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“Cité de Carcassonne”

The Cité de Carcassonne is a medieval citadel located in the French city of Carcassonne. It is situated on a hill and dominates the banks of the River Aude.

With its castle and ramparts, the city seems straight out of a medieval fantasy novel.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/cite-de-carcassonne/

📅 16 août 2022

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 16-80mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/11, 1/500 s

#TravelPhotography #Europe #France #Occitania #Photography

“Cité de Carcassonne”

The Cité de Carcassonne is a medieval citadel located in the French city of Carcassonne. It is situated on a hill and dominates the banks of the River Aude.

With its castle and ramparts, the city seems straight out of a medieval fantasy novel.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/cite-de-carcassonne/

📅 16 août 2022

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 16-80mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/11, 1/500 s

#TravelPhotography #Europe #France #Occitania #Photography

“Cité de Carcassonne”

The Cité de Carcassonne is a medieval citadel located in the French city of Carcassonne. It is situated on a hill and dominates the banks of the River Aude.

With its castle and ramparts, the city seems straight out of a medieval fantasy novel.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/cite-de-carcassonne/

📅 16 août 2022

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 16-80mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/11, 1/500 s

#TravelPhotography #Europe #France #Occitania #Photography

“Cité de Carcassonne”

The Cité de Carcassonne is a medieval citadel located in the French city of Carcassonne. It is situated on a hill and dominates the banks of the River Aude.

With its castle and ramparts, the city seems straight out of a medieval fantasy novel.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/cite-de-carcassonne/

📅 16 août 2022

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 16-80mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/11, 1/500 s

#TravelPhotography #Europe #France #Occitania #Photography

“Cité de Carcassonne”

The Cité de Carcassonne is a medieval citadel located in the French city of Carcassonne. It is situated on a hill and dominates the banks of the River Aude.

With its castle and ramparts, the city seems straight out of a medieval fantasy novel.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/cite-de-carcassonne/

📅 16 août 2022

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 16-80mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/11, 1/500 s

#TravelPhotography #Europe #France #Occitania #Photography

Las viñas resurgen como escudo contra los incendios del sur de Francia https://www.vinetur.com/20260713104184/wildfires-in-southern-france-threaten-occitanie-vineyards.html #Incendios #Francia #Viñedos #Occitania #CambioClimático

“Eccentric concentric circles in Carcassonne citadel”

In the summer of 2018, the city of Carcassonne — a medieval fortress dating back to the Gallo-Roman period — celebrated its twentieth anniversary as a Unesco World Heritage Site by inviting Swiss artist Felice Varini to create an ephemeral work on the city's ramparts and…

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/eccentric-concentric-circles-in-carcassonne-citadel/

📅 16 août 2022

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 16-80mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/11, 1/170 s

#TravelPhotography #Europe #France #Occitania #Photography

“Eccentric concentric circles in Carcassonne citadel”

In the summer of 2018, the city of Carcassonne — a medieval fortress dating back to the Gallo-Roman period — celebrated its twentieth anniversary as a Unesco World Heritage Site by inviting Swiss artist Felice Varini to create an ephemeral work on the city's ramparts and…

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/eccentric-concentric-circles-in-carcassonne-citadel/

📅 16 août 2022

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 16-80mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/11, 1/170 s

#TravelPhotography #Europe #France #Occitania #Photography

“Eccentric concentric circles in Carcassonne citadel”

In the summer of 2018, the city of Carcassonne — a medieval fortress dating back to the Gallo-Roman period — celebrated its twentieth anniversary as a Unesco World Heritage Site by inviting Swiss artist Felice Varini to create an ephemeral work on the city's ramparts and…

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/eccentric-concentric-circles-in-carcassonne-citadel/

📅 16 août 2022

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 16-80mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/11, 1/170 s

#TravelPhotography #Europe #France #Occitania #Photography

“Eccentric concentric circles in Carcassonne citadel”

In the summer of 2018, the city of Carcassonne — a medieval fortress dating back to the Gallo-Roman period — celebrated its twentieth anniversary as a Unesco World Heritage Site by inviting Swiss artist Felice Varini to create an ephemeral work on the city's ramparts and…

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/eccentric-concentric-circles-in-carcassonne-citadel/

📅 16 août 2022

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 16-80mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/11, 1/170 s

#TravelPhotography #Europe #France #Occitania #Photography

“Eccentric concentric circles in Carcassonne citadel”

In the summer of 2018, the city of Carcassonne — a medieval fortress dating back to the Gallo-Roman period — celebrated its twentieth anniversary as a Unesco World Heritage Site by inviting Swiss artist Felice Varini to create an ephemeral work on the city's ramparts and…

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/eccentric-concentric-circles-in-carcassonne-citadel/

📅 16 août 2022

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 16-80mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/11, 1/170 s

