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Kabbalah - Session III – November 16 & 17, 2018

Audio Files:

Friday Night: https://s3.amazonaws.com/c7d-ooow/wp-

content/uploads/2018/11/18042331/kabbalah-sess-iii-fri-pm-ed.mp3 (1:40)

Saturday Morning: Part 1 - https://s3.amazonaws.com/c7d-ooow/wp-

content/uploads/2018/11/18191845/kabbalah-sess-iii-sat-am-i-ed.mp3 (1:35)

Part 2 - https://s3.amazonaws.com/c7d-ooow/wp-

content/uploads/2018/11/18210526/kabbalah-sess-iii-sat-am-ii-ed.mp3 (53 min)

Saturday Afternoon: Part 1 - https://s3.amazonaws.com/c7d-ooow/wp-

content/uploads/2018/11/19010214/kabbalah-sess-iii-sat-pm-i-ed.mp3 (1:17)

Part 2 - https://s3.amazonaws.com/c7d-ooow/wp-

content/uploads/2018/11/19022603/kabbalah-sess-iii-sat-pm-ii-ed.mp3 (56 min)

Friday Evening Notes and Lecture:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/c7d-ooow/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/18042331/kabbalah-

sess-iii-fri-pm-ed.mp3 (1:40)

Minute 12: Dominant Features of Jewish Mystical Tradition

It is intensely relational, intimate and personal, a deep encounter between human and

Divine persons.

There is an active agency, the Divine is more interested in us than we are in It, and is

constantly seeking us. There is on-going prophetic voice providing guidance to the degree

one is open to hearing Presence.

It is right-brained focused: imaginal, intuitive, and metaphorical. It is cataphatic not

apophatic.

There is emphasis on pilgrimage, movement toward Unity, this is an on-going process. The

Divine adapts to our experience, to our level of awareness. It touches us where we are. It

is not up to us “to get up there”.

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Minute 30: Minute 32-34:

Minute 36: Minute 37:

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Minute 38 - 42

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Minute 52: Minute 54:

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Minute 56 Minute 57

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Minute 61

Minute 64-65: Jewish mysticism opens up transcendence/immanence, far/near, ascent

(chariot)/descent.

Minute 67: Mysticism of “olam tikkun,” defined by acts of kindness performed to perfect or

repair the world.

Minute 81: Jewish mystical world sanctifies “space” holy. The Temple, its surroundings, was a

reflection of the understanding that earth and human self are sanctified.

Minute 82: The next step is the sanctification of time: The Jubilee, the annual festivals, the

lunar and solar calendars, etc. All time is sacred.

Minute 83-84: Finally the sanctification of person, each creature is sacred.

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93 minutes: Minute 94:

Minute 97-99:

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Saturday Morning, Part I, Notes and Lecture:

Audio file: https://s3.amazonaws.com/c7d-ooow/wp-

content/uploads/2018/11/18191845/kabbalah-sess-iii-sat-am-i-ed.mp3

Minute 12 Minute 54:30

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Ein Sof - endless reality, limitless Light, no-thing, uncreated Light

Tzimtzum - a withdrawing, stepping back by the Divine, a stepping forward to engage polarities

Minute 60:

YHWH (the Unspeakable Name), “Divine Consciousess”

Minute 66

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Minute 68 – 70 (Series)

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Minute 75

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Minute 76

Minute 82

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Minute 83

Minute 84 (series)

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Minute 87 Minute 89

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Minute 90 Minute 91

Minute 94

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Minute 95 Exploring Ein Sof

Saturday Morning, Part II, Notes and Lecture:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/c7d-ooow/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/18210526/kabbalah-sess-iii-

sat-am-ii-ed.mp3 (53 minutes)

YHWH, the “I AM” presence, both consciousness and being. Kether - “Crown of all Creation”

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Minute 14 – Chokhmah - “Wisdom”; “Wholeness” Minute 21

Minute 23 - Binah - “Understanding”,” Minute 38 - Hesed - “Pure Energy of

“The Womb of Knowledge” Unconditional Love”, “Mercy”

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Minute 45 Gevurah - “Love is Strength” when used strategically. “Discernment”. “Judgment”

Saturday Afternoon, Part I, Notes and Lecture:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/c7d-ooow/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/19010214/kabbalah-

sess-iii-sat-pm-i-ed.mp3 (1:17)

Minute 12 The Meaning of Beauty w/ Seyyed hossein Nasr (video, 4 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgIhQA27Lc0

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Minutes 19-22

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Minute 22-34 “What is the Meaning of Life?” w/Wayne Morrison (video, 12 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw6W_gopaHM

Minute 35 Minute 38 – standing up

Minute 38 – Beauty Minute 39 – Da’at “Knowledge by Presence”

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Minute 41 – return to the Tree of Life image

Minute 56 – return to Images 7 -10 (belly center)

Minute 57:30 Perfect Integration – revisit series on pages 15-16

Minute 59

Minute 63 Lurianic Judaism: tikum olam, apokatasis, “repair of the world”, “restoration of the

world into Beauty”

Minute 67 – 75 Images of wabi sabi, “kintsugi”

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Minute 69-72 Beauty in the Incomplete

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Saturday Afternoon, Part II, Notes and Lecture:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/c7d-ooow/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/19022603/kabbalah-

sess-iii-sat-pm-ii-ed.mp3 (56 min)

Minute 1

Minute 3 - 3:01-3:39 community sharing of beauty

Minute 4

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Minute 47-55: Paul Winters Consort: “Down in Belgorod”, “Kyrie”, “Sun Singer” from album,

Anthems: Ten Years of Living Music