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muman613:
What really bothers me is when people think you are praying to the moon... That is insane...
I think what Tag Machir meant was that there is wisdom which states:
"Whoever pronounces the benediction of the new moon in its due time welcomes, as it were, the presence of the Shechina. (Sanhedrin 42a; Sofrim 20:1)
The Shechina is the 'feminine' presence of Hashem. Of course we know that Hashem has no physicality, thus it is a spiritual presence.
http://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/380026/jewish/The-Phases-of-the-Moon.htm
edu:
I think what Tag-MahirTzedek is referring to is not the idea of thanking G-d for the moon itself.
That already appears in classical sources.
However, Rabbi Kosman once told me, that there is a dispute in Rabbinical sources when is the ideal time to say the blessing during the lunar month.
Rabbi Yosef Karo author of Shulchan Aruch, adds the view of Kabbalistic sources to take one side in the already existing argument of the Rabbis, to prefer pushing off the blessing until the 7th or 8th of the lunar month.
Since I don't follow Rabbi Yosef Karo on this point, I don't recall if it is the 7th or 8th.
The same thing also goes regarding the question of putting on Tefillin during Chol Hamoed.
There exists a debate among, non-kabbalistic sources if one does or does not put on Tefillin during Chol Hamoed.
Rabbi Yosef Karo adds the view of the Zohar to tip the balance in favor of the no Tefillin on Chol Hamoed viewpoint.
edu:
The following is an english Youtube lecture of historian and Rabbi, Berel Wein
who proves that Chatam Sofer (or Chasam Sofer depending on your accent)
viewed the majority of the Zohar as a forgery.
muman613:
Interesting that he believes this.... I have done a search, because I remember hearing or reading something he wrote where he mentioned the Zohar. I read a lot of Rabbis at Torah.org and most of the Rabbis there will always bring a quote from the Zohar to bring out a point. Torah.org publishes some of Rabbi Berel Weins articles but either he doesn't give sources or the sources he gives doesn't seem to include Zohar.
https://www.google.com/search?sitesearch=torah.org&q=wein+zohar&cmd.x=0&cmd.y=0&cmd=Go#q=wein+zohar+site:torah.org&hl=en&prmd=imvns&ei=7xYZT6jYB4KoiALtt5m5CA&start=0&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=bb4169f1315a16c6&biw=1217&bih=903
edu:
Here is another interesting lecture on Kabbala that I found on the Yeshiva University Web site
Controversies in Early Kabbalah: On the Writing of the First Kabbalistic Texts
Speaker:
Dr. Jonathan Dauber
Given On:
Sunday April 25, 2010
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/744393/Dr_Jonathan_Dauber/Controversies_in_Early_Kabbalah:_On_the_Writing_of_the_First_Kabbalistic_Texts
This lecture deals mainly with pre-zohar Kabbala
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