#TravelPhotography #Europe #France #Occitania #Photography

On peut discuter avec les gens qui font semblant d'être antisémites, par exemple pour des raisons opérationnelles, et uniquement dans le cas où on a la certitude qu'ils feignent une idéologie qui n'est pas la leur, ce qui, statistiquement, se produit plus souvent, en particulier pour des raisons opérationnelles, dans certains cercles et certains groupes (de la vie réelle, pas des groupes Facebook, il faut être bien clair, parce qu'apparemment, ce n'était pas clair pour tout le monde) qui sont directement ou indirectement liés a des activités illégales de diverses natures d'intensité plus ou moins élevée. En revanche, Avinadav Begin a raison, il faut refuser de discuter avec les antisémites, y compris quand ils maquillent leur antisémitisme derrière un pseudo-antiracisme de façade. Et je ne répondrai plus en public a des accusations de collaboration avec le gouvernement israélien ou l'extrême droite israélienne. Quant aux accusations de collaboration avec l'extrême droite française, ça suffit maintenant. Je ne vais pas éternellement me laisser emmerder par une bande de salopards racistes plus antiracistes que moi tu meurs qui ont passé leur temps pendant des décennies à m'imposer des assignations identitaires et à me déposséder de mon identité. Je n'ai pas à me justifier, ce n'est pas ou je suis arabe, maghrébin, musulman ou je serais raciste. Je ne suis ni maghrébin ni arabe ni musulman. Je suis juif et je suis occitan, et je suis russe aussi et ça ne les regarde pas. La construction de l'identité ça ne s'impose pas, c'est une construction individuelle complexe et en continu au cours du temps. Elle n'est ni dans le phénotype de l'apparence physique, la couleur de la peau, la morphologie, la couleur des cheveux, ni dans la lignée ou les lignées généalogiques. Je suis juif, je suis occitan, je suis russe, et je suis fier de l'être et je les emmerde, cette bande de salopards antisémites et racistes. La construction de mon identité ne s'est pas faite sur les réseaux sociaux ni sur les Internets, il faut arrêter de raconter des gros bobards. Les gens qui meublent les trous de ce qu'ils ignorent et des informations manquantes par des fables, jusqu'à une certaine limite et un certain degré (comme le fût du canon, qui met un certain temps à se refroidir dans le sketch de Fernand Reynaud), ce n'est pas nécessairement ni toujours pathologique, car de toute façon aucun discours n'est jamais totalement explicite sinon le moindre énoncé le plus court prendrait des pages entières puisqu'il faudrait reprendre à chaque fois depuis le début l'explication de tous les mots, tous les concepts, toutes les références, etc., ce qui suppose donc des fondements communs entre les personnes qui discutent et qu'elles se reconnaissent, pour ne pas attribuer de simples erreurs de mémoire pas trop graves ou des formulations de discours informels ou adaptés à des médiums particuliers, par exemple grand public, non professionnels et non académiques à de l'ignorance ou à de la connaissance profane. Au-delà de cette limite et de ce degré, c'est soit un trouble psychiatrique grave comme la mythomanie ou du délire, soit de la mauvaise foi totale ou de la manipulation, et ça suffit, il y en a marre !

Am Yisrael Chai - עם ישראל חי — Ne déconnez pas avec les soviets ! – Don't fuck with the soviets! – Trufetz pas emb los soviets ! – Ùn scherzate micca cù i soviets ! – Ná bí ag magadh faoi na soviets! – Mit den soviets spaßt man nicht! – С soviets шутки плохи! — #Antifa #RégimentImmortel #БессмертныйПолк #МатушкаРоссия #СлавянскаяКроў #Adorno #עםישראלחי# שלוםעכשיו #Anonymous #Russia #Russie #Occitanie #Occitania #OccitanieHistorique #OccitàniaIstorica #FTP #Corsica #Corse #Éire #Éirinn

On peut discuter avec les gens qui font semblant d'être antisémites, par exemple pour des raisons opérationnelles, et uniquement dans le cas où on a la certitude qu'ils feignent une idéologie qui n'est pas la leur, ce qui, statistiquement, se produit plus souvent, en particulier pour des raisons opérationnelles, dans certains cercles et certains groupes (de la vie réelle, pas des groupes Facebook, il faut être bien clair, parce qu'apparemment, ce n'était pas clair pour tout le monde) qui sont directement ou indirectement liés a des activités illégales de diverses natures d'intensité plus ou moins élevée. En revanche, Avinadav Begin a raison, il faut refuser de discuter avec les antisémites, y compris quand ils maquillent leur antisémitisme derrière un pseudo-antiracisme de façade. Et je ne répondrai plus en public a des accusations de collaboration avec le gouvernement israélien ou l'extrême droite israélienne. Quant aux accusations de collaboration avec l'extrême droite française, ça suffit maintenant. Je ne vais pas éternellement me laisser emmerder par une bande de salopards racistes plus antiracistes que moi tu meurs qui ont passé leur temps pendant des décennies à m'imposer des assignations identitaires et à me déposséder de mon identité. Je n'ai pas à me justifier, ce n'est pas ou je suis arabe, maghrébin, musulman ou je serais raciste. Je ne suis ni maghrébin ni arabe ni musulman. Je suis juif et je suis occitan, et je suis russe aussi et ça ne les regarde pas. La construction de l'identité ça ne s'impose pas, c'est une construction individuelle complexe et en continu au cours du temps. Elle n'est ni dans le phénotype de l'apparence physique, la couleur de la peau, la morphologie, la couleur des cheveux, ni dans la lignée ou les lignées généalogiques. Je suis juif, je suis occitan, je suis russe, et je suis fier de l'être et je les emmerde, cette bande de salopards antisémites et racistes. La construction de mon identité ne s'est pas faite sur les réseaux sociaux ni sur les Internets, il faut arrêter de raconter des gros bobards. Les gens qui meublent les trous de ce qu'ils ignorent et des informations manquantes par des fables, jusqu'à une certaine limite et un certain degré (comme le fût du canon, qui met un certain temps à se refroidir dans le sketch de Fernand Reynaud), ce n'est pas nécessairement ni toujours pathologique, car de toute façon aucun discours n'est jamais totalement explicite sinon le moindre énoncé le plus court prendrait des pages entières puisqu'il faudrait reprendre à chaque fois depuis le début l'explication de tous les mots, tous les concepts, toutes les références, etc., ce qui suppose donc des fondements communs entre les personnes qui discutent et qu'elles se reconnaissent, pour ne pas attribuer de simples erreurs de mémoire pas trop graves ou des formulations de discours informels ou adaptés à des médiums particuliers, par exemple grand public, non professionnels et non académiques à de l'ignorance ou à de la connaissance profane. Au-delà de cette limite et de ce degré, c'est soit un trouble psychiatrique grave comme la mythomanie ou du délire, soit de la mauvaise foi totale ou de la manipulation, et ça suffit, il y en a marre !

