Recordings of Yakov Leib HaKohain's talking from the Zohar to members of Donmeh West.
Yakov Leib HaKohain (born Lawrence G. Corey, November 13, 1934) is a kabbalist, religious philosopher, poet and founder of Donmeh West, a "Virtual Community for the Study and Practice of Neo-Sabbatian Kabbalah"
Yakov Leib HaKohain ("YaLHaK") was born in 1934 into a Chicago family of Turkish sephardi descent on his mother’s side and Romanian Kohanim descent on his father's. He studied Jungian Thought and Comparative Religion for six years (1980–1986) under his mentor, the late James Kirsch, a Jewish member of Jung's original inner circle and co-founder of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, where HaKohain also did three years of advanced, post-doctoral work under Kirsch's sponsorship from 1980 to 1983.
At much the same time, HaKohain studied and was initiated into Vedanta in 1976 by another mentor figure, Swami Swahananda, head of the Ramakrishna Order of India in Southern California (where he has since then been a frequent guest speaker on the relations between Neo-Sabbatian Kabbalah and Hinduism).
As part of the syncretic nature of the Neo-Sabbatian Kabbalah he developed and espouses, HaKohain also teaches on the relationships between his own spiritual system and other older spiritual systems such as Hinduism, Gnosticism, the Qur'an, and New Testament Christianity.
Yakov Leib HaKohain is probably best known as the founder and spiritual head of Donmeh West (its founding is even included by the Christian Millenarian website Thomas Pages, an exhaustive timeline of historical events leading to the anticipated Second Coming of Christ In his book The Sabbatean Prophets, Prof. Matt Goldish discusses Donmeh West as a rightful successor to the line of kabbalah descending directly from Sabbatai Zevi himself. As founder of Donmeh West, Yakov Leib HaKohain is considered by media like the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv as the leader of the modern Neo-Sabbatian revival. Prof. Wendelin von Winckelstein's Die Odyssee des Aristoteles states "Eine nachfolgeorganisation existiert heute noch unter dem namen Donmeh West” (“Today a successor organization [to Sabbatai Zevi's Donmeh] still exists under the name of Donmeh West.")
Following in the footsteps of Sabbatai Zevi (who converted from Judaism to Islam) and Jacob Frank (who converted from Judaism to Islam and Sabbateanism and then to Catholicism), as well as Sri Ramakrishna (who besides his Hindu roots had several approachments towards Islam and Christianity), and for the same reasons as they, HaKohain formally converted to Islam, Roman Catholicism and Hinduism. He did that in his own words not to become a practicing member of any of them, but to metaphorically "gather together" the "Holy Sparks" contained inside each of these religions into a single "Divine Flame" within his own person, for the purpose of contributing to the inner Kabbalistic reunification of God.
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Yakov Leib HaKohain (born Lawrence G. Corey, November 13, 1934) is a kabbalist, religious philosopher, poet and founder of Donmeh West, a "Virtual Community for the Study and Practice of Neo-Sabbatian Kabbalah"
Yakov Leib HaKohain ("YaLHaK") was born in 1934 into a Chicago family of Turkish sephardi descent on his mother’s side and Romanian Kohanim descent on his father's. He studied Jungian Thought and Comparative Religion for six years (1980–1986) under his mentor, the late James Kirsch, a Jewish member of Jung's original inner circle and co-founder of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, where HaKohain also did three years of advanced, post-doctoral work under Kirsch's sponsorship from 1980 to 1983.
At much the same time, HaKohain studied and was initiated into Vedanta in 1976 by another mentor figure, Swami Swahananda, head of the Ramakrishna Order of India in Southern California (where he has since then been a frequent guest speaker on the relations between Neo-Sabbatian Kabbalah and Hinduism).
As part of the syncretic nature of the Neo-Sabbatian Kabbalah he developed and espouses, HaKohain also teaches on the relationships between his own spiritual system and other older spiritual systems such as Hinduism, Gnosticism, the Qur'an, and New Testament Christianity.
Yakov Leib HaKohain is probably best known as the founder and spiritual head of Donmeh West (its founding is even included by the Christian Millenarian website Thomas Pages, an exhaustive timeline of historical events leading to the anticipated Second Coming of Christ In his book The Sabbatean Prophets, Prof. Matt Goldish discusses Donmeh West as a rightful successor to the line of kabbalah descending directly from Sabbatai Zevi himself. As founder of Donmeh West, Yakov Leib HaKohain is considered by media like the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv as the leader of the modern Neo-Sabbatian revival. Prof. Wendelin von Winckelstein's Die Odyssee des Aristoteles states "Eine nachfolgeorganisation existiert heute noch unter dem namen Donmeh West” (“Today a successor organization [to Sabbatai Zevi's Donmeh] still exists under the name of Donmeh West.")
Following in the footsteps of Sabbatai Zevi (who converted from Judaism to Islam) and Jacob Frank (who converted from Judaism to Islam and Sabbateanism and then to Catholicism), as well as Sri Ramakrishna (who besides his Hindu roots had several approachments towards Islam and Christianity), and for the same reasons as they, HaKohain formally converted to Islam, Roman Catholicism and Hinduism. He did that in his own words not to become a practicing member of any of them, but to me
