by Jeffrey Meiliken | Apr 19, 2015 | Revelations
According to the prologue to the Zohar, there are 2 malchuts, 2 staging vessels for the Light within the schematic of the Tree-of-life, one at the end of the first 4, or upper, expansions and the second at the end of the bottom 3 expansions, or the 7th–analogous...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Mar 11, 2015 | Revelations
Most of the Torah portion Tetzaveh is about two articles of the clothing that the high priest wore during the time of the Mishkan, the Tabernacle. They are of little use to us today or indeed over the last 2800 years, no matter how wondrous they were then. So why do...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Feb 24, 2015 | Revelations
It was the Rav Brandwein, the Strettiner Rav of blessed memory, who said that the understanding of this prayer will give us the deep understanding needed to bring the Geulah, the final Redemption. The Baal Shem Tov, knowing he was speaking of a future time, said...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Feb 18, 2015 | Revelations
There are several times when the Torah describes the generations of, sometimes translated as the chronicles of, various Biblical figures, and they can be divided into two distinct types, the ones that have chronicled lifespans and those that are just lists of...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Feb 15, 2015 | Revelations
Does G-d do anything meaninglessly? If we wanted to get into a whole other discussion, we could and would argue that nothing in our lives is meaningless, especially not in these days. Nonetheless, the article is about something bigger, much bigger. As previously...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Feb 2, 2015 | Revelations
In the Torah portion, Beshalach, where we find the splitting of the Red Sea, there are innumerable secrets, many, such as the 72 Names of G-d, discussed in depth in the Zohar, by many of the tzaddikim, and also in this blog, but there is one very obvious one that is...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Aug 24, 2014 | Kabbalah Secrets, Revelations
This wasn’t the first article I had planned to write after my prolonged hiatus. I was and am still going to write about the how the 2000-year-old Zohar explains in detail the expansion of the universe in the instant before the big bang; about the missing 38...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Jan 26, 2014 | Revelations
These collection of quotes from the Zohar from the section about parsha Mishpatim all discuss the final 70 years leading up to the final redemption (geula). We present them here in the order they appear in the Zohar: “The seventy [70] words in the Psalm:...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Jan 15, 2014 | Revelations
In Torah portion, Vayetzei, Jacob weds two wives. The Arizal explains that while Jacob coupled with Rachel, it was Israel (Jacob’s second appellation) who coupled with Leah, with important consequences for us today. Every story in the Bible has a key hidden...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Nov 26, 2013 | Revelations
Chanukah: Eight days of Miracles Designed to Bring Mashiach This year more than ever, we must connect with all the cosmic windows. And it can be as simple as a child’s dreidel, or the chocolate gelt. Four sides corresponding to the Tetragrammaton (YHVH), but 4...
