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It’s a question that’s haunted mystics and philosophers for millennia, and the answers are, well, delightfully strange. The Bible tells us that in the beginning, the earth was tohu...
We look up and see blue, maybe clouds, but according to ancient Jewish wisdom, it's so much more than that. It’s a carefully maintained separation, a cosmic balancing act between t...
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 ...
But what about the other tree... the Tree of Life? Here's a mind-bender: God actually didn't forbid Adam from eating from the Tree of Life. He was free to partake! Genesis doesn't ...
It’s a question that’s wrestled with in the profound Kabbalistic text, Sha’ar HaGilgulim, or “The Gate of Reincarnations.” The question arises: if we’re all required to rectify, to...
It’s a question that’s haunted humanity for millennia, and Jewish mysticism offers some fascinating, complex, and ultimately comforting answers. Today, let's dive into a small piec...
We often hear about the Nefesh, Ruach, and Neshama – the soul's vital spark, spirit, and higher soul. But how do these relate to the different realms of existence? And what happens...
It’s a question that has occupied Jewish mystics for centuries. to a fascinating idea from the Sha’ar HaGilgulim, the "Gate of Reincarnations," a text deeply rooted in the teaching...
Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, suggests that we do, in fact, possess layers upon layers, worlds within worlds. It's a concept explored beautifully in the Sha'ar HaGilgulim, or "Gate o...
