Re: Kabbalah and the Multiverse

2010-06-19 Thread George Levy
Hi John Thanks for your appreciation. John Mikes wrote: Dear George, I was missing more of your contributions on this list lately (years?). Let me reflect to a few of your topics: *Chaos.* A decade or so ago I was named 'resident chaotician' on another list - later changed my mind when I wa

Re: Kabbalah and the Multiverse

2010-06-19 Thread George Levy
Dear Rabbi Rabbi Rabbit wrote: What is surprising about Abulafia is that he did not reach this state by suppressing his conscious mind, as most mystics do by repetition of a single formula/mantra, but by overstimulating it with letter combinations accompanied by body motions. Too much informa

Re: Kabbalah and the Multiverse

2010-06-19 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Bruno, > Nobody knows logic. Marijuana illegality, and the whole prohibition > politics are based on error in the most elementary part of logic. And formal > logic, a branch of mathematics, is virtually known only by professional > logicians. > > Sorry if this is off-topic, but I would love to

Re: Kabbalah and the Multiverse

2010-06-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Jun 2010, at 17:03, Rabbi Rabbit wrote: Dear George, Thank you for your beautiful interpretation of B'reshit (Book of Genesis). By your description, I have the feeling that you think about Sefirotic Kabbalah. Briefly, Sefirotic Kabbalah believes that God emanated in 10 Sefirot (the mean

Re: Kabbalah and the Multiverse

2010-06-19 Thread m.a.
Rabbi, I wondered for a long time about the translation of God's words as "I am that I am." I finally decided that it must have been a mistranslation. I think, especially when being asked about the Holocaust and a lot of other horrible things, He would be more inclined to say: