This course provides a foundational understanding of the history of Kabbalah and the story of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, the founder of Kabbalah. It also aids toexpandour consciousness and awareness through the profound understanding of Jewish mysticism, that this world is being created over and over again by the wisdom of the tzimtzum and how does this knowledge reflect into our daily life. This class also provides a basic understanding about the essence of the light, which is love. This helps us to create transformation, meaning to change from our place to a new place, findbalance and experienceless emotional tribulations, whileplanting seeds of divine wisdom, which is the equivalent to thesuperconscious in the psychotherapy world. Those seeds help us to find within ourselvesthe strength to makethe change, to transform ourselves, thus transforming our world. Tzimtzum- Within us, it means to contract your ego, to make a conscious action like an inner command, to withdraw your senses inward and to get into a state of observation, reviewing the situation. On a broader sense, according to the divine wisdom of Judaism, the tzimtzum is defined asthe action that the Creator did in order to allow us to be created to live our life in a world of free will. In other words, it is thecontraction and expansion of the Light.