Am Yisrael Chai - עם ישראל חי — Ne déconnez pas avec les soviets ! – Don't fuck with the soviets! – Trufetz pas emb los soviets ! – Ùn scherzate micca cù i soviets ! – Ná bí ag magadh faoi na soviets! – Mit den soviets spaßt man nicht! – С soviets шутки плохи! — #Antifa #RégimentImmortel #БессмертныйПолк #МатушкаРоссия #СлавянскаяКроў #Adorno #עםישראלחי# שלוםעכשיו #Anonymous #Russia #Russie #Occitanie #Occitania #OccitanieHistorique #OccitàniaIstorica #FTP #Corsica #Corse #Éire #Éirinn

Ja he pogut desempaquetar un disc que em va arribar fa uns dies, mentre era fora, i que no us podeu perdre.

Flame Folclòre, de Cocanha. Polifonies occitanes en femení, barreja de tradició i lluites actuals. Tinc el disc en digital en bucle des de fa setmanes, no me'l puc treure del cap. I les he vist en directe i són espectaculars! Mireu també els discs anteriors si no els coneixeu.

https://cocanha.bandcamp.com/album/flame-folcl-re

#musica #Occitania #occitan

Ja he pogut desempaquetar un disc que em va arribar fa uns dies, mentre era fora, i que no us podeu perdre.

Flame Folclòre, de Cocanha. Polifonies occitanes en femení, barreja de tradició i lluites actuals. Tinc el disc en digital en bucle des de fa setmanes, no me'l puc treure del cap. I les he vist en directe i són espectaculars! Mireu també els discs anteriors si no els coneixeu.

https://cocanha.bandcamp.com/album/flame-folcl-re

#musica #Occitania #occitan

Ja he pogut desempaquetar un disc que em va arribar fa uns dies, mentre era fora, i que no us podeu perdre.

Flame Folclòre, de Cocanha. Polifonies occitanes en femení, barreja de tradició i lluites actuals. Tinc el disc en digital en bucle des de fa setmanes, no me'l puc treure del cap. I les he vist en directe i són espectaculars! Mireu també els discs anteriors si no els coneixeu.

https://cocanha.bandcamp.com/album/flame-folcl-re

#musica #Occitania #occitan

Ja he pogut desempaquetar un disc que em va arribar fa uns dies, mentre era fora, i que no us podeu perdre.

Flame Folclòre, de Cocanha. Polifonies occitanes en femení, barreja de tradició i lluites actuals. Tinc el disc en digital en bucle des de fa setmanes, no me'l puc treure del cap. I les he vist en directe i són espectaculars! Mireu també els discs anteriors si no els coneixeu.

https://cocanha.bandcamp.com/album/flame-folcl-re

#musica #Occitania #occitan

Ja he pogut desempaquetar un disc que em va arribar fa uns dies, mentre era fora, i que no us podeu perdre.

Flame Folclòre, de Cocanha. Polifonies occitanes en femení, barreja de tradició i lluites actuals. Tinc el disc en digital en bucle des de fa setmanes, no me'l puc treure del cap. I les he vist en directe i són espectaculars! Mireu també els discs anteriors si no els coneixeu.

https://cocanha.bandcamp.com/album/flame-folcl-re

#musica #Occitania #occitan

:ilantifa: :antifa: 🇮🇱 🕎 ✡️ 🇷🇺 🇧🇬 🇷🇴 🇦🇲 🇧🇾 🇵🇸 🇿🇦 #БессмертныйПолк #RegimentImmortel #Anonymous #NakamAwaits #MAPAM #Antifa #Antifascism #Antifascisme #Antifasciste #Antifascist #Occitanie #Occitania #Corse #Corsica #Éire #Éirinn

Яна Вайновская - Бессмертный полк

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJILBJWlZ8Q

:ilantifa: :antifa: 🇮🇱 🕎 ✡️ 🇷🇺 🇧🇬 🇷🇴 🇦🇲 🇧🇾 🇵🇸 🇿🇦 #БессмертныйПолк #RegimentImmortel #Anonymous #NakamAwaits #MAPAM #Antifa #Antifascism #Antifascisme #Antifasciste #Antifascist #Occitanie #Occitania #Corse #Corsica #Éire #Éirinn

Яна Вайновская - Бессмертный полк

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJILBJWlZ8Q

:ilantifa: :antifa: 🇮🇱 🕎 ✡️ 🇷🇺 🇧🇬 🇷🇴 🇦🇲 🇧🇾 🇵🇸 🇿🇦 #БессмертныйПолк #RegimentImmortel #Anonymous #NakamAwaits #MAPAM #Antifa #Antifascism #Antifascisme #Antifasciste #Antifascist #Occitanie #Occitania #Corse #Corsica #Éire #Éirinn

Яна Вайновская - Бессмертный полк

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJILBJWlZ8Q

:ilantifa: :antifa: 🇮🇱 🕎 ✡️ 🇷🇺 🇧🇬 🇷🇴 🇦🇲 🇧🇾 🇵🇸 🇿🇦 #БессмертныйПолк #RegimentImmortel #Anonymous #NakamAwaits #MAPAM #Antifa #Antifascism #Antifascisme #Antifasciste #Antifascist #Occitanie #Occitania #Corse #Corsica #Éire #Éirinn

Яна Вайновская - Бессмертный полк

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJILBJWlZ8Q

:ilantifa: :antifa: 🇮🇱 🕎 ✡️ 🇷🇺 🇧🇬 🇷🇴 🇦🇲 🇧🇾 🇵🇸 🇿🇦 #БессмертныйПолк #RegimentImmortel #Anonymous #NakamAwaits #MAPAM #Antifa #Antifascism #Antifascisme #Antifasciste #Antifascist #Occitanie #Occitania #Corse #Corsica #Éire #Éirinn

