Kabbalah

Music, kabbalah, and time: Inside Eduard Shyfrin’s kabbalistic soundscape

In his latest album, Eduard Shyfrin weaves contemporary music with the spiritual depth of Jewish mysticism, creating a deeply reflective listening experience.

Shyfrin (center) at Abbey Road Studios with producer Mike Hedges (L) and arranger Fred Luzignant
Lockdown

Lockdown: Save your time for love

‘WHAT I do think is highly likely is that Jews who are “visibly Jewish” will be the ones to pay the price for the normalization of antisemitism and the demonization of Zionism in New York.’ Here, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani attends a news conference at NYPD headquarters earlier this month.

What a German-Jewish scholar can tell us about pro-Mamdani Jews today

Black Hole Blues

Black Hole Blues: At the Edge of Time, Space, and No Return


Part 2 - The Relativity of Death: The informational structure of creation

investigating the problem of life and death - The informational structure of Creation

 The Creation Michelangelo

Relative sanctity - Mystery of Red Heifer

The Commandment of the Red Heifer.

 Red Cow qoute

Kabbalah and antisemitism: A condemnation of Lavrov's comment

Eduard Shyfrin condemns the statement by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a news conference after his talks with representatives of Arab League nations, in Moscow, Russia, April 4, 2022.

World’s largest kabbalah collection to move to Israel's National Library

Leaving the Hebrew University’s Givat Ram campus after 40 years, it will relocate two kilometers to the northeast to its permanent home at the new NLI on Ruppin Boulevard.

 GERSHOM SCHOLEM Reading Room, relocating after 40 years at Givat Ram.

Kabbalah meets quantum physics

One of the best-known written introductions to the Kabbalah is that written by Rabbi Yosef Ergas (1685-1730), titled Shomer Emunim, which was recently translated into English.

 Shomer Emunim - The introduction to Kabbalah

This Australian couple is bringing Jewish mysticism secrets to English

“While the Zohar has been translated several times into English, the tikunim have never really been translated into any Western language.”

 David and Marjorie Solomon.

16th-century letter from famed Kabbalist ‘the Arizal’ revealed

The letter, which was sent to the Arizal by someone named David requesting support for a fundraiser, was discovered in the binding of an antique book.

 Letter sent to Rabbi Yitzhak Luria in Egypt.

Mantua, Italy, building Jewish museum on burial site of Kabbalist masters

The Jewish cemetery of San Nicolò is located in Mantua, a small northern Italian town in the Po Valley with a Jewish history dating back to the 12th century.

 A neglected armory in Mantua, Italy, will become a "House of Remembrance" to spotlight the town's Jewish history.

'There is nothing new under the sun' - Ecclesiastes

The Kabbalah of Information and the Philosophy of Mathematics

 King Solomon Meeting the Queen of Sheba glass window

What is Kabbalah?

Eduard Shyfrin Ph.D. and the Philosophy of Religion Project

Eduard Shyfrin