Judaism

For sixty years, the study of Kabbalah in secular universities around the world has been dominated by the theories and approach of one man: Gershom Scholem. Scholem, a brilliant, charismatic German Jew, emigrated to Jerusalem from Berlin in 1923, and lived there until his death in 1982. Scholem virtually founded the academic discipline of the study of Jewish mysticism. His historical studies span the entire gamut of post‑Biblical Jewish history, from the Rabbinic age until Hasidism and beyond.

Moshe Idel details how the anonymous, late 14th century Sefer Ha-Peliyah was to have disturbing consequences in the Jewish world three centuries later, interweaving luminaries with the cultural, historical, religious, and philosophical concepts of their day, and demonstrating how cultural agents were inadvertently instrumental in the mid-17th-century mass-movement Sabbateanism that led to the conviction that Sabbatai Tzevi was the Messiah.
Exploring how the tragic misperception of the Jewish Sabbath by the non-Jewish world led to a linkage of Jews with sorcery in 14th and 15th-century Europe, associating their holy day with the witches' 'Sabbat' gathering, Idel brings this wide-ranging study into the present day with an analysis of 20th-century scholarship and thought influenced by Saturnism, particularly lingering themes related to melancholy in the works of Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin.

o Chapter 01 The 13 Attributes of Mercy
o Chapter 02 Attaining the Qualities of Kether
o Chapter 03 Attaining the Qualities of Chokmah
o Chapter 04 Attaining the Qualities of Binah
o Chapter 05 Attaining the Qualities of Chesed
o Chapter 06 Attaining the Qualities of Gevurah
o Chapter 07 Attaining the Qualities of Tiferet
o Chapter 08 Attaining the Qualities of Netzach, Hod and Yesod
o Chapter 09 Attaining the Qualities of Malkuth
o Chapter 10 Ascending the Tree

The definition has been updated: From now on, anti-Semites are only found on the left. Roger Waters, a courageous man of conscience without stain, is an anti-Semite. Steve Bannon, a declared racist and closet anti-Semite who has been appointed chief strategist in the Trump White House, is a friend of Israel.

For the next sixteen months, the Messianic movement headed by Sabbatai and his “prophet” Nathan swept the Jewish Diaspora like a brushfire. From London to Poland, from Hamburg to Yemen, Jews believed in perfect faith that Sabbatai Zevi was the promised Redeemer, about to lead them back to the Holy Land and rebuild the Temple.

This is why I study Sabbateanism: not because of the specific doctrines of the movement, or because of the personality of Sabbatai Zevi, but because these were sects of Jews who remained attached to some kind of Judaism, but who created a form of Judaism well beyond the pale of normative religious figures. Yes, there are some aspects of Sabbatean ideology that are fascinating, even titillating. The Dönmeh and the Frankists each had sexual-religious rituals, ranging from wife-swapping to kissing the naked breasts of a girl as the embodiment of the Torah/Shechinah. I'm intrigued by Frank's innovation, in exact parallel to the Baal Shem Tov's, that the miracle of pantheism is precisely that God is present in the illusory, material world. But above all, I'm captivated by that vertiginous moment in which there are suddenly no rules, no guides - and yet there is also a pull to faith. True nihilism bores me; I can't think of anything less interesting than the same hipster angst that has caused people to be cool, ironic and unhappy for two hundred years. But religious anarchy - where things matter, but they're not how the authorities say - that is the world which I actually inhabit.
Jacob Frank, who lived from 1726-1790, was the polar opposite: a manipulative, vulgar cult leader who converted both to Islam and Catholicism, may have had a long-term incestuous relationship with his daughter, and was regarded by thousands of 18th-century Jews as a messianic figure. 

1174 - The Bahir was published by the Provence school of Kabbalists 
Moses de León (c. 1240 – 1305) Moses de León as the author who published the Zohar in the 13th century.
Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia  born in Zaragoza, Spain, in 1240, and is assumed to have died sometime after 1291
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero He is known by the acronym the Ramak.
1522–1570 Moshe Cordovero produced the first full integration of the previous differing schools in Kabbalistic interpretation Cordoverian Kabbalah utilised the conceptual framework of evolving cause and effect from the Infinite to the Finite "Pardes Rimonim" ("An Orchard of Pomegranates") - Tomer Devorah ("Palm tree [of] Deborah")
Isaac (ben Solomon) Luria Ashkenazi 1534[1] – July 25, 1572 known as "Ha'ARI Many Jews who had been exiled from Spain following the Edict of Expulsion believed they were in the time of trial that would precede the appearance of the Messiah in Galilee.

The crown of the sexual organ which is exposed, and from where the drop of semen will come out the secret of circumcision comes from here. This is also Malkhut because this drop of semen is warm is liquid and materializes, procreates. In this way we have two elements that are going to procreate according to the energy of the liver, the speech and the reproductive organ. So you can meditate with a mantra or you can meditate during a marital relation, both of them will activate the energy of the liver and this is "melech". Mem Lamed Khaf , the mem: moach lamed: the heart, khaf: the liver this is what we call melech: king for this reason Mashiach is a being who meditates with the brain, with the heart and with the liver, it's a being who's going to materialize. We still have to analyze the word Mashiach. This is a demonstration we are doing the autopsy of the word melech, now we are going to do the autopsy of the word Mashiach, what is Mashiach? Mashiach is yesh moach it is divided into 2 words: "yesh" which means: "there is" - "it exists" and "moach" is the "brain" the numerical value of the word "moach".  Mem has a value of 40 and Het has a value of 848 there's another word that has a value of 48 very important the word kokhav planet. kokhav is written: ...