Яна Вайновская - Бессмертный полк

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJILBJWlZ8Q

https://www.europesays.com/es/617245/ Davide Piganzoli conquista la Ruta de Occitania tras una exhibición en solitario en Loudenvielle – Esciclismo #adjudico #barousse #bike #CIC #Ciclismo #clasificacion #completo #Cycling #davide #decidió #Deportes #desnivel #despues #disputada #edicion #ES #España #etapa #imponerse #jornada #kilómetros #lease #loudenvielle #loures #metros #occitania #piganzoli #pirenaica #positivo #ruta #sabado #sobre #solitario #Spain #Sports #tercera #ultima #visma

https://www.europesays.com/es/617126/ Clasificaciones completas de la 3ª etapa de la Ruta de Occitania 2026 – Esciclismo #a #Actualidad #ancizan #azet #barousse #carretera #Ciclismo #clasificaciones #col #completas #Cycling #d #Deportes #desnivel #dificultades #disputada #ES #España #estas #etapa #hourquette #htm #jornada #junio #kilómetros #loudenvielle #loures #louron #metros #occitania #pasos #positivo #principales #ruta #sabado #Spain #Sports #ultima #val

https://www.europesays.com/es/615261/ 'El pistolero' Noa Isidore gana la 2ª etapa, Thibaud Gruel sigue líder de la Ruta de Occitania – Esciclismo #adjudico #auge #CIC #Ciclismo #ciel #cordes #Cycling #Deportes #despues #disputada #ES #España #etapa #fuera #gaudens #grand #inicial #isidore #kilómetros #linea #Meta #noa #occitania #occitanie #ronan #ruta #saint #segunda #site #sobre #Spain #Sports #sur #vencedor #viernes

https://www.europesays.com/es/613677/ Thibaud Gruel se impone al sprint en la primera etapa de la Ruta de Occitania 2026 – Esciclismo #adjudicado #bram #cap #CIC #Ciclismo #circuito #Cycling #Deportes #disputada #el #ES #España #etapa #fdj #final #frances #fuga #groupama #gru #gruel #intentos #jornada #joux #jueves #kilómetros #marcada #nerviosa #occitania #paul #primera #repechos #resolver #ruta #saint #sobre #Spain #Sports #sprint #thibaud #ultimos #united #varios

https://www.europesays.com/es/613410/ Clasificaciones completas de la 1ª etapa de la Ruta de Occitania 2026 – Esciclismo #a #Actualidad #bram #cap #carrera #carretera #Ciclismo #ciclista #clasificaciones #completas #Cycling #Deportes #disputada #ES #España #estas #etapa #frances #francesas #groupama #grue #html #jornada #joux #jueves #junio #kilómetros #L #liderato #llevo #localidades #occitania #paul #primer #ruta #saint #Spain #Sports #thibaud #victoria

https://www.europesays.com/es/612115/ La Ruta de Occitania 2026 reúne montaña, finales nerviosos y una última etapa decisiva [Previa] – Esciclismo #alto #ano #atravesara #aunque #categoria #CIC #Ciclismo #Cycling #departamentos #Deportes #disputara #edicion #ES #España #etapas #Europe #exigente #final #formato #francia #integrada #jueves #junio #kilómetros #la #occitania #presenta #prueba #recorrido #reducido #region #ruta #sabado #seis #Spain #Sports #sur #terr #tour #tres #uci

CPA Rodez Passage de bohemiens avec leurs ours dans les environs de Rodez TOP

https://www.cpaphil.com/en/vintage-postcard/cpa-rodez-passage-de-bohemiens-avec-leurs-ours-dans-les-environs-de-rodez-top

#VintagePostcard #CPA #Rodez #Aveyron #France #Occitania #Bohemians #Bears #HistoricalScene #OldPhoto #Heritage #Folklore #Tradition #TravelBackInTime #AntiquePostcard

CPA Rodez Passage de bohemiens avec leurs ours dans les environs de Rodez TOP www.cpaphil.com/en/v... #VintagePostcard #CPA #Rodez #Aveyron #France #Occitania #Bohemians #Bears #HistoricalScene #OldPhoto #Heritage #Folklore #Tradition #TravelBackInTime #AntiquePostcard

Kabbalah, Part 1

Also spelled Qabalah or Qabbala. It literally means the act of receiving, acceptance.

This is an esoteric method, discipline, & school of thought in Jewish mysticism. It forms the foundation of mystical religious interpretations within Judaism. A traditional Kabbalist is called a Mekubbal (“receiver”).

Jewish Kabbalists originally developed transmissions of the primary texts of Kabbalah within the realm of Jewish tradition. Often using classical Jewish scriptures to explain & demonstrate their mystical teachings.

Kabbalah came out of earlier forms of Jewish mysticism in 12th-13th century Occitania, specifically in Languedoc, among Hakhmei Provence.

Following the movement of Jews from Southern France & Spain, it was found in the Rhineland school of Judah the Pious, al-Andalus, L& was reinterpreted during the Jewish mystical Renaissance in the 16th-century Ottoman Palestine.

The Zohar was authored in the late 13th century, likely by Moses de Leon. Isaac Luria (16th century) is considered the father of contemporary Kabbalah. Lurianic Kabbalah was popularized in the form of Hasidic Judaism from the 18th century onwards.

The primary texts of the major lineage in medieval Jewish tradition are the Bahir, Zohar, Pardes Rimonim, & Et Chayim (‘Ein Sof’). The early Hekhalot literature is recognized as ancestral to the sensibilities of this later flowering of the Kabbalah, & more especially, the Sefer Yetzirah is acknowledged as the forerunner from which many of these books draw their formal inspiration.

The Sefer Yetzirah is a brief document of only a few pages, written many centuries before the high & late medieval works (sometime between 200-600 CE), detailing an alphanumeric vision of cosmology & may be understood as a kind of prelude to the major phase of Kabbalah.

