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By the blessing of G-d ב״ה
With the help of heaven בס״ד
Everything belongs to Hashem לה״ו


‘One does what one must—and trusts in God [1]
The hardest thing of all is to be who you were meant to be [2]
But ask the animals, and they shall turn you – ת(ו)רך; and the birds of the air, and they shall tell you;
Or converse with the earth, and it shall turn you; and the fishes of the sea shall declare to you.[3]’


Dancing with Angels
Jewish Kabbalah Meditation – מדיטציה from
Torah to Self-Improvement to Prophecy
קבלה התבוננות מן תורה אל מוסר אל נבואה
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ישם נהרות למדבר, ומצאי מים לצמאון
He places streams in the wilderness, and one finds water in the parched land.[4]

“So shines a good deed in a weary world.”[5]
“We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of the dreams.”[6]
“When you see the birds in the sky—know my spirit is with you.”[7]
“If I should forget thee Jerusalem where is my right hand.”[8] אם-אשכחך ירושלם תשכח ימיני


CaVOD – Glory – כבוד
“May the Lord return to us and we will repent anew like our early days.”[9]
השיבנו יהוה אליך ונשובה חדש ימינו כקדם
All creation is sustained, all creation has a consciousness, and all creation can be spoken with.[10]

tzedek and tzedakah
As the sun brings rain to open the earth
For salvation and growth (Isa. 45:8)[11]
‘Another Day In Paradise’[12]

As long as you’re living, there is always a way to change the past.[13]
“You are changing the past by manifesting his values.”[14]
Life is glory, be thankful for each day that you live.
Enjoy the chores of your life for all is Glory.

The purpose of Shabbat is Havdalah.[15]
The purpose of Havdalah is to smell the fragrance.[16]
The purpose of the Fragrance is to see the fire of separation.[17]
The purpose of the Fire of separation is to begin the week with a blessing.[18]

This work is ©Copyrighted 2012.
Permission to duplicate, reuse, and redistribute materials herein is granted for non-profit purposes.
I can be reached at: “jeffspieg” ‘at’ “gmail” ‘dot’ “com”.
On Shabbat we dance before Kiddush for health that is a mitzvah.[19]

‘... yet a man in the world to issue praise of the female...’[20] – שאה
Forty days before a person is conceived into this world, it is announced in heaven,
the daughter of this man is destined to marry this man, the house in this place is destined for their home,
and this field (livelihood / business / profession) is destined for this person. Sota 2a[21]

Version – 2/3/2012

Contact info – jeffspieg at gmail dot com

“You'd never think of pressing your advantage
Forbearance is the hallmark of your creed.”[22]


This manual will prepare one to hear the words of God, see authentic visions, smell the supernal beauty, touch his/her Grace, and taste the delights of Eden. Study the manual by browsing the table of contents at the end of each web page, links, and footnotes. Let your spirit be your guide and the Ribono Shel Olam (the Master of the World) will reveal what you need to learn next. The work focuses on learning spirituality through sacrifice, character improvement, and the theoretical, meditative, and practical kabbalah. This manual uses prayer, Midrash, Torah, Mussar, kabbalah, and meditation to inspire the soul. While I have written down some of my own meditative journeys, in the final analysis one must choose one’s own path and with the blessing of G-d reveal another true path to the Infinite.

For easy browsing, there is an abbreviated table of contents at the end of each web page.

CONTENTS
8. Time
13. Prayer
21. Health
25. Music
33. Index

Love others for every person has his or her time. י
Greet every person with honor as each is created in the image of G-d. ה
Do not hold a grudge nor separate from ones house of prayer.[23] ו
Persist in hugging not dialog to resolve arguments.[24] ה

“And he does not break in upon the speech of his fellow.”[25]
To obtain wisdom look to the stars at night: they bring us to humility and remind us of all there is to learn.

“Before me no god was formed nor shall there be any after me.”[26]
“I am the Lord, and there is no one else, there is no god beside me; I girded you, though you have not known me.”[27]
“God is not a man – לא איש אל, that he should lie – ויכזב; nor the son of man, that he should repent[28] – ובן-אדם ויתנחם ההוא.”
“Put not your trust in princes—in the son of man there is not a savior.”[29]

ז עַתָּה יָדַעְתִּי-- כִּי הוֹשִׁיעַ יְהוָה, מְשִׁיחוֹ
יַעֲנֵהוּ, מִשְּׁמֵי קָדְשׁוֹ-- בִּגְבֻרוֹת, יֵשַׁע יְמִינוֹ.
(Psalm 20:7) Now I know─ that the LORD saves His messiah;
He will answer him, from His holy heaven─ with the mighty acts of His saving right hand.

“Equanimity brings one to concentration of the soul, and concentration brings about the holy spirit,
which brings one to prophecy, which is the highest level. If so, one of the necessary prerequisites for your path in meditation
is that you first have the quality of equanimity that you not become excited by anything.”[30]
Equanimity is none other than the avoidance of the sin of idolatry whose obsession leads to anger with imperfection.[31]
Equanimity harmonizes with quality, the improvement of knowledge, skills, and creativity.[32]

Do not discriminate based on ancestry.[33]
Do not discriminate based on handicap.[34]
Love your neighbor as yourself—I am the L-rd your G-d.[35]

Features:
  1. Table of Contents
  2. List of Equations
  3. List of Figures
  4. List of Meditations
  5. List of Tables
  6. List of Text

Recommended Kabbalah links:
613 Audio Lectures Torah lectures from the Orthodox Union
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov audio lectures of Rabbi Aryeh Rosenfeld Z”l.[36] Highly Recommended

Beloved Companions discusses the mystical union of husband and wife

Biblical Genealogy Timeline of history and names by Professor G. L. Esterson of Ra'anana, Israel

Hebrew letter writing[37]

Mechon Mamre side-by-side Hebrew – English bible. Recommended
Mechon Mamre side-by-side Hebrew – English 248 Positive and 365 Negative Commandments

Maqom’s excellent Torah learning site with guided meditations too. Recommended

Nechama Lebowitz outstanding Torah commentary

Rav Kook on the Weekly Parasha Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, 1st Chief Rabbi of Israel, ‘According to Kook's philosophy of repentance, man's separation from God is not an objective fact but a consequence of human "forgetfulness" of a higher existence. Thus repentance, achieved through Torah learning, can restore man's unity with the divine. A mystic by nature, Kook viewed Jewish national revival as part of the divine plan for strengthening faith against the rising tide of heresy. He expounded this philosophy in several cryptic essays, many of which were published posthumously under the title Orot ha-qodesh, 3 vol. (1963-64; "Lights of Holiness").’[38]

Work of the Chariot includes the following major kabbalistic translations:

Sacred Texts includes:

Servants of the Light includes:

Seforim Online contains PDF Hebrew/English source text files including Reshis Hochmah and the Guide to the perplexed.

Yedid Nefesh contains a translation of Luzatto’s “Kalach Pitchei Chochmah”

(The background colors when available[39] correspond to Tiferet from the teachings of Joseph Tzayach Z”l.[40])
The way one looks at the world is the kind of world one shall have.[41]









[1] Words of a Holocaust survivor when choosing not to cooperate with the Nazis in the movie “The Ninth Day” story about Jean Bernard, also see ‎4.9.2.1 p. 344 and Meditation ‎8-5: Love Again and Text ‎8-12: “For the Beauty of the Earth” p. 439.
[2] Jeremiah sitcom series, “The Bag.” Corollary – ‘Do what you love and things will work out.’
[3] Job 12:7-8. Pets help reduce anger, anxiety, stress, and disputes. They are an example of unconditional love.
[4] Psalm 107:33 – יוסף נתן בן רב אברהם צבי. See Meditation ‎14-5: Eloah God as Creator p. 648 for an explanation of the Name אל*וה.
[5] Willy Wonka quote from Shakespeare. Put in a Jewish form: ‘In a weary world so shines a good deed.’
[6] Willy Wonka quote from Arthur O'Shaughnessy’s Ode from his book Music and Moonlight (1874):

