Torah as a Guide to Enlightenment Author:Gabriel Cousens There are four levels of Torah interpretation: P?shat (Literal), Remez (Symbolic), Drash (Interpretive), and Sod (Metaphysical). In Torah as a Guide to Enlightenment, Rabbi Gabriel Cousens presents an integration of these four levels with a focus on enlightenment, the ultimate purpose of life and the original intention of the Jewish tradition. — ... more »
The Torah is divided into five books and 52 parashas (one lesson for each week), with each parasha containing at least one clear liberation teaching. Inspired by intense Torah studies and a variety of teachings from the great Torah sages, Rabbi Cousens contemplated and meditated on all 52 parashas. Here he offers them as a practical path to liberation?rather than a theoretical discussion?explaining the actual process that gives us the essential purpose in life: to become completely absorbed into God. His interpretation provides a multi-dimensional understanding with an emphasis and perspective often missing from conventional Kabbalistic teachings. Torah as a Guide to Enlightenment conveys liberation understandings to anyone, no matter what their tradition, and offers a chance for people of the Judaic-Christian tradition to reconnect with their roots.« less