Stern - Energy healing with the Kabbalah: integrating ancient Jewish mysticism with modern energetic practices

About the Author

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Devi Stern, MS, EEM - AP (Chicago, IL), holds a BS from Cornell and an MS in biology from Northeastern Illinois University. She is an advanced Eden Energy Medicine practitioner and Reiki master. In addition to her healing practice, Devi teaches weekly energy wellness classes at Infinity Foundation in Highland Park, Illinois, and at the Chicago Botanic Garden. During the summers, she runs a weekly outdoor energy camp for women. She has studied and continues to study energy healing, Kabbalah, and kabbalistic healing with many teachers to whom she is very grateful. Visit her online at www.dragonflyhealer.com.

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Energy Healing with the Kabbalah: Integrating Ancient Jewish Mysticism with Modern Energetic Practices 2018 by Devi Stern.

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Names: Stern, Devi, author.
Title: Energy healing with the Kabbalah: integrating ancient Jewish
mysticism with modern energetic practices / Devi Stern.
Description: First Edition. | Woodbury: Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd., 2018. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018010941 (print) | LCCN 2018001705 (ebook) | ISBN
9780738757056 (ebook) | ISBN 9780738756837 (alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: HealingReligious aspectsJudaism. | Cabala. | Energy
medicine. | Alternative medicine.
Classification: LCC BM538.H43 (print) | LCC BM538.H43 S76 2018 (ebook) | DDC
135/.47dc23
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Contents

: Background

: Reconnecting to the Divine Feminine

: Kabbalah: The Background and the Basics

: The Kabbalistic Creation Story

: The Tree of Life

: Gematria and the Hebrew Aleph-Bet

: A Different Creation Story: An Interpretation of the First Ten Letters

: The Mystical Letter Aleph

: The Unpronounceable Name

: The Infinity Sign

: Love Is the Answer

: Energy Medicine

: Energy Medicine and Kabbalah

: Practices

: Introduction to the Practices

: Grounding

: Breath

: The Hands

: Boundaries

: The Belt Flow: The Rakia of Energy

: Connecting Heaven and Earth

: Shma and the Kabbalistic Hook-In

: A Physical Practice of Devekut

: Infinity Eyes: Connecting to a Higher Knowing

: The Light Weave

: Connecting to the Cosmos with the
Forty-Two-Letter Name

: Energizing Blessing

: Blessing Water

: The Shalom/Infinity Meditation

: Shabbat

: Healing

: Kabbalistic Energy Healing

: Summary

: The Dragonfly

Appendix 2: Gematria
and Translation of Words Cited

Acknowledgments

A heart-filled thank you to my beloved teachers and those who contributed pieces to the puzzle that became this book:

• My first energy teacher and healer, the late Rev. Jacque Metheany, and the teachers of Crossroads Institute.
• The creators of Eden Energy Medicine/Innersource, Donna Eden and Dr. David Feinstein, for changing my life. The Innersource faculty who so enriched my training and my personal healing path, especially Dr. Sara Allen, Dr. Vicki Matthews, and Dr. Ellen Meredith.
• Dr. Shems Prinzivalli, who introduced me to the mysteries of Kabbalah and who first encouraged me to pursue the connection between energy medicine and kabbalistic healing.
• Sarah Yehudit Schneider, Rabbi Yehoshua Karsh, Rabbi Gershon Winkler, Reb Rachmiel Drizin, and Rabbi Douglas Goldhammer for their wisdom and teachings.
• Infinity Foundation, its director, Nancy Grace Marder, and my students for their support.
• Elysia Gallo, my editor at Llewellyn, for her discerning eye.
• My models: Rachel Stern, Jane Talesnik, and Sue Sherman.
• My readers for their time, corrections, and suggestions: Marty Stern, Sarah Stern, Donna Eden, Jennifer Swain, Rabbi Yehoshua Karsh, Dr. Shems Prinzvalli, Sarah Yehudit Schneider, Pnina Mazor.
• And to Judy Haber for her technical expertise and unending patience.

In memory of my dearest Abba, Rabbi Reuben M. Katz (19192016), who taught me, among many things, the aleph-bet.

For Marty

My lifes partner and love who embodies the divine balance with every breath.

Introduction

I was born on the eighth and final night of Chanukah. My parents lit the menorah with its full array of candles, recited the customary blessings, and quickly left for Akron City Hospital where I arrived a few hours later. Why begin with this fact?

Chanukah, the holiday of lights and miracles, begins on the twenty-fifth day of the Hebrew month of Kislev. Hebrew months are lunar cycles about twenty-eight days long. Therefore, the last nights of Chanukah extend into the following month, Tevet. Because Tevet is the darkest month of the year it is associated with negative energy. I was taught that having been born on the eighth night of Chanukah, I was surrounded from birth with this consecrated light of protection, a light of miracles.

One miracle is that this book exists. Another is that I have been guided continuously, sometimes in very mysterious ways, to study both Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, and energy healing. It was certainly not I what set out to do.

In 1998 I was at a crossroads. I had been teaching dance for eighteen years on a linoleum floor and my feet hurt. Eighteen is the Hebrew symbol for chai , meaning life. I knew my life on linoleum was complete and I was ready to move on. I set an intention for my next calling to reveal itself.

I had trained to be a biologist but my professional path had never been direct. Right after college and grad school I had been a high school biology teacher and done medical research in endocrinology. I had left science to pursue my other love, dance. Now that, too, was ending. My dear husband, Marty, had always given me the space I needed to explore different aspects of myself. He was game for yet another ride but neither of us had a clue as to what was to come.