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Current Live Classes Current public classes are offered every Tuesday and Wednesday from 7:00PM to 9:00PM Mountain Time, at my home in Manitou Springs. Additionally, all classes are now available to participants world wide on the Internet through the Virtual Yeshiva classroom. All classes are, unless indicated, for Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced.
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NEW COURSE!
Pirkei Avot פרקי אבות Chapters of Fundamental Principles, or more commonly, Chapters of the Fathers, is a compilation of the ethical teachings and maxims of the Rabbis of the Mishnaic period (200 BCE—200 ACE). Because of its contents, it is also called Ethics of the Fathers. Pirkei Avot is unique in that it is the only tractate of the Talmud dealing (ostensibly) solely with ethical and moral principles. There are numerous commentaries available both in print and online. As with all the Rabbinical texts, this one also has many levels and we will again see the illuminating multidimensional lights of the Torah. No purchase of the text is necessary as Pirkei Avot is included in all Jewish prayer books which will be available in class or you may bring your own.
Current Class Schedule: Tuesdays: 2 hours, 7 to 9:00 pm
Part 1: 7-8pm Beyond Kabbalah - The Teachings That Cannot Be Taught Part 2: 8-9pm Perkei Avot Wednesdays: 2 hours, 7 to 9:00 pm Part 1: 7-8pm The Secret Doctrine of the Gaon of Vilna - Current study: TechnoSerpent, Leviathan & Metatron Part 2: 8-9 pm Torah Portion of the Week - Textual Exegesis: Both the narrative and mystical perspecitve. [Seminars on unique topics are held periodically on Sundays.]
Every Wednesday Night:
The Secret Doctrine of the Gaon of Vilna
Mashiach ben Yoseph
& the Messianic Role of
Torah, Kabbalah and Science
Judaism's Hidden Teachings of the Twin Messiahs
Twenty years in preparation and the first of its kind: A cutting edge course expounding upon one of the most concealed and controversial documents in modern Jewish history, the 18th century Gaon of Vilna's Kol HaTor – Call of the Turtledove. This obscure mystical text is now translated into English and explained for the first time with my extensive introductions and notes culled from hundreds of authoritative rabbinical and kabbalistic sources. This previously hidden text is a virtual hands-on manual that will reveal everything we need to know about the secret of the Twin Messiahs, the Messianic Era and beyond and what you can do now to protect and prepare yourself for the inevitable future – the future which has already begun.
Mashiach ben Yoseph and the Twin Messiahs
But They Did Not Recognize Him * The Split Messiah * A Crack in the Foundation * The Twin Messiahs * Among Us in Every Generation * Formula 999 * Moses and the Two Messiahs * In Its Due Time I Will Accelerate It CD's will be available for classes missed or to be
purchased separately.
THIS COURSE IS ALSO AVAILABLE FOR FREE LIVE ON THE INTERNET EVERY WED 9 PM EST AT virtualyeshiva.com
(For Jews and Gentiles Wed Nights Beginning Jan 9 From 7 to 8:30 pm $80.00 donation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [PAST CLASSES] How to Think Like a Rabbi
How to Pray Like a Prophet
and now...
How to Rectify Yourself Like a Tzadik
Spiritual and Moral Character Rectification according to the classic ethical-mystical treatise Palm Tree of Deborah by the tzadik and kabbalist Rabbi Moshe Cordovero. Palm Tree of Deborah (Tomer Devorah, Book of Judges 4:2) was written in Hebrew in the middle of the 16th century by Rabbi Moshe Cordovero, a master kabbalist in Safed, Israel. It is based upon the Talmudic teaching, "So as He is merciful, so should you be merciful". The Torah exhorts us to perform acts of kindness similar to the ones ascribed to God. Examples are burying the dead (as God buried Moses) and visiting the sick (as God visited Abraham).
This short text deals with the Imitation of God through the acquisition of divine traits, especially by mirroring the Ten Sephirot or divine qualities of God. This treatise is popular among the Orthodox mussar tradition, which focuses on the individual cultivation of psychological as well as spiritual character traits. It is especially studied during the Days of Awe (Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur). We will be using an excellent translation of the text, The Palm Tree of Devorah published by Targum/Feldheim and widely available for purchase.
