Archive for 2012

An Organismic Way to Reality

Sunday, August 19th, 2012

A different and organismic way to understand the Sparks and other Kabbalistic Ideas

In order to have a better reality map, I look at the terminology of the Kabbalah and then I ask – “Do its teachings relate to the quantum field?”

A [key] question [of one’s reality map] is, “What is it that the soul intuited and came to [see as] knowledge?”

The soul’s intuition (and Kabbalah’s) is of a spiritual totality which happens in the right hemisphere of the brain where representation is not done through words.  However, in order to remember what I have experienced I have to tell it to myself in the verbal/conceptual language of the left hemisphere.  For this, I have to find some words.

If I try to teach anything of Kabbalah to you,  I know that I have to use words to make myself understood.  On your part, I need to invite you to stretch from the words into what the words contained in their inner meaning. My challenge in the communication is in trying to describe something for which there is not a good vocabulary.

Therefore, to explain Kabbalah we borrow vocabulary from left-brain philosophy. Unless we learn how to hear what is behind these words and to find and attune the reality in the words to the vibratory regions of consciousness to which they refer, the words will not convey the reality that lies behind them.

Remember that  all descriptions from mysticism are translations from the experienced reality. The reality was experienced and made conscious by the right brain sensors in a simultaneous way with all the inherent paradoxes occurring to  one in that consciousness in a parallel fashion. However, the only way that theophany is forwarded to the left brain is in serial fashion – one word at a time.

Unless you, the recipient, are able to somewhat restructure the information — by emulating the parallel manner of the original intuitive experience and by making way for incorporating the paradoxes through disconnecting the censor who waylays the information with its protestations of “contradiction!”  — then the communication of the right brain will seem worthless and ridiculous.

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Sefer ha-Hasidut Elul Yahrzeiten

Sunday, August 19th, 2012

Sefer ha-Hasidut (Rafael, Yitzhak, ed., Tel Aviv: Avraham Zioni, 1972), with around one hundred Rebbes, is arranged according to Yahrzeit. Now the material has been scanned with OCR.

Here are the Elul sections in Hebrew only. (Please click the Rebbe to see a section):
9 Elul: Reb Tzadok HaKohen Rabinowitz of Lublin
10 Elul: Reb Pinchas Shapira of Koretz
11 Elul: Reb Avraham Yaakov Friedman of Sadigora

ספר החסידות
הרב משולם זלמן חייא הכהן
שחטר-שלומי שליט”א

אלול יאָהר-צייטען

ט’ אלול רבי צדוק הכהן מלובלין
י’ אלול רבי פנחס שפירא מקוריץ
י”א אלול רבי אברהם יעקב מסדיגורה

Sefer ha-Hasidut Av Yahrzeiten

Thursday, July 19th, 2012

Sefer ha-Hasidut (Rafael, Yitzhak, ed., Tel Aviv: Avraham Zioni, 1972), with around one hundred Rebbes, is arranged according to Yahrzeit. Now the material has been scanned with OCR.

Here are the Menachem Av sections in Hebrew only. (Please click the Rebbe to see a section):
7 Av: Reb Issachar Ber Zlotchov
Tisha B’Av: Reb Yaakov Yitzchak HaLevi Horowitz (the “Chozeh” of Lublin)
14 Av: Reb Tzvi Hersh of Liska

ספר החסידות
הרב משולם זלמן חייא הכהן
שחטר-שלומי שליט”א

אב יאָהר-צייטען

ז’ אב רבי ישכר בר מזלוטשוב
תשעה באב רבי יעקב יצחק הלוי הורביץ
י”ד אב רבי צבי הירש מליסקה

Apter Piece on Partzuf

Monday, July 9th, 2012

Reb Zalman sends a translation of a teaching by the Apter Rebbe, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel of Apt in which the Apter says it so nicely about why theologians have trouble with prayer and something for the radical monists that don’t want to agree that anybody else is listening.  In order for there to be itaruta d’l’eyla and itaruta d’l’tata (stirring from above and stirring from below), you need to believe that someone is listening.  As the Apter says, there’s a kindness of Hashem to allow us to create something like an interface.  Hashem decides to be a Partzuf relating to us.  (Hebrew text included below. Translation edited by Gabbai Seth).

