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Kabbalah - general and specific links | |
Bnei Baruch World Center For Kabbalah Studies. On-line lessons on the Lurianic Kabbalah, by the students of the early 20th century Lurianic teacher
Rabbi Yehudah Ashlag. You'll find abundant information on every aspect of this tradition of Kabbalah. Even has special music. A very large site, there is heaps of material here, all presented with quite a religious slant though. Even so, this is perhaps the best Orthodox Kabbalah site around
Some very interesting and detailed metaphysical material here - Ten Kabbalah Lessons - Part II
Note - some of this material is so obscure it is impossible to understand!!!! I would recommend
perusing their 
Beginner's
Guide to Kabbalah before going on to some of the harder stuff.
Journal des Etudes de la Cabale / Journal of Kabbalah Studies
- in French
Kabbalah
- excellent introduction and overview, although mainly from the Lurianic
and contemporary Jewish Renewal perspective
Kabbalah - Occultopedia entry - short but decent basic overview, includes a good bibliography for further reading.
Kabbalah, Mysticism, and Self-Mastery, with Laibl Wolf, Chabad Hassidic teacher and author of Practical Kabbalah. Even the preview alone is an excellent introduction to orthodox Kabbalah.
Kabbalah On-Line web site by
Rabbi Yossi Markel
Online Tanya lessons. - written Hebrew / English Tanya text with audio clips of Rabbi Ben Tzion Krasniaski's elaboration on the subject (English). One can listen and download the entire lesson (English) as audio clip.
True Kabbalah - Free Kabbalah seminars, online lessons, and discussion groups in the Chabad Chassidus tradition.
The Kabbalah Centre - Study of Kabbalah, Books, Tapes, Online Kabbalah Classes
What is kabbalah? - a new site that presents kabbalistic knowledge into contemporary language
Theogensis - Kabbalah - a short, easy to understand contemporary, introduction on the Lurianic cosmology; also incorporates the involution/evolution principle
Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism dedicated to Jewish Pseudepigrapha and Merkabah tradition. The interdisciplinary seminar on the Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism is designed as an internet version of an ongoing research seminar of the graduate students and scholars at the department of theology of Marquette University (Milwaukee, USA). The site explores the influence of Jewish Pseudepigrapha and Merkabah mysticism on eastern othodox authors.
Lone
Star Kabbalah by Dr. C. Benton. An overview of all the main
Kabbalaistic themes. Follows the Lurianic
paradigm. Yes, you guessed it, this site comes from deep in the heart
of Texas ;-)
The
Kabbalah Society - Toledano Tradition - home page of Z'ev
ben Shimon Halevi, the author of a number of popular books on
Kabbalah. Halevi is seeking to restore an early Sefardic/Spanish/Toledano
Kabbalistic tradition. Toledo in Spain was a great cultural and spiritual
centre of the time.
Kabbalah and Chassidut - "A Gateway to the Wisdom of Kabbalah and Chassidut
offering a contemporary presentation of classical topics in Jewish Mystical
Thought as taken from the teachings of Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh" has some
excellent easy to follow material on Judaic Kabbalah - particularily Cordovero,
Luria and the Baal
Shem Tov. See especially the sections Introductions
for Advanced Learners for concepts and Three
Stages in the Evolution of Kabbalistic Thought for the historical
development of these ideas. Far more comprehensible then the Bnei
Baruch page
Kabbalah Serbia - A new Site about Kabbalah in Serbian
The Open Kabbalah Forum - An ecumenical forum for open discussion of kabbalah and other forms of hebrew mysticism...
you can also access it more quickly from here
"a new forum, most importantly one that is more open than the other kabbalah forums (use and registration are both free and optional; any visitor may read and post.) and one that is dedicated to ecumenical and respectful (the posters towards each other) discussion.
(admittedly, i am most interested in the hebrew and more orthodox insights into the subject, however i think to me it's quite obvious that at the core of kabbalah is a never-ending interpretation, even by anyone- a midrash that is balanced and filtered by the traditional. however, anyone with a beginning or advanced interest in what they deem "kabbalah" is welcome.)"
