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There's a beautiful idea that just before the solemnity of Kol Nidrei, the service that begins Yom Kippur, a tremendous light descends from the heavens. Imagine it: a cascade of pu...
There's a story about a rabbi, Rabbi Hayim ben Attar, known as the Or ha-Hayim (אור החיים), "the light of life," after his famous biblical commentary. He lived in Jerusalem and had...
That’s the kind of feeling that permeates the story of the Ari, or Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534-1572), the great Kabbalist, and his annual pilgrimage to Meron. Every Lag ba-Omer – that ...
That, my friends, is the heart of a beautiful tradition linked to Shavuot. We know Passover commemorates the Exodus, specifically the parting of the Red Sea. But did you know that ...
Genesis tells us God spent six days creating the world. But what happened after that? The Book of Genesis tells us that God rested on the seventh day, but there's more to the story...
We know it's a time for rest, reflection, and delicious challah, but Jewish tradition holds some truly wondrous ideas about this holy day, reaching even beyond the veil of life its...
The Zohar, that foundational text of Kabbalah, tells us that the angels hold their own Sabbath feast in heaven. Imagine thousands of them gathered in the fourth heavenly palace, a ...
would rest his head. God then performed a miracle and made all the stones into one. According to another tradition, Jacob placed all the stones under his head and they were fused t...
It all begins with Abraham. God Himself entrusted him with a profound secret, "the secret of the mystery of the Redeemer," as Howard Schwartz puts it in Tree of Souls. A heavy burd...
