Kabbalah For Beginners

How much do your feelings, thoughts, wants, and needs depend on the feelings, thoughts, wants, and needs of others?

Did you ever consider that any change in a feeling, thought and desire of yours is dependent on, and influential upon, the feelings, thoughts, and desires of every single other person in the world?

Also, are you aware of how far-reaching are the implications of such interdependence?

We grow up in a world that instills us with competitive, individualistic values. Our educational systems and our culture teach us how to develop as independent individuals, where the more you can be “stronger, richer and faster” than others, the more you will succeed. Such an approach was arguably suitable for a certain period in history, but as we develop into a new era marked by tightening global interdependence—from the immense exponential human population growth to the worldwide interconnection of our economies, technologies, and cultures—the more we see that a competitive, individualistic approach in an interdependent reality leads to crises on all scales: personal, social, global and ecological.

In this Kabbalah Explained Simply with Markos, we will look into how to master living in the modern world: to realize the error of continuing along the same competitive, individualistic lines we’ve taken till today, and to awaken a globally considerate, cooperative, collaborative and connected path heading into the future.

This paradigm shift is incumbent on us as humans today not just for our happiness and well-being, but also for our very survival.

This course is a journey into understanding life and how all its pieces come together. It aims to give you genuine, scientific answers to all the questions you've ever had about life, and most importantly, what you can do about it. Also, it aims to give you tools to upgrade the way you think about and perceive reality, essential knowledge about your nature and how to restore its purpose, and help you attain self-realization.

How exactly is Kabbalah a science? Why has Kabbalah been associated with mysticism for hundreds of years? What is the connection between Kabbalah as mysticism and Kabbalah as a science?

In the 16th Century, Kabbalist Isaac Luria (the ARI) updated the method of Kabbalah as a precise scientific depiction of spiritual attainment. In the 20th Century, Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) provided in-depth commentary on Ari's work, in his "Study of the Ten Sefirot," where he elaborated in detail on the science of Kabbalah in a six-volume textbook. With such efforts to describe spiritual attainment scientifically, how is it that most people's initial approach to Kabbalah is via mysticism? Is there a certain stage of mysticism in the approach to Kabbalah?

In this Sunday's Kabbalah Explained Simply, Gil Shir will explore how and when Kabbalah is studied as a science, and how and when it is studied in a way that could be considered more mystical.

Given the right amount of anesthetic, you could walk into a fire without feeling you're harming yourself. Similarly, social influence can be psychologically numbing, to the point that we won't see what's wrong in our society. Are we missing the signals that nature is sending us? How can we read the signals instead of beating the messenger?

Ask about anything that you want Kabbalah's perspective on, and get answers live! Join Tony Kosinec in this live Q&A as part of the Kabbalah Explained Simply series

This episode is dedicated to your questions and input. So please throw in the chat anything you'd like us bring up during the show and we'll do our best!

From planets pulling together and entering into orbits, to metronomes (of the same frequency, resting on the same base, and being started randomly) synchronizing after a short period of time, through to fireflies glowing in synchrony—we see glimpses of a deeper connection existing in nature.

In this Kabbalah Explained Simply, Joseph (Asaf) Ohayon will discuss spontaneous synchronization phenomenon as a law of nature, and will explore the big question that emerges: What about us, humans? What conditions are required for us to become synchronized as a single system?

While nature spontaneously synchronizes, learn why and how humans need to consciously synchronize.

As the war continues between Russia and Ukraine, which both account for about a third of the world's wheat/corn supply, it's becoming a problem and the world is starting to feel it. Meanwhile, we're developing AI to do more things, including replacing influencers on social media and young people are starting to see themselves as "Goblins".

Does it feel like the world is about to plunge into WWIII? How did it happen? Are we doomed to wage wars forever? Can a spiritual war save us from an armed conflict? Where do you enlist for a spiritual war? What kind of training is needed? Who are we fighting? And how do we win it?

Join Lio Spiegler to learn about how the wisdom of Kabbalah describes war at a spiritual level in this Kabbalah Explained Simply.

We can't ignore the war and there's still so much to understand about what's really happening to us during these times. Join Seth, Chris & Asaf where they again try and approach the idea of taking advantage of the opportunity, this tragedy in humanity and how we can come out of it "different humans" that will never need to experience physical war again.