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


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

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