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Vol. II

The Josephic Messiah, Leviathan,

Metatron & the Sacred Serpent

The Secret Doctrine of the Gaon of Vilna

Volume II

By Joel David Bakst

Table of Contents, Volume II

Soft Cover ("Perfect Bound", 6" x 9"), 292 pages

(Also see special offer below)

In the U.S. the total cost for the book

via airmail delivery, inc. shipping and handling is $30.00

Both Volumes Together: $55.00

To Israel and most other countries the total cost of the book

via airmail delivery, inc. shipping and handling is $40.00

Both Volumes Together: $65.00

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Vol. I

The Secret Doctrine of the Gaon of Vilna

Mashiach ben Yoseph

& the Messianic Role of Torah, Kabbalah and Science

By Joel David Bakst

Volume I (of II Volumes) including new appendixes.

Table of Contents, Volume 1

Soft Cover ("Perfect Bound", 6" x 9"), 276 pages

(Also see special offer below)

In the U.S. the total cost for the book via airmail delivery,

inc. shipping and handling is $30.00

Both Volumes Together: $55.00

To Israel and most other countries the total cost of the book via airmail delivery,

inc. shipping and handling is $40.00

Both Volumes Together: $65.00

~ Please indicate if you are purchasing Vol I and/or Vol II ~

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Courses & Seminars on

MP3 CD & MP3 DOWNLOAD

available for purchase:

$50/course (6 classes); $12/seminar

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Courses	# of Classes
Angelology	4
Cosmic Fallout and Fallen Angels Nefilim, 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? Rather, 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-archangel, Metatron.	6
Cosmo-Geopolitics Betwixt the Orient and the Occident - It Is No Accident A Kabbalistic Presentation of the Middle East Conflict The tragic conflict in the Middle East which is affecting the world, our government as well as our personal lives has been going on from time immemorial and is reaching a point of no return. What are the cosmological roots of the battle between Western Christian civilization and the Islamic world and why has Israel been geographically, historically and spiritually located in the middle between both of them? The ancient teachings of the Kabbalah can help us to unravel the global puzzle of the international who's who. Join us for a mind-opening analysis of the Biblical characters - Abraham, Ishmael and Esau and their wives and mothers - Sara, Hagar and Rebecca. Watch their children's children's children play out their cosmic roles according to their ancient archetypal scripts only now wearing the collective consciousness of Jew, Arab and Christian. Politics and religion will never be the same again!	18
Free Will Untying The Knots Although appearing paradoxical in the face ofan omniscient God, according to Jewish tradition there is a reality known as "Free Will". But according to the innermost teachings of the Torah - the Kabbalah - it is far from being "free". Rather, it comes with an unexpected and shocking price known as the mystery of the Divine Flames of Love. This 6-week course is an awesome and challenging journey into the most esoteric teachings of Jewish mysticism that will unravel the secret knots in the space-time fabric of existence itself as well as in your own personal life. Reading directly from the Talmud, Midrash and kabbalistic texts you will have a rare view of reality that you never knew existed. Truly, these teachings are neither for the faint hearted nor for anyone who is not prepared to meet the Creator face to face.	6
Garden of Eden (2004) The Hidden Landscape Behind Cosmo-Geopolitics Back to the Garden of Eden: A Field Trip 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 techo-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.	12
Garden of Eden (2005)	19
Hasadim & Gevurot (HuG)	6
Job (Iyov)	12
Kabbalah 101 A passage in the ancient Jewish mystical Book of the Zohar prophesies that the current stages of global evolution are dependent upon a unique confluence between modern technology and the mystical teachings of the Kabbalah. Supported by Hassidic masters and orthodox kabbalists, this tradition requires that in order to grasp many concealed principles being revealed today we must utilize the newly emerging maps, models and metaphors pouring forth from the scientific community. Along with an overview, this course will explore simple yet powerful keys to the Kabbalah - the holographic map, split-brain hemispericity, the Mobius strip model, chaos theory, fractal geometry, quantum logic and the "Flatland" metaphor of dimensionality. Participants will begin to comprehend the secret of the Garden of Eden, the holographic nature of the universe, cosmo-geopolitics and the mystical experience of God's "unity within duality". An unexpected role of the primordial serpent in the development of ever-accelerating technology will also be revealed. The Lost Doctrine is the virtual key to the understanding and application of the Kabbalah in our daily lives in the present age of the new sciences and beyond. Written material will be available for sale.	4
Kabbalah of War and Mashiach (Messiah)	8
Leviathan	15
Lip of Time	12
Maps, Models and Metaphors	8
Mystery of the Vav and Timelessness of Hebrew	3
Primordial/Primeval Worlds	8
Secret Doctrine of the Gaon of Vilna (Weekly classes delivered on VirtualYeshiva.com)	January 2008 to date
Sha’ashu’a	12
Song of Songs “The song of Songs, which is Solomon’s. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.” Thus begins Shir haShirim, The Song of Songs (also known as the Song of Solomon or Canticles), one of the ancient books of the Hebrew Bible. This text appears to be a series of poems about erotic love in the form of a dialogue between a bridegroom and a bride. In truth, it is the love song of existence itself undulating back and forth between the Creator and creation, between the eternal essences of the masculine and feminine, and between the internal polarities within each and every one of us. Shir haShirim is the living dance of HuG — the hasadim and gevurot. The 2nd century Rabbi Akiva declared, "The entire universe is not worthy of the day on which the Song of Songs was given to Israel, for all the Writings of the Torah are holy but the Song of Songs is the holy of holies”. This course is a unique textual exploration of the Kabbalistic secrets of love and gender — the Divine Dance Itself.	9

