Kabballart: The Art of the Kabbalah

What is Kabbalah? Kabbalah is Jewish mysticism, that is a progressive revelation of the esoteric meaning of the text of the Torah (the Jewish Bible) and the secrets that lurk behind the observance of mitzvot material (divine commandments). The Torah is the code of cosmic creation and the Kabbalah is its decoding. Kabbalah is the key that opens the seals, locks and doors of the supreme knowledge contained in the sacred text. It is the mystique of language that introduces us to explore the infinite world of the Hebrew alphabet: the study of letters, of their shape and their sound as well as their numerical value. They give us the access to the roots that generate them constantly in our minds and mouths and that establish the connection channels to the infinite network of correspondences between the micro-cosmos and macro cosmos, between the body, the soul of man and the planets, the constellations and all the worlds. The correction of the way we communicate to ourselves and to others, is therefore the instrument of repair of the human soul and the way of rectifying the universal evil, suffering and death. The devastating divine waters of Kabbalistic wisdom jealously guarded for millennia, have stormed the world by breaking down the old dam that kept them locked up in the narrow context of a small circle of initiates, and they are flooding the earth until every bowl is filled with them! The comparative study of Kabbalah and modern science opens new horizons of knowledge unknown to our ancestors... Kabbalah is an ocean of universes! Often the person who approaches the Kabbalah is discouraged by people who consider it a doctrine made up of occult or satanic witchcraft: it is true that our greatest Kabbalists, who have had access to higher spheres of knowledge, could see the future, could read souls, healing work, work miracles and raise the dead, but not through empty magic rituals, but in connection with the higher mysteries of the Creator and the universe. As if that were not enough, the one who approaches the study of Kabbalah must also debate with the same rabbis who oppose many valid reasons for its spread: • Today most of the media material that is under the label "Kabbalah" is a hodgepodge of many elements of various origins that have nothing to do with the Jewish Kabbalah. • Often the teaching of Kabbalah is exploited for profit • The Kabbalah has often been trivialized and presented as a fast producer of quick fast-food recipes applicable to all the demands of life • The study of Kabbalah is reserved only to a jewish man (and not to a woman) who has already studied all the oral tradition, which is perfectly observant of the mitzvot (commandments) and halakot (rabbinic law) and who has already reached the fortieth years of age. In principle, this is the path to more accurate, because it is in fact quite impossible to advance in the study of Kabbalah if we have an excellent knowledge of Torah, Judaism and Hebrew. This long series of demands expected prior to the study of Kabbalah are applicable in an ideal way that today no longer reflects the reality of many Jews assimilated to the dominant cultures, who don’t even know the ABC of the Torah and the Judaism. The Hasidic movement set up by the Baal Shem Tov (Master who lived in '700), was a veritable "Copernican" revolution in Judaism, as it promotes the spread of the highest messages of Kabbalah among uneducated people, poor and illiterate with a view to accelerate the arrival of the messianic age. Due to this reckless boldness, the Hasidic movement was harshly persecuted by the greatest rabbis of the time, contemporaries of his enlightened founder. That thirst of the souls that the Baal Shem Tov had tried to appease, that very thirsty today remains, it is not just the of Jewish souls, but also those of all people of every nation and culture, rush to asset eternal waters of Kabbalah: This is a unstoppable phenomenon because only the Kabbalah has answers to the needs of the human soul more absolute. Thus we see that the spiritual awakening that characterizes our generation is the sign proclaiming that the words of our prophets is being made: "Behold, days are coming," declares the Lord G-D, "When I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, But rather for hearing the words of the Lord. (Amos 8, 11) So many today are those who make the journey "in reverse, ie starting from the study of Torah to the soul then to understand the habits of which it 'is." The Zohar says that the Torah is a dress that covers the body of the Bride of G-d (= the people of Israel), and - just ask the men - what is more beautiful: the body of a woman or the dress that coat it? And the body of a woman in turn conceals something even more beautiful: the body is the INVOLUCRE of the soul so in the BODY of Israel, surrounded by the CLOAK of the Torah, lurks the SOUL of this world, namely the DIVINE PRESENCE: one is contained inside the other. To start your search path with the study of the Zohar (the most sacred book of Jewish esoteric tradition) means to begin from WITHIN, from the soul of the Torah, from its very hidden part... There are men who are attracted to the clothes of a woman and her body and there are men attracted to his soul, that is the truer reality: the souls of those who dedicate themselves to the study of Kaballah are souls attracted to the mystery that lurks behind the outer “garments” of the Torah ... Torah and Kabbalah are not contradictory, symbolically speaking they are the same "woman"! Obviously to win this "divine prey" requires a courtship and a long series of arduous tests of love ... everything has its price, a rare diamond is much more expensive than a fake crystal! But if I am ready to pay the price of a precious diamond, I'll also then protect it and keep it from those who attempt to kidnap or profane it. Thus the Zohar describes the attraction that the Torah carries on the thirsting soul for spiritual realities and eternal, like the fascination that a beautiful woman arouses in the heart of him who falls in love. The Zohar also not hesitate to compare the four different levels of the study of Torah (Pshat, Drashah, Hagdadah, Sod) GH at four stages of disclosure of their intimacy in the beloved grants access to its most daring and intrepid suitor. Rabbi Yose said: who is the beautiful virgin who has no eyes, whose body is secret but yet revealed, revealed in the morning and secret during the day, and adorned with jewelry that does not exist? (the Torah) is, so to speak, as a beautiful and noble girl who hides in the dungeon of her palace, and has a lover that no one knows except her. Because of the love that he feels, it moves constantly at the door of the girl and wanders restlessly with his eyes. She knows that he is still there near her home, and then what does he? She opens just a narrow of the dungeon in the palace, she shows her face the beloved, knowing that the girl is revealed for his love, even if only for a moment. So is the Torah that reveals it innermost secrets only to those who love her (:..) it proves elusive and in doing so it stirs up the love that brings its lover. So is the Torah, we know that at the beginning, when it begins to tell someone, it gives him the allusions. If man understands and acknowledges it, good. Otherwise it send for him, addressed him as "novice" and then said to his messengers: "Let all who are simple come in here!" she says to those who lack judgment.(Pr 9:4)." When he comes, the Torah begins to speak, at first from behind the hanging that it unfolds for him around its own words, so that they are in his measure (PSHAT). Slowly he sees more and more: this is the so-called DRASHAH. After that the Torah begins to talk to him behind a fine cloth fabric, using riddles and parables, namely Haggadah. When at last the man can say he is in confidence with the Torah, then and only then it is exposed with him face to face and talks to him the secrets of the most inaccessible and mysterious ways all the answers in her heart since immemorial time ( SOD). Then the man is a true follower of the Torah, which may be called "lord of the house" because it revealed to him all his secrets, without keeping or concealing anything (...) then he realizes that indeed the words of the Torah is unacceptable to add or subtract anything, not even a sign or a character (Zohar II 94b-99b) Expanding on the topic of the clothes of the Torah we suggest you check these pages on our site: • Shekinah • Cloth of the Torah • Mystic embrodery Home Torah - arte e Kabbalah - Scienza e Kabbalah - Israele - judaica - musica - fotografia - cinema ebraico - contatti - attività shazarahel - Arte e Kabbalah - Sapienza della Verità - Tobia Ravà - David Friedman - Esrher Ghenassia - Berger - kabbal-art	"La Shekinah" paynting by Shazarahel

