1. "Yet they are also worlds of dynamism—flowing, surging, holding back—a world of almost constant movement. Here, it is as if God were saying, I have created opposites, upper and lower, black and white, left and right. Now bring them together. Live in the lower world from the higher perspective of the world of unity."
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Tamar Frankiel, The Gift of Kabbalah: Discovering the Secrets of Heaven
2. "The greatest affirmation in Judaism is the statement, Shema Yisrael Adonai Elohienu, Adonai Echad—Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is One! Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, chief rabbi of Palestine from 1920 until his death in 1935, wrote that this sentence contains the most powerful thought a person can think. If"
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Tamar Frankiel, The Gift of Kabbalah: Discovering the Secrets of Heaven
3. "This means that it is always possible for a person to return to the Source, to return to God, for there is an ultimate Divine anchor in the soul of each one of us. Think of times when you have awakened to life again, when you had a renewed sense of wonder at the possibilities open to you. This absolute ability to return—in Hebrew teshuva—is built into the structure of the universe itself. This"
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Tamar Frankiel, The Gift of Kabbalah: Discovering the Secrets of Heaven
4. "Tiferet-Splendor is the sefirah of vision, purpose, and capacity for high-level organization in light of that purpose. Its name suggests the beauty and magnificence of the created being who possesses the vision of creation’s purpose. This sefirah is also called Truth, because it is the place where human perception can meet Divine revelation."
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Tamar Frankiel, The Gift of Kabbalah: Discovering the Secrets of Heaven
5. "On the collective level, human passion, rightly directed, can change the world."
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Tamar Frankiel, The Gift of Kabbalah: Discovering the Secrets of Heaven
6. "Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from a distance, but as the reality in which you live. —RABBI ABRAHAM ISAAC KOOK"
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Tamar Frankiel, The Gift of Kabbalah: Discovering the Secrets of Heaven
7. "The greatest affirmation in Judaism is the statement, Shema Yisrael Adonai Elohienu, Adonai Echad—Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is One! Rabbi"
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Tamar Frankiel, The Gift of Kabbalah: Discovering the Secrets of Heaven
8. "The world that we can perceive is a mere slice of a multidimensional world beyond our senses and even beyond our mathematics."
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Tamar Frankiel, The Gift of Kabbalah: Discovering the Secrets of Heaven
9. "No matter what happens while the soul is in a physical incarnation on earth, nothing can harm the soul or disrupt its connection to God. Moreover, our soul is always trying to express its true essence through our lives."
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Tamar Frankiel, The Gift of Kabbalah: Discovering the Secrets of Heaven
10. "These descriptions allude to time/space dissolution, synesthesia (crossover of types of sensory perception) and altered states of consciousness."
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Tamar Frankiel, The Gift of Kabbalah: Discovering the Secrets of Heaven