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Imagine, instead, a ladder in your house that does lead somewhere incredible. A ladder to the divine, to the very Throne of Glory itself! That's the image we get from Heikhalot Rab...
Specifically, we're looking at section 16, which plunges us into some pretty heady stuff. Imagine this: three times a day, a spectacle of "wonderful loftiness and strange lordship"...
really sit with that for a moment. How do you even begin to describe the indescribable? How do you put words to something that transcends all language? Well, the ancient mystics wr...
The ancient mystics certainly did. And in the Heikhalot Rabbati, a text that pulls back the curtain on the heavenly realms, we find a powerful message about just that yearning and ...
Heikhalot Rabbati, a key text in the Heikhalot literature – that's the body of Jewish mystical writings concerning ascents to the divine realm – gives us a glimpse into just such a...
It's not like there was an instruction manual from IKEA! Rabbi Ishmael, relaying a teaching from Rabbi Akiba in the name of Rabbi Eliezer the Great, gives us a pretty amazing insig...
The Maggid Meisharim, a fascinating text attributed to the great Kabbalist, Rabbi Joseph Karo (the same Joseph Karo who compiled the Shulchan Aruch, the Code of Jewish Law!), purpo...
The Mitpachat Sefarim, a text offering guidance on interpreting sacred works, certainly thinks so. It describes the Zohar, that foundational book of Jewish mysticism, as possessing...
I want to tell you a story I heard from Mitpachat Sefarim, a collection of stories and accounts. This particular one involves Rabbi Pinchas Yoshev Ohel, a Torah scholar from Krakow...