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Seminars

3 Weeks of Mourning & Tzimtzum

22 Days of Awe and Ecstasy

Aleph & Secrets of Hebrew Letters

Anatomy of G-d & Tzaddik_Part 1

Tzadik As The Conduit for Daily Unification With God

In our continuing exploration of learning how to pray and in preparation for the future Feast of Leviathan this seminar will explore the internal design of Adam Kadmon - the higher dimensional anatomy of God. Humanity is “made in the image of God”. Our entire physiological, neurological, hormonal, cerebral-spinal and reproductive structures are exquisite microcosmic fractured fractions (“fractals”) of the Divine Body of Light. Corresponding to the four components of the alphanumeric Name of God, Y-H-V-H, throughout rabbinical and kabbalistic literature there are four major aspects or dimensions of the Body of God. They are known as Leviathan, Metatron, Nachash and Mashiach ben Yosef. To maintain unification with the Creator one must understand some of the details of the anatomy of God. Although each of these four aspects is an entire book unto itself there is one meta-theme that reveals their ultimate connection and accessibility. This is the secret of “Tzadik yesod o’lam” – The Tzadik is the foundation channel of the world (Psalms).

Anatomy of G-d & Tzaddik_Part 2

Angelology & Demonology

Biblical Hebrew

Language of the Messianic Future

Discover the secrets in the letters of the Hebrew Aleph-Bet (from which the word "alphabet" is derived). Come learn their code-like forms and fascinating alphanumeric meaning. Hebrew reveals an amazing global history as well as a little known impact upon the founding of America (If a vote in the Continental Congress had gone the other way, America, and much of today's world, would now be speaking Hebrew!). Biblical Hebrew is far more than a human language. Hebrew is the Sacred Tongue through which the Creator formed the world and with which the angels speak. You will learn to appreciate sacred Hebrew calligraphy and to write each of the sacred 22 letters.

Cosmo-Geopolitics of the Middle East

A Kabbalistic Presentation of the Middle East Conflict

The tragic conflict in the Middle East which is affecting the world, our government as well as our personal lives has been going on from time immemorial. What are the cosmological roots of the battle between Western Christian civilization and the Islamic world and why has Israel been geographically, historically and spiritually located in the middle between both of them? The ancient teachings of the Kabbalah can help us to unravel the global puzzle of the international who's who. Join us for a mind-opening analysis of the Biblical characters - Abraham, Ishmael and Esau and their wives and mothers - Sara, Hagar and Rebecca. Watch their children's children's children play out their cosmic roles according to their ancient archetypal scripts only now wearing the collective consciousness of Jew, Arab and Christian. Politics and religion will never be the same again!

Dance of Gender – TuB’Av Aug 2004

Dance of Gender – TuB’Shevat Jan 2005

Days of Ecstasy & Apocalypse

Divine Garment of Ain Sof

End of Days & Global Redemption

Feast of Leviathan

The Jewish sages and mystics teach that, "In the time to come The Holy One will make a banquet for the righteous tzaddkim from the flesh of the Leviathan and He will make a canopy ("sukka") from the skin of Leviathan... the rest [of the skin] will be spread out by the Holy One upon the walls of Jerusalem, and its radiance will shine from one end of the world to the other, as it is said: "Nations will walk in your light, and kings in the radiance of your rising" (Isaiah).

