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It’s a question that’s haunted humanity for millennia, and Jewish mystical tradition offers a fascinating answer, one that hinges on the very act of speech. : Before anything exist...
Jewish tradition offers a fascinating way to understand this feeling, especially when it comes to encountering the Divine. It all comes down to light. Not just any light, but the o...
That feeling, that yearning, might be closer to the truth than you think. In Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, we talk about the Sefirot (סְפִירוֹת), often translated as ema...
And it leads us to a fascinating concept in Jewish mystical thought: the idea that everything – absolutely everything – was once contained within the very essence of the Divine. Be...
Jewish mystical tradition grapples with this very feeling. It speaks of an "Encompassing Light" – a concept that can be both beautiful and a little intimidating. So, what exactly i...
It’s a question that’s plagued philosophers and mystics for centuries. And in Jewish mystical tradition, the answer, at least in part, lies in a concept called Tzimtzum. Tzimtzum (...
The text speaks of Tzimtzum (צמצום), a concept central to Lurianic Kabbalah. Tzimtzum literally means "contraction," and it refers to God's initial act of self-limitation, making s...
This text, a Kabbalistic work, grapples with a question that's plagued humanity for millennia: why does imperfection persist? Why, if we believe in a benevolent and all-powerful fo...
A time when holiness wasn't just a nice idea, but the dominant force. The Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah, a Kabbalistic text whose name roughly translates as "Thresholds of Wisdom," paint...
