Rabbi Yechiel Bar-Lev: Song of the Soul

I recently learned about Rabbi Yechiel Avraham Bar-Lev, a hassid rabbi in Israel and his Yedid Nefesh institute. At the website of the latter I found one English language book “Song of the Soul: Introduction to Kaballa.” The full title, inside the books also includes this segment: “Based on Rabbi Chaim Moshe Luzzatto’s Kalach Pitchei Chochma.” The whole book is posted online as a series of images. Right now at Amazon only one used copy is available, for over $70. Let me post here its shortened table of contents to generate interest.

• Preface
• Introduction
• Abbreviations and Glossary
• Part One: Concerning Will
  • Chapter 1: Types of Will
  • Chapter 2: Light and Illumination
  • Chapter 3: The Order of Gradual Unfolding
  • Chapter 4: The Creator’s Ratzon – The Root of All reality
  • Chapter 5: Substance and Form
  • Chapter 6: The Elements of Form
  • Chapter 7: Worlds of Atzilu, Beri’a, Yetzira, and Asi’ya
• Part Two: The Sefirot
  • Chapter1: The Definition of the Concept of Sefirot
  • Chapter 2: The Sefirot of Thought – Keter, Hochma, and Bina
  • Chapter 3: The Division of the Sefirot
  • Chapter 4: The Order of the position of the Sefirot
  • Chapter 5: Concerning Hanhaga and Hashgacha
  • Chapter 6: The Names of the Sefirot and their Appellations
  • Chapter 7: The Sefirot and the Structure of Material Man
  • Chapter 8: The Essay “Petach Eliyahu“
  • Chapter 9: Names, Gematria and Combinations
• Part Three: Further Topics in Kabbalah
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The Concept of Tzimtzum
  • Chapter 2: The Reshinu and the Ray of Light
• Part Four: Adam Kadmon
  • Chapter1: The Kav which brought order to the Ten Sefirot
• Part Five: The World of the Spotted, the World of Chaos, the Breaking of the Vessels
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Reason and Result: The Spiritual Dimension
  • Chapter 2: The Shattering of the Vessels
• Part Six: The World of Repair
• Part Seven: Partzufin
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Concerning the Partzufin
  • Chapter 2: The Partzuf Atik Yomin
  • Chapter 3: The Partzuf Arich Anpin
  • Chapter 4: The Partzufin Abba and Ima
  • Chapter 5: The Partzuf Ze’ev Anpin
  • Chapter 6: The Partzuf Nukva
  • Chapter 7: The Partzufim Leah and Rachel: Two Aspects of Nukva
  • Chapter 8: Ascent of the Worlds
  • Chapter 9: The Purpose of Worshipping God is to Bring About the Coupling of Ze’er Anpin and Nukva
• Part Eight: Selected Notes
  • On Godliness
  • Belief in the Unity of God
  • Man’s Image
  • Reason and Result – Creation Ex Nihilo
  • On Prophecy
• Endnotes