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We know King Solomon, wise and powerful, but he was also, according to tradition, a master of summoning and controlling demons. The Testament of Solomon is practically a who's who ...
That's a glimpse into the world of the dybbuk. Our story begins in the mystical city of Safed, a center of Kabbalah in the Galilee. There lived a widow, known throughout the commun...
Jewish tradition gives us a few different, evolving, and sometimes contradictory answers. One early picture, found in the ancient text 1 Enoch (specifically, chapters 22:1-14), dat...
Jewish tradition has some fascinating – and sobering – ideas about that transition. It's a moment watched over, judged, and ultimately, a reckoning. Imagine this: As a person breat...
In Jewish tradition, it’s often understood as a place of purification or punishment for the wicked. But its story is far more complex, and perhaps even surprising, than you might t...
Jewish tradition has a concept called Gehenna, often translated as Hell, though it’s more of a purgatorial realm of purification. And guarding the gates, or at least playing a key ...
Jewish tradition offers a compelling, if sometimes terrifying, answer: Gehenna. But what exactly is Gehenna? And where is it? Well, that’s where things get interesting. It's not qu...
It even shows up in our ideas about Gehenna. Now, Gehenna. It’s a loaded word. Often translated as "Hell," it’s really more complex than that. It’s a place of purification, of reck...
Jewish tradition offers some pretty vivid, shall we say, uncomfortable images of what awaits those who stray from the path. Today, let's talk about Gehenna. Gehenna (sometimes call...
