"Kabbalah of Time" Featured in Tamar Yonah's Blog on Arutz Sheva!

Elul 17, 5773, 8/23/2013

Amazing New Book: The Kabbalah of Time

by Tamar Yonah

A weapon against sadness, ...a true gift!  It is currently listed as Amazon’s #1 “Hot New Release in Kabbalah (Jewish Mysticism)

The article below is written by Rabbi Daniel Kahane

Brazilian-American authors Rabbi Daniel Kahane and Ann Helen Wainer have recently launched a book that promises to change the way scholars and laymen understand the Jewish calendar as well as the structure of central Jewish texts.

The book shows how the 52-day period spanning from Passover to Shavuot is in fact a microcosm of the 52 weeks of the year. Additionally, it demonstrates how 52 rabbis and 52 animals listed in the sacred works Pirkei Avot (“Ethics of the Fathers”) and Perek Shirah (“Chapter of Song”) parallel the year’s weeks as well. Finally, the book explores the kabbalistic meaning behind the numbers and divine attributes (sefirot) related to each day from Passover to Shavuot known as the Counting of the Omer.

The Counting of the Omer has always been one of the key tools used by the Jewish People as a basis for spiritual development. The book expands its use to the entire year and shows amazing and eerie connections between how the weeks of the year and the days of the Omer parallel each other. “The basis for the entire book is one simple idea,” Rabbi Kahane says, “Just as the culmination of the Counting of the Omer, Lag Ba’Omer, falls on the 33rd day of the Omer, so too the week of Lag Ba’Omer falls on the 33rd week of the year.

“The book’s use as a weapon against sadness should also not be underestimated,” exclaims Ann Helen Wainer, “its uplifting ideas and its connectedness to the song and harmony of nature, as well as the wisdom and foresight of our ancestors, is a true gift.”

The book was originally launched in Portuguese, after the authors received a grant from the Safra Philanthropic Institute in Brazil. An expanded English version (eBook and print) is available on Amazon, ModernJewishHome.com, as well as other vendors. More information and ongoing classes are also available at www.kabbalahoftime.com.

The “Kabbalah of Time” is currently listed as Amazon’s #1 “Hot New Release in Kabbalah.” The Kindle Edition also consistently listed #1, and now four months after its release, is among the Top #10 Best Sellers in its category.

About Ann Helen Wainer and Rabbi Daniel Kahane

Mrs. Wainer is a prolific author, having published several works regarding Judaism and Jewish History, as well as Brazilian Law and History. Her titles include: Jewish and Brazilian Connections to New York, India, and Ecology; Family Portrait; A Jewish Perspective on Ecology; Civil Liability of the Developer; and Brazilian Environmental Legislation. Ann Helen earned a master’s degree in corporate law in Brazil, and an MA in religious studies at Florida International University.

Rabbi Daniel Kahane is a graduate from Georgetown Law School and Princeton University, where he received the religion departmental award in Jewish studies, as well as a Certificate in the subject. He also attended Yeshiva University and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Besides from working full-time as an attorney, Rabbi Kahane teaches weekly classes at Chabad of Aventura, FL.

For more information about “The Kabbalah of Time,” please visit www.kabbalahoftime.com, https://www.facebook.com/TheKabbalahOfTime, or contact Ann Helen Wainer at (305) 332-8660. You may also send an e-mail to cabaladotempo@gmail.com.

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Week 21 (Book 7): The Fly is Saying

The Fly, when Israel is not busying itself with Torah, is saying:

When Pharaoh's horses came with his chariots 

And his horsemen into the sea,

They have provoked My jealousy with a non-G-d, 

Provoked My anger with their vanities. 

All flesh is grass, and all its grace is as the flower of the field.

(But) among the divisions of Reuben,  (there were) great resolves of heart.

The voice said, 'Call out'. And he said, 'What shall I call out? 

Why do you sit between the borders?

I sleep, but my heart is awake. Hark! My beloved is knocking: 

My perfect one, for my head is full of dew, My locks with the drops of the night.

My wound oozes at night and does not abate; 

My soul refuses to be comforted.

Thus, I will provoke their jealousy with a non-people, 

Provoke their anger with a foolish nation.

The grass withers, the flower fades, 

But the word of our Lord shall endure forever. 

The Lord will reign to all eternity; 

[You are] my strength, to You I will sing, 

The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; 

According to the cleanness of my hands He recompensed me. 

I will create a new expression of the lips:  Peace, peace for him 

Who is far off and for him who is near, says G-d, and I will heal him.

