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It’s not just about planting saplings and hugging trunks (though, hey, those are good too!). The celebration of Tu BiShvat, the 15th of the Hebrew month of Shevat, as a "New Year f...
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...
Maybe there's more to that feeling than you realize. Jewish tradition, particularly through the lens of Kabbalah, teaches us that even the simple act of eating is laden with spirit...
It sounds wild, I know. But today, let’s dive into a tradition that encourages us to do just that. A tradition rooted in tikkun, or repair, and the power of mindful action. The ide...
But Jewish mystical tradition, particularly the Kabbalah, suggests exactly that. It proposes that while God, the blessed Creator, reigns over the earth and assigns angels to overse...
It's not just about protection from the elements or hungry animals. In Jewish mystical thought, particularly in Kabbalah, the shells and layers of fruits can tell us a whole lot ab...
But it goes deeper than planting saplings and eating dried fruit. My father, may his memory be a blessing, had a unique way of looking at things, especially when it came to Jewish ...
"And establish for us, the work of our hands." That's a powerful line from Psalm 90:17, isn't it? It speaks to the idea that we can, through our actions, influence not only our own...
That’s the idea behind a beautiful, if somewhat hidden, tradition in Jewish mysticism: consciously engaging with the spiritual root of what we eat. We’ve talked before about the po...
