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Welcome

Introduction

Course Outline

Introduction
What the Zohar Is
A Liberal Perspective
How to Study Zohar
Kabbalah and the Zohar
Crash Course in Kabbalah: Secrets; Sefirot
Images of God
Unity and Plurality
Reclaiming Christian Images
The Self and the Other
Feminine and Masculine
The Zohar as a Resource and Model
 
Translated Texts
Session One
The Rose (opening passage of the Zohar: the Shekhinah as a rose receiving
divine light)
 
Session Two
Trees of the Garden (mystical meaning of the sin of Adam and Eve)
 
Session Three
Jacob and Esau (connectedness of good and evil)
 
Session Four
Wisdom of Solomon (terrifying imagery of the Shekhinah)

Session Five

Session Six
"Making God" (how we "make God" through mitzvot)
Session Seven  
Gazelle of the Dawn (the travails of the Shekhinah in caring for the world)
 
Session Eight
Resources & Reading list
 

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