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The Book of Jasher, an ancient Hebrew text referenced in the Bible itself (Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18), fills in some of those gaps. It's like a behind-the-scenes look at the l...
We all know the highlights – the Nile turning to blood, the frogs, the darkness. But some sources really dial up the intensity, giving us a truly nightmarish vision of divine retri...
We know the big story: the plagues, the Exodus, the parting of the Red Sea. But what about the nitty-gritty details of those first few days of freedom? The Book of Jasher, a text m...
They say he was so strikingly handsome, he resembled an angel. And his story, well, it begins a bit like a fairy tale. His parents, you see, had longed for a child for many, many y...
It’s a question that’s haunted humanity for, well, forever. And in the Jewish mystical tradition, particularly in the teachings of the Kabbalah, we find some fascinating and intric...
It’s a feeling humanity has wrestled with for millennia, and it's a feeling that finds a rather stark depiction in the mystical depths of the Zohar. The Zohar, that foundational te...
It’s a question that’s haunted mystics for centuries, especially when grappling with the idea of creation itself. To understand, we need to delve into a concept called Tzimtzum. Tz...
Jewish mysticism grapples with this very question, and the answer, as we find in texts like Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah, is surprisingly intricate, involving a cosmic process of…cleans...
Jewish mysticism understands that feeling. It’s baked right into the cosmic process of repair. We’ve talked before about the Sefirot, the ten emanations of divine energy that struc...
