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The core intuition of all the great systems of the spirit is that love and eros are captured best by the image of light.

The Kabbalists were often referred to as mistaklim or chozim, roughly translated as the Looker or Seers. To get a handle on what that might mean, just imagine how we feel when someone looks at us with erotic, loving eyes.

Of course, to remind another of their full beauty you have to be fully aware of your own. The Baal Shem Tov has a wonderful teaching on the biblical mandate "love your neighbor as you love yourself."

A word in the Zohar used for those souls who are living their story is lechisah, meaning "whisper." To live your story is to be able to hear the intimate whisper of divinity erotically caressing your life.

Calling out "the Name" is evoked the world over in greetings. The Spanish hello--hola--originated in Arab Spain from the term "O'Allah" -- Allah of course being the Arab appellation of God.

The ultimate model for reality is the divine. The most central teaching of the Kabbalah is that God’s highest gift to world is to receive the human being as a partner in the perfection of the world.