On Mar 10, 9:00 pm, Binah Hochma <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you all for the many welcomes. I have been gone for the week and see > I have a lot of reading to do. > Pat, I will have many Q's for you. I have only been looking at Kabbalah for > three or four years now. It is a many faceted philosophy and I have found so > many different opinions, it is difficult to understand some of the > teachings. But I find that this is true for everything. > > Most of my friends would consider me a Christian (as long as I keep all > those disputable matters between me and G-d) but am no longer involved in > what would be considered "traditional church". I have study some eastern > spirituality and Kabbalah, but mostly Native American spirituality. > I am looking forward to learning from all of you. The first thing I really > need to know is the most efficient way to use this site. I have all your > post coming up in my email, which is fine. I hit "reply to all" at the > bottom of the last post, which was Pat's. Will it show up at the bottom of > the list? I guess I will see after I hit send. Maybe it would be easier to > just go to the group site instead of using my email??? > Binah >
It DID show up at the bottom of the list, but I suspect that was because you replied to me, and my response was, prior to yours, at the bottom. But, yours is also indented under mine to show that it was in direct response. I come in through 'Google Groups' and just Google's format for displaying the messages. It's really a matter of personal taste ultimately. As far as any questions go, fire away; I'll do my best. I noticed you left the 'o' out of God (unusual for a Christian), which is a Jewish tradition--note that I'm only noting it, not criticising it. I'll do it if I know I'm conversing with Jews out of respect but, for the most part, I write the word with all the letters. There's nothing in the Torah forbidding the use of ANY English term for the Supreme Being anyway (or, in fact, any reference to English at all...if there were, you'd KNOW it was an anachronism), so the usage of the word, in full, does NOT break any of the 613 comandments in the Torah anyway. It's purely done, as you know, out of respect FOR the Supreme Being and a sincere effort to try to not use the name in vain. Just as an example of a known anachronism in the Torah, there's the comment in Genesis that says that Abraham was from "Ur, of the Chaldees". Abraham lived, according to the text of Genesis, in the early part of the second millenium BCE (i.e., 2999 BCE through 2500BCE), yet the Chaldeans weren't in control of 'Ur' until the sixth century BCE--a difference of, at least, 1900 years. It becomes obvious from that point that Genesis was 'redacted' DURING or AFTER the Chaldeans were in Ur. In other words, the words 'of the Chaldees' could NOT have been an original part of of the 'revealed Torah' as the term is a huge anachronism. If you've been looking at Kabbalah for 3-4 years, you've probably already discovered that the Tree of Life is a great methodolgy for categorising information. If I'm correct, it's also a schematic for how the universe's various dimensions relate to one another. Each sephira is a dimension and the paths are the ways in which those dimensions communicate. Anyway, I'm all ears when it comes to your questions. I look forward to hearing them!! Cheers, Pat > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mar 2, 5:40 pm, Binah Hochma <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I just thought I would say hi. I joined the group a couple of day ago > > and > > > am still reading over the latest post. Some interesting thoughts on the > > > existence of God and the soul. > > > I am new to the whole internet community thing and don't spend a lot of > > time > > > on the computer so bare with me. > > > To the Moderators, thanks for creating a safe place to exchange thoughts > > and > > > ideas and to encourage each other to grow spiritually. > > > Binah > > > Great Name..Binah Hochma!! I'll translate it for the others...it's > > Hebrew for 'Understanding Wisdom'. Obviously, you have a background > > in either Judaism, Hebrew itself or, most likely, the Kabbalah, as the > > two words are Sephiroth on the Tree of Life. Welcome aboard. I've > > been studying Kabbalah for around 35 years, now; thus your name came > > screaming out at me. Anyway, welcome aboard!!- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
