KABBALAH

 

KABBALAH

 

(All that G-d has spoken, we will do and we will obey. Exodus 24:7.)

 

I was pleased to be informed of the forthcoming Symposium on Jewish Mysticism, and extend prayerful wishes for its success. And success, or rather hatzlachah in its true Jewish concept, is rooted in the Torah, which insists on the primacy of action—“the essential thing is the deed.”

Jewish mysticism must necessarily be defined in terms of specific topics that have to do with the Nistar of Torah—one of the two primary facets of the Torah: Nigleh and Nistar, the revealed and the hidden.

Jewish mysticism teaches that the purpose of the soul’s descent to earth is to reveal the harmony that is inherent in the created world, beginning with the “small world, ” namely, man—a creature of Nigleh and Nistar, of a body and a soul.

Inner personal peace and harmony can be achieved only through the supremacy of the soul over the body, since in the nature and scheme of things, the body can be made to submit to the soul—willingly, and in the case of the true mystic even eagerly; but not vice-versa.

Jewish mysticism helps to realize the said purpose of the soul by teaching it how to recognize the spirituality of matter.

One of the aspects of ChaBaD is to reveal and expound the esoteric aspects of the Torah and Mitzvot so that they can be comprehended by the three intellectual faculties—and reduced to rational categories, down to the actual performance of the Mitzvot.

Signed: Menachem Schneerson/

Full article published by Chabad.org (A Letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe.)