Donmeh west: the Syncretic Neo-Sabbatian Kabbalah of Reb Yakov Leib HaKohain - continuation of the tradition of Sabbatai Zevi and his successors, incorporating comparative religion (particularly Vedanta) and Jungian spirituality, according to the teachings of Reb Yakov Leib HaKohain.
Colin's Hermetic Kabbalah Page - the definitive on-line Hermetic resource. includes a number of fascinating on-line documents by Bill Heidrick and others. These are worth printing out for study. Also an amazing Links
page
The
Tree of Life - an interactive image map - excellent
The Templum Kabbalah - Hosts a number of useful and original resources, including a freely downloadable book of fourteen chapters on the Magicians Kabbalah, complete with exercises and rituals; the Order of Everlasting Day (OED) One-Year Kabbalah Course, which teaches the basic framework of Kabbalistic concepts applied to the Western Mystery Tradition, and the OED's on-line journal, Aletheia; and a lot of material for both beginners and serious students.
Quabbalah - The Tree of Life - by Karen Chapdelaine. From a 1994 alt.magick newsgroup posting, this article gives a good very basic
intro. Unfortunately the ascii diagram did not come out very well
Leaves from Liber Legis: The Cabalistic Writings of Frater Sinn and contains personal communications about the Tree of Life (from a Thelemic point-of-view) and Tarot (Thoth Tarot Deck). It is both in English and in Portuguese.
My
Qabalah - interactive image map, follows basically the Golden
Dawn /Hermetic/Dion Fortune/ tradition(s) - gives a good list of correspondences for and description of each Sefirah
"I hope to show the relationship of the Qabalah with all the major Religious beliefs and practices. From this I hope we can all understand each others point of view more easily and see just how similar and connected we really are."
Qabalah
Revealed - another good interactive image map of the Tree
of Life, together with a personal (but quite valid) interpretation of each Sefirah.
The Gateway to Qabalah - a very useful site, which provides an excellent launch point to both the Judaic/Zoharic/Lurianic/Hassidic and the Hermetic/Occult traditions of Kabbalah. Organised by Doug Evans
Kabbalah - Wikipedia page
The Kabbalah Page - by Glyn Williams - excellent general introduction to Kabbalah - deals with a wide range of pertinent topics
Kabbalah
FAQs - prepared for the Usenet/Internet newsgroup "alt.magick"
by Colin Low. An excellent introduction to Kabbalah.
Primarily hermetic/magickal, but
there is also large amount of Judaic and
some Renaissance Christian material
as well. Highly recommended.
The Cabala - great links page - includes both Hermetic and Traditional Kabbalah sites - part of Brian Pivik's The Western Esoteric Magical and Cabalistic Pages.
Exclusively Kabbalah - a Yahoo! Group with the express aim of discussing Kabbalah in all of it's forms (Traditional, Hermetic and anything else)
Kabbalah
links - a good list; some overlaps with Colin's
page.
Kabbalah
Now - a good personal introduction - covers the whole field;
mainly Judaic/traditional but with some hermetic/magickal. Organised
by Ovid
Jacob (from whose page I borrowed a few scanned image
files for this site) .
An Introduction to The Study of The Kabalah by William Wynn Westcott. Wescott was on of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
What is Qabbala? - general introduction to and comments on the meaning of Kabbalah
The Kabbalah - annoitated list of links - good accross the board coverage - similiar to the present page (but with a number of pages not listed here) even some links back here
Symbala offers a unique collection of visual impressions and teaching aids related to the Tree of Life. The artist approaches the subject from a visual appreciation and explores 3 dimensional modeling, geometry and visionary arts. You will also find a shockwave flash interactive Tree and movies. The Kabbalah Poster and Alchemical Star Print are just a few of the published works on view and available for purchase
Visual Kabbalah - art and Judaism's Zoharic esoteric teachings come together.
"Kabbalah and art, a gallery of beautifully crafted screen-prints,
dedicated to mystical concepts. Fully narrated and explained, this
collection is both artistically and intellectually stimulating."
