FOUNDATION COURSE KABBALAH

When I will translate the Torah and it says: „In the beginning Elokim created the heaven and
the earth‟, I will not translate Elokim with God like in the general bible. What does this mean?
What is in the names, for instance Elokim, Jaweh or El? When I experience the Creator till
Chessed that is the name El. This is also in the names Michaël or Rafaël. El is the name of the
Creator in his quality of Chessed. For the full experience of the Divine, 10 spiroth, we have
the name ‏.יהוה When you experience 7 sphiroth then you experience Elokim. But where are
the other 3? You just don‟t see them. You don‟t see them with your inner eyes. Two people
can be together and one sees and the other doesn‟t. A child sees no sphira, sees no strength. If
I only experience hey - הּ , the Malchut, then I experience the name of the Creator יהוה in his
quality of Adni. Adonai is another name of the Creator to not use His name in vain. Adni
means the manifestation of the only Creative Strength יהוה in Malchut. He is everywhere of
course, also in Malchut is Ein Sof. Ein Sof is everywhere but in perceptions of a kli in
Malchut, the Creator manifests Himself in His name of Adni. Therefore I follow Ari who does
this as well. We use the 10 sphiroth but in connection with the 4-letter Name. Then I will do
correction in every situation. When I feel I have all this in myself then I have severity and
mercy in myself, in balance.
Of course mercy has the upper hand, not because of weakness but because I choose to do so.
Because that way I reach correspondence with the mercy of the name of the Creator. The
‏.יהוה Merciful and Almighty God who has manifested Himself that way to Moses, in the name
That is what Moses received, the Torah, the 26th generation. The Creator manifested Himself
as the Merciful God. Before that they were killers and they had terrible lives with a lot of
violence. We will learn what strengths there were and how they wasted their eternal energy.
Does everybody understand why we learn this? Our intention has to be to make contact
through the names of the Creator or the sphiroth in order to come closer to our fulfillment.
This means to come to experiencing the eternal. That‟s the point. We don‟t learn for
knowledge but for contact with the eternal. This is the way of Ari and I learn with and from
Ari. That‟s why I also explain the names of the eternal Creator and the 10 sphiroth. Parallel to
each other. The light enters and then we see all these processes until the end. On the basis of
the drawing that I want to make we will see the Fall of Adam and how the worlds have fallen.
We will come to 6000 years of correction. We will see what all this means. We will continue
to 7000 years, 8000 years, 9000 years and 10.000 years and then we will see the purpose of
the Creation. The personal purpose of the Creation and of all mankind. We will also go
through the sphiroth, we will do both. But for us it is important, at the rising of our
perceptions, which names we encounter. What gradations. You can‟t see that in the sphiroth.
Some things are easier to explain on the basis of the sphiroth but it is all the same. Z”A is
always the letter vav - וּ of ‏.יהוה Chochmah is always the letter yud - ‏.יּ You should see these
parallels always within yourself.
There are 10 sphiroth and Z”A is a group. Chochmah, Binah, Z”A and Malchut are 4 sphiroth,
everything consists of 4 plus the root – Kether. And now we take a closer look at the 10
sphiroth, Chochmah, Binah, Z”A and Malchut but all of Chochmah. Of the quality
Chochmah, what does that mean? We have said that there are Chochmah, Binah, Z”A and
Malchut. Everything consists of those 4 plus the root – Kether.
Now we make further differentiations. There are Kether, Chochmah, Binah, Z”A and Malchut
of Kether. All of the quality of Kether because Kether has 5 as well. Everything has 5
sphiroth.
Let‟s take a look:
Kether “de” Chochmah (“de” means “of”) and Chochmah is Chochmah de Chochmah.
Chochmah has all 5 in itself as well. Binah de Chochmah, Z”A de Chochmah and Malchut de
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