An introduction to the Kabbalah /Moshe Hallamish ; translated by Ruth Bar-Ilan and Ora Wiskind-Elper.

Includes bibliographies and index.

""Front Matter ""; ""Half Title Page ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""PREFACE""; ""Content ""; ""Part I: The Kabbalah and its Attainment""; ""Mysticism and the Kabbalah""; ""WHAT IS KABBALAH?""; ""WHAT IS MYSTICISM?""; ""THE WORLD OF SYMBOLS""; ""The Kabbalist and His Kabbalah""; ""THE WAYS OF TRANSMISSION""; ""THE QUESTION OF RELIABILITY""; ""Prerequisites""; ""PHYSIOGNOMY AND CHIROMANCY""; ""GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS""; ""INTELLECTUAL LEVEL""; ""The field of Halakhah""; ""The realm of community leadership""; ""Kabbalists""; ""MORAL PERFECTION""

""PRIDE AND ANGER""""LOVE AND UNITY""; ""AGE""; ""FIXED TIMES OF STUDY""; ""PLACE""; ""Early Preparations""; ""SOLITUDE""; ""EQUANIMITY""; ""SILENCE""; ""ASCETICISM AND FASTING""; ""CONFESSIONS""; ""PURIFICATION""; ""PERSEVERANCE AND MUCH TOIL""; ""The Dangers Facing the Mystic""; ""Techniques of Exploring Mysteries""; ""PROSTRATION ON THE GRAVES OF THE ZADDIKIM""; ""Evaluation of the Kabbalah""; ""THE OBJECTIONS TO THE KABBALAH""; ""The Origins of the Revelations""; ""SEEING AND HEARING""; ""INTELLECTUAL ATTAINMENT""; ""PERSONAL TRANSMISSION""; ""REVELATION FROM ELIJAH""

""SPIRITUAL ILLUMINATION""""DREAMS""; ""THE APPARITION OF THE MAGGID""; ""JOY AND WEEPING""; ""THE DISCLOSURE OF SECRETS""; ""MYSTICAL RAPTURES""; ""Part II: The Basic Concepts of the Kabbalah""; ""The Doctrine of the Sefirot""; ""THE TERM ""SEFIROT""""; ""THE NAMES OF THE SEFIROT""; ""DIVISION OF THE SEFIROT INTO GROUPS""; ""THE HUMAN FIGURE""; ""THE DIVINE NAMES""; ""ELEMENTS OF NATURE""; ""COLORS""; ""THE POINTS OF THE COMPASS""; ""BIBLICAL FIGURES""; ""'EIYN SOF AND REVELATION""; ""ONENESS AND MULTIPLICITY""; ""ESSENCE AND VESSELS""; ""Good and Evil""; ""THE DESTINY OF EVIL""

""The Doctrine of Creation""""SOME POSITIONS""; ""THE DOCTRINE OF EMANATION""; ""THE PURPOSE OF CREATION""; ""THE DOCTRINE OF SIMSUM""; ""THE DOCTRINE OF THE SHEMITTOT""; ""The Torah""; ""DIVINE SPEECH""; ""KABBALISTIC READING OF THE TORAH""; ""THE TORAH AND ITS GIVER""; ""THE TORAH AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE""; ""THE CONCEPT OF THE COMMANDMENTS""; ""THE COMMANDMENTS AND DEVEKUT""; ""COMMANDMENTS AND TIKKUN""; ""VARIOUS PROBLEMS""; ""The Doctrine of the Soul""; ""THE UNIQUENESS OF THE SOUL""; ""DIVISIONS OF THE SOUL""; ""THE PREEXISTENCE OF THE SOUL""; ""BLEMISHED SOULS""

""THE SOULS OF NON-JEWS""""MAN AT HIS DEATH""; ""THE DOCTRINE OF THE SELEM""; ""THE DOCTRINE OF THE SOUL IN LURIANIC TEACHING""; ""The Doctrine of Transmigration""; ""REASONS FOR THE DOCTRINE OF TRANSMIGRATION""; ""THE TERM GILGUL""; ""WHAT CAUSES A PERSON'S SOUL TO TRANSMIGRATE?""; ""NUMBER OF TRANSMIGRATIONS""; ""GILGUL -- COMPASSION OR PUNISHMENT?""; ""TRANSMIGRATION AND THERE SURRECTION OF THE DEAD""; ""AGAINST GILGUL""; ""Back Matter ""; ""EPILOGUE""; ""NOTES""; ""Chapter 1. Mysticism and the Kabbalah""; ""Chapter 2. The Kabbalist and his Acquiring of the Kabbalah""

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