Category : Jewish Meditation

The Marriage Ceremony The prophets metaphorically describe the Jewish people entering the Land of Israel–ascending in it from level to level, until reaching the Holy...

Six Ascending Levels of Holiness Our sages speak of ten ascending levels of holiness that God created in the world. They begin with the holiness...

Ever-Expanding Consciousness  To Meditate is to Build The word for "meditation" in Hebrew (hitbonenut) is related to the verbal root "to build" (baneh). Once the mental structure...

The Point Within In terms of the space-model, this mitzvah is the point of self-consciousness situated in the middle of the six-sided cube of Divine-consciousness outlined above....

Prayer — The Seventh Commandment  We have now constructed a meditative space in which one is to experience himself moving at all times, i.e., a...

Sunset As "front" and "back" correspond to east and west, they symbolize sunrise and sunset in the consciousness of the soul. As one's "sun"–one's clarity...

Loyalty At the back is the commandment:   And you shall not stray after your heart and after your eyes…. This is the mitzvah of guarding one's mind...

Three Levels of Fear Just as the flame of love possesses three levels of ascent to God–"with all your heart, and with all your soul,...

Fear To the left is the commandment: And now, O Israel, what does God your Godask of you, but to fear…. This is the commandment to fear God (yir'ah),...

Three Ascending Levels of Love In particular, our verse speaks of the three levels of ascending love for God: "with all your heart, and with...