What is Kabbalah?

Kabbalah is Jewish mysticism, that is a progressive revelation of the esoteric meaning of the text of the Torah (the Jewish Bible) and the secrets that lurk behind the observance of mitzvot material (divine commandments).

The Torah is the code of cosmic creation and the Kabbalah is its decoding.

Kabbalah is the key that opens the seals, locks and doors of the supreme knowledge contained in the sacred text.

It is the mystique of language that introduces us to explore the infinite world of the Hebrew alphabet: the study of letters, of their shape and their sound as well as their numerical value. They give us the access to the roots that generate them constantly in our minds and mouths and that establish the connection channels to the infinite network of correspondences between the micro-cosmos and macro cosmos, between the body, the soul of man and the planets, the constellations and all the worlds.

The correction of the way we communicate to ourselves and to others, is therefore the instrument of repair of the human soul and the way of rectifying the universal evil, suffering and death.

The devastating divine waters of Kabbalistic wisdom jealously guarded for millennia, have stormed the world by breaking down the old dam that kept them locked up in the narrow context of a small circle of initiates, and they are flooding the earth until every bowl is filled with them!

The comparative study of Kabbalah and modern science opens new horizons of knowledge unknown to our ancestors...

Kabbalah is an ocean of universes!

Often the person who approaches the Kabbalah is discouraged by people who consider it a doctrine made up of occult or satanic witchcraft: it is true that our greatest Kabbalists, who have had access to higher spheres of knowledge, could see the future, could read souls, healing work, work miracles and raise the dead, but not through empty magic rituals, but in connection with the higher mysteries of the Creator and the universe.

As if that were not enough, the one who approaches the study of Kabbalah must also debate with the same rabbis who oppose many valid reasons for its spread:

• Today most of the media material that is under the label "Kabbalah" is a hodgepodge of many elements of various origins that have nothing to do with the Jewish Kabbalah.

• Often the teaching of Kabbalah is exploited for profit

• The Kabbalah has often been trivialized and presented as a fast producer of quick fast-food recipes applicable to all the demands of life

• The study of Kabbalah is reserved only to a jewish man (and not to a woman) who has already studied all the oral tradition, which is perfectly observant of the mitzvot (commandments) and halakot (rabbinic law) and who has already reached the fortieth years of age.

