Kabbalah, Level 1
Introduction to Kabbalah – A life transforming course with Shaul Youdkevitch
Teacher: Rabbi Shaul Youdkevitch
Course opening:
Tuesday, 2 Shevat 5786, Jan. 20th, 2026
Time:
Tuesdays,
6:00pm Jerusalem time, 11:00am EST
9:00am MT/Mexico City, 8:00am PST
The video recordings will be available to members only, together with the course materials.
Place:
ZOOM links will be send to registered students
Frontal: 5 Elisha st. Jerusalem
10 sessions
Cost: 200$ Donation of your choice
Members of The Live Kabbalah Membership Plan are automatically enrolled in the course without the need to register and pay additionally.
The course will be broadcast live on Zoom.
The links will be sent regularly to all those registered for the course.
The recordings will be sent to registrants by email and WhatsApp, the recordings will be uploaded to the course website.
How to Register?:
1. Make a donation using one of the links below
2. Send a. the record of your donation, b. your contact information (name, last name, mobile phone number, email) to +972-52-880-6068
3. Add this number of ‘Live Kabbalah’ to your contacts to receive the messages, links, updates, and the rest of the study material.
For registration: +972-52-880-6068 or [email protected]
You can watch the first & 2nd sessions here:
Link to the Online Course
Course Syllabus
I.Session One
A Brief History of Kabbalah, main teachers & books. Kabbalah’s great and unknown influence over the history of Judaism and the rest of the world.
Kabbalah as The Wisdom for a Better Life.
II.Session Two
Reality and Illusions, the True World (Olam HaEmet) vs. The False Reality of the bodily senses and mind.
The Language of Branches – The Special Language of the Kabbalists
The Desire and its Fulfillment
Primary Source:
Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag/ The Book of the Giving of the Torah (Sefer Matan Torah)
III.Session Three
How did it all begin? The Creation of the Universe, The Source of all Souls, What is every Soul made of?
The Big Bang Theory vs. Rabbi Isaac Luria’s Tsimtsum Theory.
What is the source of Evil in this world? The real motivation of the soul vs. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Primary Source:
Rabbi Haim Vital/ The Tree of Life
IV.Session Four
Free Will: Logic vs. Faith. Good and Evil, Good Inclination and Evil Inclination: Duality as the Source for the Meaning of Life.
Primary Source:
Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag/Introductions to Kabbalah
V.Session Five
The Tikun (Correction/Karma-Fixing):
How everyday life is a mirror of the journey the soul is taking. Why do bad things happen to Good People? The Rules of Cause and Effect; Reincarnation in Kabbalistic Teachings.
Primary Source:
Rabbi Haim Vital/ The Gate for Reincarnations
Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag/Introductions to Kabbalah
VI.Session Six
Understanding Kabbalistic Symbols, The way they manifest in explaining the Mitsvot, Jewish Law.
The Symbolism of The Four Elements, Colors and the Forces of Nature and how it relates to everyday’s life by the Kabbalist.
Primary Source:
Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag/Zohar HaSulam
Rabbi Haim Vital/The Gate for the Mitsvot
VII.Session Seven
Tools for Life – Achieving Real & Lasting Transformation
The Hebrew Letters as Tools for Magic. Shapes, Sounds as the building blocks of The Creation. The 72 Names of God
The 72 Names of God
Primary Source:
Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag/Commentary on The Tree of Life
Sefer Yetsira (The Book of Formation)
VIII.Session Eight
Basics in Kabbalistic Meditations.
The Name of 42 Letters – The Ana BeKho’ah
Primary Source:
Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag/Commentary on The Tree of Life
Sefer Yetsira (The Book of Formation)
IX.Session Nine
The Tree of Life, Sefirot and Olamot (Worlds).
How is it that God never changes but it looks like He does?
The Cosmology of Good & Evil
The Secret of the Tetragrammaton.
Primary Source:
Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag/Commentary on The Tree of Life
Rabbi Haim Vital/ The Tree of Life, Sha’ar HaKavanot (The Gate of Meditations)
The Zohar
X. Session Ten
The Future & Kabbalah
The Structure of Time
Messianic Prophecies – Armageddon, The Resurrection of the Dead, Immortality
Primary Source:
Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag/The Giving of the Torah
Rabbi Avraham Azulai/
Ḥesed Le’Avraham
The Zohar
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Shalom
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You can read here about Rabbi Shaul Youdkevitch: https://livekabbalah.org/about/
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