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Sefer ha-Hasidut Tammuz Yahrzeiten

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

Sefer ha-Hasidut (Rafael, Yitzhak, ed., Tel Aviv: Avraham Zioni, 1972), with around one hundred Rebbes, is arranged according to Yahrzeit. Now the material has been scanned with OCR.

Here are the Tammuz sections in Hebrew only. (Please click the Rebbe to see a section):
1 Tammuz: Reb Kalonymus Kalman Halevi Epstein (“Maor Vashemesh”)
2 Tammuz: Reb Pinchas HaLevi Horowitz
10 Tammuz: Reb Meir Margolius
11 Tammuz: Reb Tzvi Hirsch of Zidichov
18 Tammuz: Reb Yaakov Aryeh of Radzimin
22 Tammuz: Reb Shlomo Karliner (Shlomo HaLevi of Karlin)
25 Tammuz: Reb Meir HaLevi of Apt
28 Tammuz: Reb Moshe Teitelbaum of Ujhel (“Yismach Moshe”)

ספר החסידות
הרב משולם זלמן חייא הכהן
שחטר-שלומי שליט”א

תמוז יאָהר-צייטען

א’ תמוז רבי קלונימוס קלמן הלוי מקרקא
ב’ תמוז רבי פנחס הלוי הורוביץ
י’ תמוז רבי מאיר מרגליות
י”א תמוז רבי צבי הירש מזידיטשוב
י”ח תמוז רבי יעקב אריה מראדזימין
כ”ב תמוז רבי שלמה קארלינר
כ”ה תמוז רבי מאיר הלוי מאפט
כ”ח תמוז רבי משה טייטלבאום מאויהעל

Sefer ha-Hasidut Sivan Yahrzeiten

Sunday, June 3rd, 2012

Sefer ha-Hasidut (Rafael, Yitzhak, ed., Tel Aviv: Avraham Zioni, 1972), with around one hundred Rebbes, is arranged according to Yahrzeit. Now the material has been scanned with OCR.

Here are the Sivan sections in Hebrew only. (Please click the Rebbe to see a section):
3 Sivan: Reb Yaakov Shimshon of Shepetovka
7 Sivan: Reb Yisrael (“Baal Shem Tov”)
12 Sivan: Reb Chaim Yisrael Morgenstern of Pilov
17 Sivan: Reb Aaron Ben Asher of Karlin (“Aaron II”)
20 Sivan: Reb Tzvi Hirsch of Nadvorna

ספר החסידות
הרב משולם זלמן חייא הכהן
שחטר-שלומי שליט”א

סיון יאָהר-צייטען

ג’ סיון רבי יעקב שמשוֹן משיפיטובקה
ז’ סיון רבי ישראל בעל שם טוֹב
י”ב סיון רבי חיים ישראל מפילוב
י”ז סיון רבי אהרן מקארלין
כ’ סיון רבי צבי הירש מנאדבורנה

Isabella Freedman Retreat Center Touches Us

Friday, June 1st, 2012

Click here to watch Reb Zalman’s comments on Avot 1:14.

Comment and Prayer for our Beloved Reb Zalman

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Just yesterday morning, the following comment was made by a participant during the Q&A at the end of Davvening with Reb Zalman.  (From the 5772 Shavuot retreat at Isabella Freedman with Reb Zalman and Eve, as overheard by Gabbai Seth Fishman, BLOG Editor.):

“Reb Zalman, I was thirteen with a Bar Mitzvah and then I sort of dropped out of my Jewish stuff. 

Then, I was twenty-nine, and Bobbie Kennedy was killed, (I was working for him).  I went to Mexico.

