Kabbalah Basics

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Types of dreams

There are three kinds of dreams, according to Kabbalah – dream, visionaries and prophets.

This is an explanation of the stages of dreams.

A dream comes from Angel Gavriel who is in charge of dreams. Everyone receives a dream according to his level of consciousness. As Gavriel also represents a Gvurah sphere (Sephirat Gvurah), a dream can contain truths as well as lies at the same time.

The Zohar explains (Vayeshev 6:256):

Come and behold: we have learned that the dream’s grade is the sixth below prophecy. For between the grade of prophecy and the grade of dreams lie six grades, and interpretation ascends from the dream’s grade into another one. HE EXPLAINS THAT the dream is a low grade OF GAVRIEL, and interpretation is established by it. “

The true part of a dream represents the future. If it lifts up a past – this is a mistake that we have repeated and we need to correct it. On these dreams Kabbalah explains - “a dream is a sixty’s of the prophet”

This means that it can be also a truth, depending on the level of the person who observes a dream. Usually if a picture is clear, sharp and bright – as well as the colors, then a dream is retained in one’s memory or it causes them to wake up. Sometimes these dreams can be described as a dream inside a dream.

Kabbalah predicts there can aslo be false dreams. The false part of a dream may project something that a person saw and the thought about during a day. It also may influenced by his imagination, what he ate during the course of the day, social activities as well as  the pressure of daily life. These kinds of dreams are usually strange and disturbing.

Dreams can be caused by acting outlandishly or by being excessively extroverted.

Nightmares can be caused when during the course of the day a person behaves in a very negative manner without control. The Kabbalah believes that the purpose of nightmares is assist a person with his way of thinking and also to re-question the definition of their life’s path

However there is also a different situation for interpreting dreams in the Kabbalah. A Babylonian Talmud (Brachot 55:2) said that King David never witnessed a good dream, and Acidophil never witnessed a bad dream.

It is said that King David once received a specific message in a dream. The message told him to change what was must be changed and in this way he need not to experience what was hinted to him in his dream.

The higher a persons level of spirituality, the better they are capable of identifying the signs that appear to them in their dreams.

Ostensibly, Zohar reveals that more important than the dream itself is the consciousness that leads to its appearance,

Dream Request

In order to receive an answer to our questions, Kabbalah suggests a unique method there we can make a request through our dreams. This request must be made in a certain way. It can be an egoistic wish or desire, but it must be a wish to change us to a channel for others. The wrong question could lead to a wrong answer, which may in turn lead us to a wrong place.

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A dream according to Kabbalah is a sort of puzzle, and we need to know how to put all of its components together.

Meditation before a dream request

Before going to sleep we should meditate for a while in order to receive an answer for our question. In order to do that we can read in Zohar and also meditate on next the following Hebrew letters:

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ז כ ר י ה

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Interpretation of a Dream

There is a certain tale of a person who dreamt a particularly thought provoking dream. Upon awakening he turned to no less than twenty different dream interpreters. Each one of them made his own interpretation and each of those twenty interpretations came true.

The Zohar explains that dream solution depends on the mouth. It is even claimed that a dream interpretation sometimes is more important than the dream itself. That’s why when we ask a person or a friend to interpret a dream, it is important to check a few details.

· What is the current state of relationships between us?

· What is their spiritual level?

· How well is this person known for their capability to interpret dreams?

· Can he be a channel of light for me?

· Maybe this person is connected to darkness?

There are to ways to interpret dreams, according to Kabbalah. A sign that used to consider as negative – informs us about something we need to change in life. And by correction and changing of our ways we cancel its realization.

This method is preferable to the following one.

Interpret a negative sign as negative realized that it can hurt us.

Zohar strengthen this claim by saying:

“And Yosef dreamed a dream, and told it to his brethren: and they hated him yet the more” (Beresheet 37:5). From this, we learn that a man should tell his dream only to someone who loves him. If the listener does not LOVE HIM, he shall bring evil upon him; for if the dream changes, he is the reason that THE TRUE MEANING OF THE DREAM is not fulfilled, BECAUSE OF HIS INCORRECT INTERPRETATION.

Come and behold: Yosef told his dream to his brothers WHO DID NOT LOVE HIM, and so fulfillment of the dream was delayed 22 years. Rabbi Yosi asked: How do we know THAT HATRED PREVENTED THE DREAM FROM BEING CARRIED OUT? From the words: “and they hated him yet the more” (Beresheet 37:8). This hatred caused accusations to be brought against him, AND THE DREAM WAS DELAYED FOR 22 YEARS.

According to Kabbalah, there are tools to control our dreams and make them better. Here they are:

· A positive consciousness toward yourself and others.

· Assisting others through charity and spiritual aid.

· Ask a question considering the answers we want to receive,

(This way a soul will arrive to right places in a dream.)

· Meditation before going to sleep, scanning 72 names and

readings in the Zohar.

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Tools to control our dreams and make them better

Reciting “Shema Israel”:  This is an ancient Jewish prayer which contains 248 words addressing to 248 parts of the soul to depart a body during a dream at night.

Dream interpretation: it is important to interpret a dream every time that we have one. And the interpretation must be positive.  If possible, it is always recommended to write your dreams down.

On special occasions, improvement of a dream is also recommended. It is usually made in front of three male persons using special kabalistic text, during one of the three days after the dream appeared.

Importance of dreams

Saturday nights and Saturday noon as well as the remaining days of the week between 2:00-5:00 AM – dreams usually are true.

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