So I was looking for jewish subs to ask some questions(I am jewish already)

I want to know how to have stronger emunah mostly. So my question is how can I have stronger emunah/more trust in hashem?

Shavuah Tov leKulam! I would like to learn and practice the permutations of chokmah (חָכְמָה), could you please introduce me?

I'm interested in a daily practice but need some guidance, a regular email would be perfect :)

Any suggestions welcome!

Does anyone know how or why Chokhmah (Wisdom) went from being portrayed as feminine in Biblical literature (such as in Proverbs 8 and the Wisdom of Solomon) to being portrayed as masculine in Kabbalistic literature (such as in the Zohar)? Is there any significance to this?

Freud had the Lubavicher Rebbe Shalom Dovber as his client in 1902 ( wiki). The son of this Rebbe ( his follower Yosef Yitzhaq) described their meetings - his diaries be googled). He told Freud his daily readings of the Tanya ( explaining the Zohar the main source of Kabbalah). Freud had a collection of the Zohar on his bookshelf which is in his London hone- now a museum. The post-Freudian Jacques Lacan has characterized himself as the last Christian Kabbalist. The kabbalistic interpretative system of an inner family /Father - Son -Mother - Sister/ probably is at the origin of the Freudian inner family dynamics ( of the Superego the Ego the False Ego and the Id. ) Another version exists in the christian concept of the so called "trinity". Or the Lacanian Father's Name and the little alter ( objet a) and the Other and the Symptom./The Jungian system is similarly having 4 parts : Archetypes Self Persona Shadow. / I think it is an interesting and mostly unknown connection of how Judaism impacted psychology. I think it can help both sides, kabbalistic thinkers and pyschoanalytic thinkers to find inspiration in each other. I had met a great Uncle who knew Freud personally and wrote books about him too. He had a relative who knew Gershom Sholem ( historian of Kabbalists). This is why I became interested in both schools.

Bonus points for descriptions of supernatural being or places

Greetings, everyone!

I'm not a Jew, but I find many aspects of Judaism (especially Kabbalah) very interesting. However, I don't want to convert to Judaism. So, as the title says: Do I need to be a Jew in order to be Kabbalistic?

Thank you for your time.

Edit: Also, I'm a misotheist (I hate God, though I respect every individual's personal beliefs), so I I would also like to know what would I be able to do, given the situation. Once again, I do not hate religion nor faith nor spirituality. I respect every person's beliefs. However, the old man upstairs and I don't see eachother eye to eye.

Isn't He who bestows blessings upon lifes ? Who gave Him blessing ?

Has anyone else noticed parallels between the sepher tree and the tetraky of Pythagoras and the ennegram

Are the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge from Genesis the same tree, or two different trees? It seems very much they are two different things.

Genesis 2:9 seems to show two different trees.

Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

He forbids eatings of the tree of knowledge,

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

So next it implies they were tricked to eat from the tree that "gives knowledge".

4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise*, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.*

At this point God comes along and punishes them, casting them out of Eden.

He speaks and warms regarding the different "Tree of life" now,

22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

This implies they ate from the tree of knowledge that gave them knowledge of good and evil so now God is saying, "He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever".

So the tree of life is a seperate tree in the garden God doesn't want them to be able to ever get to and so at this point he drives out man and sets up a guardian to stop people getting to the Tree of Life.

24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

So, what is the Tree of Life, whats it meaning? Why are we not allowed to get to it and what are peoples general thoughts about this?

What are the implications of this tree? Is it symbolic of something? I am curious. I always just assumed The Garden of Eden story was just about a single tree until i read it properly. The Tree of Life seems very important to need to be guarded by Cherub and sword.

Hello everyone! I am trying to learn about Kabbalah and mysticism but don’t really know where to start. Any information or sources on where I should start would be super appreciated. Thanks!!!

