Great Kabbalist Throughout History
The wisdom of Kabbalah is the most ancient of all wisdoms. It goes back to the time of Abraham the patriarch in the 18th century B.C. 3800 years ago. Abraham the patriarch was an ordinary 28.3 tribesman in Babylon who discovered the existence of godliness, a reality outside of this world. He then wrote a book about it called Sepher Yetzirah, the book of creation, which is actually the very first book about the wisdom of Kabbalah.
There were many more Kabbalist after him, his disciples, his sons, and his grandsons. All of them engage in Kabbalah until the second disclosure of the wisdom by Moses during the exodus from Egypt.
Moses was a great Kabbalist and he wrote the book of Torah for us. In it, he expressed his own revelations about the upper world but in a different way. While Abraham wrote in names Sephirot and Partsufim, Moses expresses himself in a different language the language of branches. Because everything in this world comes from above from a higher world as it is written, there was not a blade of grass below that has not an angel above it that strikes it and tells it, grow.
There fore there is a complete co relation between everything that exists in the upper world and everything that exists in our world. For example, in our world we have a language and denominations and names for every item we encounter. We can then take these names and seemingly go up a level to a higher world and use these names to describe everything that happens in that world. That is what Moses did when he describes the language of branches.
Thanks to Him, we now have the book of Torah. People here in this world think that it refers to worldly events, historic events, romance journeys, and other activities. But those on a higher plain, which Moses wish to describe know that Moses was not writing about our world but about what is in the upper world. He was describing the upper governing higher providence, how souls ascend and descend. There incarnations and the entire upper system.
Then followed the book of Zohar, the book of Radiance, which was to become the best known book about the wisdom of Kabbalah even though no one completely understands it. The Zohar is written in the language of Midrash. This is a different language than the one used by Abraham, who wrote his book in Sephirot in nails. It is also a language different from that used by Moses, who wrote in the language of branches using words of this world. The Zohar is written like a fiction. It is imaginary and poetic. It seemingly speaks of this world and the upper world but it is a language of legends called the language Midrash.
After the Zohar, we came to the disclosure in the middle Ages inspired by the holy Ari Kabbalist Isaac Luria. He wrote nothing himself but what remains of his teachings have been recorded in writing by Rabbi Chaim Vital, his disciple. This marks the beginning of contemporary Kabbalah.
Then came the time of Hasidism and the evolution of wisdom of Kabbalah in the 17th and 18th centuries until it evolved in to our contemporary bal Haslam rabbi Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlaq. Bal Haslam wrote the commentaries to the Zohar and the writings of the Ari and expressed Kabbalah in a contemporary language he wrote Talmud Eser Sephirot, the study of the ten Sephirot as a scientific book. It was written academically and very precisely with a glossary, questions, and answers, a complete text book suitable for our times.
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