Gahl Sasson is a spiritual teacher who has earned a wide and enthusiastic following across the globe. He teaches ongoing workshops on Kabbalah, Mythology, and Astrology in Europe, Israel, Turkey, Mexico, and in dozens of cities across the United States.
He is the author of A Wish Can Change Your Life: How to Use the Ancient Wisdom of Kabbalah to Make Your Dreams Come True, which was published by Simon and Schuster in 2003. The book was endorsed by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and is now in its fifth printing. A Wish Can Change Your Life has been translated into 7 languages to date.
Sasson teaches Kabbalah, mythology, and astrology at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, Tel Aviv University in Israel, the Learning Annex nationwide and at various yoga and spiritual centers all over the world. His home base is the Golden Bridge Yoga Center in Los Angeles, which is the largest yoga center in the world. Read More
By Gahl Sasson
Edited by Steve Weinstein
What is Kabbalah?
Kabbalah is an ancient spiritual system designed to create harmony and balance in the individual as well as the universe. It allows us to communicate with and receive messages, Light and sustenance from the divine. Kabbalah elucidates the world both seen and unseen. It provides answers to the questions of how and why we are here. The guiding principles of Kabbalah simultaneously explain and orchestrate the birth of the universe and every process of creation, large or small, that you can name.
Kabbalah views the creation of the cosmos not as a single episode that happened way back when, but as a continual process or dance between the divine and all sentient beings. And once we decide to join in this everlasting dance, all the possibilities of the universe magically open up to us. Kabbalah transmits recipes to create our lives exactly as we wish them. It teaches us that the same spiritual framework that God used to fashion the cosmos can be employed by anyone to construct any project, work of art, business success or personal relationship. Read More
Astrology was born not as a form of entertainment or as a scheme for fortune telling, but as a vital tool for survival. With the advent of agriculture, humans adapted their planting and harvesting routines to the dictates of the seasons. The measuring of time-the fluctuations in darkness and daylight, the arrivals of the winter and summer solstices, the great rivers' tides and flooding-became essential to a successful harvest. In our day and age, it is important to attune our lives to the repetitive rhythm of the seasons and the orbits of the planets. Read More
Gahl Sasson makes Kabbalah, astrology and psychology engaging, illuminating, and fun. The way he sees Kabbalah is accessible to anyone from any faith and background. The innovative examples that he conjures up to illustrate these high concepts spurs his audience to laugh and then declare, Aha. Most of all, Gahl tells stories, relating a vast array of compelling myths from traditions across the globe to delineate the workings of the inner world. His book, A Wish Can Change Your Life, (published by Simon & Schuster and co-written with Steve Weinstein), blends wisdom and metaphors from cultures across history and the entire world into an innovative blueprint for personal transformation and material enrichment. Thousands have enthusiastically embraced his fresh and stimulating approach to spirituality in lectures and workshops in the United States, Mexico, and Israel. Read More
22 PATHS OF DESTINY
Anyone can use the Tree and its many branches to trace their own personal destiny. The Tree is comprised of ten spheres interconnected by 22 paths or "Netivot" in Hebrew. The Sefer Yetzirah calls them "mystical paths of wisdom." They represent the royal roads that lead from one archetypal energy center to another. The successful navigation of any of these paths requires the harmonious blending of the forces of the two spheres it unites. Infinitely expanding Mercy tempered with the sword of Severity, for example. Read More
All creations follow the Tree of Life. Movies, for example, vividly illustrate the inner-workings of the Tree because virtually every film tells the story of the wish-fulfilling journey of its hero. Nerdy boy yearns to love beautiful girl. The Queen wishes to unify England. The FBI agent dreams of cracking the big case without cracking up himself. The Sefer Yitzerah, the oldest Kabalistic text on Earth, states “God created His universe with a story [Sipur],” and so logically every story embodies the process of God’s creation.
By transposing the plot of a movie onto the Tree, we are able to see quite emphatically the nature of the spheres and how they all lead one to another, how they all work together, to create the finished product. To fulfill the hero’s wish. Examining a movie step by step, sphere by sphere, illuminates the bank of symbols native to each energy as well as all the unexpected synchronicities that point the way to the fulfillment of the quest. A harmless glass of water on the table, the number of cookies on a plate, anything could be an arrow pointing the protagonist down the essential path.
Analyzing how the Tree works on the hero of a popular film can help us to recognize in our own lives the similar symbols, plot twists and synchronicities that are sure to pop up as each of us embarks on our own hero’s journey through the Wish-Fulfilling Tree. Tracing the story from Crown to Kingdom will, I hope, aid you in recognizing how to put all these theories into practice. Read More
Gahl Sasson and Steve Weinstein have written a book about manifesting with the Kabbalah, A Wish Can Change Your Life. Published by Simon & Schuster of New York, it encourages its readers to "make a wish, any wish!". Every week you will be lead through one sphere on the Tree of Life. The book leads readers through a practice which incorporates meditation, chanting, journaling, noticing the synchronicities in one’s life and the magic of ritual. It teaches readers to use the magic of the tree to change their lives. This book will change your life, and it will teach you a lot about the magic of the Kabbalah.
The book is based on a workshop that Gahl Sasson has been teaching for five or six years. "The classes are free flow, I am never ‘prepared’ so to speak," admits Sasson. "In Hebrew every letter is a sign and also a letter. In Hebrew the letter meaning ‘to teach’ and ‘to learn’ is the same letter," said Sasson. Read More
