Parshat Kedoshim

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The holiness code: love your neighbor, respect parents, keep Shabbat, honest dealings, and ethical commandments. Leviticus 19:1-20:27.

Divine Contraction of Tzimtzum

Other Texts Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 16:10

Jewish mystical thought, especially in the Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah – "138 Openings of Wisdom" – wrestles with this very idea. It speaks of a profound in-between, a space teeming wi...

Divine Contraction

Other Texts Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 30:10

Jewish mystical tradition offers a breathtakingly profound answer, one that begins with a concept called Tzimtzum. Now, Tzimtzum (צמצום) – literally "contraction" or "withdrawal" –...

Heaven

Saga of Eyn Sof and Ramak

Other Texts Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 30:47

It’s a question that’s haunted humanity since… well, since humanity. Jewish mystical tradition, particularly the Kabbalah, wrestles with this in fascinating ways. one particularly ...

Fire of the Prophet and Ezekiel

Other Texts Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 31:16

It’s a feeling that's echoed through the ages, and it's something that the ancient Jewish mystics grappled with too. They sought to find the thread that ties it all together, the u...

AngelsProphecyMysticism

Moses and the Origins of the World

Other Texts Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 32:7

Our expressions, our micro-movements – they betray what's going on inside, whether we want them to or not. Now, the text we're diving into today, Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah, takes thi...

CreationHeavenAdam & EveMoses

Oracle of God

Other Texts Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 49:11

Because according to some ancient Jewish wisdom, you absolutely are. We're talking about the Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah, a text steeped in Kabbalistic thought. And it tells us somethi...

ProphecyHoly LandSinai

Darkness Below and Nothing

Other Texts Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 50:3

It suggests that even the seeming setbacks and detours have a vital purpose. The text states, quite simply, that “Nothing is in vain.” for a second. Nothing. Not the light that shi...

Hell/Gehenna

Unlocking the Mystery

Other Texts Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 63:3

It’s a question that’s plagued philosophers and theologians for centuries. But Jewish mystical tradition, particularly the Kabbalah, offers a fascinating answer, a cosmic dance of ...

Gates of Wisdom

Other Texts Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 69:8

The divine lights — emanations of pure energy and wisdom — govern creation through a delicate balance of openness and closure. Sometimes the channels must open to let divine influe...