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- Binah; lit.,
`understanding'
- The second of the
Ten
Sefiros, or divine
emanations; the second stage
of the intellectual process
(cf. Chabad), developing the
initial conception of
Chochmah
It's definition is given in
more
detail in the Tanya.
- chassid pl.,
chassidim
- adherent of the chassidic
movement (see Chassidus)
- Chassidus or
Chassidism
- The movement within
Orthodox Judaism founded in
White Russia by R. Yisrael,
the Baal
Shem Tov (1698-1760), and
stressing: emotional
involvement in prayer; service
of G*d through the material
universe; wholehearted
earnestness in divine service;
the mystical in addition to
the legalistic dimension of
Judaism; the power of joy, and
of music; the love to be shown
to every Jew, unconditionally;
and the mutual physical and
moral responsibility of the
members of the informal
chassidic brotherhood, each
chassid having cultivated a
spiritual attachment to their
saintly and charismatic
leader, the Rebbe; (b) the
philosophy and literature of
this movement;
- Chessed; lit.,
`lovingkindness'
- The first of the seven
Divine middos, or attributes,
and of their corresponding
mortal middos, or spiritual
emotions
- Chochmah; lit.,
`wisdom'
- The first of the Ten
Sefiros, or divine
emanations; the first stage of
the intellectual process (cf.
Chabad); reason in potentia.
It's definition is given in
more
detail in the
Tanya.
- Daas; lit.,
`knowledge'
- The third of the Ten
Sefiros, or divine
emanations; the third stage of
the intellectual process (cf.
Chabad), at which concepts,
having proceeded from seminal
intuition (cf. Chochmah)
through meditative gestation
(cf. Binah),
now mature into their
corresponding dispositions or
attributes of character
(middos) It's definition is
given in more
detail in the
Tanya.
- Gevurah; lit.,
`power'; i.e., strict
justice
- The second of the seven
Divine middos, or attributes,
and of their corresponding
mortal middos, or spiritual
emotions
- Hod; lit.,
`majesty'
- The fifth of the seven
Divine middos, or attributes,
and of their corresponding
mortal middos, or spiritual
emotions
- Lubavitch (lit.,
`town of love';
Rus.)
- Townlet in White Russia
which from 1813-1915 was the
center of Chabad
Chassidism, and whose name has
remained a synonym for it
- Malchus; lit.,
`sovereignty'
- The last of the seven
Divine middos, or attributes,
and of their corresponding
mortal middos, or spiritual
emotions
- Netzach; lit.,
`eternity; conquest;
victory'
- The fourth of the seven
Divine middos, or attributes,
and of their corresponding
mortal middos, or spiritual
emotions
- Rebbe (common
Yidddish pronunciation of `my
teacher [or master]';
pl., Rebbeim)
- Tzaddik
who serves as spiritual guide
to a following of chassidim;
see Chassidus
- Sefirah; pl.,
Sefiros
- Divine attributes or
emanations which manifest
themselves in each of the
Four
Worlds, and are the source
of the corresponding ten
faculties (kochos) of the
soul.
- Tiferes; lit.,
`glory'
- The third of the seven
Divine middos, or attributes,
and of their corresponding
mortal middos, or spiritual
emotions
- tzaddik; pl.,
tzaddikim
- (a) completely righteous
individual
(b) Rebbe
- tzimtzum
- The self-limitation of the
infinite and emanating Divine
light by progressive degrees
of contraction, condensation
and concealment, and making
possible the creation of
finite and physical substances
- Worlds, the
Four
- The main stages in the
creative process resulting
from
tzimtzum; in descending
order:
- Atzilus,
- Beriah,
- Yetzirah and
- Asiyah,
often referred to by their
acronym as Ab-ya
- Yesod; lit.,
`foundation'
- The sixth of the seven
Divine middos, or attributes,
and of their corresponding
mortal middos, or spiritual
emotions
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