Yesod means foundation, and is placed on the central pillar of the Tree of Life, where we learn about the levels of identity. It is the self-awareness we call ego. It is the place of our nefesh, the level of the soul associated with the body, our separate vehicle for...
(2) Comments | Posted April 20, 2012 | 12:00 PM
Branding is very difficult to change. HaShoah, "The Destruction," is the name meant to replace "Holocaust" in referring the systematic murder of 6 million Jewish people organized and supervised by the Nazi regime mostly in the first five years of the 1940s. Because "Holocaust" is the translation of an ancient...
(1) Comments | Posted April 15, 2012 | 6:20 PM
The Kabbalistic Tree of Life is a visual representation of the levels of Creation, a process in which the One Being moves from Nothing to Everything. The movement from Everything back to Nothing is a representation of the stages of spiritual awakening.
The Sefer Yetzirah, or Book of Formation,...
(16) Comments | Posted December 6, 2011 | 12:28 PM
By Pastor Don Mackenzie, Rabbi Ted Falcon, and Imam Jamal Rahman aka the Interfaith Amigos
We began to explore deeper aspects of interfaith dialogue when the events of 9/11 found us surprisingly uneducated and unequipped to meet the negative image of Islam dramatically portrayed by our media. Many years of...
(2) Comments | Posted September 7, 2011 | 4:30 PM
Most of us remember all too clearly exactly what we were doing on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. We remember because those hours changed us forever.
Along with the shock, the pain, the fear and the grief, we remember an incredible outpouring of compassion. In our city of Seattle,...
(1) Comments | Posted May 15, 2012 | 10:45 AM