Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai taught:
“If you have a sapling in your hand and someone tells you the Messiah has arrived, first plant the sapling and then go out to welcome the Messiah”
- Avot d'Rabbi Natan B31
What is Kabbalah ?
Magical,Meditative, Theoretical, Personal
1.Metaphysical,
2.Creation and Angels
3.Reasons for commandments
4.Secret explanations of Torah
(ו) כִּ֣י יִקָּרֵ֣א קַן־צִפּ֣וֹר ׀ לְפָנֶ֡יךָ בַּדֶּ֜רֶךְ בְּכָל־עֵ֣ץ ׀ א֣וֹ עַל־הָאָ֗רֶץ אֶפְרֹחִים֙ א֣וֹ בֵיצִ֔ים וְהָאֵ֤ם רֹבֶ֙צֶת֙ עַל־הָֽאֶפְרֹחִ֔ים א֖וֹ עַל־הַבֵּיצִ֑ים לֹא־תִקַּ֥ח הָאֵ֖ם עַל־הַבָּנִֽים׃
(ז) שַׁלֵּ֤חַ תְּשַׁלַּח֙ אֶת־הָאֵ֔ם וְאֶת־הַבָּנִ֖ים תִּֽקַּֽח־לָ֑ךְ לְמַ֙עַן֙ יִ֣יטַב לָ֔ךְ וְהַאֲרַכְתָּ֖ יָמִֽים׃ (ס)
(6) If, along the road, you chance upon a bird’s nest, in any tree or on the ground, with fledglings or eggs and the mother sitting over the fledglings or on the eggs, do not take the mother together with her young.
(7) Let the mother go, and take only the young, in order that you may fare well and have a length of days
(12) Honor your father and your mother, that you may lengthen your days on the land that the LORD your God is assigning to you.
Willam Blake- To see a world...
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And
a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.