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Maybe that feeling is a tiny glimpse into the ultimate truth: that everything is sacred. Philo, the 1st-century Jewish philosopher from Alexandria, certainly thought so. He envisio...
According to Jewish tradition, the very concept of the Temple in Jerusalem, that sacred place, was envisioned at the dawn of creation itself. As Howard Schwartz recounts in Tree of...
We hear whispers of incredible things, and today, let's focus on one of the most intriguing: the cherubim. These weren't your chubby, winged babies from Renaissance art. These cher...
Jewish tradition often speaks of a profound connection between the heavens and the earth – “as above, so below,” as the Kabbalists say. But what happens when tragedy strikes here? ...
That feeling, that echoing emptiness, resonates deeply with the Jewish experience of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. It wasn't just the loss of a building; it was a cos...
The Temple, the very center of Jewish life, engulfed in flames. What happens when the unthinkable becomes reality? The Talmud (B. Ta'anit 29a) recounts a powerful image: the High P...
Not just on Earth, but in this state of… well, existence. Fraught with hard work, pain, and ultimately, mortality? The story of the exile from Eden, found in Genesis 3:1-24, tries ...
God, as we know, gave Adam a pretty straightforward instruction: "Of every tree of the garden you are free to eat; but as for the tree of knowledge of good and bad, you must not ea...
We often picture the shame, the hardship... but what about the stuff? Did he get to take anything with him? Well, according to one fascinating folktale recounted in Howard Schwartz...
