1. Jewish mysticism
Merkava

2. Ma ase Merkava
research of the mysteries of Ma ase Merkava is just as acceptable as a prayer
watch out for falling into error!!!!
kabalah can be taught only through hints and allusions – litterary or superficial understanding are misleading
Mishna: „The mysteries of Merkava are not supposed to be pronounced in the presence of one student if he is not wise and if he does not understand with knowledge.“

3. Gematria from greek Geometria
one of 32 rules of agada for interpretation of Torah – new meaning through counting of numerical values of letters

4. Jewish mysticism Sefer Jecira – Book of Creation
10 sefirot = ten basic spiritual ur-numbers
32 pathes of wisdom
Bereshit
G d said = 10 x = 10 sefirot
Creation
32 – LEV – Bereshit- Israel
Elohim – 32 x = paths of wisdom

5. Antipode position of hypercube
Gra version
hypercube

6. Tesseract
10 sefirot define the natural space – define 10 directions = 5 dimensions
fourdimensional hypercube has 16 points (2 raised on the power of 4 - exponentiation)
fivedimensional hypercube has 32 points (2 raised on the power of five)

8. Jewish mysticism Bahir (Book of the Brightness)
Midrash of rabbi Nechunja ban Hakana
besides Bahir is ascribed to him a prayer ANA BEACHOACH – the initial letters form a 42 letter long name of G d
Published in Provence 1176
Jb 37, 21: "Now men do not see the light which is bright (BAHIR) in the skies.“
Rabi Moshe Cordovero: „The words of the text are bright (bahir) and sparkling, but their brilliance can blind the eyes”

9. Jewish Mysticism Zohar (Brightness)
The main character Rabbi Shimon ben Jochaj – rabbi Akiva´s follower, 2nd c. CE – who was hiding from Romans
Published in the 13th c. by Moshe de Leon
mystical midrash = explanation of a hidden meaning
PARDES 1) Pschat= simple litterary sense 2) Remez= hint, allegory 3) Drash= homiletic sense 4) Sod= mystical meaning = DERECH HA-KABALA

10. Sefer ha-Tagin TAGA – arameic Ketarim – hebrew
when combined, the letters with the tagin form the divine names by which heaven and earth were created  creative power
oral tradition
Rabi Akiva deduced from tagin many important teachings
he RECEIVED the tradition of Merkava

11. Jewish Mysticism Expulsion from Spain - Safed – Galilee,16th c.
Moshe Cordovero – Pardes Rimonim
Jicchak Luria, ha-Ari,

12. Cimcum Jicchak Luria Tohu and Bohu
Zohar: In the beginning of the King's authority, the Lamp of Darkness engraved a hollow in the Supernal Luminescence.

13. Jicchak Luria
The meaning of the human existence is to help to renew the original order of the world – tikkun
Every human thought and action plays a very important role in this process

14. Gilgul Gilgul – transmigration of souls Galgal = circle, rotation
Mystical organization of 22 lettres
System of alternation of lettres
22 lettres  231 gates