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We often hear about God's word, God's actions... but what about God's beauty? It's a question that takes us deep into the heart of Jewish mystical thought. Forget the image of a ce...
It's easy to imagine him and Eve, heartbroken, trying to make sense of their new, harsher reality. But the stories don't stop there. Some delve into a rather…unsettling chapter of ...
We read about it, we sing about it… but imagine the sun beating down, the constant threat of snakes, the sheer exhaustion. How did they survive? Well, our tradition offers a beauti...
But Jewish tradition sometimes paints a more complex picture, one where the serpent is more of a… well, a puppet. to a fascinating version of the story, retold in Tree of Souls and...
We read about death all the time, but imagine being the first person… ever… to face it. Well, Jewish tradition has a lot to say about the death of Adam, the first human. And it's n...
According to the Sha'ar HaGilgulim, the "Gate of Reincarnations," Adam's sin didn't just affect him; it fractured the very essence of his being. Think of it like this: just as our ...
It holds within it a reflection of every single Jewish soul. The text tells us something pretty : that there are precisely 600,000 souls. Not one more, not one less. And the Torah?...
It’s a big question, I know. But Kabbalah, particularly as illuminated by the great 20th-century Kabbalist Yehuda Leib Ashlag, known as Baal HaSulam (Master of the Ladder), offers ...
Jewish mysticism, particularly through the lens of the Zohar, offers a fascinating perspective on this. Imagine the cosmos as a series of nested forms, called Partzufim (literally ...
