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The Torah of Desire
Exploring the God-Shaped-Hole.
Created on 2003-08-24 22:49:50 (#1279137), last updated 2009-06-09
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j.h.worch@att.net AboutMy name is Rabbi J. Hershy Worch and I'm delighted to welcome you to Kabbalah_101.
About Kabbalah_101: You may notice it is subtitled, The Torah of Desire - Exploring the God-Shaped-Hole. This is because the kabbalah I received teaches how God's longing, craving and yearning for us created all the space, time and souls in the universe. This is not romantic Torah. Yearning may sound romantic until you know it the way an addict yearns for a fix. The moment you feel that craving inside the empty place of your soul is when you are experiencing the God-Shaped-Hole [or whole]. This knowledge of God is both unbearable agony and exquisite pleasure. It is the end without means.
About me: I'm an artist, musician, writer and rabbi; also a husband, father and friend. I'm dean of the Yeshiva Tiferet Tzvi, originally an Illinois based instituion, offering off-campus and long distance S'micha - Ordination programs, now transplanted and establishing itself in California. Everything I know about God was learned from an Italian biker covered in tattoos. Everything I know of the mysteries was revealed by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. Everything I know of Torah was acquired drinking the 'Waters of Siloah'; absorbed while steeping myself in them for 30 years.
About you: You're here to learn something about yourself because that is what kabbalah is really about. If it has a purpose it is to teach you how to find and recognize the dormant Self or soul where your great power resides. It will also show you your greatest character flaws, because they point to your places of power.
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About Kabbalah_101: You may notice it is subtitled, The Torah of Desire - Exploring the God-Shaped-Hole. This is because the kabbalah I received teaches how God's longing, craving and yearning for us created all the space, time and souls in the universe. This is not romantic Torah. Yearning may sound romantic until you know it the way an addict yearns for a fix. The moment you feel that craving inside the empty place of your soul is when you are experiencing the God-Shaped-Hole [or whole]. This knowledge of God is both unbearable agony and exquisite pleasure. It is the end without means.
About me: I'm an artist, musician, writer and rabbi; also a husband, father and friend. I'm dean of the Yeshiva Tiferet Tzvi, originally an Illinois based instituion, offering off-campus and long distance S'micha - Ordination programs, now transplanted and establishing itself in California. Everything I know about God was learned from an Italian biker covered in tattoos. Everything I know of the mysteries was revealed by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. Everything I know of Torah was acquired drinking the 'Waters of Siloah'; absorbed while steeping myself in them for 30 years.
About you: You're here to learn something about yourself because that is what kabbalah is really about. If it has a purpose it is to teach you how to find and recognize the dormant Self or soul where your great power resides. It will also show you your greatest character flaws, because they point to your places of power.
You are visitor number, (since Oct 15, 2005):
Oh, and by the way, (c) All rights reserved. No part of this journal/community may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author, me, not even in the case of brief quotations in reviews for inclusion in magazine, newspaper or broadcast, etc, etc, etc.
FAQs are here
To learn more about the Kabbalah in practice and theory I heartily recommend this book:
And I sound like this:
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