http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/ Exclusively Kabbalah Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:29:15 GMT Joe Dirt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20021 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20021 That was a good book. I believe my class read that in 7th grade. Come to think of it, in recent years one of my biggest fears have been my books going up in Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:20:53 GMT Richard Ryan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20020 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20020 [Spoiler alert, and gentle admonition: if you have not seen Francois Truffaut's wonderful movie version of Fahrenheit 451 you should not watch the clip at the Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:10:46 GMT Richard Ryan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20019 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20019 [Continuing the discussion of Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan's introduction to his edition of the Sefer Yetzirah; the introduction can be found in its entirety here: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:16:06 GMT newlight26 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20017 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20017 There are classes where I'm teaching Jewish topics, but not necessarily Tenakh. In the course of discussion, I want to draw attention to a Biblical source Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:23:21 GMT Aghil http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20016 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20016 Then, why not use both? I always like a little variation in my sources, to get a different perspective on the translation of the original text. In any case, Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:06:36 GMT newlight26 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20015 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20015 I'm kind of divided. I love Rabbi Aryah Kaplan's "Living Torah" for it's idiomatically correct translation. The way I describe it to my friends is that his Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:59:55 GMT Richard Ryan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20014 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20014 [Continuing the discussion of Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan's introduction to his edition of the Sefer Yetzirah; the introduction can be found in its entirety here: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:04:43 GMT mcisrael@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20013 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20013 Chag Sameach, btw. :) Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:53:38 GMT mcisrael@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20012 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20012 ... Now you've done it. I'll be laughing about this all day. Those of us who do the Jewish holiday season are still in mid-stream (make of that what you Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:41:46 GMT Richard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20011 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20011 Now I had thought "the joke" about Ben Sirah being his sister's brother/son had more to with the somewhat ridiculous method of his insemination, i.e, the jism Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:23:39 GMT Richard Ryan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20010 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20010 "....What I'm not, I have learned." - Springsteen/Smith I hope all list members, Israelite and Philistine alike, had a peaceful and reflective 10th day of Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:38:58 GMT Aghil http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20009 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20009 ... Nice idea, but that would undermine the open-door principle of this group, the down side of which are these (thank god rather unfrequent) bursts of Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:10:15 GMT KIPI KISIKITISHACHO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20008 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20008   A quote from Your Forces and How to Use Them, by Christian D. Larson, [1912] "We are here to become great men and women, and  with that purpose in view, we Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:36:50 GMT mcisrael@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20007 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20007 ... I'm thinking that once we get out of the introduction to the SY, it might pick up a little. Fantasies about the end of the world and the destruction of the Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:03:34 GMT Richard Ryan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20006 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExclusivelyKabbalah/message/20006 Banned already??? But....but....the list was just beginning to warm up! I could sense a verbal dismemberment of epic proportions in the making, a veritable