In Sanātana/Hindu, Buddhism and tantric/yogic traditions chakras are energy points in the astral body (Haluka D'Rabbanan is Torah term for astral body - literally a “rabbi's cloak”).
So what's then kabbalistic term for chakras?
My reason of asking are the following images:
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The main question is about equivalent term for chakras in Kabbalah, that's all what should matter in the question, other attempts are just excuses to close the questions for no reason, without actually understanding the topic. The same question was asked at link which Kordovero posted, so I don't see any reason why this should be not clear enough.
kenorb, there is no reason expressed in the question to assume that there is a kabbalistic term for "chakras," other than that the concept exists in some other belief system
@IsaacMoses I've linked the images to the source (if you click them).
@IsaacMoses If question wouldn't be 'on hold', I could answer my question, but because it's 'on hold' (and the reason is no reason), then it's the reason of my question.
@kenorb Please see this policy on quotation ("provide a reference"), this guidance about how to write a good question when you already know an answer, and this Help Center entry about what types of posts don't make for good questions here (including "<assertion> ... am I right?").
@IsaacMoses I've posted link sources. If the question could be re-open without giving reason of asking, I could post it as an answer if it's more preferred in this way, so it would have a better sense. And then I could explore the topic a further more.
Hi, I'm still not sure what was the main reason of placing the question of hold, as it was very clear.
And placing additional images it just confuse further more, by at the same giving the answer.
@kenorb Suppose I come along and ask "In the Soviet military, people were required to do jumping jacks every morning. Are there any equivalent requirements in Judaism?" I haven't given any reason that anyone should think that this is worth considering from a Judaism point of view.
@kenorb Start with what it is about Judaism that you want to know, and express, as clearly as you can, what that question is, and why you expect that what you're asking about is addressed by Judaism.
@kenorb Here's the skeleton of your question: 1) Judaism has a concept equivalent to X. 2) What does Judaism call this concept? If you substantiate (1), from the point of view of Judaism, then (2) is answerable here.
@kenorb The images would be a lot more useful if you'd include who made them, what they tell you about the existence of X in Judaism, and what they don't tell you that you still want to know.
As the questioner, I don't need to do it, as it's part of the question. As answerer, I could investigate that matter.
Question is clear, so I could explore the sources and answer my question who done that and what kind of Kabbalah groups are using these.
It seems that at Kosher Torah site (which was posted in the comments), there is plenty of information about Kabbalah mysticism, but it's still mysticism, that's why this knowledge is not available for more Jews, or they're simply not aware of it.
That's why my question could be not clear for most, but they're clear for Kabbalists teachers I guess, if there are any experts.
So my question is basically asking for 'Kabbalah's Tree of Life' which seems to be equivalent to chakras.
Some say it's equivalent to Seven Seals, but I guess New Testament is off-topic here.
So what I need to write, so the question can be re-opened? So I could answer that Kabbalah's Tree of Life is equivalent to chakras according to some Kabbalah mysticism teachings?
Kordovero already answered this term (chakras) has a lot of connections in Kabbalah and his links are interesting and showing that Jews asking similar questions as well, so the question it-self make sense.
@kenorb It doesn't take a Kabbalist to be able to tell whether a question is well-formed and self-justifying or not.
@kenorb Of the four links he provides, the only one that uses the term "chakras" says "Chakras are not clarified and not 100% true, being derived from foreign Eastern sources."
As far as I know there are different types of Kabbalists, ortodox Kabbalists and other Kabbalist (which could be divided to Kaballah Centre, other centres and these who're dealing with exorcism), so I understand this topic is not pleasant for ortodox Jews. But I'm not expecting answers from ortodox Kabbalists, as it's beyond their knowledge I guess. It's rather people who're practising Kaballah, not just theory.
Chakras of course are not scientifically proven, but they're proven by people who're astral projecting and koshertorah.com dealing with astral projecting very well. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.koshertorah.com%2Fpdf%2F+astral
As you can't travel astrally without knowledge of your energy points (ether organs). If chakras doesn't exist, then you can say you don't belief in spirit, but as far as I know Kabbalists dealing with these by dividing soul for many parts (lower and higher parts), at least 9 of these if I remember it correctly.
Nephesh is Kabbalistic term which is corresponding to astral body, so astral body can't just exist from void, it has to be made of something.
Secondly chakras can't be proven, because you can't measure or observe non-physical (e.g. spiritual soul) with physical scientific instruments, it's not possible. The same as you'd expect to prove existence of angels or God.
@kenorb If there's stuff you want to know about Kabala based on what you already know about Kabala (as opposed to what you know about other belief systems), then I suggest that you post questions about that. If you can't form a question without reference to some other belief system, it's probably going to be hard to get it answered here.
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