It is he whom My hand shall be prepared [to assist]; 

My arm, too, shall strengthen him. 

Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind; 

Blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out; 

And the man, Elkanah and his entire household, went up 

To slaughter to the Lord, the sacrifice of the days and his vow.

Let my beloved come to his garden and eat his sweet fruit.

For G-d is my stronghold, the G-d of my kindness. 

I have come to my garden, my sister, [my] bride; 

For the Conductor, on the yedutun, by Asaph, a psalm. 

I have gathered my myrrh with my spice, 

I have eaten my sugar cane with my sugar, 

[I raise] my voice to G-d and cry out; 

[I raise] my voice to G-d and He will listen to me. 

I have drunk my wine with my milk. 

On the day of my distress, I sought the Lord; 

Eat, friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, beloved ones.                        

Open for me, my sister, my beloved, my dove. 

Week 22 (Book 7): The Giant Sea Creatures Are Saying

The Giant Sea Creatures are saying:

 

Praise G-d from the land, the giant sea creatures and all the depths.

For a fire blazed in My wrath, and burned to the lowest depths.

It consumed the land and its produce, setting aflame the foundations of mountains.

And the Lord brought the waters of the sea back upon them

 

For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my G-d. 

And the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea

But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband:

Until the child is weaned, then I shall bring him

 

I remember G-d and I stir; I speak and my spirit becomes faint, forever.

And he shall appear before the Lord, and abide there forever.

No enemy will exact from him, neither will an unjust person afflict him.  

My beloved stretched forth his hand from the hole, and my insides stirred because of him.

 

"I have taken off my tunic; how can I put it on?

To hear the bleatings of the flocks?

I have bathed my feet; how can I soil them?"

At the divisions of Reuben, (there are) great searchings of heart.

 

I arose to open for my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh,

You held fast the awakenings of my eyes; I throb and I do not speak.

And my fingers with flowing myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

I think of days of yore, ancient years.

Week 23 (Book 7): The Leviathan is Saying

The Leviathan is Saying

I opened for my beloved,

But my beloved had hidden and was gone.

Is it for eternity that my Lord forsakes me?

Nevermore to be appeased?

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good,

For His kindness is eternal.

Sing to the Lord, for exalted is He

Horse and rider He cast into the sea.

During the night I recall my music,

I meditate with my heart and my spirit searches.

My soul went out when he spoke,

I sought him, but found him not.

Has His kindness ceased forever?

Has He sealed the decree for all generations?

For all His ordinances were before me

And as for His statutes I did not depart from them.

The watchmen who patrol the city found me

They smote me and wounded me;

I will link evils upon them,

I will use up my arrows on them.

The watchmen of the walls took my jewelry off me.

And I will crush his adversaries before him

And will strike down those who hate him.

Only may the Lord fulfill His word.

Gilead abides beyond the Jordan

And Dan, why does he gather into ships?

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,

If you find my beloved, what will you tell him?

I called him, but he did not answer me.

And Elkanah, her husband said to her,

Do what seems good to you,

Stay until you have weaned him,

For I am lovesick.

Miriam, the prophetess, Aaron's sister,

Took a timbrel in her hand.

And the woman stayed and

Nursed her son until she weaned him.

Week 24 (Book 7): The Fish Are Saying

The Fish are saying

The voice of G-d is upon the waters
Asher dwelt at the shore of the seas,
Moses led Israel away from the Red Sea 
And they went out into the desert of Shur;

I said, "It is to terrify me that the right hand of the Most High changes.”
Has G-d forgotten mercy? Has He in anger restrained His compassion forever?
Indeed, My faithfulness and My kindness shall be with him.
And I was single-hearted toward Him and I kept myself from my iniquity.

They came to Marah, but they could not drink water from Marah 
Because it was bitter; Therefore, it was named Marah.
They will sprout hair from famine; 
Attacked by demons, excised by Meriri

They walked for three days in the desert but did not find water.
I will incite the teeth of livestock upon them
The G-d of glory thunders; G-d is upon many waters.
And through my name his glory shall be exalted. 

I remember the deeds of Yah, 
When I remember your wonders of long ago. 
With three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and an earthenware jug of wine
With the venom of creatures that slither in the dust.

My beloved is white and ruddy, surrounded by myriads.
His head is as the finest gold; His locks are curled, black as a raven.
And she brought him to the house of the Lord, to Shiloh, 
And the child was young.

What is your beloved more than another beloved, O fairest of women? 
What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you have so adjured us?
And she brought him with her when she had weaned him
And by his breaches he abides.