A beginner’s guide for learning Kabbalah

Shalom Aleichem Chevra, welcome to the beginner's guide to Kabbalah! What if every single thing you see in this world — every table, every coral reef, every Hebrew letter — is just Hashem's will taking shape, and your whole job is to trace it back to the Source? In this class we dive deep into the world of Malkus — the world of letters, multiplicity, and physical reality — and we explore how every single Hebrew letter carries its own unique shape and energy, which is really Hashem's ratzon, His will, expressing itself in a particular way. We look at the famous sefer Morah Avraham and how the Kabbalists teach that letter combinations are the building blocks of everything we see around us, from quartz crystal to the ecosystem of a coral reef. The letters of the Torah are not just text — they are 600,000 expressions of one unified divine will, and the Ramban teaches us that the entire Torah is really one long name of God. We also dig into what Zaruk means — the idea of throwing Malkus back up to Ayin, the pre-letter consciousness where there are no shapes, no borders, no finite definitions. We bring in the powerful teaching from the Talmud that wherever you find Hashem's greatness,