Window of the Soul

Some 400 years before Albert Einstein proposed his Theory of Relativity of the outer universe to the scientific community, a Rabbi named Isaac Luria disclosed his theory of the inner universe and its evolution within the mind of the Ineffable. In 1492, the Jewish people had been driven from Spain, and there occurred the greatest growth and transformation ever known to Kabbalistic mysticism. Although these events cannot be proven to be necessarily connected, no one should doubt the impact that this historical atrocity had upon the minds of the Jewish people in the generations that followed. Seventy-seven years after the exile, in a small Jewish settlement in upper Galilee called Safed, Isaac Luria was to answer not only the Jewish people's deepest questions of exile and homelessness, but with a vision given only to the most gifted of Kabbalistic mystics. The very structure of his thesis was to explain the inner worlds of the spirit and of their evolution that led to the ultimate birth of our cosmos. It is this evolution that reflects the origin and history of souls, according to the teachings of Rabbi Luria. According to Luria, every creature feels the absence, emptiness and mark of imperfection that must necessarily be handed on to it. The ultimate calling in this lifetime or in future lifetimes is to re-harmonize (and hence remove) inherent imperfections through proper heart and works among all creatures (tikkun). Window of the Soul is a good introduction to this complex theology and allows the reader to experience the ideas through primary sources. It can be recommended as a fine introduction to Lurianic Kabbalah - Dr. Rabbi Morris M. Fairerstein, author of Jewish Mystical AutobiographiesDunn, James David is the author of 'Window of the Soul', published 2008 under ISBN 9781578634286 and ISBN 1578634288.