Kol HaTor Chavura
On Israel Time
Learning and Discussion Group
For Intermediate and Advanced Participants
We will be reading and analyzing from the Hebrew Edition
of Kol HaTor with my translations and notes in
The Secret Doctrine of the Gaon of Vilna
and, where applicable, my translation will be juxtaposed
to the English translation of
R’ Bar-Lev’s The Voice of the Turtledove
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Two Jews' Blues The Vilna Gaon's Secret of Sasson and Simcha
The Talmud relates that once there were two Jewish heretics, one was named Sasson (joy) and the other was named Simcha (happiness). “Sasson once said to Simcha...” There were secrets of the Torah that the Gaon would not reveal to any of his disciples. The secret of the "Sasson and Simcha", was one of these. Concerning this passage we heard from his holy mouth that one of the earlier masters fasted numerous fasts in order to be worthy of having the mystery of this passage revealed to him from above. His request was not granted. Our holy Rabbi confided to us that the secret of Sasson and Simcha had been revealed to him and that if he had been created only in order to grasp this matter, it would have been sufficient for him... The Gaon of Vilna (1720-1797) himself taught that in the End Times, along with the divinely orchestrated outpouring of the teachings of the Kabbalah and the unprecedented acceleration of science and technology, the long hidden secrets of Talmudic aggada will also be revealed. This course is the first ever to explore the ancient, secret tradition that both secular Judaism and traditional Judaism does not want you to know - the key to understanding our very unique generation - the secret doctrine of the Two Jew's Blues.
Ecstatic Jewish Prayer The Agony and Ecstasy of Rabbi Akiva's Martyrdom and
The Transformation of Enochian Flesh Into
Four-Dimensional Tongues of Fire
AND
Cosmo-Geopolitics
Current Events Affecting Israel
and Jews Around the World & Beyond
This ongoing course is dedicated to both the practical halachic observance and kabbalistic significance of everyday prayer, festivals, Shabbat and daily Jewish practice. In particular this class explores the two-sided Sh'ma-nic mystery of the agony and ecstasy of human flesh and the elevation of carnality within the mystical union of Kiddush HaShem (Jewish Martyrdom). Herein lies the secret of the recital of the Sh'ma, the sacrificial holo-caust offering (korban olah), the serpentine bowing movements in the Amida prayer, the fiery transformation of Chanoch's (Enoch) physical body into the meta-archangel Metatron. This is the kabbalistic secret of how to ecstatically “burn up” our own flesh in the mystery of Shalhuvin diRechimu - “Flames of Divine Love”.
The first half hour or so of this class is devoted to Cosmo-Geopolitics - an analysis of world events from the perspective of the Kabbalah that are affecting the destiny of Israel and the growing physical and spiritual threat of antisemitism. We also listen to a current news and analysis net-cast from Israel by historian and journalist Sh’ai ben Tekoa.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How to Think Like a Rabbi & Learn Like a Torah Scholar The Transmission of the Oral Torah:
Who, What, Why, Where and When?
“The soul of Moses incarnates into the minds of Torah scholars in each and every generation”. (The Gaon of Vilna)
This course is an introduction to the Mind of Moses. To become a righteous gentile one must study Torah and its laws and paths to righteousness. To become an ever evolving and conscious Noahide, however, one must additionally know the subtleties of rabbinic thinking and become familiar with the intimidating but extraordinary territory of the rabbinic landscape and perspective. Do you know the difference between Mishnah and midrash, between the Haggada and aggada, between the Kabbalah and a kabbalah, between Talmud and Talmud Torah, between the Torah and the Haftorah, between the Tosefta and the Tosefot, between pilpel harif (a hot pepper) and pilpul harif (a hot rabbinic discussion)?
Do you know the difference between a question and a kashe/difficulty, between an answer and a resolution, between a law in the Talmud and the same law in the Shulchan Aruch (Code of Jewish Law)? Do you know what Rabbi Akiva knew about the Torah in his 2nd century academy that Moses, a thousand years earlier on Mt. Sinai, did not know?!
The material in this course is designed to help train the student to become a rabbinically mature Noahide who not only knows his or her way around in the great expanse of the Oral Torah, but can also begin to think like two Jews with three views!
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Torah Portion of the Week
Biblical Exegesis In Light of The City of Luz
Luz is the esoteric language of the Talmudic sage-mystics. It is both a hidden territory as well as a four-dimensional map. Every Thursday night, following 20-30 minutes of visually guided experiential "right-brain" Luz meditation, we will then take a textual "left-brain" look at the mapping of the personalities, events and cosmic laws of the Torah. Drawing upon the Talmud, Midrash, Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah and the esoteric school of the Gaon of Vilna we will analyze the Biblical text-code for clues to the hidden map and mystery of Jewish history and the purpose of creation.
