All what you wanted to know at Limmud OZ 2012

1. kabbalah

4. Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag
Baal HaSulam
Talmud Eser Sefirot
The Study of the Ten Sefirot

5. The Study
of the Ten
Sefirot

6. Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag
The Rabash

8. Dr. Michael Laitman

9. kabbalah.info

10. obshalom.org

11. Avraham Mordecai Gottlieb

12. The Journey Begins
With an
Inner Voice
What's the point of my
life?

13. The Torah was
written in a highly
symbolic language.

14. The Torah
is a code for
the individual
soul

15. Genesis 12:10- Abram in
Egypt
Now there was a
famine in the land,
and Abram went
down to Egypt to live
there for a while
because the famine
was severe.

16. “Sweet”
“Bitter”

17. “Truth”
truth
“Lie”

18. Kabbalah books are written
in the language of:
“Roots and branches”

19. Using worldly
words to
describe
spiritual
concepts

21. Branches = Effect
Roots = Cause

23. Creator
Creatures

30. Light
Vessel

31. Pleasure
Will to
Receive

32. Ohr =Light=Pleasure
Kli =Vessel= “will to receive”

33. Will to Receive for oneself
Vessel
Self love
Egypt
Egoism

35. The desire to receive
delight and pleasure

36. Pharaoh

37. A desire to
bestow goodness
upon others

38. Moses

40. Achieve “Dvekut”
(attachment)
with the Creator
Called HASHVA’AT TSURAH –
Equal Feeling

41. Separation=
The opposite.
Separateness between
you and Creator at the
feeling level

44. Left Pillar
Will to receive
To understand
Self love

45. Right Pillar
Will to Bestow
The love of others
To influence
kindnesss

46. Rectify
the will

47. To receive in order to bestow

48. The Middle Pillar

56. Job 19:26
In my flesh I will see God

70. The central
symbol of the
Kabbalah is the
10 sefirot.
It is a
cosmological
symbol that
expresses 10
manifestations of
the One.

73. The Talmud

74. Four levels of Torah study
Peshat
The surface meaning of the text
Remez
Allusions or allegories in the text
Derash
Rabbini or midrashic way of reading new
lessons into the text
Sod
The hidden mystical reading of the inner secrets
of Torah

75. The Tree of Sefiroth
Kether Supreme Crown
Hokhmah Wisdom
Binah Intelligence
Hesed Love or Mercy
Din Power
Tifereth Compassion/Beauty
Netsakh Lasting Endurance
Hod Majesty
Yesod Foundation
Malkuth/ Shekinah Kingdom

81. Exodus Chapter 1
• 15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the
Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of
the one was Shiphrah, and the name of
the other Puah; 16 and he said: 'When ye
do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew
women, ye shall look upon the
birthstool: if it be a son, then ye shall kill
him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall
live.

82. Exodus Chapter 4
• 2 And the LORD said unto him: 'What is that in
thy hand?' And he said: 'A rod.' 3 And He said:
'Cast it on the ground.' And he cast it on the
ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses
fled from before it. 4 And the LORD said unto
Moses: 'Put forth thy hand, and take it by the
tail--and he put forth his hand, and laid hold
of it, and it became a rod in his hand--