Kabbalah - Sefer Bahir ( Book of Illumination ) & The Iyyun Circle - Early History and Introduction
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- Kabbalah has become, in many ways, the theology of Judaism and one of the pillars of esoteric spirituality more generally. Despite this, the origins of the Kabbalah remain mysterious. In this episode of Esoterica we explore some of the earliest texts, groups, and figures of the early Kabbalah including the Unique Cherub Circle, the Sefer Bahir and the Iyyun (Contemplation) circle.
Recommended Reading:
Dan - The Early Kabbalah - 978-0809127696
Verman - The Books of Contemplation - 978-0791407202
Kaplan - Sefer Bahir (w/ caveats) - 978-0877286189
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This is a fantastic series! I've been struggling for years to untangle all these common threads between Kabbalah, Gnostic Christianity, and Platonic emanation theory. This is laying things out a lot more clearly. Understanding the Tree Of Life as a depiction of the divine pleuroma answers a lot of questions that have puzzled me.
In malkuth the divine pleroma is within a living person. Who then conducts themselves in such a state of grace that just by their behavior can be the masculine to a person who is in keter who is the feminine- reproducing the divine needed to advance him in the seiferot levels. Like a mirrored image. As above so below. Its the simplicity that is hard to find. ❤
This is brilliant. I literally just finished reading Aryeh Kaplan’s Meditation and Kabbalah and he documented what we call pre-Kabbalah pretty thoroughly. That being said, you just put a lot of what he wrote about into perspective for me. A thousand thanks for your devotion to the ancient mysteries and esoteric wisdom. I really enjoy your material.
I really like the mental image of the sparks from a blacksmith striking hot metal being a metaphor for evil. Where its simply part of the process of creation and in shedding the evil, slag is being removed from the metal. a fascinating way of looking at it.
As a Ladino with roots in Gerona Spain I find episode the best episode yet. I love to hear about the history of my people and the sages of our people. Thank you so much Dr Sledge.
Such an amazing people and it's such a pity that Judaism has become so Ashki-normative. Glad you enjoyed the episode - more to come!
@@TheEsotericaChannel Oh yeah and btw you are totally right. My family only has vestiges of Judaism, quirky Judaism but still Biblical, and there is a huge merge of the Holy mother, Shekinah, Asherah, Judaism and the male Judaism but traditionally it merges with Gnostic Christian stuff. Which for us is kind of witchy and naturalistic but its very different with the Ashkenazi Judaism.
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Glad you find the content rewarding!
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Shalom Justin :-) i came here from Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio :-) You are a GREAT speaker dr Sledge !
One thing for which I am eternally grateful is that none of the Golden Dawn crowd, or Crowley ever translated the Bahir. The work is difficult enough without their flowery obfuscations.
One thing I can report, reading the Sepher Bahir doesn't get easier with age, but it does become comfortable.
Thanks so much. Exactly what I was looking for. Many blessings 🩵
Thank you Justin, this is Epic!!
Being a student of history I'm always struck by the question " How are future generations going to get our information off of disks and from hard drives people have long forgotten the purpose let alone the ability to repower and retrieve data from it?"
I do not envy our current scholars the work of reconstructing history from fragments, but I really don't envy the scholars trying to research us in two thousand years.
You’re assuming future generations will be interested in us, a real stretch IMHO.
@@depthhistory Haha ya, kinda like the Sword of Shannarah series! They'll uncover all our rusty junk and cracked plastics and wonder what we were doing with all our time.
@@makemesmile004 They might even think that plastic is "an alien material" lol
I really like how you put this all together your awesome man thanks for all your work an time
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"It appears that after the golem is created, it becomes violent... as golems do :/" hate when that happens
Yeah, no golem stories go "... and everything worked out fine. The end."
I was told at one point Adam was a golem.. is this just backwoods legend without historical basis?
@@SkiffoniusDankour Well, he *was* shaped out of clay/dust/earth just like a golem.
That’s an exciting take and would certainly explain a lot about humanity. 😉
Agreed lol. Really I can't claim credit for the story, it could be geographically confined to rural appalachian temple teachings but.. it's definitely a story that's out there. Like the fella was living for a period prior to having his soul. Or something, maybe nothing even.
Thank you, I enjoyed this talk very much
Glad you enjoyed it!
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Very well explained..
