The Power of Kabbalah : This Book Contains the Secrets of the Universe and the Meaning of Our Lives

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Summary: The Power of Kabbalah
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Far and away the best personal transformation book I've ever read, period! And I'm the ultimate skeptic when it comes to self help books.

Michael Scott

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Summary: Some good stuff in here, and some bad stuff in here.
Review: I'll start with the good stuff. This book challenges you to look at life in a different way. To actually seek out challenges in life, not to avoid them. True spiritual growth comes from taking advantage of life's tribulations. I can totally agree with that. This book also encourages people to give up the "culture of victimhood" and leave it behind. An idea I adore. The book also tells people that if you have absolute faith in God, or a higher power, if you are certain that God will give you what you NEED, great things will happen. That's not a new idea, but it's certainly true.
Now on to the bad stuff. The author of this book is SHAMELESS in his manner of rewriting history. According to Yehuda Berg, anybody who was anybody in history was great because of the Kabbalah. Any great idea that ever came from those people we hear about came to them because they were Kabbalists. The Dark Ages came about because Kabbalists hid The Zohar, the Kabbalah holy text, in a cave which caused "civilization" to plummet into chaos without its "wisdom". The author clearly intends us to forget that ONLY EUROPE was affected by the Dark Ages, and that the Middle East was experiencing a time of great prosperity and intellectual achievement. The author states that both Buddhism and Hinduism owe their existence to Kabbalists moving to India to spread their philosophy. I mean, come on! The ideas in this book don't need to be legitimized in such a silly manner.
Do I suggest that you read this book? Possibly. It can be a positive experience. Just remember to read this book with a great amount of skepticism.


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Summary: America: We have a Winner!
Review: Are you tired of all that religious mumbo jumbo and continued jargon, which although it sounds good on the surface never really answers the questions? If so, then you will find Power of Kabbalah, to be an amazingly insightful book, which not only delivers, but is a winner amongst spiritually laden books. Yehuda Berg delivers answers to the questions that most individuals ask throughout their lives in any easy to read and understandable manner. I suggest anyone who is truly interested in answers to improve their lives --- READ THIS BOOK! If you only buy one book this year this one is it!

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Summary: Dial 1-800-KABBALAH
Review: Here is a book that demystifies the secrets contained in the ancient writing of the kabbalah. As a service to the public, author Yehudah Berg presents a quick, easy-to-read outline of the basic tenets of kabbalah.

I have two reactions to this book. The first is that I appreciate being able to have a feeling for what the kabbalah is because I always thought it was something that was only appropriate for a rabbi or sage to study and not for the average man. I was also pleasantly surprised to find that the basic tenets of the kabbalah mirror those thoughts I have developed about spirituality as opposed to religiosity during my life.

My second reaction was of disappointment. Sadness that such a miraculous work is watered down to such a degree that it feels like "marketing' the kabbalah in the same way that any cult goes about selling its philopsophy. Particularly objectionable to me is the book cover endorsment by Madonna. In addition, I really dislike the blatant advertising of other books by the same publisher and the offers of a free consultation at the back of the book. This makes the entire book seem more like a late-night TV ad than a book about a serious subject.

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Summary: God is not the author of confusion!
Review: I was really dissapointed in this book, because it bashes the other book, which you also can get from Amazon.com, called Bible!

Kabbalah teaches that a man can get to holy nature (or recieve Light) on his own, without God, and infact one can actually be God! Wait, didn't Satan make that statement, according to Bible, 6 thousand years ago to humanity before, and didn't he get cicked off the heaven because he thought he could be like God?
But wait, Kabbalah took care of that;

Everything that Bible says is not really true, that it so happens to be some sort of a code that one can figure out through a computer and NOTHING MORE. That the true book to reffer to is actually Zohar (rewritten Bible). Well, first of all, not to be confused, but Bible is a big collection of songs, poems, laws, letters, historic events, prophesies, etc., written by people in different places and time for one simple reason, to follow their true God. Any one who rewrites Bible and calls it a code needs to see a psychologist. All Bible teaches is stories with simple meanings. Bible is a school of selfless heart. It teaches to be like a lamb, because only with a peaceful heart of a selfless mind can anyone actually be holy!

