About the Author:
Rav Berg was born August 20, 1927, in New York City. After many years of traditional religious study, he was ordained as a rabbi at Torah VaDaat. A businessman who wanted to make a difference in this world, he was always searching for his true path. Upon a chance meeting with Rav Yehuda Brandwein, Rav Berg knew he had found his teacher, and moved to Israel to study with Rav Brandwein at The Kabbalah Centre. After he returned to New York, Rav Berg maintained a written correspondence with Rav Brandwein who passed on his legacy as director of The Kabbalah Centre to Rav Berg. Rav Berg made it his mission to continue editing, writing, printing, and distributing all that he learned from his teacher and began sharing the secrets of Kabbalah texts, which historically had been reserved for scholars. His book, Kabbalah for the Layman, was the revolutionary step that made Kabbalah accessible to every person. Rav Berg s other books include The Kabbalah Connection, Wheels of a Soul: Kabbalah and Reincarnation, To the Power of One, Energy of the Hebrew Letters, Immortality, Nano, The Kabbalah Method, Taming Chaos, and Education of a Kabbalist. Together with his wife, Karen, Rav Berg opened the doors of The Kabbalah Centre to all who desire to learn this universal wisdom. Following Rav Berg's passing in September 2013, Karen Berg, the spiritual leader of The Kabbalah Centre, continues their work and vision with their son and co-director, Michael Berg.
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" Kabbalah and science may have more in common than practitioners of either discipline would care to admit. Both, after all, seek to explain the true nature of existence. The Zohar declares that an understanding of Genesis and the Garden of Eden will provide us with a full understanding of the cosmos. The popular interpretations of the Bible were condemned by the author of the Zohar, Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai. According to bar Yohai, rather than being a detailed reigious doctrine, the Bible is actually a complete code of our cosmology. The Biblical account of Creation and its supportive interpretation by the Zohar provides all of mankind with a perfect and satisfactory communication system by which we can connect with the quantum world of reality. Only then can we begin the journey to achieve mastery over our destiny instead of leaving maters of concern to chance. The Bible speaks in code, the Kabbalah does the deciphering.
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