Mysticism

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Explore 1,124 Jewish texts related to the theme of Mysticism, drawn from Midrash, Kabbalah, Apocrypha, and classical Jewish literature.

Anafiel, The Creator Of The Beginning

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Let’s talk about Anafiel. Now, Anafiel isn't exactly a household name, even in circles that discuss angels. But, according to some ancient texts, this angel is a big deal. Tree of ...

The Creator Of The World

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But Jewish tradition is full of fascinating, sometimes mind-bending, ideas about how creation actually unfolded. And there's this figure...this mysterious being...known as Yotzer B...

The First Created Being

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We often jump straight to God, the Creator, but Jewish mystical tradition offers a fascinating glimpse at something...more. Something that acted as a bridge between the unknowable ...

The Cosmic Tree

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Jewish tradition offers us just such a vision: the Cosmic Tree. In the beginning, according to some mystical texts, God planted this tree, a being of unimaginable scale stretching ...

Adam The Golem

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The mystics imagined it, and what they saw is pretty wild. The story goes that when God decided to create Adam, it wasn't a snap of the fingers. It was a process. A cosmic sculptin...

God And The Spirits Of The Unborn

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There's a story about that. It's a bittersweet tale, really, about beginnings and forgetting, and it goes something like this... Imagine a circle. Not just any circle, but a celest...

Adam And The Spirits

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It paints a picture of a moment teeming with… competition. Imagine this: Adam's body is there, perfectly formed. The first human. But he’s… inert. Lifeless. And according to the Zo...

The Ziz

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I'm not talking about some sci-fi creature, but a being from Jewish lore: the Ziz. Imagine this: a colossal bird, its feet planted in the ocean, the water only reaching its ankles....

How To Grasp A Soul

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Specifically, in practical Kabbalah, where the veil between worlds feels thin enough to touch. It's all about calling upon souls. Reaching out to them. But how? According to Tree o...