#kabbalistic — Public Fediverse posts

This is a very brief but powerful story and very cool. This little book survived Theresienstadt and not a lot did.

"This past week, I was privileged to obtain a volume that is not merely a #book, but a witness – a witness to greatness, and a witness to destruction. A relic that bridges two worlds of #Jewish #history in one handsome volume.

The book is a #Kabbalistic work, the #TikuneZohar, printed in 1863 in #Zhitomir by the illustrious #ShapiraBrothers, grandsons of the famed rav of #Slavuta, heirs to a tradition of sacred craftsmanship that elevated the very act of #printing into a #religious worship. In an era when the printed #sefer was treated with reverence, the Shapiras stood apart."

https://jewishpress.com/a-sefer-plucked-from-the-fire/

"Unfortunately, many people know the holiday of #Purim, which occurs next week, only as the “#Jewish #Halloween” – as a big dress-up (or strip-down) party celebrated with meaningless mirth and carnival-like abandon.

I beg to offer a more sober, #theological, and #kabbalistic gloss on the #holiday.
#Tanach (the Bible), #Talmud, #Halacha, and #Kabbalah elevate #wine from beverage to blessing – linking joy to holiness, song to gratitude, and harvest to hope.

Drinking wine on Purim is a method of catapulting our consciousness to a perfected world where God’s presence is dominant and evil is vanquished.

Throughout the Jewish canon, beginning with the Bible, the vital relationships between man and woman, between man and God, and between the Jewish people and their God are expressed via the metaphors of vine and wine."

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-888108