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We're not just talking about harps and halos. Jewish tradition paints a vivid, even delicious, picture of what awaits in the World to Come: a glorious banquet hosted by God Himself...
According to Ginzberg's retelling in Legends of the Jews, when Abraham reached the ripe old age of twenty, his father Terah, an idol maker, fell ill. Now, Terah needed some cash, s...
We all face temptations, big and small. But imagine being Joseph, sold into slavery in Egypt, and facing down the relentless advances of his master's wife, Zuleika. It's a story of...
The Torah tells us that Pharaoh rose in the night, after the plague of the firstborn. But the Legends of the Jews, drawing on various midrashic sources, paints an even more vivid p...
There's a beautiful custom, a minhag, for the faithful – the tamim in Hebrew – to eat lots of fruit on a particular day, celebrating them with words of praise. And that day is Tu B...
The text begins with a father teaching his son, guiding him to understand that Hakadosh Boruch Hu, the Holy One, Blessed be He, governs the world through His attributes, or middota...
It’s called "growth towards completion." Think of it this way: A Partzuf, a divine configuration or "face" of God, isn't just static. It's dynamic. The Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah teac...
The Sefer Yetzirah, the "Book of Formation," that ancient and mysterious text of Jewish mysticism, offers a breathtaking answer. It suggests that the entire cosmos, from the grande...
It’s a question that’s captivated mystics for centuries, and the ancient text, Sefer Yetzirah, the "Book of Formation," offers a fascinating, if cryptic, answer. We’re diving into ...
