SEPARATING
THE MYSTICAL FROM THE OCCULT
IN
JUDAISM
As the חלופים on the letter ע the value 70 below teach us: The
secret is turning the occult Babylonian confusion around to flowering of the
heart.
סוד = 70 = סובב = בלבול = לבלוב
Someone sent this to me as part of
a message:
"i
am sorry to disappoint you but the Talmud is filled with occult matters. it was Rambam who claimed that
these were daas yochid etc..he wasn't accepted as the aggadetos are extensive and written as if factual and well
known.
if you shun the mystical then you should only learn Rambam etc...not Kaballah"
The equivocation of occult and
mystical in the passage above is both telling and deeply disturbing.
Occult is closely related to the word occlude.
To understand the difference between healthy, and necessary!, mysticism and the poisonous occult, we can benefit from
the analogy of neurotransmitters and neuro-toxic chemicals.
Neuro-receptors are chemicals in the brain that are not complete
molecules. Some of the valences are left open. This makes them "need"
other chemicals in order to complete the valences and make them stable.
The chemicals that they should bind with are the
naturally-occurring neurotransmitters. In this case the brain and body are
working as they should.
But there are chemicals and drugs that resemble the chemical
composition of neuro-transmitters. They too provide the electrons that the
neuro-receptors are "looking for".
So, when they come in contact with the neuro-receptors, they are
accepted as though they are a neuro-transmitter. An *occlusive* chemical bond
is formed and the healthy neuro-transmitter cannot bond with the
neuro-receptor. A state of toxicity is caused in the brain and the entire body.
The subjective experience is one of reduced vitality and fogging, or even
outright distortion, of the cognitive functions.
Mysticism and the occult are very similar at first blush. If the
occult is allowed to enter the consciousness, it will form an occlusive bond
with the psyche that will block healthy mysticism out.
To make matters worse, the occult is very seductive, because it
not only resembles true mysticism at first; it also does not make the exacting
moral demands upon us that true mystical revelation of HaShem,
which, we learn from Yeshayahu HaNavi 58:8, *only* comes as a result of dealing
with people justly, makes upon us. The
occult is seductive because it works on our ego and makes us think that we must
be very clever indeed to have been made privy to arcane matters. And the occult is addictive. It is just like
heroin instead of the healthy neuro-transmitters.
Unfortunately, the Jewish People have not totally purged
themselves of the influence of Mitzrayam.
Additionally, twice we were exposed to the tum'ah of Bavel, Rachmana litzlan!, and both of those times were when we were
traumatized when we arrived in Bavel, which made us
all the more susceptible to the occult because we were in desperate need of
reassuring teachings.
The very same need arose in us, in full force, after the
Expulsions from
Yes, there is both real mysticism and the occult in the
Talmud. It is essential that we Jews are
honest enough to admit that that is indeed the case and that we learn to
distinguish between the pure and the impure.
That this situation exists, is summed up
succinctly here: "Hai
Gaon, the enlightened head of the
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1445&letter=A
I am in full agreement with Rabbi
Yihhyah Qafahh, of Teiman's, position on Jewish mysticism: "Furthermore,
Dor Daim accept that in Talmudic times there was a secret mystical tradition in
Judaism, known as Maaseh Bereshith (the work of creation) and Maaseh
Merkavah (the work of the chariot); ... They simply reject the notion that
this tradition is represented by the ideas popularly referred to as Kabbalah in
our days."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dor_Daim#Attitude_to_Kabbalah
I have taken out the part
concerning the RaMB"aM. I simply cannot accept his Aristotelianism. We
don't need Aristotle to understand Torah! Aristotle's methodical study of what
he called PHYSICS is a sound basis for the study of science. But his
METAPHYSICS is no closer to the understanding of Torah than that of any other
Goi. HaShem did not make us wait for this Gentile philosopher to come along,
genius though he was, to learn Torah.
The names of the months that some! of the Jews adopted
(they do not appear in Megilot Yam HaMelech), tell us that we came under the
influence of Babylonian occult. It is not enough to be reminded by those names
that HaShem took us physically out of Bavel, we
have to purge ourselves of those influences.
Just
as our computers are vulnerable to virus attacks through the ports, which are
essential openings because that is where the software also sends and receives
signals, so Judaism is susceptible to occult viral attack through the back
door. We too must come in contact with the Goi'im,
but there is the problem of the eruv rav, there are conversions that aren't really conversions,
there are the mischlings, there is ongoing
infiltration of the Vatican into Judaism and, let it be said honestly, the fact
that the Rabbinut in Israel is a government body and
they receive a salary from the Israeli government, which comes from American
money, is not a healthy situation. No one can be more moral than they person
who pays their salary.
In
closing please allow me to show a few חלופים that will demonstrate how essential the matter of learning
Torah in utmost purity is and to make it clear why we must clear away the
morass of the occult that has infiltrated Judaism and get to the root of Torah.
ספר מלכים
= שמ + ן = 340+700 = 1040 = 41 = שמן = מ"א = מקץ = קמץ
קמץ, of course, is the name of a
punctuation mark.
The
שמן
is the שמן משיחה.
משיח = ספר
חי
גוי = 19 =
חוה = הוגה
When
we learn Torah (הוגה), we bring the Goyim into existence
and as we read, so they are. The matter of how גוי is related to חוה is far too deep and involved to
say in a few words, but you understand. If our reading of Torah is pure, the
Goyim that we create from the אותיות and from the נקודות and the טעמים, which are the רוח הקדש that we breath
into the letters will be pure.
רוח = 214 =
דקדוק
And
the letters ד and ק (which are אתב"שים) are in the word קדש as well.
If
the Jews learning of Torah are not pure, are occluded by the occult, the Goyim
we create will be, well, as we witness them.
Notice
that one of the חלופים for שמן is קמץ.
ספר מלכים is all about the secrets of the נקודות and the טעמים. And these are the secrets of how
the letters, which give the form to existence, are enlivened and become living beings.
Look
at the word טעם
please. You can see that it is composed of the letter ט and the word עם.
One
of the חלופים
for the letter ט is the word קבוץ, which equals 100+2+6+900 = 1008 = א+ ח = ט.
So,
the wordטעם can be read as קבוץ עם. A טעם is the collective
of all of the history, physicality, emotions, thoughts, actions, religious
learning…of each עם.
טעמים, then, would be קבוץ עמים. This is the sum total of all of
the history, physicality, emotions, thoughts, actions, religious learning…of *all*
of Humanity.
דוד is the secret of the תגים.
תגים =
400+3+10+600 = 1013 = 14 = יד = אוהב = דוד
***We
must learn these things in purity if we wish to live in a world of pure Goyim
who are capable of the ultimate Humanity.***
We,
the Jewish People, must purify ourselves of the occult that has crept into our
midst because it does not allow us to perceive clearly or learn Torah in
purity. When we look into Torah, which is called aspaklaria
by the Sages all we can see is a reflection of our own Souls. If that Soul is
murky with the occult, we will not see to the depths of Torah and the HaGoyim (the same letters can also pronounced higuim) that we create will
be impure beings.
It is therefore of the utmost necessity that עם ישראל separate
itself from all occult practices and thinking, this for the sake of the world
we create.
בברכה,
Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan,