Kabbalah

Returning to the mountain: A Rosh Hashanah homecoming in Safed

Safed has spent 500 years turning brokenness into renewal. Today, its ancient stone alleys hold a living landscape of healing, spirituality, art, food, and community.

AT HIS Safed Gallery of Mystical Art, Avraham Loewenthal converts the four traditional shofar blasts, tekiah, shevarim, teruah, and tekiah gedolah, into sound-mapped digital paintings, each canvas built from the frequency patterns of the ancient call.
ISRAEL POLICE arrest a suspect in the murder of Rabbi Amos Guetta, July 1, 2026.

Man indicted for aggravated murder of Kabbalist Rabbi Amos Guetta, calls him 'false messiah'

“The Pendulum” by Eduard Shyfrin

'The Pendulum' music video by Shyfrin Alliance: Everything has its season

Eduard Shyfrin - The Cage

“The Cage” music video by Shyfrin Alliance: The state of Creation before the Sin


Kabbalah of Information: 'The Theory of Evil - Part I'

'Evil does not abide with you' (Psalms 5:5) - The Informational Structure of Creation. The Fundamental Laws and Principles. The Informational Concept of Evil.

Noah and the flood

'Lucky Chameleon': An intriguing new art exhibit in Tel Aviv

Khen Shish's dynamism, naturally, spills out onto the canvas or, in this case, paper when she picks up a paintbrush and the muse hits her.

 THE ‘LUCKY Chameleon’ exhibit offers a distilled sense of what Shish is all about.

AstroloJew: The tempting triggers of the month of Heshvan

Make Heshvan “ram” (high) and not “mar” (bitter) by tempering triggers, responding and not reacting, and thinking twice and then twice more before acting.

Las Cumbres Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope color composite of the electron-capture supernova 2018zd (the large white dot on the right) and the host starburst galaxy NGC 2146 (toward the left)

The address of God

The Book of Shemot, Parashat Terumah: "The Ark shall be a precise blend of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high."

 Second Temple

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