The Enneagram and Kabbalah
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Rabbi Howard A. Addison has trained with leading Enneagram practitioner Helen Palmer, and also served as the last student assistant to Abraham Joshua Heschel. He offers seminars on the Kabbalah and the Enneagram to teachers of both disciplines. Educated at both The Jewish Theological Seminary and the United Church of Christ's Chicago Theological Seminary, Addison serves as senior rabbi of Temple Sinai in Dresher, Pennsylvania.
Content
Preface to the Second Edition v
Preface to the First Edition vii
Acknowledgments xi
Section I
Two Diagrams of Life
1 "Where Are You?" 3
2 The Tree of Life 9
3 The Enneagram 19
4 Correlation-Being and Spirit 35
Section II
The Enneagram through the Lens of Kabbalah
5 The Sefirot: Type and Redemption through Spiritual Task 47
6 Point One: Chochmah-Wisdom 53
7 Point Two: Binah-Understanding 61
8 Point Three: Gedulah-Greatness 69
9 Point Four: Tiferet-Beauty 77
10 Point Five: Din-Rigor 87
11 Point Six: Netsach-The Enduring 97
12 Point Seven: Hod-Splendor 105
13 Point Eight: Yesod-Basic Force 115
14 Point Nine: Shechinah-Divine Presence 123
Section III
Returning to God
15 Keter: Divine Crown, Our Transition to the Divine 135
16 A Meditation on the Return to Ayn Sof 143
Epilogue 155
Endnotes 159
Glossary 165
Suggested Readings 169