Медитация каббалистическая: различия между версиями

'''Каббалистическая медитация''' - общее название ряда традиционных духовных практик, в число которых входят визуализации, различные методы достижения интуитивных озарений и эмоциональных инсайтов, размышления об эзотерическом значении божественных имен и их сочетаний, а также интеллектуальный анализ философских, этических и мистических концепций. Зачастую медитация служит сопровождением к личной, неформальной молитве или, реже, к участию в формальном иудейском богослужении. Традиционное еврейское название медитации - '''хитбодедут''' (букв. "уединение"); используется также более узкий термин - '''хитбоненут''' (букв. "созерцание"), описывающий понятийно-ориентированный метод интеллектуальной медитации [[Медитация каббалистическая#Примечания|[1]]].  

<blockquote><blockquote> Они склоняются, как тростник, опуская голову между коленей, пока все чувства их не обратятся в ничто. Чрез это лишение чувств они созерцают Горний Свет воочию, а не как символ" [[Медитация каббалистическая#Примечания|[7]]].

"They bend themselves like reeds, placing their heads between their knees until all their faculties are nullified. As a result of this lack of sensation, they see the Supernal Light, with true vision and not with allegory."<ref>''Meditation and Kabbalah'', Aryeh Kaplan, Samuel Wieser publications, p.165</ref>

Rabbi [[Moses ben Jacob Cordovero]] (1522-1570 CE), central historical Kabbalist in [[Safed]], taught that when meditating, one does not focus on the [[Sefirot]] (Divine emanations) per se, but rather on the light from the Infinite ("Atzmut"-essence of God) contained within the emanations. Keeping in mind that all reaches up to the Infinite, his prayer is "to Him, not to His attributes."  Proper meditation focuses upon how the Godhead acts through specific sefirot. In meditation on the essential [[Hebrew name of God]], represented by the four letter [[Tetragrammaton]], this corresponds to meditating on the [[Hebrew vowels]] which are seen as reflecting the light from the Infinite-Atzmut.

 

The essential name of God in the [[Hebrew Bible]], the four letter Tetragrammaton (Yud- Hei- Vav-Hei), corresponds in Kabbalistic thought to the 10 sefirot. Kabbalists interpret the shapes and spiritual forces of each of these 4 letters, as reflecting each sefirah (The Yud-male point represents the infinite dimensionless flash of Wisdom, and the transcendent thorn atop it, the supra-conscious soul of Crown. The first Hei-female vessel represents the expansion of the insight of Wisdom in the breadth and depth of Understanding. The Vav-male point drawn downward in a line represents the birth of the emotional sefirot, Kindness to Foundation from their pregnant state in Understanding. The second Hei-female vessel represents the revelation of the previous sefirot in the action of Kingship). Therefore, the Tetragrammaton has the Infinite Light clothed within it as the sefirot. This is indicated by the change in the vowel-points (nekudot) found underneath each of the four letters of the Name in each sefira. " Each sefira is distinguished by the manner in which the Infinite Light is clothed within it". In Jewish tradition, the vowel points and pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton are uncertain, and in reverence to the holiness of the name, this name for God is never read. In Kabbalah many spiritual permutations of different vowel notations are recorded for the Tetragrammaton, corresponding to different spiritual meanings and emanations.