(I think that [the assassination] might have had something to do with it) – I wrote you a letter. 

You started sending me tapes, songs and chassidic…, you were sending me cassettes of songs, Chassidic songs and stories.  And you kept reaching out. 

You opened the doors for me, (years later I worked with you), you opened the doors to this rich tradition.  It’s vast and full of love and joy and wisdom.

I’m so grateful to you. 

We’re all grateful to you.

I’m so glad, I’m so glad you’re alive and kicking and doing what you’re doing.  And keep on doing it for a long time, please.

AMEN (applause and shouts).”

Sefer ha-Hasidut Iyar Yahrzeiten

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Sefer ha-Hasidut (Rafael, Yitzhak, ed., Tel Aviv: Avraham Zioni, 1972), with around one hundred Rebbes, is arranged according to Yahrzeit. Now the material has been scanned with OCR.

Here are the Iyar sections in Hebrew only. (Please click the Rebbe to see a section):

1 Iyar: Reb Shmuel Shmelke Horowitz of Nickolsburg
6 Iyar: Reb Dovid’l of Tolna
10 Iyar: Reb Yitzchak Eizikl of Komarno (“Komarner”)
11 Iyar: Rabbi Yehudah Tzvi of Stretin
11 Iyar: Rabbi Naftali Zvi Horowitz of Ropczyce (“Ropshitzer”)
17 Iyar: Moshe Chaim Ephraim of Sudilkov (“Degel Machaneh Ephraim”)
20 Iyar: Reb Mordechai Twersky (“Chernobyler Maggid, Reb Mottel”)
29 Iyar: Rabbi Meir (Meirl) of Premishlan

ספר החסידות
הרב משולם זלמן חייא הכהן
שחטר-שלומי שליט”א

אייר יאָהר-צייטען

א’ אייר רבי שמואל שמילקה הורביץ
ו’ אייר רבי דוד מטולנה
י’ אייר רבי יצחק אייזיק מקומארנו
י”א אייר רבי יהודה צבי מסטרטין
י”א אייר רבי נפתלי צבי הורוביץ מרופשיץ
י”ז אייר רבי משה חיים אפרים מסדילקאב
כ’ אייר רבי מרדכי מטשרנוביל
כ”ט אייר רבי מאיר מפרמישלאן

Sefer ha-Hasidut Nissan Yahrzeiten

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Sefer ha-Hasidut (Rafael, Yitzhak, ed., Tel Aviv: Avraham Zioni, 1972), with around one hundred Rebbes, is arranged according to Yahrzeit. Now the material has been scanned with OCR.

Here are the Nissan sections in Hebrew only. (Please click the Rebbe to see a section):

5 Nissan: Reb Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Apt, (the Apter Rebbe, Apter Rov)
8 Nissan: Reb Mordechai of Neshchiz
13 Nissan: Reb Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (“Tzemach Tzedek”)
19 Nissan: Reb Aaron HaGadol (The Great) of Karlin

22 Nissan: Reb Yitzchak of Vorki
28 Nissan: Reb Chaim Halberstam of Sanz (“Divrei Chaim”)
28 Nissan: Reb Yehoshua of Ostrova
29 Nissan: Reb Moshe of Kobrin

ספר החסידות
הרב משולם זלמן חייא הכהן
שחטר-שלומי שליט”א

ניסן יאָהר-צייטען

ה’ ניסן רבי אברהם יהושע העשל מאפטא
ח’ ניסן רבי מרדכי מנישכיז
י”ג ניסן רבי מנחם מנדל מליובביטש –הצמח צדק-
י”ט ניסן רבי אהרן הגדול מקארלין
כ”ב ניסן רבי יצחק מווארקי
כ”ח ניסן רבי חיים הלברשטאם מסאנץ
כ”ח ניסן רבי יהושע מאוסטרובה
כ”ט ניסן רבי משה מקוברין