Suggested
Reading
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Jewish Meditation |
First understand what Meditation is, realize that a person can transcend
to higher levels. |
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| By: Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan | |||
| Meditation and Kabbalah | Now
see how all the great sages of Yisroel practiced Meditation. |
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| By: Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan | |||
| Meditation and the Bible | Shows
that prophesy was attained through Meditation. |
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| By: Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan | |||
| Inner Space | Basic
introduction to Theoretical Kabbalah, needed to understand anything
in Hebrew Texts. |
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| By: Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan | |||
| Sefer Yitzirah | Kind
of heavy for beginners but read it anyway. |
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| By: Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan | |||
Hebrew |
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Although
you will not understand most of the texts, studying them is the
only way to begin |
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| Five Books of the Torah | This is 'The Book' go through it until you know it cold. | ||||||
| By: G-D through Moshe | |||||||
| Neviem and Kesuvim | Won't understand any Kabbalah until you know Nach, go through it many times. | ||||||
| By: Various Prophets | |||||||
| Hechalot Rabati | The Meditative Techniques used by the Tanaim to ascend to the Merkavah. | ||||||
| By: Rabbi Yishmael | |||||||
| Sefer Yitzirah | The teachings of Avrahom involving Creation . | ||||||
| By: Rabbi Akivah | |||||||
| Zohar | The Torah shall not be forgotten from Yisroel. | ||||||
| By: Rabbi Shimon bar Yochi | |||||||
| Mishnah | These were the same people flying up to the Merkavah. | ||||||
| By: Rabbi Yehuda Hanasi | |||||||
| Midrash | Pure Wisdom once you begin to understand them. | ||||||
| By: Various Tanoim | |||||||
| Bahir | Very important Kabbalistic book. | ||||||
| R' Nechunya ben Hakanah | |||||||
| List will be updated soon... | |||||||