About Kabbalah

Questions & Answers about Kabbalah

By Gahl Sasson
Edited by Steve Weinstein

What is Kabbalah?

Kabbalah is an ancient spiritual system designed to create harmony and balance in the individual as well as the universe. It allows us to communicate with and receive messages, Light and sustenance from the divine. Kabbalah elucidates the world both seen and unseen. It provides answers to the questions of how and why we are here. The guiding principles of Kabbalah simultaneously explain and orchestrate the birth of the universe and every process of creation, large or small, that you can name.

Kabbalah views the creation of the cosmos not as a single episode that happened way back when, but as a continual process or dance between the divine and all sentient beings. And once we decide to join in this everlasting dance, all the possibilities of the universe magically open up to us. Kabbalah transmits recipes to create our lives exactly as we wish them. It teaches us that the same spiritual framework that God used to fashion the cosmos can be employed by anyone to construct any project, work of art, business success or personal relationship.

The Kabbalistic Matrix

All creations follow the Tree of Life. Movies, for example, vividly illustrate the inner-workings of the Tree because virtually every film tells the story of the wish-fulfilling journey of its hero. Nerdy boy yearns to love beautiful girl. The Queen wishes to unify England. The FBI agent dreams of cracking the big case without cracking up himself. The Sefer Yitzerah, the oldest Kabalistic text on Earth, states “God created His universe with a story [Sipur],” and so logically every story embodies the process of God’s creation.
By transposing the plot of a movie onto the Tree, we are able to see quite emphatically the nature of the spheres and how they all lead one to another, how they all work together, to create the finished product. To fulfill the hero’s wish. Examining a movie step by step, sphere by sphere, illuminates the bank of symbols native to each energy as well as all the unexpected synchronicities that point the way to the fulfillment of the quest. A harmless glass of water on the table, the number of cookies on a plate, anything could be an arrow pointing the protagonist down the essential path.
Analyzing how the Tree works on the hero of a popular film can help us to recognize in our own lives the similar symbols, plot twists and synchronicities that are sure to pop up as each of us embarks on our own hero’s journey through the Wish-Fulfilling Tree. Tracing the story from Crown to Kingdom will, I hope, aid you in recognizing how to put all these theories into practice.

Manifesting With The Kabbalah

Gahl Sasson and Steve Weinstein have written a book about manifesting with the Kabbalah, A Wish Can Change Your Life. Published by Simon & Schuster of New York, it encourages its readers to "make a wish, any wish!". Every week you will be lead through one sphere on the Tree of Life. The book leads readers through a practice which incorporates meditation, chanting, journaling, noticing the synchronicities in one’s life and the magic of ritual. It teaches readers to use the magic of the tree to change their lives. This book will change your life, and it will teach you a lot about the magic of the Kabbalah.
The book is based on a workshop that Gahl Sasson has been teaching for five or six years. "The classes are free flow, I am never ‘prepared’ so to speak," admits Sasson. "In Hebrew every letter is a sign and also a letter. In Hebrew the letter meaning ‘to teach’ and ‘to learn’ is the same letter," said Sasson.

The Tree of Life and the Ten Divine Utterances

The following is an excerpt from Cosmic Navigator by Gahl Sasson: