Discover Kabbalah Part 3 Class 3 : karen berg weekly message lineage
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I'd like to discuss with you
about the lineage of Kabbalah
and what's important about it
and I think, we should start
with the actual Zohar itself.
Written by Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai
in a cave
where he lived for 13 years
together with his son - Eliazar
and came this book of writing
the answer is, it didn't
it took, after he came out of the cave,
after he set with his 10 students together,
did Rabbi Abba picked up pen and paper
and write the Zohar.
And then, if we forward to the year 1200
came rabbi Moses De Leon in Spain
who found the writings of Rabbi Shimon
and there he took these writings
brought the forward
whether he edited it
or he rewrote certain pages
I don't know the answer to that
I don't think anyone does
brought it to Israel
where a chosen group of people
then was able to study from it.
And to go forward for us
there was Rav Isaac Luria (the Ari)
who lived in Safed
and who also
lived for 13 years on the Nile
and studied solo
from there
he came to Israel
and his student, Chaim Vital,
found him
and there together
they went on a mission
to bring Kabbalah to the people.
Now, at the same time
there was a great sage
by the name of rabbi Moses Cordovero
who lived in Safed
and it is said that there was a dream
that came to Chaim Vital
and in the dream
rabbi Moses Cordovero came to him and said
that my way of understanding the Zohar
is correct.
And the Ari's way of understanding
is correct.
But in the time of the Meshiah,
of the Messiah,
the teachings of Rav Isaac Luria
will be studied and learned.
It is from there
that we take
the ideas.
That the way to teach Kabbalah
is through the Lurianic system.
And so we follow from there
to fast forward to Rav Ashlag who wrote the Sulam "the Ladder" the explanation and the understanding of the entire Zohar. Which is in modern Hebrew, and not in Aramaic which made it easier, simplified it for the people, to now be able to open the Zohar and to read it. From Rav Ashlag came Rav Brandwein, Rav Brandwein, again, took the same teachings and portions of it which he understood and wrote it, again, into Hebrew. And now we go to The Rav, who took the writings of the Zohar and the writings of Rav Brandwein and what the Centers have done is simplified it, even to a place that we, through great effort, can study and learn the words of these great sages. It's important for us to know the steps, the lineage, as to how it's become the way we have the teachings in the center. Because our idea is not to make you all tremendous scholars our idea is to make you tremendous souls interested in taking these sparks for the rest of the peoples of the world. And so, you will hear many interesting things through the course of this time and I hope you can take them, use them, and understand the purpose for which you're here. Thank you.
to fast forward to Rav Ashlag who wrote the Sulam "the Ladder" the explanation and the understanding of the entire Zohar. Which is in modern Hebrew, and not in Aramaic which made it easier, simplified it for the people, to now be able to open the Zohar and to read it. From Rav Ashlag came Rav Brandwein, Rav Brandwein, again, took the same teachings and portions of it which he understood and wrote it, again, into Hebrew. And now we go to The Rav, who took the writings of the Zohar and the writings of Rav Brandwein and what the Centers have done is simplified it, even to a place that we, through great effort, can study and learn the words of these great sages. It's important for us to know the steps, the lineage, as to how it's become the way we have the teachings in the center. Because our idea is not to make you all tremendous scholars our idea is to make you tremendous souls interested in taking these sparks for the rest of the peoples of the world. And so, you will hear many interesting things through the course of this time and I hope you can take them, use them, and understand the purpose for which you're here. Thank you.