Many Christians (and Jewish converts) throughout the centuries have used evidence from the Zohar and other Kabbalah Texts as 'proof' of Christian truths (such as the Trinity and Holy Spirit).

There was even a form of Christian Kabbalah in the 1500 & 1600s CE in Europe.

Verses in John can find parallels to early Jewish Mysticism, Midrash & Targum. There is even debatable evidence that Paul knew of early Kabbalah principles such as Adam Kadmon (via Gamaliel - head of the Sanhedrin) and hints at them in his Epistle to the Corinthians & elsewhere.

So can one believe in aspects of Kabbalah and still be a Christian?

So I was very religious (jewish) a while back but haven't been(religious) for a while. I have to say I don't really know much about kabbalah (do women even learn it in Judaism? I heard somewhere there not but maybe I have it mixed up with something else?) Anyway there were parts of being jewish I really loved BUT im kind of stuck because I want certain things so badly I'm willing to do anything to get them and these things are not simple to get. I can't just go to a store and buy the things I want. Basically I'm obsessed with what I want and I haven't been able to be 100 percent happy no matter what(some days I'm happier then others but never 100 percent because im always thinking of the specific things I want and it hurts a lot) can kabbalah help me in any way? Is this something I should learn more about?

I'm interested in this part of Kabbalah because I found very poors informations. Can someone please raccomend me some sources aboui it? (Books, videos, web-sites, ecc.) Or else explain me them in general?

I've been trying to find information concerning the above question, and have been unsuccessful so far. What exactly is the Kabbalistic understanding of the letters as they pertain to the Tree of Life?

I know faith healing is not a Jewish thing but I was wondering if there is a jewish/kabbalah version of it maybe? The thing I'm trying to cure is actually mental. It's called aphantasia which means an inability to visualize which I am trying to get rid of because I really really want to have the ability to visualize for many different reasons and nothing I have tried so far in the past over 10 years has helped me at all.

I'm new to all of this and over the past few months, I've seen a wide range of guidelines regarding the use of the 72 names: some state that none of the names should be used individually, others say that only a handful of them are meant to be used individually, others advise that people meditate on all 72 before selecting a single name on which to focus, while others recommend that meditation on the Tetragrammaton needs to happen first; I've also read materials that imply that any of the names can be used individually. I'd like to know what practitioners here were taught about their use.

Is the Tree of Life intended to be perceived as an occult diagram, or is it an interconnected map of the ten sefirot as if they're real worlds (akin to the nine realms of Norse mythology)? I know of the four worlds and how the sefirot are split up among them, are the worlds actual places and their sefirot just embody aspects of them, or are they worlds within worlds in a sense?

I need help with the tree of life

I am unfamiliar with the different aspects of Judaism, so if this is the wrong place to ask this I apologize.

I have been trying to study the tree of life according to different sects of Kabbalah. However, none of them seem to go in great detail about the return to the creator pathway. They talk about a lightning bolt configuration coming down the different sephiroth. But I want to know about the return up the tree. Does it follow the same pattern? do you move up the middle column? Do you jump around the different numbered paths? How does one ascend the ladder?

I've heard that you can use kabbalah to manifest into your life what you want. Is this true and how so can it be done?

As someone from a Roman Catholic background, pretty much all my spellwork is based on intercession of the Saints and calling upon the Archangels for help with very specific prayers along with used of blessed items using symbolism of angels and saints that have been blessed by priests such as a medal of Saint Archangel Michael or wearing the brown robes worn by Franciscan clergy during rituals or fasting before a ritual to emulate Saint Margaret of Cortona's life before calling for her aid in intercession.

So how does Intercession and calling upon the Saints and Archangels for help work in Judaism? I seen the concept of asking the Tzadik for help while praying esp at the graves in some sources and some Jewish prayers involving calling out the Archangels such as the Shema prayer (in this specific example you call the angels to be beside you at a certain direction). Is this similar to Catholic prayers asking for intercession of the Saints and calling the archangels for direct intervention?