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It seems straightforward enough, counting seven weeks from Passover until we receive the Torah. But as always with Jewish tradition, there's so much more shimmering beneath the sur...
It’s more than just building a temporary shelter and shaking the lulav. It’s about something much deeper, a profound connection between the divine and the earthly. The Tikkunei Zoh...
The Tikkunei Zohar teaches that during Simchat Torah, a crown, a spiritual diadem, rests upon the head of every righteous person in the heavens. A crown, a symbol of honor and comp...
We might shake it with the lulav, alongside the myrtle and willow branches, but the Tikkunei Zohar, a central text of Kabbalah, suggests it’s far more than just a ritual object. Ac...
That letter is Dalet (ד). Think of it as a door, a humble right angle. In gematria, the Jewish mystical system of assigning numerical values to Hebrew letters, Dalet represents the...
to a fascinating passage from the Tikkunei Zohar, a central work of Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. The passage focuses on the number eighteen. Eighteen shakings, it says,...
Jewish mysticism, particularly the Zohar, grapples with this feeling all the time, especially when talking about exile – both the physical exile of the Jewish people and the more s...
We’re all running around, stressed, dealing with work, family, life’s endless to-do lists. But then comes Shabbat, the Sabbath. A moment to breathe. A moment to reconnect. But it's...
It's more than just a day of rest; it's a cosmic reset, a moment when the divine presence, the Shekhinah, shines with unparalleled brilliance. But what exactly makes Shabbat so spe...