The history of Jewish mysticism encompasses various forms of esoteric & spiritual practices aimed at understanding the divine & the hidden aspects of existence. This mystical tradition has evolved greatly over millennia, influencing & being influenced by different historical, cultural, & religious contexts.

Among the most prominent forms of Jewish mysticism is Kabbalah, which developed in the 12th century & has since become a central component of Jewish mystical thought. Other notable early forms include prophetic & apocalyptic mysticism, which are evident in biblical & post-biblical texts.

The roots of Jewish mysticism can be traced back to the biblical era, with prophetic figures such as Elijah & Ezekiel experiencing divine visions & encounters. This tradition continued into the apocalyptic period, where texts like 1 Enoch & the Book of Daniel introduced complex angelology & eschatological themes.

The Hekhalot & Merkabah literature, dating from the 2nd century to the early medieval period, further developed these mystical themes. This focuses on visionary ascents to the heavenly palaces & the divine chariot. Hekhalot literature (from the Hebrew word for “Palaces”) relates to visions of entering Heaven alive.

Merkabah (or Merkavah) mysticism is a school of Jewish mysticism, centered on visions such as those found in Ezekiel 1, or in the hekhalot literature, concerning stories of ascents to the heavenly palaces & the Throne of God.

According to the Zohar, Torah study can proceed along 4 levels of interpretation (exegesis). These 4 levels are called pardes from their initial letters (PRDs, “orchard”):

• Peshat (“simple”): The direct interpretations of meaning.
• Remez (“hints”): The allegoric meanings (through allusion).
• Derash (from the Hebrew darash, “inquire” or “seek): Midrashic (rabbinic) meanings, often with imaginative comparisons with similar words or verses.
• Sod (“secret” or “mystery”): The inner, esoteric (metaphysical) meanings, expressed in kabbalah.

Kabbalah is considered by its followers as a necessary part of the study of the Torah. The study of the Torah (the Tanakh & rabbinic literature) is an inherent duty of observant Jews.

There are 3 different types of Kabbalah: Lurianic Kabbalah, Meditative-Ecstatic Kabbalah, & Practical Kabbalah. These 3 types can be distinguished by their basic intent with respect to God:

• The Theosohical/Theosophical-Theurgic tradition of Theoretical Kabbalah (the main focus of the Zohar & Luria) seeks to understand & describe the divine realm using the imaginative & mythic symbols of human psychological experience. Its theosophy also implies the innate, centrally important theurgic influence of human conduct on redeeming or damaging the spiritual realms, as man is a divine microcosm. The purpose of traditional theosophical kabbalah was to give the whole of normative Jewish religious practices this mystical metaphysical meaning.
• The Meditative tradition of Ecstatic Kabbalah strives to achieve a mystical union with God, or nullification of the meditator in God’s Active intellect. Abraham Abulafia’s “Prophetic Kabbalah” was the supreme example of this. Though marginal in Kabbalistic development. His alternative to the program of theosophical Kabbalah. Abulafian meditation built upon the philosophy of Maimonides, whose followers remained a rationalist threat to theosophical Kabbalists.
• The Magico-Talismanic tradition of Practical Kabbalah endeavours to alter both the Divine realms & the World using practical methods. While theosophical interpretations of worship see its redemptive role as harmonizing heavenly forces, Practical Kabbalah properly involved Practial Kabbalah properly involved white-magical acts, & was censored by Kabbalists for only those completely pure of intent, as it relates to lower realms where purity & impurity are mixed. Consequently, it formed a separate minor tradition shunned from Kabbalah. Practical Kabbalah was prohibited by the Arizal until the Temple is rebuilt & the required state of ritual purity is attainable.

According to Kabbalistic belief, early kabbalistic knowledge was imparted orally by the Patriarchs, prophets, & sages. Eventually, to be “interwoven” into Jewish religious writings & culture. According to this view, early kabbalah was, around the 10th century BCE, an open knowledge practiced by over a million people in ancient Israel.

Foreign conquests drove the Jewish spiritual leadership of the time (the Sanhedrin) to hide the knowledge & make it secret, fearing that it might be misused if it fell into the wrong hands.

From the Renaissance onward, Jewish Kabbalah texts entered non-Jewish (Gentile) spaces. Where they studied & translated by Christian Hebraists & Hermetic occultists. Christian Hebraists are scholars of Hebrew texts who approach the works from a Christian perspective.

The syncretic traditions of Christian & Hermetic Kabbalah developed independently of Jewish Kabbalah. They read Jewish texts as universalist ancient wisdom preserved from Gnostic traditions of “the olden days.” Both adapted the Jewish concepts freely from their Jewish understanding. This made it possible to merge with multiple other theologies, religious traditions, & magical associations. In the time of the Age of Reason, Christian Kabbalah declined. Hermetic Kabbalah took a much different route, a route that some secretive “societies” went: they went underground.

The technical definition of Kabbalah varies according to sect & the aims of those following it. In its earliest & original usage in ancient Hebrew, it means “reception” or “tradition.” In this context, it tends to refer to any sacred writing written after (or otherwise outside of) the 5 books of the Torah. (This is the 1st 5 books of the Old Testament.)

After the Talmud was written, it refers to the Oral Law. In the much later writings of Eleazar of Worms (circa 1350), it refers to theurgy or the conjuring of demons & angels by the invocation of their secret names.

The nature of the divine prompted kabbalists to envision 2 aspects to God: 1.) God is essence, absolutely transcendent, unknowable, limitless divine simplicity beyond revelation, & 2.) God in manifestation, the revealed persona of God through which He creates, sustains, & relates to humankind.

Kabbalists speak of the 1st as the Ein Sof (“the infinite/endless,” literally “there is no end”). Of the impersonal Ein Sof, nothing can be grasped.

