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The Torah focuses on Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, on Joseph and his brothers. But the world didn't stop spinning just because the Israelites were having family drama. According to Gi...
The Sha’ar HaGilgulim, the "Gate of Reincarnations," part of the teachings of the Ari, Rabbi Isaac Luria, a 16th-century Kabbalist, offers a fascinating, complex, and ultimately ho...
We often think of death as the end, the final curtain. But Jewish mystical tradition, particularly through the lens of gilgul – reincarnation – paints a more complex, and frankly, ...
Sha’ar HaGilgulim, the "Gate of Reincarnations," explores that very idea. It suggests that sometimes, a righteous soul, a Ruach, can connect with the Nefesh of a convert to Judaism...
This isn’t just philosophical musing. It has real implications. The tradition teaches that Moshiach ben Dovid, the Messiah, won't arrive until all the Ruchos and Neshamot – all the...
Or maybe you've asked yourself, "Why is redemption taking so long?" It's a question generations have wrestled with. According to Kabbalah, the answer lies in the two paths God has ...
Jewish mystical tradition has some pretty answers, and today we're going to peek into one of them, thanks to a text called Heikhalot Rabbati. Now, Heikhalot Rabbati – that’s Hebrew...
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...
That’s kind of the question we’re grappling with today. Imagine someone turning to you and saying, "Why should I bother with all this talk about S'firot? Why should I be compelled ...
