The Kabbalistic Tradition by Alan Unterman

Author:Alan Unterman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141906720
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2008-03-26T16:00:00+00:00

AMEN

Amen and Gehinnom

‘Zohar’ 3:285b-286a, Vayelech

The simplest part of the Jewish liturgy is the ‘Amen’ response to blessings. Yet for the Kabbalists it is precisely in the merest detail that true holiness – or its opposite – may reside.

We have learnt that he who descends to… the nether region [Sheol], will never ascend again. He is called a person who has been destroyed and removed from all worlds.

We have also learnt that it is to this place that those people who refuse to answer ‘Amen’ are brought down. They are judged in Purgatory [Gehinnom] for all the many ‘Amens’ that are lost because they did not pay attention to them. They are taken down to the very low level which has no exit door, and from which they can never ascend. That is why it is written:

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