However, the 2nd aspect of divine emanations, accessible to human perception, dynamically interacting throughout spiritual & physical existence, reveals the divine immanently, & is bound up in the life of man. Kabbalists believe that these 2 aspects aren’t contradictory but complement 1 another, emanations mystically revealing the concealed mystery from within the Godhead.

As a term describing the Infinite Godhead beyond Creation, Kabbalists viewed the Ein Sof itself as too sublime to be referred to directly in the Torah. It’s not a Holy Name in Judaism. No name could contain a revelation of the Ein Sof.

The structure of emanations has been described in various ways: Sephirot (divine attributes) & Partzufim (divine “faces”), Ohr (spiritual light & flow), Names of God & supernal Torah, Olamot (spiritual worlds), a Divine Tree & Archetypal Man, Angelic Chariot & Palaces, male & female, enclothed layers of reality, inwardly channels (“limbs” of the King) & the divine Souls of Man.

These symbols are used to describe various levels & aspects of Divine manifestation, from the Pnimi (inner) dimensions to the Hitzoni (outer). It’s solely in relation to the emanations, certainly not the Ein Sof Ground of all Being, that Kabbalah uses anthropomorphic symbolism to relate psychologically to divinity.

The Sephirot/Sefirot/Sefirah are the 10 emanations & attributes of God with which He continually sustains the existence of the universe. These emanations are viewed as parts of God’s divine nature, which reveal themselves in different ways.

The Zohar & other Kabbalistic texts elaborate on the emergence of the sephirot from a state of concealed potential in the Ein Sof until their manifestation in the mundane world. In particular, Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (known as “the Ramak”) describes how God emanated the myriad details of finite reality out of the absolute unity of Divine Light via the 10 sephirot, or vessels.

According to Lurianic cosmology, the sephirot correspond to various levels of creation. 10 sephirot are in each of the 4 Worlds. 4 Worlds within each of the larger 4 Worlds, each containing 10 sephirot, which themselves contain 10 sephirot, which themselves contain 10 sephirot, to an infinite number of possibilities.

They emanated from the Creator for the purpose of creating the universe. The sephirot are considered revelations of the Creator’s will (ratzon), & they shouldn’t be understood as 10 different “gods” but through the Emanations. It’s not God who changes but the ability to perceive God that changes.

Divine creation through the 10 Sephirot is an ethical process. They represent the different aspects of Morality. Loving-Kindness is a possible moral justification found in Chessed, & Gevurah is the Moral Justification of justice, & both are mediated by Mercy, which is Rachamim.

However, these pillars of morality become immoral when taken to extremes. When Loving-Kindness becomes extreme, it can lead to sexual depravity & a lack of Justice to the wicked. When Justice becomes extreme, it can lead to torture & the Cain-ing of innocents & unfair punishment.

The tzadikim or “righteous” ascend these ethical qualities of the 10 sephirot through righteous action. If there were no tzadikim, the blessings of God would become completely hidden, & Creation would cease to exist.

While real human actions are the “Foundation” (Yesod) of this universe (Malkuth), they must be accompanied by the conscious intention of compassion. Compassionate actions are often impossible without faith (Emunah), meaning trusting that God seems hidden.

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Kabbalah, Part 1

Also spelled Qabalah or Qabbala. It literally means the act of receiving, acceptance.

This is an esoteric method, discipline, & school of thought in Jewish mysticism. It forms the foundation of mystical religious interpretations within Judaism. A traditional Kabbalist is called a Mekubbal (“receiver”).

Jewish Kabbalists originally developed transmissions of the primary texts of Kabbalah within the realm of Jewish tradition. Often using classical Jewish scriptures to explain & demonstrate their mystical teachings.

Kabbalah came out of earlier forms of Jewish mysticism in 12th-13th century Occitania, specifically in Languedoc, among Hakhmei Provence.

Following the movement of Jews from Southern France & Spain, it was found in the Rhineland school of Judah the Pious, al-Andalus, L& was reinterpreted during the Jewish mystical Renaissance in the 16th-century Ottoman Palestine.

The Zohar was authored in the late 13th century, likely by Moses de Leon. Isaac Luria (16th century) is considered the father of contemporary Kabbalah. Lurianic Kabbalah was popularized in the form of Hasidic Judaism from the 18th century onwards.

The primary texts of the major lineage in medieval Jewish tradition are the Bahir, Zohar, Pardes Rimonim, & Et Chayim (‘Ein Sof’). The early Hekhalot literature is recognized as ancestral to the sensibilities of this later flowering of the Kabbalah, & more especially, the Sefer Yetzirah is acknowledged as the forerunner from which many of these books draw their formal inspiration.

The Sefer Yetzirah is a brief document of only a few pages, written many centuries before the high & late medieval works (sometime between 200-600 CE), detailing an alphanumeric vision of cosmology & may be understood as a kind of prelude to the major phase of Kabbalah.

The history of Jewish mysticism encompasses various forms of esoteric & spiritual practices aimed at understanding the divine & the hidden aspects of existence. This mystical tradition has evolved greatly over millennia, influencing & being influenced by different historical, cultural, & religious contexts.

Among the most prominent forms of Jewish mysticism is Kabbalah, which developed in the 12th century & has since become a central component of Jewish mystical thought. Other notable early forms include prophetic & apocalyptic mysticism, which are evident in biblical & post-biblical texts.

The roots of Jewish mysticism can be traced back to the biblical era, with prophetic figures such as Elijah & Ezekiel experiencing divine visions & encounters. This tradition continued into the apocalyptic period, where texts like 1 Enoch & the Book of Daniel introduced complex angelology & eschatological themes.

The Hekhalot & Merkabah literature, dating from the 2nd century to the early medieval period, further developed these mystical themes. This focuses on visionary ascents to the heavenly palaces & the divine chariot. Hekhalot literature (from the Hebrew word for “Palaces”) relates to visions of entering Heaven alive.