We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

[7] Spirit of a departed soul
[8] Psalm 137:5 – There are 22 Hebrew letters as well. ‘Forget’ is in the future in the first statement and could be a sigh of exasperation in the second statement as if “what good is my right hand if I do not remember Jerusalem.” To remember Jerusalem strengthens the right hand of salvation.
[9] Prayer liturgy when returning the Torah to the ark
[10] See Text ‎1-1: sustained by Hashem, having a consciousness derived from Hashem, and a voice rooted in Hashem. As Moshe was told to address the rock to bring forth water, we can address anything. There is a consciousness in everything that has its source in the creator. This is to become radically amazed with life and able to commune with others. There is even a consciousness in man-made objects. To be one with the Creator is to become a magical being interacting, helping, and appreciating all creation. King Solomon achieved this level in life when he wrote the Song of Songs (Canticles).
[11] See ‎26.13.2 and Text ‎26-68: Psalm 85:11-14. The land of Israel is infused with a sense of magic from the lush mountains and rains of the north to the landscape deserts of the south to the heavens above—all is filled with magic all is filled with Hashem. Magic is an integral quality in Judaism rivaling the philosophical approach of talmudic pilpul. While often at odds, neither can be denied. Perhaps the two reflect the relationship of tzedakah and tzedek.
[12] Appreciate each day that you can eat and drink, walk outside and smell the fresh air. To be out of the hospital is another day in paradise. This is not the same as the Hebrew Bet Holim – where sick people recover. An old friend of my grandfather on the upper eastside of Manhattan told me once, “When you have your health it is like a billion dollars.” They gathered in the upper eastside shuls attending their minyans. Most were Holocaust survivors who had seen the worst to remind us of the best.
[13] This is an important principle in Judaism. The past can be changed as easily as the future. Do not regret what you think you could have prevented. Even the death of a loved one can be reversed. Incorporate the values and ideas of the departed in your life. Let their advice become part of you, and they live again.
[14] By living the life of the departed i.e. kissing the mezuzah when leaving the house, attending services, and informing others who care, we change the past.
[15] The end is greater than the beginning; that is also with life [9/3/2011]. There is Peace – Shalom – שלום in the end that is greater than the beginning.
[16] Even the fragrance of a rose along an evening walk is sufficient; that is as important for the baby as children and parents.
[17] Even the outdoor fire of your neighbor is sufficient; that is as important for the baby as children and parents
[18] That will lead to the tranquility of a baby even the whole family. 3rd of Elul 5771
[19] Exercise before a meal prevents disease while after a meal the benefits are less substantial.
[20] See Text ‎2-7: father letters --- mother letters and ‎8.3.1.2 on the 7th day of the Counting of the Omer p.427
[21] See ‎15.4, Finding ones Soul Mate, page 673
[22] See ‎30.33 Mary Poppins p.1627
[23] See ‎30.7.2, Perkei Avot 2:5
[24] Treat your spouse as well as you would treat your own baby and talk in kind: See ‎15.1, ‎22.3
[25] Perkei Avot 5:10
[26] Isaiah 43:10
[27] Isaiah 45:5,18
[28] Numbers 23:19
[29] Psalm 146:3. Yet see Footnote 15 p.284, a later idea that gained traction in Israel as well.
[30] Text ‎9-1: R. Judah Albotini’s Ladder of Ascent p.469
[31] See ‎2.2.3.1. Penny wise and pound foolish, in anger we lose insight and intelligence and cannot see the bigger picture.
[32] Quality is a relationship that we develop with our work. See “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.” Quality products are a result of this relationship.
[33] Sennacherib, who led the Asyrian invasion of Israel, had descendents who were proselytes and two were the pair who led the Academy of Israel. “His sons fled to Kardu where they released the many Jewish captives there. With them they marched to Jerusalem and became proselytes. The well-known scholars Shemaiah and Avtalyon were the descendants of these two sons of Sennacherib (Git. 57b; Targ., II Kings 19:35, 37).” --- Jewish Virtual Library.
[34] Isaiah 56 (‎2.10.6 Isaiah 56 and God’s Strangers p.193) reminded us of the reward of the righteous eunuchs, although they were prohibited from entering the Temple from Deuteronomy 23 (‎2.5.4 Ki Teitzei Deut 23 prohibited marriages p.132). The Written Torah evolves with oral teachings; discrimination is overturned when it defaces the sanctification of G-d’s name.
[35] Leviticus 19:18, the second clause is to instill the first clause.
[36] http://www.breslovtorah.com for mp3 lectures. http://www.breslov.com/Rosenfeld
[37] http://www.safrus.com/alephbet.html ; http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/3_home.html
[38] Encyclopedia Britannica 1998.
[39] The yellow and violet background that is sometimes behind the website is called “Spinning Stars” and is based on a wallpaper from the People’s Commisar of alt.magick.
[40] The Onyx Stone (Evven HasShoham), The Binding of Life (Tzeror HaChaim), Remnant of Joseph (Sheirut Yosef) discussed in Meditation and Kabbalah, Aryeh Kaplan trans. p.158.
[41] Rav Avigdor Miller
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