Jewish mysticism Merkava

Ma ase Merkava research of the mysteries of Ma ase Merkava is just as acceptable as a prayer watch out for falling into error!!!! kabalah can be taught only through hints and allusions – litterary or superficial understanding are misleading Mishna: „The mysteries of Merkava are not supposed to be pronounced in the presence of one student if he is not wise and if he does not understand with knowledge.“

Gematria from greek Geometria one of 32 rules of agada for interpretation of Torah – new meaning through counting of numerical values of letters

Jewish mysticism Sefer Jecira – Book of Creation 10 sefirot = ten basic spiritual ur-numbers 32 pathes of wisdom Bereshit G d said = 10 x = 10 sefirot Creation 32 – LEV – Bereshit- Israel Elohim – 32 x = paths of wisdom

Antipode position of hypercube Gra version hypercube

Tesseract 10 sefirot define the natural space – define 10 directions = 5 dimensions fourdimensional hypercube has 16 points (2 raised on the power of 4 - exponentiation) fivedimensional hypercube has 32 points (2 raised on the power of five)

Jewish mysticism Bahir (Book of the Brightness) Midrash of rabbi Nechunja ban Hakana besides Bahir is ascribed to him a prayer ANA BEACHOACH – the initial letters form a 42 letter long name of G d Published in Provence 1176 Jb 37, 21: "Now men do not see the light which is bright (BAHIR) in the skies.“ Rabi Moshe Cordovero: „The words of the text are bright (bahir) and sparkling, but their brilliance can blind the eyes”

Jewish Mysticism Zohar (Brightness) The main character Rabbi Shimon ben Jochaj – rabbi Akiva´s follower, 2nd c. CE – who was hiding from Romans Published in the 13th c. by Moshe de Leon mystical midrash = explanation of a hidden meaning PARDES 1) Pschat= simple litterary sense 2) Remez= hint, allegory 3) Drash= homiletic sense 4) Sod= mystical meaning = DERECH HA-KABALA

Sefer ha-Tagin TAGA – arameic Ketarim – hebrew when combined, the letters with the tagin form the divine names by which heaven and earth were created  creative power oral tradition Rabi Akiva deduced from tagin many important teachings he RECEIVED the tradition of Merkava

Jewish Mysticism Expulsion from Spain - Safed – Galilee,16th c. Moshe Cordovero – Pardes Rimonim Jicchak Luria, ha-Ari,

Cimcum Jicchak Luria Tohu and Bohu Zohar: In the beginning of the King's authority, the Lamp of Darkness engraved a hollow in the Supernal Luminescence.

Jicchak Luria The meaning of the human existence is to help to renew the original order of the world – tikkun Every human thought and action plays a very important role in this process

Gilgul Gilgul – transmigration of souls Galgal = circle, rotation Mystical organization of 22 lettres System of alternation of lettres 22 lettres  231 gates