The book was also labled New Age on the cover that I bought before. I heard that they took that off because many got freaked out. As far as I know, New Agers are preparing the world for the anti-Christ. Go ahead read Kabbalah, but if you do, be prepared to read yourself far, far away from the true God, but you wont even notice just how far away it'll be...

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Summary: Best Introductory book of Kabbalah
Review: If this is your first time reading/learning about the Ultimate Wisdom then this is your book.

Before reading the books wrote by the Bergs, Kabbalah was too out there for me, like learning quantum physics or astronomy. Yehuda, his father the Rav and his brother Michael have all made the complex yet necessary technology understandable to the layman.

Read it and re-read it and be prepared to see life in a new perspective where the only side effect is to become the master director of your own movie with less chaos/obstacles/pain and more happiness, health, substenance and an eternal happy ending.

In these times, ignorance is not an option. Have you ever asked yourself why you are in this planet? If you have never, maybe you are in a coma/sleep walking and haven't even noticed it.

Become wiser, awaken your true nature. Become like GOD!

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Summary: Oversimplified Yet Helpful
Review: This book is well written, assuming that it is intended for beginners on spiritual paths. The content is simple enough for anyone to understand, but I got an impression that the book oversimplified matters. In other words, it lacks solid explanations of the actual specific information in terms of psychology and philosophy. Without such explanations, there is nothing unique about Kabbalah, for I find other religions, psychotherapies, and even cults using same arguments about operating our lives by taking responsibility for our actions. Also, I believe if the book eliminated repetition, it would have been a much thinner book with a less expensive price.

Kabbalah does not exclusively represent the transformation of our lives by understanding how the mind works, but this book presents it as the only source of this wisdom. Anybody who has studied other major religions easily realizes that the ideas introduced in this book appear also in other faiths. After all, it does not matter where the idea came from originally. Regardless of the source of the wisdom, by either calling it Kabbalah or Buddhism or whatever, the laws of life and universe are the same. Whether or not the author has been exposed to other ancient religious knowledge is unknown to me, but except for the "only-Kabbalah-can-help-you" atmosphere, the book represents how life and the universe work in ways that are beyond our comprehensions.

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Summary: Ka-blah-blah?
Review: This book offers a self helping tool, but in exchange it takes the reader's soul and a healthy understanding about God. It also makes you believe that if anyone who does not study Kabbalah will never recieve light. Just to let you guys know, the light that Kabbalah offers, is a false attempt and nothing more. I hope people will be wise enough to realize that this is the exact false prophesy Bible have fortold to happen in future. And for anyone seeking holyness, how about the fact that everyone has sinned and there is no holy man, but through Jesus's blood we're washed and so are whiter then the snow.

I actually talked to the author of this book and he does not reject that Kabbalah is on the same truck with the AntiChrist. But he did say this "why wait for the antichrist to start all the good things, when anyone can be a messiah now". So, that puts second coming of Christ in this explanations "any one can be a messiah" "any one can be God"

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Summary: Simple and powerful
Review: This book opened my life by illustrating deep spiritual principles of Kabbalah with down to earth examples. I couldn't wait to read it each day and am reading it again. It would be great to have a meditation tape to go along with the book.

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Summary: for people who truly want to learn
Review: this is the 2nd book that I have purchased of this kind figuring that I had to give it another chance unfortunatly this book did not impress me at all. Laibl Wolf has a similar book and it is much easier reading and the reader will come away with much more information. Aryeh Kaplan's style is also a good . and with these authors(kaplan &wolf) u know u are getting an authors who is well versed in the material covered. from the reading of this publication I cant attest the same thing