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On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:23 PM, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pat, do me a very big favour, please, and don't forget to hear what Binah
> is saying also. There have been so many bad examples of imposed
> post-colonial mindsets at work here, that your detachment from the profane
> comes in as a bliss. Mind the Native American spirituality. Thanks.
>
> Welcome Binah! :) I'll try my best to protect you from the sharks here. ;)
>
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> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Pat <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> 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 -
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I_D Allan
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Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
