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The text we're exploring, from Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah (a Kabbalistic work whose title roughly translates to "Key to the Gates of Wisdom"), dives deep into this very question. It g...
Imagine the awe, the terror, the overwhelming sense of the presence of HaShem. But what did they actually see? Moses, in his wisdom, warns the Israelites, “And guard your souls ver...
It suggests that understanding comes through layers of perception, and that these layers are especially potent in the minds of the prophets. to a verse from the prophet Hosea (12:1...
The Sefirot are often described as emanations of God's light, divine attributes through which the unknowable manifests in the world. But what are they, really? The Kalach Pitchei C...
It's incredibly ancient. It's at the heart of much Kabbalistic thought. The Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah, a Kabbalistic text whose title translates roughly as "Garlands, Openings of Wis...
In Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah, a foundational text of Kabbalah, we find a mind-bending idea: the Sefirot, these divine attributes or energies, can manifest in opposing ways, simultane...
The Sefirot (סְפִירוֹת) are, in Kabbalistic thought, the ten emanations of God's divine energy. Think of them as the channels through which the Infinite makes itself known. But her...
We're going to be talking about the Sefirot – those ten divine emanations in Kabbalah, the mystical heart of Judaism. Think of them as the way God’s infinite light becomes manifest...
Jewish mysticism, particularly the Kabbalah, is full of these! It's like trying to grasp smoke, or maybe…decipher a dream. One of the trickiest areas involves understanding the str...