The Lost Legacy of the Josephic Messiah
The Secret Soul Genealogy of Jesus of & the Metatron Redemption of the Jewish “Christ”
The Original Sources in the Torah, Talmud and Kabbalah In this course study we will present and analyze the original sources for what Yeshu HaNotzri (Jesus of Much of what is contained in the Christian Bible (the “New Testament”) has its original sources in the Jewish Bible – the Torah (the “Old Testament”) - and the ancient living tradition of the rabbis and the Jewish sage-mystics. Were you taught or have you always thought that everything Jesus said was divinely revealed and original? Surprisingly, Jesus was a Jewish mystic and scholar who was teaching traditional and kabbalistic Judaism as all the rabbis of his era and preceding him were doing so! This is not an anti-missionary or anti-Christianity course and it is not our intention to debate the various interpretations, sects and denominations of Christianity as to the “true” nature and mission of Jesus of Nazareth. Rather, we are attempting to understand his source material from his Torah and Kabbalah perspective. We will also explore the “secret of secrets”, the virtually unknown spiritual root genealogy of Jesus, his interface with the roles of Mashiach ben Yoseph and a meta-soul connection to Metatron. Student participation in this course requires previous approval either through me or through one of my senior students ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(Previous Noahide Course) Noahides and Nogah The Secret Within
the Light Body of Adam
The first half hour or so of this class is devoted to Cosmo-Geopolitics - an analysis of world events from the perspective of the Kabbalah that are affecting the destiny of Israel and the growing physical and spiritual threat of antisemitism. We also listen to a current news and analysis net-cast from Israel by historian and journalist Sh’ai ben Tekoa.
The second half hour is a study in perhaps the greatest recorded mystical experience in human history – Ezekiel’s prophetic vision of the Merkava – the Divine Chariot. We will be reading from Part II of Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan’s Inner Space entitled Meditation and Prophesy. The Merkava is a code word that interfaces with Metatron, the Pardes, the Heichalot literature and the City of Luz. Our specific goal throughout this exploration, however, will be to unravel the mystery of nogah – the radiant glow emanating out of Ezekiel’s Merkava vision and the secret it contains for non-Jews and their direct participation in global redemption and the return to Adam's higher dimensionality.
The second hour of the evening is The Body of Adam: The Role of B'nai Noach in the Garden and the End Times. The theme of this on-going course, which is also net-cast live through Noahide Nations, is to explore the emerging and ever evolving prophetic and kabbalistic role of Noachides, particularly as it relates to interfacing with the Nation of Israel. What really happened in the Garden of Eden? What was the “serpent”? Who really were Adam and Eve? How could they have sinned ("miscalculated" in Hebrew) and caused such a universal collapse of higher reality? What did they really think they were doing?! Be prepared to leave behind everything you ever learned in Sunday school or ever saw in medieval art works. Join us for a virtual field trip into the lost dimensionality of humanity’s collective Adamic soul. The new techno-tools of hyperspace, virtual reality, fractal geometry and a holographic perspective will be our “glasses” to re-discover and experience the Hidden Light of the primordial Garden of Eden as detailed and mapped out by the Jewish kabbalists.
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[Previous Courses] Cosmic Fallout
Fallen Angels, Aliens
& the "Sons of God"
For millennia perhaps the most bizarre and controversial episode of the Bible is the appearance in the book of Genesis of the "Sons of God" and their union with the "Daughters of Man". Is this simply ancient mythology, a historical account of alien visitation or a case of spontaneously triggered endogenous DMT? Or do these few verses of the Torah contain a profound secret known only to the Jewish sage-mystics? What does traditional Jewish Kabbalah reveal about this apparent alien encounter and what relevance does it have to us right here right now? Join us for a serpentine ride on the waves of the undulating light of the Ain Sof into the secrets of the primordial worlds of the Tohu, Tikun and Resurrection - along with a strong dose of angelology and demonology. There will also be cameo appearance of Chanoch (Enoch) and his transformation into the meta-angel, Metatron.
Primordial Worlds, Chaos Theory and Fractal Geometry “In the Beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
And the earth was chaotic and fractaled...”
You think you know what the earth and the reality you are standing on is made out of? This Six Week Course will detail the kabbalistic secrets of the Torah regarding the existence of millions of generations and cosmological events that preceded Genesis and the appearance of Adam and Eve and are the very ground upon which our present reality is rooted and branched. The secret teachings of the Worlds of Chaos have direct and profound bearing on our collective as well as our individual lives. The hidden scaffolding of these higher dimensional worlds are the cosmic roots of all good and evil, the ultimate purpose of existence as well as the underlying basis for the legends of Atlantis and other “pre-adamic” civilizations. Although virtually unknown, the Torah teaching of the Primordial Words are a fundamental part of traditional Judaism. Unless one has had decades of traditional Jewish kabbalistic training the esoteric teachings of the Worlds of Chaos will remain a closed book on the other side of a locked door. However, by utilizing new scientific models such as chaos theory and fractal geometry, which will be introduced in this course to the uninitiated, anyone can now get a glimpse into this mind boggling and infinite Grand Canyon of creation.
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