Creation

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Explore 3,406 Jewish texts related to the theme of Creation, drawn from Midrash, Kabbalah, Apocrypha, and classical Jewish literature.

Garments of the Soul

Kabbalah Kabbalah & Mysticism

There's a powerful idea in Jewish mysticism about giving your all, pouring your entire soul into everything you do, especially when connecting with the Divine. The Tikkunei Zohar, ...

Wonders of Genesis of Aleph

Kabbalah Kabbalah & Mysticism

The passage opens with a son asking his father a profound question: "Father, what is AV-Y OY HV-Y HOY?" Now, right away, we're dealing with coded language, a kind of symbolic short...

Divine Presence

Kabbalah Kabbalah & Mysticism

Jewish mysticism often grapples with this feeling, this sense of lack. And nowhere is it more poignant than in the image of the lone Hei. What's a Hei? It's the fifth letter of the...

Cosmic Origins and Isaiah

Kabbalah Kabbalah & Mysticism

The Tikkunei Zohar, a mystical extension of the Zohar itself, grapples with this very feeling. It suggests that during times of exile – not just a physical exile, but also a spirit...

Light and Vessels of Shekhinah

Kabbalah Kabbalah & Mysticism

Jewish mystical tradition certainly thinks so. Today, let’s peek into a particularly fascinating corner of that world, a passage from the Tikkunei Zohar. The Tikkunei Zohar, a late...

Adam at the Dawn of Creation

Kabbalah Kabbalah & Mysticism

That’s the kind of struggle we find ourselves in, according to the Tikkunei Zohar. This passage from Tikkunei Zohar 85 throws us right into the middle of such a confrontation. It b...

Dawn of the World

Kabbalah Kabbalah & Mysticism

The Tikkunei Zohar, a profound expansion on the Zohar, the central text of Kabbalah, delves into this very struggle. a passage from Tikkunei Zohar 85 and see what wisdom it holds f...

Righteous One and Creation

Kabbalah Kabbalah & Mysticism

The Jewish mystical tradition, especially as explored in the Tikkunei Zohar, has a lot to say about that feeling of anticipation, and how it connects us to something far greater. T...

Amalek and Creation

Kabbalah Kabbalah & Mysticism

Music, even wordless music, has a language all its own. And in the world of Torah, even the little musical notations that guide the chanting – the ta’amei ha-mikra (טעמי המקרא), th...