Parshat Mishpatim

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A collection of civil and criminal laws covering slavery, damages, lending, and the covenant ceremony at Sinai. Exodus 21:1-24:18.

Divine Presence and Tazsh

Kabbalah Heikhalot Rabbati 1:2

The Heikhalot Rabbati, a fascinating and complex text from the early Kabbalistic tradition, offers a glimpse into just that – a vision of heavenly ascent and divine encounter. Imag...

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Kingdom of Ishmael of Caesar

Kabbalah Heikhalot Rabbati 8:3

Let me tell you a story from Heikhalot Rabbati, a mystical text filled with visions of heavenly realms and encounters with powerful angels. It's a wild tale recounted by Rabbi Ishm...

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Divine Chariot and Dumiel

Kabbalah Heikhalot Rabbati 21:4

It’s not your average velvet-rope situation. This one involves angels, mystical ascents, and some serious spiritual prerequisites. We're diving into the world of the Merkabah, the ...

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Living by Torah and the Throne

Kabbalah Heikhalot Rabbati 29:2

These mystical texts describe journeys through the heavenly realms, encounters with angels, and glimpses into the divine throne room itself. And in this particular section, we find...

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Divine Presence and Zerubabel

Kabbalah Heikhalot Rabbati

That feeling, that yearning, is at the very heart of the Heikhalot Rabbati, a text that plunges us into the mystical realms of Jewish tradition. "Heikhalot" (היכלות) literally mean...

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Infinite One at the Dawn of Creation

Other Texts Beur Eser Sefirot 3:3

The Beur Eser Sefirot, a Kabbalistic text, dives headfirst into this very question. The core idea? To say that God's power only exists in the infinite, and not in the finite – in t...

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Guarding the Torah

Other Texts Mitpachat Sefarim 1:30

That’s a feeling that echoes through the ages, and it’s captured with raw emotion in the ancient text, Mitpachat Sefarim. Imagine the scene: The Knesset Yisrael, the assembly of Is...

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Jacob and the Dreamer of Hasmoneans

Other Texts Mitpachat Sefarim 1:34

That’s the feeling that leaps off the page of this passage from Mitpachat Sefarim (מטפחת ספרים), a fascinating and relatively obscure work. The title itself, "Scroll Covering," hin...

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Oral Torah

Other Texts Mitpachat Sefarim 1:43

That feeling, that intuition, is at the very heart of a concept explored in Mitpachat Sefarim, a fascinating text that delves into the hidden dimensions of Torah. Imagine the Torah...

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