rabbi Schneur Zalman, a disciple of…
- Safe Kabbalah – The Farmer, Archeologist, Geologist and Treasure Hunter To better appreciate the differences between the four worlds of interpretation, an analogy from four ways one can analyze the earth could prove…
- Safe Kabbalah – The Fifth Level-The Essence of Torah In the foregoing essay, entitled “On the Essence of Chassidus,” the Lubavitcher Rebbe elaborates on the four levels of interpretation as they apply to…
- Safe Kabbalah – The Four Faces of Genesis – Sod And finally on the level of Sod, the word Breishit is translated as if the word were a composite of two words “Bara” and Shis.” Meaning that G-d…
- Safe Kabbalah – The Great Thank You- P’shat When we examine this prayer that a Jew says upon awakening, we will discover that it too, as all parts of Torah, has at least four ways of looking at…
- Safe Kabbalah – The Quantum Leap To better understand this quantum leap; let us refer to the Zohar’s description of the four levels of interpretation as representing the “four…
- Safe Kabbalah – The Secret of Awakening-Sod The highest level of interpretation – Sod – cannot be adduced from the text of Modeh Ani. Having some basic outside information will also not suffice.…
- Safe Kabbalah – Torah and Secular Knowledge Despite the fact that Torah is divided into many levels, even the "lowest" level of Torah possesses a G-dly light that is untarnished and unfiltered…
- Safe Kabbalah – Torah: G-d’s Revelation on Earth G-d's energy comes into this world in many shapes and sizes. When we look at a living being we see G-d.