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Tulossa olevat kirjat: The Essential Kabbalah
Kirjan nimi: The Essential Kabbalah
Alaotsikko: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism
Tekijä: Matt Daniel Chanan
Sivumäärä: 240
Kieli:  Englanti
Ilmestymisvuosi: 1996
ISBN: 0-06-251163-7
Sidosasu: Nidottu
Sisällön kuvaus:
Ein Sof: God as InfinityEin Sof and the SefirotIN THE BEGINNING Ein Sof emanated ten sefirot, which are of its essence, united with it. it and they are entirely one. There is no change or division in the emanator that would justify saying it is divided into parts in these various sefirot. Division and change do not apply to it, only to the external sefirot. To help yo u conceive this, imagine water flowing through vessels of different colors: white, red, green, and so forth. As the water spreads through those vessels, it appears to change into the colors of the vessels, although the water is devoid of all color. The change in color does not affect the water itself, just our perception of the water. So it is with the sefirot. They are vessels, known, for example, as "Hesed, Gevurah," and "Tif'eret," each colored according to its function, white, red, and green, respectively, while the light of the emanator--their essence-is the water, having no color at all. This essence does not change; it only appears to change as it flows through the vessels. Better yet, imagine a ray of sunlight shining through a stained-glass window of ten different colors. The sunlight possesses no color at all but appears to change hue as it passes through the different colors of glass. Colored light radiates through the window. The light has not essentially changed, though so it seems to the viewer. just so with the sefirot. The light that clothes itself in the vessels of the sefirot is the essence, like the ray of sunlight. That essence does not change color at all, neither judgment nor compassion, neither right nor left. Yet by emanating through the sefirot--the variegated stainedglass-judgment or compassion prevails.
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