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Kabbalah Love - Rabbi Michael Zev Wineberg
About The Author
Rabbi Michael Zev Wineberg received his Rabbinic Ordination from the Chief-Rabbi of Canada, Rabbi Hirshprung OBM. He has a degree in mediation and computer programming. Rabbi Wineberg was Lecturer of Hebrew and lectured on Jewish Mysticism at Kansas University. He founded The Beth Medrash Program (advanced Jewish studies) at State University of New York, Binghamton; and co-founded The Beth Medrash Program at Yale University’s, Jewish Student Union. He served as Adult Education Director for Chabad House Center, K.C. Kansas.
He is the author of over twenty personal guides based on Kabbalah/Jewish Mysticism. He also served as the foundational Rabbi – building up the Jewish Community of Plettenberg Bay, a resort town in South Africa and servicing the thousands of Jewish tourists to it annually. He was a popular Radio Show Host on Kabbalah
on a number of Radio Stations.
He currently is a lecturer and blogger on his website www.KabbalahWisdom.org.
Dedicated To All Seekers Of Truth
Dear Reader,
May The Creator and Master of you and me, assist, that the wisdom which transformed my life from darkness to light, from aimlessness to meaning, from feeling like the universe is a dog-eat-dog world
to understanding, that life is both a process of discovery, and purposeful acts of love – Transform Your Life!
Nothing is harder than personal transformation, which is why nothing can be more meaningful!
Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2014 Rabbi Michael Zevi Wineberg
All Rights Reserved
Meaningful Books
Jerusalem
ISBN: 9780620640596
CONTENTS
Introduction
New Torah Teachings of The Messiah
Chapter 1 - Gratitude Attitude
A Story
True Wealth
A Story
Desiring
Gaining Perspective
The Gift of Life
E=MC2
Creation
An Example For Continuous Creation
Another Example
Thank The Creator
Altruism
Ask
Gratitude Versus Attitude
Exercise #1:
Chapter 2 - Divine Destiny
The Wheels of Justice
Karmic Debts
The Face of G-d
Freedom of Choice
Reality
It’s all amazingly simple, though amazingly complex
Kosher
Exercise #2:
Chapter 3 – Giving
Meaning In Life
Love
Happiness, True Success, Joy & Recognition
Rabbi Hillel and the Gentile
A Mirror Image
Love, And Only Then Educate
A Story
What’s The Message?
Whose Existence Makes You Happy?
Love and Happiness
The Love/Fear Seesaw
Unconditional Love
The Power of Fear
Fear 101
There Is A Master Plan At Play – And It Is In Your Interest
Personal Pain Vs. Other People’s Pain
Who is The Creator?
Understanding That We Can’t Understand Everything
The Creator and Manager of the World is Good
Fear 201
Getting over Guilt
Practical Self-Expectations
Self-Control
The Battle
Bullying the Bully
Self-Control In The Mind
Changing The Airwaves
Two Stories
Control Your Thoughts
The Prince in the Navy
Another Thought To Beat The Guilt Induced By The Yetzer Hara
The Surest Method of Beating the Yetzer Hara
The Yetzer Hara’s Belligerence
Choose to be Happy
The Creator and Master of the World Wants You to Be Happy
Exercise #3:
Chapter 4 - Forgiving
The Seesaw of Human Relationships
Resentments
Resentments, Illnesses and Healing
Dis-ease
Fear Causes Illness
Forgiveness and Healing
Eating Healthy
A Story
Forgiveness Vs. Revenge
A Story
Verbal Insults
Revenge Doesn’t Work
Forgiveness Therapy
Either Forgive or Confront
Your Right
Anger’s Motive
Exercise #4:
Chapter 5 - Gratitude
The Awakening Thought
Modeh Ani – Gratitude for Your Soul
Change The Same
Finding Good in Bad, Actually Transforms Bad to Good!
Blessings We Take For Granted In the West
East Vs. West
Gratitude Meditation
Exercise #5:
Chapter 6 - Unconditional Love
Conditional Versus Unconditional Love
Marriage
The Final Hurdle
Overcoming Our Innate Weakness
Exercise #6:
Appendice
Thank You
My first acknowledgment – the source of gratitude – for to be grateful, we must recognize where our blessings/beneficence has come from, is of course, to our loving Father-in-Heaven, who in His unlimited kindness has ordained that I should be worthy, or perhaps better said, fortunate, to have studied - and thus be able to share, Kabbalah’s transformative wisdom with you.
Thank you to my many good friends who generously donated towards the printing of this book. Special appreciation goes to my dear revered Father, whose encouragement and constant editing and critique of my writing is invaluable. And to my equally dear revered Mother, for the final proofread. As I like to say, being a Rabbi is the family business,
that never made anything, but holy debt.
And to the many faithful editors who checked for syntax, grammar etc. etc. (as you can see, this piece and some others, came in afterwards) beginning with Mrs. Gralnik, editor par-excellence, and culminating with the highly esteemed anesthesiologist and author, Dr. Waldman, without whom my chicken scratch may have remained as such.
Last but not least, to Tyrell Gobel, whose graphics and design turned a black and white book into a kaleidoscope of color, allowing the dictum that the Messianic teachings will be visual
to actualize.
Introduction
New Torah Teachings of The Messiah
In truth, there is but a path, in which the unlimited infinite nature of the Divine, collides into our limited defined natural order!
In my own desperate search for the meaning of existence, traversing the many doctrines, philosophies, religious ideals, I was amazed to discover, in my own backyard, a treasure buried for millennia, taught only to the great initiated saints but recently revealed through the Chassidic masters.
A light both illuminating and cozy, both inspiring and deep, heralding in the: New Torah Teachings of The Messiah which flowed through the undiluted souls of the Chassidic Rebbes/Masters.
If your soul’s thirst can be quenched, if your parched head can be satiated, if your heart’s ache can be soothed, well worth my humble attempt to distill this dazzling array of precious gems into modern bite-size wisdom.
If all the heavens were parchment and all the grass were quills, if all the oceans were ink, still the wisdom of Kabbalah could never be transcribed.
Chapter 1 - Gratitude Attitude
In life, it is not what we have that makes us happy, it is the attitude towards what we have, that does.
A Story
Mr. Behr was a sweet elderly gentleman who would often take his vacation at the home of a congregate of mine – whose marriage was not too hot – while I was the Rabbi in a resort town in South Africa. One day as he came to our Synagogue for morning prayers, he was shaking his head sadly. So I asked him, What’s wrong?
He replied, I don’t understand why young people don’t get along these days? I was married for over forty years and I never had a single argument with my wife.
Wow, that’s impressive!
I thought, for though I am a Rabbi, I am certainly far from a saint; so I asked him,
What was the secret to your happy marriage?
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