Merkabah (or Merkavah) mysticism is a school of Jewish mysticism, centered on visions such as those found in Ezekiel 1, or in the hekhalot literature, concerning stories of ascents to the heavenly palaces & the Throne of God.

According to the Zohar, Torah study can proceed along 4 levels of interpretation (exegesis). These 4 levels are called pardes from their initial letters (PRDs, “orchard”):

• Peshat (“simple”): The direct interpretations of meaning.
• Remez (“hints”): The allegoric meanings (through allusion).
• Derash (from the Hebrew darash, “inquire” or “seek): Midrashic (rabbinic) meanings, often with imaginative comparisons with similar words or verses.
• Sod (“secret” or “mystery”): The inner, esoteric (metaphysical) meanings, expressed in kabbalah.

Kabbalah is considered by its followers as a necessary part of the study of the Torah. The study of the Torah (the Tanakh & rabbinic literature) is an inherent duty of observant Jews.

There are 3 different types of Kabbalah: Lurianic Kabbalah, Meditative-Ecstatic Kabbalah, & Practical Kabbalah. These 3 types can be distinguished by their basic intent with respect to God:

• The Theosohical/Theosophical-Theurgic tradition of Theoretical Kabbalah (the main focus of the Zohar & Luria) seeks to understand & describe the divine realm using the imaginative & mythic symbols of human psychological experience. Its theosophy also implies the innate, centrally important theurgic influence of human conduct on redeeming or damaging the spiritual realms, as man is a divine microcosm. The purpose of traditional theosophical kabbalah was to give the whole of normative Jewish religious practices this mystical metaphysical meaning.
• The Meditative tradition of Ecstatic Kabbalah strives to achieve a mystical union with God, or nullification of the meditator in God’s Active intellect. Abraham Abulafia’s “Prophetic Kabbalah” was the supreme example of this. Though marginal in Kabbalistic development. His alternative to the program of theosophical Kabbalah. Abulafian meditation built upon the philosophy of Maimonides, whose followers remained a rationalist threat to theosophical Kabbalists.
• The Magico-Talismanic tradition of Practical Kabbalah endeavours to alter both the Divine realms & the World using practical methods. While theosophical interpretations of worship see its redemptive role as harmonizing heavenly forces, Practical Kabbalah properly involved Practial Kabbalah properly involved white-magical acts, & was censored by Kabbalists for only those completely pure of intent, as it relates to lower realms where purity & impurity are mixed. Consequently, it formed a separate minor tradition shunned from Kabbalah. Practical Kabbalah was prohibited by the Arizal until the Temple is rebuilt & the required state of ritual purity is attainable.

According to Kabbalistic belief, early kabbalistic knowledge was imparted orally by the Patriarchs, prophets, & sages. Eventually, to be “interwoven” into Jewish religious writings & culture. According to this view, early kabbalah was, around the 10th century BCE, an open knowledge practiced by over a million people in ancient Israel.

Foreign conquests drove the Jewish spiritual leadership of the time (the Sanhedrin) to hide the knowledge & make it secret, fearing that it might be misused if it fell into the wrong hands.

From the Renaissance onward, Jewish Kabbalah texts entered non-Jewish (Gentile) spaces. Where they studied & translated by Christian Hebraists & Hermetic occultists. Christian Hebraists are scholars of Hebrew texts who approach the works from a Christian perspective.

The syncretic traditions of Christian & Hermetic Kabbalah developed independently of Jewish Kabbalah. They read Jewish texts as universalist ancient wisdom preserved from Gnostic traditions of “the olden days.” Both adapted the Jewish concepts freely from their Jewish understanding. This made it possible to merge with multiple other theologies, religious traditions, & magical associations. In the time of the Age of Reason, Christian Kabbalah declined. Hermetic Kabbalah took a much different route, a route that some secretive “societies” went: they went underground.

The technical definition of Kabbalah varies according to sect & the aims of those following it. In its earliest & original usage in ancient Hebrew, it means “reception” or “tradition.” In this context, it tends to refer to any sacred writing written after (or otherwise outside of) the 5 books of the Torah. (This is the 1st 5 books of the Old Testament.)

After the Talmud was written, it refers to the Oral Law. In the much later writings of Eleazar of Worms (circa 1350), it refers to theurgy or the conjuring of demons & angels by the invocation of their secret names.

The nature of the divine prompted kabbalists to envision 2 aspects to God: 1.) God is essence, absolutely transcendent, unknowable, limitless divine simplicity beyond revelation, & 2.) God in manifestation, the revealed persona of God through which He creates, sustains, & relates to humankind.

Kabbalists speak of the 1st as the Ein Sof (“the infinite/endless,” literally “there is no end”). Of the impersonal Ein Sof, nothing can be grasped.

However, the 2nd aspect of divine emanations, accessible to human perception, dynamically interacting throughout spiritual & physical existence, reveals the divine immanently, & is bound up in the life of man. Kabbalists believe that these 2 aspects aren’t contradictory but complement 1 another, emanations mystically revealing the concealed mystery from within the Godhead.

As a term describing the Infinite Godhead beyond Creation, Kabbalists viewed the Ein Sof itself as too sublime to be referred to directly in the Torah. It’s not a Holy Name in Judaism. No name could contain a revelation of the Ein Sof.

The structure of emanations has been described in various ways: Sephirot (divine attributes) & Partzufim (divine “faces”), Ohr (spiritual light & flow), Names of God & supernal Torah, Olamot (spiritual worlds), a Divine Tree & Archetypal Man, Angelic Chariot & Palaces, male & female, enclothed layers of reality, inwardly channels (“limbs” of the King) & the divine Souls of Man.

These symbols are used to describe various levels & aspects of Divine manifestation, from the Pnimi (inner) dimensions to the Hitzoni (outer). It’s solely in relation to the emanations, certainly not the Ein Sof Ground of all Being, that Kabbalah uses anthropomorphic symbolism to relate psychologically to divinity.

