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Ask the Kabala
The Ask the Kabala Oracle Cards is a unique 22-card deck
illustrating each of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Each card/letter
correlates with an archetypal theme, story or character from the Old
Testament as seen from a Kabalistic perspective.
By pondering the stories in
light of a particular question or concern, hidden paths and messages will
lead querent to a deeper understanding of both the letters and yourself.
  
Kabala, which means “to receive”, is a
mystical branch of Judaism as well as a way of life. Kabalists believe
that Abraham write a book called Sefer Yetzira (Book of Creation) long
before the Torah, and this Hebrew text described the energies of the
planets and the zodiac. A man named Rabbi Eliezer hid in a cave with
his son, spending 13 years writing down the lessons of the mystical
world. This mystical interpretation of the Torah is known as the Zohar.
Kabalists believe there are infinite
levels of meaning in the traditional stories of the Torah, including a
form of sacred mathematics known as gematria, which assigns letters
numerical values. There are endless ways to manipulate words and
letters to derive mystical meaning, and the foundation these systems is
the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The Torah, kabalists say, is
like a blueprint for life: Everything that’s included in the
handwritten scroll has something to teach us about our own lives even
to this day.
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