| 8 months ago :: Mar 30, 2009 - 8:12PM #1 | |
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Hi community --
I'm not Jewish, but I have an academic interest in the Kabbalah, especially the geometry and working of the Sephiroth.
I've recently run across some interesting material from western hermeticists about the Qliphoth or "shells" of the Sephiroth.
I wonder - is this strictly a hermetic invention? Is there a basis in Jewish Kabbalistic teaching?
And beyond that - what are your thoughts regarding the duality of the sephiroth - the idea that each sphere has a fulfilled/positive state and an empty/negative state? |
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| 8 months ago :: Mar 31, 2009 - 9:32PM #2 | |
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Somebody ought to answer you eventually. This isn't an especially active area. There are one or two posters with an interest in, and knowledge of, kabbalah (the real kind).
However - you ask what I think about your idea, and actually I practically never think about the shells of the sefirot at all. They don't particularly interest me. I suppose I view the whole structure as a semi-interesting way of discussing immaterial and insubstantial matters of intellectual, but impractical, interest. Fun to talk about, irrelevant to real life.
As long as people don't start killing each other over which interpretation is 'Right', that is.
Blessed are You, HaShem, Who blesses the years.
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