The Sephirot/Sefirot/Sefirah are the 10 emanations & attributes of God with which He continually sustains the existence of the universe. These emanations are viewed as parts of God’s divine nature, which reveal themselves in different ways.

The Zohar & other Kabbalistic texts elaborate on the emergence of the sephirot from a state of concealed potential in the Ein Sof until their manifestation in the mundane world. In particular, Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (known as “the Ramak”) describes how God emanated the myriad details of finite reality out of the absolute unity of Divine Light via the 10 sephirot, or vessels.

According to Lurianic cosmology, the sephirot correspond to various levels of creation. 10 sephirot are in each of the 4 Worlds. 4 Worlds within each of the larger 4 Worlds, each containing 10 sephirot, which themselves contain 10 sephirot, which themselves contain 10 sephirot, to an infinite number of possibilities.

They emanated from the Creator for the purpose of creating the universe. The sephirot are considered revelations of the Creator’s will (ratzon), & they shouldn’t be understood as 10 different “gods” but through the Emanations. It’s not God who changes but the ability to perceive God that changes.

Divine creation through the 10 Sephirot is an ethical process. They represent the different aspects of Morality. Loving-Kindness is a possible moral justification found in Chessed, & Gevurah is the Moral Justification of justice, & both are mediated by Mercy, which is Rachamim.

However, these pillars of morality become immoral when taken to extremes. When Loving-Kindness becomes extreme, it can lead to sexual depravity & a lack of Justice to the wicked. When Justice becomes extreme, it can lead to torture & the Cain-ing of innocents & unfair punishment.

The tzadikim or “righteous” ascend these ethical qualities of the 10 sephirot through righteous action. If there were no tzadikim, the blessings of God would become completely hidden, & Creation would cease to exist.

While real human actions are the “Foundation” (Yesod) of this universe (Malkuth), they must be accompanied by the conscious intention of compassion. Compassionate actions are often impossible without faith (Emunah), meaning trusting that God seems hidden.

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Mort als fascistas de tots los païses !
Viva l' #anarquia, Viva l' #occitania

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gianni09/116596105959190036

Portam la libertat a las campanhas e a las vilas de totes los païses.
#Kanaky #Outremer #Occitania

https://www.jornalet.com/nova/24447/la-causida-de-lafrontament

Aquí un excellent article de Jornalet, mercé als camaradas : )
#Occitania #Jornalet

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gianni09/116596082814395035

La frança es fascista, sèm per lo comunisme en #occitania

@OcMecha Unissèm-nos totes contra lo joc centralizator francés.

#occitania

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gianni09/116596041252607937

Oc ! Viva la libertat dels Pobles
#anarquia #occitania

Una Occitània liura e independenta es una necessitat.

#occitània

Bientot l'anarchie en #occitània ?
https://video.liberta.vip/w/5RHsDZbiDsELHCmw1UcYYv

#Oc #occitania

Ok, some _really_ original sound for a change, from the ladies of Cocanha!

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Had to look what ”Occitan" means, and was informed that 'Occitan (…) sometimes also referred to as Provençal, is a Romance language spoken in southern France, Monaco, Italy's Occitan Valleys, as well as in the Catalonian Val d'Aran’.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_language

#folk #music #occitania #france

Ok, some _really_ original sound for a change, from the ladies of Cocanha!

https://cocanha.bandcamp.com/track/clam

Had to look what ”Occitan" means, and was informed that 'Occitan (…) sometimes also referred to as Provençal, is a Romance language spoken in southern France, Monaco, Italy's Occitan Valleys, as well as in the Catalonian Val d'Aran’.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_language

#folk #music #occitania #france

Ontem fui escutar o adianto do novo disco de Cocanha, 'Flame Folclóre', que já se pode reservar e sae o 15 de maio, e... descobri que, nos últimos meses, têm uma grande produção. Porque, ademais da trilha sonora da curtametragem 'Serpente' (Félix Imbert, 2025), feita em colaboração com o compositor Pierre Desprats, em janeiro tiraram '4132314', em colaboração com Los Sara Fontán e Tarta Relena 🤯 Que actividade! 😍

https://cocanha.bandcamp.com/

#cocanha #occitânia #occitano

Ontem fui escutar o adianto do novo disco de Cocanha, 'Flame Folclóre', que já se pode reservar e sae o 15 de maio, e... descobri que, nos últimos meses, têm uma grande produção. Porque, ademais da trilha sonora da curtametragem 'Serpente' (Félix Imbert, 2025), feita em colaboração com o compositor Pierre Desprats, em janeiro tiraram '4132314', em colaboração com Los Sara Fontán e Tarta Relena 🤯 Que actividade! 😍

https://cocanha.bandcamp.com/

#cocanha #occitânia #occitano

Ontem fui escutar o adianto do novo disco de Cocanha, 'Flame Folclóre', que já se pode reservar e sae o 15 de maio, e... descobri que, nos últimos meses, têm uma grande produção. Porque, ademais da trilha sonora da curtametragem 'Serpente' (Félix Imbert, 2025), feita em colaboração com o compositor Pierre Desprats, em janeiro tiraram '4132314', em colaboração com Los Sara Fontán e Tarta Relena 🤯 Que actividade! 😍

https://cocanha.bandcamp.com/

#cocanha #occitânia #occitano

Ontem fui escutar o adianto do novo disco de Cocanha, 'Flame Folclóre', que já se pode reservar e sae o 15 de maio, e... descobri que, nos últimos meses, têm uma grande produção. Porque, ademais da trilha sonora da curtametragem 'Serpente' (Félix Imbert, 2025), feita em colaboração com o compositor Pierre Desprats, em janeiro tiraram '4132314', em colaboração com Los Sara Fontán e Tarta Relena 🤯 Que actividade! 😍

https://cocanha.bandcamp.com/

#cocanha #occitânia #occitano