Mysticism Jewish, based on the esoteric interpretation texts can be read as a study of spirituality and imagination.
Kabbalah Is it fashionable? In recent years, since Madonna and other celebrities interested in the Kabbalah Centre (an American organization controversial, located around the world), the Hollywood version of Jewish mysticism is the subject of regular reports and investigations. It is chic to wear the "red thread", a remedy against the evil eye as given "Kabbalistic". But in smaller rooms where it is taught and practiced far from the glitz and accessories Kabbalah is revealed as rich and demanding, complex and difficult to grasp. "Never ask your way to someone who knows him, because you could not get lost," said Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, illustrates Kabbalist of Central Europe in the eighteenth century.
To understand Jewish mysticism, it should therefore go astray. One Sunday evening in central Aleph, a place and a Jewish cultural association in Paris before more than a hundred people, Rabbi Marc-Alain Ouaknin, university professor, philosopher and writer, puts forward a new interpretation of the first letter of the book Genesis, beth, Hebrew B which in that language, is also a word. For four hours, he will talk to Emmanuel Levinas, a hammer, Talmudists "foulosophes, genealogy, mode" provocative "and of course the Book. This work
rich and prolific lead to two interpretations of the beginning of the Bible. In the first, the text begins with a "maybe", a question: interpretation shows that it is somehow essential to interpret. The second, based on the original meaning of the word beth (house), in fact "the very possibility of human": "The Torah says the professor, begins with the need for man to have a house because the house offers the possibility of modesty, the hidden. That's because there's intimate there man. Two complementary interpretations of a crucial letter, as a small summary of the Kabbalistic practice of Marc-Alain Ouaknin. A multidisciplinary art based on the mastery of texts and tools of Kabbalah.
An ethic of constant rereading of the sacred texts
Rachel was attracted by this approach. "It lifts the spirit! I find poetry, humanism, reflection on philosophy and religion. Marc-Alain is a thinker who makes connections between different disciplines, a religion that goes beyond religion, which is not dogmatic, "she enthuses. Another student, artist Jean Daviot, for its part says that it found in the Kabbalah "An open outlook, which helped me in my work. Because art is above all light! "The infinite light of God, one of the most important topics of the Kabbalah.
This is officially born Jewish mysticism in the thirteenth century in Spain, with the Zohar, the " book of splendor ": an esoteric exegesis of the Pentateuch written by Moses de Leon in the name of a second-century Rabbi Simeon Bar Yohai. But according to the Kabbalists, it goes back to times much older: Adam himself, the first, would have passed on from generation to generation by blowing the secret of Hebrew letters, letters vested "divine sparks, debris infinite light. By his actions, through study and work on texts, the Kabbalist tiqqoun participates in the recovery of the scattered light, and therefore the primordial unity. This
and spirituality of the study, an ethic of constant rereading of the sacred texts. "It's hard work, patience and concentration. We must return dozens of times on the texts, and each time, we understand new things, "says Albert Soued, 70, retired engineer who is interested in Kabbalah for twenty years. Fascinated by the symbols, the man regularly gives a short course in his apartment or that of a student. Lydia is one of those "fascinated" is for him how to seek God. "We can try to catch it by human means," she said, and the Kabbalah is a good one. "
A patient study, a spirituality imaginative
Other courses are organized on the same principle, for small networks of friends. "It's a problem, and also the great advantage of the Kabbalah is that there is no hierarchy," notes George Lahy, editor in Aubagne (Bouches-du-Rhone). This specialist Kabbalah has created a concept of "bio-hermeneutics." "I apply on the body as Kabbalistic studying a text, "he says. With Marc-Alain Ouaknin, a friend and share the idea that "the important thing is the question," he developed a meditation technique Hebrew. Teacher too (he recently gave courses in Quebec and Switzerland), George Lahy knows the famous teaching of the Kabbalah Centers. If it does not overwhelm an already hotly contested move, he noted that Rav Berg, founder of the centers, "watered down a lot." "It's difficult," he said, the Kabbalah. "
In Paris, anyway, the local Center of the Kabbalah" runs a little slow, "according to the confession of Joseph Guedj, California member of the organization. If twenty people attend the course on Monday evening in a richly decorated, the rest of the time is not always assured. "People are not contactable here, says the American, they do not like being bothered on the phone and all ..." The French public would reject it high tariffs of the Centre, its display filled with books of Berg's site Internet that would strictly merchant?
Maybe that audience is there simply happiness in the many courses offered for tens years in France. Large and small from these courses have not increased dramatically in attendance, which remains constant. In the study, patient and creative texts. For a spirituality of imagination and 'what? .
