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According to Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, as the time approached for the Israelites' redemption from Egyptian slavery, a dilemma arose. They hadn't accumulated enough goo...
We all know the big picture: plagues, Moses, Pharaoh, the Red Sea. But what about the details, the little-known corners of the narrative? to one of the most dramatic moments: the s...
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...
Plagues, parting of the Red Sea, freedom! But the details…they’re wild. Imagine the scene: the Egyptians, fresh from the devastation of the tenth plague, practically shoving the Is...
Jewish mysticism offers a fascinating, if complex, answer: gilgul, or reincarnation. Now, when we talk about gilgul, we're not just talking about a simple transfer of a soul from o...
It holds within it a reflection of every single Jewish soul. The text tells us something pretty : that there are precisely 600,000 souls. Not one more, not one less. And the Torah?...
You're not alone. Jewish tradition, especially Kabbalah, is deeply interested in the idea of inner and outer, of the pnim (internal) and chitzon (external) – and it applies this co...
No, we're not talking about geopolitics here! We're talking about the inner landscape of the soul. The great Kabbalist Baal HaSulam, in his introduction to the Zohar, that mystical...
Jewish tradition speaks of this very struggle. It’s not just about good versus evil in some abstract way, but about the constant balancing act we each perform within ourselves, and...
