THE KABBALAH OF TIME: The Jewish Calendar is the master key to unlock the hidden rationale behind the formal structure of ancient sacred texts, as well as to understand and experience the most profound mystical concepts, which reveal the spiritual energy of each week, serving as a practical guide for self-analysis and development.
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Week 20 (Book 7): The Spider is Saying
Friday, August 23, 2013
"Kabbalah of Time" Featured in Tamar Yonah's Blog on Arutz Sheva!
Amazing New Book: The Kabbalah of Time
by Tamar YonahThe 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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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Week 21 (Book 7): The Fly is Saying
The Fly, when Israel is not busying itself with Torah, is saying:
Thursday, August 15, 2013
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.
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Week 23 (Book 7): The Leviathan is Saying
The Leviathan is Saying
Sunday, July 21, 2013
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.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Week 25 (Book 7): The Frog Is Saying
Zebulun is a people that jeopardized their lives to die,
As did Naphtali, upon the high places of the field.
Blessed is the Name of the honor of His Kingdom for all eternity.
The people complained against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
I will set his hand upon the sea, his right hand upon the rivers.
His eyes are like doves beside rivulets of water, bathing in milk, fitly set.
There He gave them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them.
So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord instructed him
Concerning a piece of wood, which he cast into the water, and the water became sweet.
I meditate on all Your works, and speak of Your deeds.
His jaws are like a bed of spice, growths of aromatic plants
His lips are [like] roses, dripping with flowing myrrh.
You are the G-d Who works wonders; You make Your might known among the nations.
His hands are [like] wheels of gold, set with chrysolite
His abdomen is [as] a block of ivory, overlaid with sapphires.
And the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness;
According to my cleanness before His eyes.
O G-d, Your way is in sanctity; what god is as great as G-d?
From outside, the sword will bereave, and terror from within;
And when the bullock was slain, the child was brought to Eli.
Young men and maidens, suckling babes with venerable elders.