William BAROU
Source: Cross
Kabbalah Is it fashionable? In recent years, since Madonna and other celebrities interested in the Kabbalah Centre (an American organization controversial, located around the world), the Hollywood version of Jewish mysticism is the subject of regular reports and investigations. It is chic to wear the "red thread", a remedy against the evil eye as given "Kabbalistic". But in smaller rooms where it is taught and practiced far from the glitz and accessories Kabbalah is revealed as rich and demanding, complex and difficult to grasp. "Never ask your way to someone who knows him, because you could not get lost," said Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, illustrates Kabbalist of Central Europe in the eighteenth century.
To understand Jewish mysticism, it should therefore go astray. One Sunday evening in central Aleph, a place and a Jewish cultural association in Paris before more than a hundred people, Rabbi Marc-Alain Ouaknin, university professor, philosopher and writer, puts forward a new interpretation of the first letter of the book Genesis, beth, Hebrew B which in that language, is also a word. For four hours, he will talk to Emmanuel Levinas, a hammer, Talmudists "foulosophes, genealogy, mode" provocative "and of course the Book. This work
rich and prolific lead to two interpretations of the beginning of the Bible. In the first, the text begins with a "maybe", a question: interpretation shows that it is somehow essential to interpret. The second, based on the original meaning of the word beth (house), in fact "the very possibility of human": "The Torah says the professor, begins with the need for man to have a house because the house offers the possibility of modesty, the hidden. That's because there's intimate there man. Two complementary interpretations of a crucial letter, as a small summary of the Kabbalistic practice of Marc-Alain Ouaknin. A multidisciplinary art based on the mastery of texts and tools of Kabbalah.
An ethic of constant rereading of the sacred texts
Rachel was attracted by this approach. "It lifts the spirit! I find poetry, humanism, reflection on philosophy and religion. Marc-Alain is a thinker who makes connections between different disciplines, a religion that goes beyond religion, which is not dogmatic, "she enthuses. Another student, artist Jean Daviot, for its part says that it found in the Kabbalah "An open outlook, which helped me in my work. Because art is above all light! "The infinite light of God, one of the most important topics of the Kabbalah.
This is officially born Jewish mysticism in the thirteenth century in Spain, with the Zohar, the " book of splendor ": an esoteric exegesis of the Pentateuch written by Moses de Leon in the name of a second-century Rabbi Simeon Bar Yohai. But according to the Kabbalists, it goes back to times much older: Adam himself, the first, would have passed on from generation to generation by blowing the secret of Hebrew letters, letters vested "divine sparks, debris infinite light. By his actions, through study and work on texts, the Kabbalist tiqqoun participates in the recovery of the scattered light, and therefore the primordial unity. This
and spirituality of the study, an ethic of constant rereading of the sacred texts. "It's hard work, patience and concentration. We must return dozens of times on the texts, and each time, we understand new things, "says Albert Soued, 70, retired engineer who is interested in Kabbalah for twenty years. Fascinated by the symbols, the man regularly gives a short course in his apartment or that of a student. Lydia is one of those "fascinated" is for him how to seek God. "We can try to catch it by human means," she said, and the Kabbalah is a good one. "
A patient study, a spirituality imaginative
Other courses are organized on the same principle, for small networks of friends. "It's a problem, and also the great advantage of the Kabbalah is that there is no hierarchy," notes George Lahy, editor in Aubagne (Bouches-du-Rhone). This specialist Kabbalah has created a concept of "bio-hermeneutics." "I apply on the body as Kabbalistic studying a text, "he says. With Marc-Alain Ouaknin, a friend and share the idea that "the important thing is the question," he developed a meditation technique Hebrew. Teacher too (he recently gave courses in Quebec and Switzerland), George Lahy knows the famous teaching of the Kabbalah Centers. If it does not overwhelm an already hotly contested move, he noted that Rav Berg, founder of the centers, "watered down a lot." "It's difficult," he said, the Kabbalah. "
In Paris, anyway, the local Center of the Kabbalah" runs a little slow, "according to the confession of Joseph Guedj, California member of the organization. If twenty people attend the course on Monday evening in a richly decorated, the rest of the time is not always assured. "People are not contactable here, says the American, they do not like being bothered on the phone and all ..." The French public would reject it high tariffs of the Centre, its display filled with books of Berg's site Internet that would strictly merchant?
Maybe that audience is there simply happiness in the many courses offered for tens years in France. Large and small from these courses have not increased dramatically in attendance, which remains constant. In the study, patient and creative texts. For a spirituality of imagination and 'what? .
William BAROU
Source: Cross
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