The Kabbalistic Murder Code: Mystery & International Conspiracies (Historical Crime Thriller Book 1) by Nathan Erez Page A
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worlds to us, and from us to the upper worlds. All the commandments and all the proper intentions and all the prayers are ultimately aimed at mending those spheres, which were damaged at the time of the Creation. In the language of the Kabbalah, this means repairing those vessels which were broken.
“The second stream is Kabbalistic-prophetic. It is an attempt to attain what is known as cleaving to God and to achieve spiritual elevation. This can be accomplished by internal meditation, which includes reciting the Holy Names, internal and external purification, combining sacred letters and repeating them over and over, singing and moving the head, and breathing techniques. This can unite one with the higher worlds. One who does this properly can reach the level of prophecy. There are even books with detailed instructions on how to actually accomplish this and how to ascend to a higher spiritual level. I often hear of students who have embarked on such a course, and it is, indeed, a disease.”
“Don’t worry about me. And what about the third stream?”
“The third stream is the one which has elicited the most criticism. It is referred to as Practical Kabbalah. By that, we mean people who use the Kabbalah for their own personal purposes, as a way to exploit the secret knowledge to which they have access in order to control nature and man’s fate. Practical Kabbalah appeals directly to supernatural forces and sometimes even makes them solve the problems of the one calling upon them. These include attempts to foretell the future, to converse with the dead, to heal the sick, to banish evil spirits and the evil eye, and of course to acquire wealth, respect, and/or the love of a man or a woman. That, too, is a dangerous game to play.” Prof. Ashuri laughed, but Elijah could not tell whether or not she was serious.
When he walked on, the spell was broken, and he remembered what else he had wanted to ask her. He remembered something Norman told him before he set off on his travels that he claimed to have heard from his father: “You will bring the fountain!”
The Third Sphere
When the Israelis Conquered Jerusalem
In 1967, the nineteenth year of the State of Israel, the Israelis took the Old City of Jerusalem. After a number of battles, the Israel Defense Forces broke into the Old City via the Lions’ Gate. The original plan had been to conquer the walled Old City through the Dung Gate, which appeared to be less fortified. However, the senior paratroopers refused to enter the Old City via the Dung Gate and demanded that the entrance to the sacred city be through the Lions’ Gate. As they explained it, the very name Lions’ Gate was more in keeping with their own view of themselves. This choice received considerable criticism once the battle had been won, with claims that it would have been preferable militarily to attack the city through the Dung Gate. The officers in charge of the operation, who saw such carping as no more than hindsight, rejected this criticism angrily. Another factor, which was not considered at the time by those involved, was that there was a certain poetic justice in the choice of the Lions’ Gate. In Arabic, the gate is known not as the Lions’ Gate, but (more properly) the Leopards’ Gate, so named because of the stone animals engraved above it, but as “The Gate of the Tribe” ( Ashibat ), a word reserved for the “Tribe” of the Jewish people, whereas an Arabic tribe is referred to as a Kabilah. The name is an indication that - for reasons which are not clear - the Arabic tradition is that this is the gate through which the Jews will enter the city.
As a result of this war, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem underwent its third major transformation. Originally, when the university was founded in 1925, the dedication
“The second stream is Kabbalistic-prophetic. It is an attempt to attain what is known as cleaving to God and to achieve spiritual elevation. This can be accomplished by internal meditation, which includes reciting the Holy Names, internal and external purification, combining sacred letters and repeating them over and over, singing and moving the head, and breathing techniques. This can unite one with the higher worlds. One who does this properly can reach the level of prophecy. There are even books with detailed instructions on how to actually accomplish this and how to ascend to a higher spiritual level. I often hear of students who have embarked on such a course, and it is, indeed, a disease.”
“Don’t worry about me. And what about the third stream?”
“The third stream is the one which has elicited the most criticism. It is referred to as Practical Kabbalah. By that, we mean people who use the Kabbalah for their own personal purposes, as a way to exploit the secret knowledge to which they have access in order to control nature and man’s fate. Practical Kabbalah appeals directly to supernatural forces and sometimes even makes them solve the problems of the one calling upon them. These include attempts to foretell the future, to converse with the dead, to heal the sick, to banish evil spirits and the evil eye, and of course to acquire wealth, respect, and/or the love of a man or a woman. That, too, is a dangerous game to play.” Prof. Ashuri laughed, but Elijah could not tell whether or not she was serious.
When he walked on, the spell was broken, and he remembered what else he had wanted to ask her. He remembered something Norman told him before he set off on his travels that he claimed to have heard from his father: “You will bring the fountain!”
The Third Sphere
When the Israelis Conquered Jerusalem
In 1967, the nineteenth year of the State of Israel, the Israelis took the Old City of Jerusalem. After a number of battles, the Israel Defense Forces broke into the Old City via the Lions’ Gate. The original plan had been to conquer the walled Old City through the Dung Gate, which appeared to be less fortified. However, the senior paratroopers refused to enter the Old City via the Dung Gate and demanded that the entrance to the sacred city be through the Lions’ Gate. As they explained it, the very name Lions’ Gate was more in keeping with their own view of themselves. This choice received considerable criticism once the battle had been won, with claims that it would have been preferable militarily to attack the city through the Dung Gate. The officers in charge of the operation, who saw such carping as no more than hindsight, rejected this criticism angrily. Another factor, which was not considered at the time by those involved, was that there was a certain poetic justice in the choice of the Lions’ Gate. In Arabic, the gate is known not as the Lions’ Gate, but (more properly) the Leopards’ Gate, so named because of the stone animals engraved above it, but as “The Gate of the Tribe” ( Ashibat ), a word reserved for the “Tribe” of the Jewish people, whereas an Arabic tribe is referred to as a Kabilah. The name is an indication that - for reasons which are not clear - the Arabic tradition is that this is the gate through which the Jews will enter the city.
As a result of this war, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem underwent its third major transformation. Originally, when the university was founded in 1925, the dedication
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