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


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

Golden Beauty

“They shall make an ark... two and a half cubits its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.”

 Uomo Vitruviano Vitruvian Man 1492 Leonardo Da Vinci.

And G-d said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness'

Theory of Likeness Part 1

MICHELANGELO’S ‘Creation of Adam’ – God as pure thought or reason?

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