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We often picture the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night, guiding them, protecting them. But what if I told you there's a tradition that paints an even more inti...
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 offers a beautiful, complex, and deeply intimate perspective through the concept of the Shekhinah. The Shekhinah, often translated as "Divine Presence," is the fem...
It’s a question that might sound irreverent, but Jewish mystical tradition actually gives us a fascinating answer, one deeply intertwined with our own actions and the fate of the w...
That’s right. According to some mystical traditions, particularly within Kabbalah, the Temple was literally the place where God, the King, and His Shekhinah (שְׁכִינָה), His Divine...
The Jewish mystics had a powerful image for that kind of pain: the Shekhinah, the Divine Presence, weeping. It’s a radical idea, isn’t it? God, or at least this aspect of God, expe...
Before the sun, the moon, the stars... What illuminated the very first moments of creation? Jewish tradition tells us that the first thing God created wasn't a physical object, but...
One figure looms large in this discussion: Lucifer. The name itself means "light-bringer" or "shining one," and the story surrounding him is… complicated, especially when we look a...
The kind that make you tilt your head and think, "Wait, did I read that. " One of those moments, right up there with the parting of the Red Sea, is the story of the sun standing st...
