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We read in Genesis that God spoke and creation happened. But what if there were… helpers? What if the story is a bit more layered, a bit more collaborative? There's a fascinating m...
Jewish tradition offers some pretty wild and wonderful cosmologies. And a recurring image? Water. Waters upon waters, in fact. According to some mystical teachings, long ago, prime...
It offers a rather…unique take on the second day of Creation. We all know the story: God creates the rakia, the firmament, on the second day. He separates the waters above from the...
Jewish tradition offers some pretty fascinating, and sometimes unsettling, answers. Take the story of Satan's fall from grace. It's not just a simple tale of rebellion; it's a comp...
Did God have help when creating the world? It’s a question that’s sparked debate and wonder for centuries. Most traditions emphasize that God alone brought the universe into being,...
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 ...
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...
The Jewish mystical tradition certainly does. It paints a fascinating, and sometimes even controversial, picture of Adam as both the first and the last of God's creations. Now, we ...
We often think of him in the Garden of Eden, or perhaps being expelled from it. But Jewish tradition holds some truly fascinating ideas about his ultimate fate. One such idea, foun...