Kabbalah jewelry - David Weitzman unique Kabbalah jewelry collection.
The
Meru Foundation - presents one of those amazing paradigms which
link up all kinds of disparate themes, scientific, religious, metaphysical...
I quote
"The Meru Project is based on 25 years of research by Stan Tenen into the origin and nature of the Hebrew alphabet, and the mathematical structure underlying the sequence of letters of the Hebrew text of Genesis. The Project is sponsored by the Meru Foundation, a private nonprofit research and educational corporation founded in 1983."
Although not specifically Kabbalistic as such, the use of Hebrew Letters as keys to the structure of reality is a very kabbalistic idea.
Pi
the Movie - a film about mathematics,
Kabbalah, and the relationship between numbers and reality.
This is a really nicely presented side. A lot of thought-provoking
ideas here Buy the DVD!
Kabbalistic
Cosmology and its parallels in the Big-Bang of Modern Physicsby
Adam McLean - I remember reading this article in Adam McLean's excellent
little magazine The Hermetic Journal (now available on
CD-ROM), and it made a huge impression on me. Mainly because
this paper approached the physics-mysticism synthesis not from the conventional
standard New Age /New
Paradigm "Tao of Physics" slant used so successfully by Frithjof Capra
in his famous book of the same name, but from the rather more difficult,
but also more fascinating, perspective of Lurianic
Dramaturgy. The physics is a little dated (Alan Guth's
Big Bang Inflation theory that was an exciting new
development when the article was written has long since been superceded
by more sophisticated developments) but the basics principles remain valid.
Kabbalah and the Tree of Life - some observations which relate to two different versions of the tree, here called the A and H shaped trees.
"Essence-theory behind Project Mind, derived from Lurianic/Ashlagian Kabbalah, is itself a philosophical breakthrough and makes possible the first concrete proposal for reconciling outer and inner paradigms ("science and spirit") in a balanced, high-energy synthesis that preserves the essentials of both."
Andries'
page - Peirce and the cabbala - an interesting page that looks
at connections between the ideas of the American philosopher Charles Peirce
- founder of the modern science of signs (semiotics) - and the Kabbalah.
Some nice images of the Kabbalistic Tree on this
site as well.
Psychosynthesis and Kabbalah - the Will Parfitt Website -
Personal and spiritual development with the Kabbalah and its application through Psychosynthesis. Plus distance education, group courses, books, and articles to download. (this may also go under the following section)
Kabbalah
Home Page by Rev. Kythera Ann.- not much on Kabbalah here, despite
the title, but go to Kabbalah
Course Description for information on a course in practical Kabbalah
and some interesting and worthwhile essays. From a Christian
perspective but non-sectarian
Ayrkain.com - a Kabbalistic initiative to achieve Achdus, a mental, emotional and spiritual unity based in a group collective mind called Adam Kadmon
Kabala.org - Kabala Words of Wisdom - Offering tools for self-improvement through Kabala Words of Wisdom. An annual subscription to daily message comprised of Kabala Words of Wisdom via issues as follows:
Between a person and him/her self.
Between a person and his/her family.
Between a person and his/her work place.
Between a person and his/her society.
SoulSongs
- The Center of Kabballah Wisdom - Shulamit, the director of
The Center for Sound Healing, uses sacred Vocal Tones (Hebrew vowel sounds)
to heal.and to access higher states of consciousness
Kabbalah
of Success - Robert Apatow - combines Hassidic
Kabbalistic wisdom with the most important contemporary breakthroughs in
the science of personal growth.
The
Tree-of-Life School of Kabbalistic Healing - Joseph-Mark Cohen
- offers one year study program in the practical application of kabbalah.
Expensive. Combines Kabbalah with other esoteric
and New Age themes, certainly not representative
of traditional Kabbalah. Still, some nice image files on this page.
Rootlight - The Divine Spiritual Wisdom - combines Kabbalah and Kundalini Yoga for self healing and psychic development.