The image of Leviathan, a great aquatic beast with a serpent's body sporting with its mate in the primordial sea of life, is one of Judaism's most hidden and baffling concepts. It is even stated that the Holy One Himself plays in delight with Leviathan. Yet, this motif is very traditional and very crucial for us to understand especially as we are about the reach the Edge of Time. Leviathan interfaces with the secrets of the Holy Serpent, the Da'at (Middle Brain) of Adam Kadmon and the cerebral-spinal structure of Metatron. The one who begins to grasp the Messianic Light of the Feast of the Leviathan will also begin to understand many other kabbalistic teaching of the Torah. Join us for a lively cosmic fishing excursion and remember: You cannot always tell a serpent by its skin.

Fractal Reality_Part I

Fractal Reality_Part II

Free Will

(includes Twilight Zone episode "Five Characters in Search of an Exit")

Gilgul_Part 1

Gilgul_Part 2

Jacob’s Ladder to the City of Luz

Lashon Hara

Meditation & Prayer

Primordial Worlds & Dinosaurs_Part 1

Primordial Worlds & Dinosaurs_Part 2

Secret of Chanukkah

The Kabbalah of Lights & Vessels

Due to its proximity to Christmas the ancient Jewish festival of Chanukah has become well known, especially in our age of commercialization. Yet, even the Jewish world only knows the most external aspects of these 8 holy days. The secret traditions hidden in Chanukah, however, are profound and have important experiential teachings for both Jew and Gentile. Additionally, kabbalistic insights about Christmas and the Gentile New Year will also be discussed.

Secret of Pesach

Secret of Purim

Twin Messiahs

Current Events In Israel: The Struggle of the Twin Messiahs

The first half of the evening will be dedicated to understanding the current geopolitical and religious conflict in the Land of Israel as it affects the world and each one of us. We will be listening to Internet radio broadcasts from Israel and reviewing editorials and news articles about the history and growing wars between Jews, Moslems and Christians and between secular and religious Jews. This will all be viewed within the framework of the long, lost Kabbalah teachings of the Twin Messiahs – Mashiach ben Yosef and Mashiach ben David. Sooner than later each one of us will be called upon to take a position. We can no longer afford to be ignorant or “politically correct” about the harsh facts confronting us. For all members of the Nation of Adam – Jews and Gentiles - it is time to become consciously informed both politically and spiritually in order to prepare for our immediate future.

TishaB’Av/Mourning/Lashon Hara

Toridal Prayer_Part 1, 2 and 3

Step into the consciousness of higher dimensional prayer. Torus Prayer is a new, yet very ancient method of experiential prayer that anyone can learn. Torus Prayer is Biblical, Kabbalistic and scientific. Torus Prayer produces real results. It is more than simple prayer and beyond meditation. When practiced daily you will stimulate a torrential flow of health, wealth and serenity — and helping heal the world at the same time!

TuB’Av & HuG_Aug2005

TuB’Shevat Feb2006

Was Jesus a Josephic Messiah?

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"Joel David Bakst is an individual that has studied Torah in its revealed and hidden layers for a sustained period of time. To my knowledge he is one of the leading English speaking experts in the Kabbalah of the Gaon of Vilna. His work reflects a well honed ability to utilize contemporary models from within science as a bridge to understanding Kabbalah. Any serious student of traditional Kabbalah will be enriched by his fascinating and original presentations which are firmly rooted in the works of the greatest Kabbalists past and present. What remains for me is simply to advise the student that often the greatest mysteries lie within us and not beyond us. That having been said I recommend his work to anyone who has the self-development needed in a balanced manner to absorb its great light."

Rabbi Zecharyah Tzvi Goldman
Founder Integrative Torah Studies
Author of The Kabbalah of Mitzvot: Practical Initiations Into the Traditional Way of Kabbalah,The Book of Our Spiritual Heritage, Secret of the Word and other works.

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"I have read The Secret Doctrine of the Gaon of Vilna by Joel David Bakst and was extremely impressed with its content, faithful translation and exposition of the original Hebrew. In addition I have known the author for over 35 years and know him to be a superb teacher and master of his subject. This book is an excellent introduction to the most esoteric concepts of Judaism and a must for those who are truly preparing for the final redemption."

Rabbi David Rubin, Jerusalem
Author of Divrei Dovid - Learning to Love Judaism. Founder of Ateret Yerushalayim and the Jerusalem Educational Trust.

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"Rabbi Yoel David Bakst was my teacher in Kabbalah for many years. His approach to the Kabbalah is unique as it combines knowledge of the Bible and the Kabbalah together with modern scientific knowledge".

Gustav Dreifuss
Dr. Dreifuss is a graduate of the C.G.Jung-Institute, Zürich. Since 1959 he has lived in Haifa, Israel. He is a practicing Jungian analyst and has taught in medical school and university. He has authored numerous papers and books on Jewish psychology, holocaust victims and the Jungian interpretation of biblical stories.

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