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We often hear about God's word, God's actions... but what about God's beauty? It's a question that takes us deep into the heart of Jewish mystical thought. Forget the image of a ce...
Jewish tradition has some pretty incredible ideas about that. Let's peek inside God's house, shall we? According to some accounts, God didn't just create the universe, He built a p...
We often think of the act of creation as a singular event, a cosmic poof and then… nothing. But what if the story isn't quite that simple? What if creation is less of a noun and mo...
Jewish mysticism, particularly the Kabbalah, grapples with this very question, offering profound and beautiful answers. One of the most evocative images comes from the Zohar, the c...
Some traditions say it was all water. Just a vast, unending universe of water. But how did we get from that to the world we know? Well, according to one beautiful myth, God took sn...
We read in Genesis that God spoke and creation happened. But what if there were… helpers? What if the story is a bit more layered, a bit more collaborative? There's a fascinating m...
The ancient rabbis certainly did, and they came up with some pretty fascinating ideas. The image of the world resting on pillars is a powerful one, found in creation myths across c...
Jewish tradition offers some pretty incredible, mystical answers, and they all center around one key element: the Foundation Stone. This isn't just any old rock. The Foundation Sto...
That, according to some powerful Jewish mystical traditions, is how the universe came to be. Not a slow burn, not a gradual unfolding, but a single, instantaneous burst of divine e...
