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The Tikkunei Zohar, a central text of Kabbalah, grapples with that very feeling. It dives headfirst into the mystery of the Divine, trying to understand the Unknowable. It begins w...
Take the opening words of the Torah, Bereshit (בראשית) – "In the beginning." Simple enough. But what if those words were a doorway, a key to unlocking profound secrets about creati...
The Jewish mystical tradition, especially the Zohar, understands this feeling deeply. Exile, both literal and spiritual, is a central theme. But within that feeling of distance, th...
Reishyt (ראשית) – that Hebrew word for "beginning" pops up all over the place. And each time, it carries its own special spark of meaning. But there's one verse in Proverbs that re...
Our sages have been wrestling with the mysteries of the universe for millennia. And one of the most fascinating approaches is through the very words of the Torah itself. to a passa...
He doesn’t just ask for knowledge, he cries out: "Master of the Universe! Open my eyes that I may gaze above through them!" (Tikkunei Zohar 37). He wants to see, to perceive the di...
Maybe the mystics of the Zohar felt that way too. to a fascinating passage from Tikkunei Zohar 37, a text that dances around ideas of divine presence, searching, and the very natur...
The passage speaks of the "will of ascension" of the King – that is, God – at a time described as “lamp of darkness.” Before anything existed, there was only the potential for ever...
It’s a question that has captivated mystics for centuries. What if the very act of God saying, "Let there be light," wasn't just about illumination, but about something far deeper?...