Thank you so much 🙂
Hello I currently have a dead end job and am wonderin what my first step could be to making this my livelihood. I love history and learning about ancient intelligence and lessons passed down through the ages. You defintiely gained a lifetime fan thanks for making history so interesting!
Fascinating, as usual... ✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️
Thanks!
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Thanks!
Shabat Shalom Rabbi - Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I wanted to know if you would cover Alice Baily and Madame Blavatsky at some point? Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the world
Mother of the world, beautiful.
Would you please make a video in the theory of "Shattering of the vessels"? (Shevirat haKeilim). I like how you explain things.
Yep, will get to Luria at some point
Thanks bro....!
Excellent...as usual. I'm curious, do you read Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Coptic? Any other languages?
Thanks! Yep, I read those with varying degrees of competency. Though, I will say that when I was preparing some of the recent episodes on the Nag Hammadi material that my ability to read Coptic had just plummeted. I'm going to have to spend some time basically re-learning it I think. Use it or lose it, as they say.
It's funny when you spoke of the organization of the text, it reminded me of a scene from the 1st "warlock" movie when he gathered all the pages of the grand grimoire, all the page flew into air did sorta of a figure 8 or infinity pattern before rearranging into a complete book
Excellent intro, Dr. Sledge!
I'm curious what you might think about why the Sefer Bahir was written in the strange form it's given to us in. It reminds of the Gospel of Phillip in that way. Neither take a linear form but I think Phillip can be classified under the genre Students Notebook. It assumes a lot of information and experience on the part of the reader and it almost seems as if the logoi were taken during a block of instruction given after a ritual? They can't really be rearranged in any linear form at all that I can see.
I'm not nearly as familiar with the Sefer Bahir but I don't get a Student's Notebook feel from it. It almost feels a bit like a cut up from William S. Burroughs. I've never tried before but I'm wondering if it's possible to rearrange it into a more linear form. If course, I'm probably being a little too post modern with this idea.
I think the Bahir was something like 'experimental' literature at the time and so was a bit all over the place. The earliest stratum of the Zohar, the Midrash HaNa'eelam is also a bit like this as well. Though sections 125-138 of the Bahir do form a continuous homiletical unit so it isn't totally random. In fact, if folks want to study the Bahir I would start with those sections.
Bravo
Good day Dr. I would like to know more about the role of the Hebrew language or it's alphabet within Kabbalah. Which books should I consult? In Sefer Yetzirah it plays a role regarding creation, in the Bahir it's composition is focused on and you mentioned also that it's vocalisation is looked at in the book Fountain of Wisdom. Does one find it anywhere else? And would it serve to be a focus area in a next episode in your series on Kabbalah? Thank you.
great
Thanks!
Ten is when flow is harmonic/respectful; thirteen is when shekhinah splits and Ein Sof appears: seems to me.
there is one more source in english: isaac the blind's commentary on sefer yesirah is translated into english by mark sendor. the pdf can be found in the internet..
Thank you!!!
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The word "Tohuwabohu" actually still exists in German, probably introduced by Yiddish speakers. Now that I learn about the cabbalistic concept, it's dawning on me where the "hyperchaos" idea used in contemporary speculative philosophy comes from…
Good to know there was a pair of Kabbalists from Castile called the Coen brothers. I'd like to imagine that their writings are full of a certain wry and occasionally disquieting sense of humor ;)
What is the difference between the Phoenician-Aramaic alphabet and Hebrew?
Hi,
Simply curious, how does one spell "eun circle?" What I've listed is what the transcript reflected. Many thanks well in advance.
Iyyun circle
@@josiahamon7280 Thank you kindly!
Would it be OK to start off with the bahir
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If you are ever in NYC, you owe it to your self to visit his museum.
He had such a sense of color, and was probably the only white hat among the theosophists.
Thank you for telling us about this museum!
Sefer bahir- book of illumination. Sefer Zohar- book of radiance.
Am I correct?
Lots of translate them, but yep!
What are your own personal esoteric beliefs?
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18:35 isn't it mezritch
doesn't the "sacred femine" exist in every culture?
kabbalah is fun once you get up to atleast yesod the mirror world spooky stuff hahahah. personally i prefer the golden dawn / a.'. a.'. interpretations. its very easy to make a mess of this stuff . ultimately at some level it becomes a big internal joke on yourself.