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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...
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...
We usually don't give it a second thought, but in Jewish mystical thought, even that simple act can be a doorway into understanding the hidden structure of the universe. : fruit. S...
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...
Just a quick "borei peri ha-etz" (Creator of the fruit of the tree) and we're off to eating. But what if I told you that even something as ordinary as grapes or figs could be a doo...
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...
Our story begins with a question, a seeker looking for clarity on a crucial point of Jewish theology: How do we direct our service to God? The initial response, according to our te...
