Kabbalah

'Jews are Magic': Museum exhibit explores Jewish fascination with occultism

Jews Are Magic,” opening this month at YIVO’s Manhattan headquarters, explores the Jewish fascination with mysticism, fortune telling, amulets, psychics, and occult practices.

YIVO'S EDDY Portnoy, who curated the exhibit "Jews Are Magic," with a reproduction of a High Holiday card featuring a Jewish palm reader, Warsaw c. 1910.
Red Blues Single

Mysticism meets melody in Eduard Shyfrin’s ‘Red Blues’

EDUARD SHYFRIN, author, scientist, and musician.

Eduard Shyfrin introduces a first-ever systematic theory of Kabbalah for the modern era

Eduard Shyfrin- UNCONDITIONAL

The memory that turned into a song


This week in Jerusalem: Biggest trauma

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

 GIVE A warm welcome to the 243 babies born over the chag in Jerusalem’s largest hospitals.

Benny Gal: A man of vision and action… and my mentor

I’m at the crossroads of a major successful breakthrough which I’ll now share with my beloved coach Benny at his place of rest. I will miss him dearly.

 Benny Gal

Everything you need to know to navigate learning Kabbalah

Read about two books that explore the development of the study of Kabbalah - how did it become so popular?

The title page of the first printed edition of the Zohar from Mantua, Italy in 1558

Understanding the concept of infinity in Judaism

When we put our hands over our eyes during the Shema, we are close to understanding the kabbalistic understanding of infinity.

United Hatzalah founder and president Eli Beer closes his eyes to recite the ‘Shema’ as he arrives at Ben-Gurion International Airport on April 21

Lag Ba'omer tragedy: Why do Jews gather at Mt. Meron for bonfires?

Every year, tens of thousands of Jews from all backgrounds arrive at Mt. Meron to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba'omer, but why is this particular mountain so significant?

Lag Ba'omer festivities draw tens of thousands to Mt. Meron‏.

Devil of the Other Side

“This shall be the fringes for you, and when you see it, you will remember all the commandments of the Lord to perform them” (Numbers 15:39)

 Hell Demons

Travels with Sushi in the Land of the Mind’ - Live discussion

Meet author Eduard Shyfrin * A London Jewish Book Week pre-event

Eduard Shyfrin

Learning Kabbalah through coloring books

"The Kabbalah Coloring Book is really two books in one. It works for kids as a coloring book, and it works for adults."

COLORING AS meditation.

Kabbalah book review: Teaching Kabbalah to kids

'Travels with Sushi in the Land of the Mind' introduces children to quantum physics and classic morality through a journey to another universe.

Travels with Sushi in the Land of the Mind

Kabbalah and the prophecy of the Egyptian exile

Chapter 1 of the essay 'The Kabbalah of Information on Freedom of Choice, Tzimtzum, and the Physics of Spacetime'

Ladislav Šaloun's statue of Judah Loew ben Bezalel (The Maharal) at the New City Hall of Prague in the Czech Republic.