In principle, this is the path to more accurate, because it is in fact quite impossible to advance in the study of Kabbalah if we have an excellent knowledge of Torah, Judaism and Hebrew.

This long series of demands expected prior to the study of Kabbalah are applicable in an ideal way that today no longer reflects the reality of many Jews assimilated to the dominant cultures, who don’t even know the ABC of the Torah and the Judaism.

The Hasidic movement set up by the Baal Shem Tov (Master who lived in '700), was a veritable "Copernican" revolution in Judaism, as it promotes the spread of the highest messages of Kabbalah among uneducated people, poor and illiterate with a view to accelerate the arrival of the messianic age. Due to this reckless boldness, the Hasidic movement was harshly persecuted by the greatest rabbis of the time, contemporaries of his enlightened founder.

That thirst of the souls that the Baal Shem Tov had tried to appease, that very thirsty today remains, it is not just the of Jewish souls, but also those of all people of every nation and culture, rush to asset eternal waters of Kabbalah: This is a unstoppable phenomenon because only the Kabbalah has answers to the needs of the human soul more absolute.

Thus we see that the spiritual awakening that characterizes our generation is the sign proclaiming that the words of our prophets is being made:

"Behold, days are coming," declares the Lord G-D, "When I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, But rather for hearing the words of the Lord. (Amos 8, 11)

So many today are those who make the journey "in reverse, ie starting from the study of Torah to the soul then to understand the habits of which it 'is."

The Zohar says that the Torah is a dress that covers the body of the Bride of G-d (= the people of Israel), and - just ask the men - what is more beautiful: the body of a woman or the dress that coat it? And the body of a woman in turn conceals something even more beautiful: the body is the INVOLUCRE of the soul so in the BODY of Israel, surrounded by the CLOAK of the Torah, lurks the SOUL of this world, namely the DIVINE PRESENCE: one is contained inside the other.

To start your search path with the study of the Zohar (the most sacred book of Jewish esoteric tradition) means to begin from WITHIN, from the soul of the Torah, from its very hidden part... There are men who are attracted to the clothes of a woman and her body and there are men attracted to his soul, that is the truer reality: the souls of those who dedicate themselves to the study of Kaballah are souls attracted to the mystery that lurks behind the outer “garments” of the Torah ... Torah and Kabbalah are not contradictory, symbolically speaking they are the same "woman"!

Obviously to win this "divine prey" requires a courtship and a long series of arduous tests of love ... everything has its price, a rare diamond is much more expensive than a fake crystal! But if I am ready to pay the price of a precious diamond, I'll also then protect it and keep it from those who attempt to kidnap or profane it.

Thus the Zohar describes the attraction that the Torah carries on the thirsting soul for spiritual realities and eternal, like the fascination that a beautiful woman arouses in the heart of him who falls in love. The Zohar also not hesitate to compare the four different levels of the study of Torah (Pshat, Drashah, Hagdadah, Sod) GH at four stages of disclosure of their intimacy in the beloved grants access to its most daring and intrepid suitor.

Rabbi Yose said: who is the beautiful virgin who has no eyes, whose body is secret but yet revealed, revealed in the morning and secret during the day, and adorned with jewelry that does not exist?

(the Torah) is, so to speak, as a beautiful and noble girl who hides in the dungeon of her palace, and has a lover that no one knows except her. Because of the love that he feels, it moves constantly at the door of the girl and wanders restlessly with his eyes. She knows that he is still there near her home, and then what does he? She opens just a narrow of the dungeon in the palace, she shows her face the beloved, knowing that the girl is revealed for his love, even if only for a moment.

So is the Torah that reveals it innermost secrets only to those who love her (:..) it proves elusive and in doing so it stirs up the love that brings its lover. So is the Torah, we know that at the beginning, when it begins to tell someone, it gives him the allusions. If man understands and acknowledges it, good. Otherwise it send for him, addressed him as "novice" and then said to his messengers: "Let all who are simple come in here!" she says to those who lack judgment.(Pr 9:4)." When he comes, the Torah begins to speak, at first from behind the hanging that it unfolds for him around its own words, so that they are in his measure (PSHAT).

Slowly he sees more and more: this is the so-called DRASHAH. After that the Torah begins to talk to him behind a fine cloth fabric, using riddles and parables, namely Haggadah. When at last the man can say he is in confidence with the Torah, then and only then it is exposed with him face to face and talks to him the secrets of the most inaccessible and mysterious ways all the answers in her heart since immemorial time ( SOD). Then the man is a true follower of the Torah, which may be called "lord of the house" because it revealed to him all his secrets, without keeping or concealing anything (...) then he realizes that indeed the words of the Torah is unacceptable to add or subtract anything, not even a sign or a character

(Zohar II 94b-99b)

Expanding on the topic of the clothes of the Torah we suggest you check these pages on our site:

• Shekinah

• Cloth of the Torah

• Mystic embrodery

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