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...The Kabbalist Rabbi Laitman, who was the student and personal assistant to Rabbi Baruch Ashlag from 1979-1991, follows in the footsteps of his rabbi in passing on the wisdom of Kabbalah to the world. This book is based on sources that were passed down by Rabbi Baruch's father, Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, the author of the commentaries on The Book of Zohar, who conti...

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...lish and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org/vaknin/ http://samvak.tripod.com/sipurim.html Poetry of Healing and Abuse http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.h... ...m Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ Created by: Lidija Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S Short Fic... ...fencelessness to con my victims. It may prove unhealthy to lose our sponsors' money. These people are charm itself and sheer delight – until you bre... ...raved ring of golden imitation. The bus exudes the steamy vapours of a mobile rain forest. People cram into the passages, dragging nylon-roped shopp... ...le, the single chair, my scattered clothing, the metered rotary dial phone, the French and German television channels I cannot understand. Once wee... ... gleaming swimming pool and said: "Let's go down, I am worn out." The children awaited our descent and cried at Uzi, who ignored them. He only hast... ...up and three loaves of bread when she came back from work at the shop owned by the Yekkes (German-Jews) whom she admired. When I was born, the radi... ...ary Club Award for Social Studies (1976), and the Bilateral Relations Studies Award of the American Embassy in Israel (1978). Hundreds of professio...

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...Excerpt: We are scattered now, the friends of the late Mr. Oliver Offord; but whenever we chance to meet I think we are conscious of a certain esoteric respect for each other. ?Yes, you too have been in Arcadia,? we seem not too grumpily to allow. When I pass the hous...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ...ked fangs.” Montgomery’s Pelican Island. “Io! Paean! Io! sing, To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...ock. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” Cr... ...t me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ...ef mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent. He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seeme... ...aded whale, is the present Cachalot of the French, and the Pottfisch of the Germans, and the Macrocephalus of the Long Words. He is, without doubt, the... ...t circumspection. For, like the Coronation banquet at Frankfort, where the German Emperor profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these ...

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...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live...

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...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ..., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1953. The Spiritual Legacy of The American Indian, by Joseph Epes Brown. © 1982 by Joseph Epes Brown. Reprint... ..., New York, 1972. The paper by Paul Radin “The Religious Experiences of an American Indian” was published in Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Asco... ...ms Acknowledgments The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238 The People The Dreaming Totems And Increase Sacred Knowledge The Present Concl... ... us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture ... ...espected them both equally for what they felt and knew. I even polished my German, a language I particularly disliked when I studied it in university,... ...e Helmer Ringgren, Israelite Religion, Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1966. German original, 1963. 14. For a detailed discussion of Zoroastrian origins... ...N INDIAN BELIEF 235 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My thanks to Jan Elliott, of Cherokee descent, for her many illuminating discussions with me of Native American b...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...e I didn‘t know what I was eating, but it was all delicious. No wonder you people don‘t get fat. You can eat for hours and take in so few calories—al... ...atisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra money to add... ...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...y years. But that doesn‘t explain the relatively high number in France or Germany. And Norway, with its state religion of Lutheranism, is quite athe... ... of France. The gonorrhea rate is 75 times higher than that of France and Germany. The syphilis rate is more than triple the European rate. ... ...cience confirms the empirical findings of our multi-million year descent to who we are today. ―As the human genome was studied ...

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... Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbal... ...ALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life Translation: Chaim Ratz Proofreading: Kate Weibel Editor: Cla... ...the world is the way it is and exists objectively, independently. Afterwards, people began to understand that our picture of the world is shaped by ... ...tal to us, unexpected or incomprehen- sible will suddenly make sense. For such people, the spiritual world can become a system of forces that stands ... ...or’s nature is evident through millennia of sufferings, a complete process of descent and ascent designed to enable us to see how hateful we are to ... ... wisdom of Kabbalah comprises two parallel orders: 1. From Above downward—the descent of the will to receive from Ein Sof through all the Upper Worl... ...e Know?, offers a good exam- ple of that concept with a story about the Native Americans who PA RT I I I : P E RC E P T I O N O F R E A L I T Y 122 ... ... W R I T E A B O U T K A B B A L A H Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522) Reuchlin, a German humanist, political counselor to the Chan- cellor, a classics sc... ...d as personal physician and consultant to Maxi- milian I, Archduke of Austria, German King and Holy Roman emperor, and to Ferdinand I—King of Bohemia...

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...nemy? Whom do we call a friend? And why? Why do we have relationships at all? These are the questions Helena Harper eloquently asks in her collection of poems that examines the relationships in her own life. She has had to rethink her definition of 'enemy', not least because her father was English and her mother German and they met in the aftermath of World War II in Germa...

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... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stev... ... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free ... ...t certainly become, the tongue of the Pacific. I will instance a few examples. I met in Majuro a Marshall Island boy who spoke excellent English; this... ...e woman was a savage, said they, and spoke no language. ‘Mais, vous savez,’ objected the fair sentimentalist; ‘Ils apprennent si vite l’Anglais!’ But ... ...t only in the Marquesan will you find such names as Haaii and Paaaeua, when each individual vowel must be separately uttered. These points of similari... ...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ... early opportunity to explain his situation. True, he was only an appointed chief when I beheld him; but somewhere else, perhaps upon some other isle,... ...n Mercator’s projection, and one of the 48 In The South Seas most agreeable verandahs in the tropics), a handful of whites of varying nationality, mo...