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It’s a question that's haunted philosophers and theologians for millennia, and Jewish tradition definitely has some answers. At the very heart of it all, there is ONE God. Absolute...
Where is God? Have you ever stopped to truly consider that question? It seems simple, almost childlike. But the deeper you delve, the more mysterious it becomes. The mystics of our...
That feeling is at the heart of our story today, a tale I call "The Cottage of Candles," retold from Howard Schwartz's Tree of Souls. Once, there was a Jew driven by an unshakeable...
Jewish tradition has a powerful way of describing this feeling: the wandering of the Shekhinah. The Shekhinah, often translated as "divine presence," is understood as the feminine ...
But what if I told you that, according to Jewish tradition, there is a way, a glimpse, perhaps, of the Divine Presence – the Shekhinah? The Shekhinah, a Hebrew word often translate...
Our story today takes us to 16th-century Safed, a center of Jewish mysticism, and introduces us to Rabbi Abraham Berukhim, a man known for his profound connection to the Divine. Th...
According to Jewish tradition, He's not exactly kicking back with a cosmic cup of coffee. Nope. He's been busy making matches. That's right, God is the ultimate shadkhan—a matchmak...
Bava Metzia 59b), a story about rabbinic authority and, surprisingly, God's good-natured acceptance of it. It all starts with a disagreement. Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, a renowned...
We look up and see blue, maybe clouds, but according to ancient Jewish wisdom, it's so much more than that. It’s a carefully maintained separation, a cosmic balancing act between t...
