• term Yesh (Hebrew: יֵשׁ, lit. 'there is/are' or 'exist(s)'). According to kabbalistic teachings, before the universe was created there was only Ayin, the...
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  • Ein Sof (category Kabbalistic words and phrases)
    "infinity", without reference to God and to the above intricate Kabbalistic connotations. Apeiron Ayin and Yesh Divine simplicity Essence-energies distinction...
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    Elyon and Tachton are used particularly in the Habad philosophical systemisation of Hasidic thought. The alternative Kabbalistic terms Ayin and Yesh ("Non-Being...
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    Chʻüan China portal Dualistic cosmology Shatkona Dialectic Seny and Rauxa Ayin and Yesh Enantiodromia Flag of Mongolia Flag of South Korea Flag of Tibet...
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    latest time for the initiation of the Messianic Age. The Talmud, Midrash, and Zohar state that the date by which the Messiah will appear is 6,000 years...
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    Sefirot (category Kabbalistic words and phrases)
    and not nine, ten and not eleven". As altogether 11 sefirot are listed across the various schemes, two (Keter and Da'at) are seen as unconscious and conscious...
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  • Neutral monism Taiji (philosophy) Theogony Tzimtzum Wuji (philosophy) Ayin and Yesh "apeiron". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. ἄπειρον. Liddell, Henry George;...
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  • Ohr (category Hebrew words and phrases)
    through it. Kabbalistically, in Israel the concealment is less severe Ayin and Yesh Deveikut Divine light Nur Muhammad Emanationism Essence–energies distinction...
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    Tzadik (category Orthodox rabbinic roles and titles)
    Elimelech of Lizhensk, involved the Tzadik performing miracles to channel the Ayin-Yesh Divine blessing. In its most extreme version, Hasidic "wonder-workers"...
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    Four Worlds (category Kabbalistic words and phrases)
    of Creation. On this level is the first concept of creatio ex nihilo (Yesh miAyin), however without yet shape or form, as the creations of Beriah sense...
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    a Western esoteric tradition involving mysticism and the occult. It is the underlying philosophy and framework for magical societies such as the Golden...
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  • Devekut (category Hebrew words and phrases in Jewish prayers and blessings)
    Jewish prayer Mitzvot Niggun Teshuvah Tzedakah Concepts: Awe of God Ayin and Yesh Inner dimensions of the Sephirot Jewish theology of love Love of God...
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  • esoteric Christian order formed by Robert Wentworth Little between 1865 and 1867. While the SRIA is not a Masonic order (unattached to any Grand Lodge...
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  • Qlippoth (category Kabbalistic words and phrases)
    In the Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah, and Hermetic Qabalah, the qlippoth (Hebrew: קְלִיפּוֹת, romanized: qəlippoṯ, originally Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: קְלִיפִּין...
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    Kabbalah (category Language and mysticism)
    ninth step of the second firmament.: 210–211  Philosophy portal Aggadah Ayin and Yesh English Qaballa Gnosticism Jewish astrology Ka-Bala board game List...
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    most beliefs involving reincarnation, the soul of a human being is immortal and does not disperse after the physical body has perished. Upon death, the soul...
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  • new account of Kabbalistic thought that its followers synthesised with, and read into, the earlier Kabbalah of the Zohar that had disseminated in Medieval...
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    Sefer Raziel HaMalakh (category Adam and Eve)
    grimoire of Practical Kabbalah from the Middle Ages written primarily in Hebrew and Aramaic. Liber Razielis Archangeli, its 13th-century Latin translation produced...
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    Tree of life (Kabbalah) (category Kabbalistic words and phrases)
    romanized: ʾilān, lit. 'tree') is a diagram used in Rabbinical Judaism in kabbalah and other mystical traditions derived from it. It is usually referred to as the...
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    religious circles as Ha'ari, Ha'ari Hakadosh or Arizal, was a leading rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed in the Galilee region of Ottoman...
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  • transliterated as Cabala (also Cabbala) to distinguish it from the Jewish form and from Hermetic Qabalah. The movement was influenced by a desire to interpret...
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  • Adam Kadmon (category Kabbalistic words and phrases)
    perceptible to the senses and partakes of earthly qualities. Philo is evidently combining philosophy and Midrash, Plato and the rabbis. [citation needed]...
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    One; and above Him the Unknowable One. None knows what He contains; He is above all conception. He is therefore called for man 'Non-Existing' [Ayin] (Zohar...
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  • Arich Anpin (category Aramaic words and phrases in Jewish prayers and blessings)
    Unity source of essential faith Reisha d'Ayin (the "Head of Nothingness"-Ayin), source of the inner motivation of unconscious Delight Reisha d'Arich (the...
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  • Partzufim (category Kabbalistic words and phrases)
    of Tohu and Tikun, "Chaos and Rectification". Medieval Kabbalah described the ten sefirot as divine channels that emanate from their source and descend...
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  • Sefer Yetzirah (category Language and mysticism)
    or "Elementals" (He, Waw, Zayin, Heth, Teth, Yodh, Lamedh, Nun, Samekh, Ayin, Tsade, Qoph) These 32 divisions correspond to: the 22 Hebrew Letters, the...
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  • Olam HaTohu (Hebrew: עוֹלָם הַתֹּ֫הוּ, lit. 'The World of Chaos') and Olam HaTikun (עוֹלָם הַתִקוּן "The World of Rectification") are two general stages...
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  • of evil if performed under circumstances that were holy (Q-D-Š) and pure, tumah and taharah (טומאה וטהרה). The concern of overstepping Judaism's strong...
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  • Tzimtzum (category Kabbalistic words and phrases)
    presence and absence within the vacuum and resultant Creation. Various approaches exist then, within Orthodoxy, as to how the paradox may be resolved, and as...
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  • Gilgul (category Kabbalistic words and phrases)
    esoteric mysticism. In Hebrew, the word gilgul means "cycle" or "wheel" and neshamot is the plural for "souls." Souls are seen to cycle through lives...
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