The Jewish mystic, like his counterparts in other religions, seeks an ecstatic union with or knowledge of God, Scholem wrote. Mystical works offer accounts of such experiences, instruction in how to ...

Rabbi Rachel Adler is a woman of many accomplishments. She is a celebrated and revered feminist theologian. She is the David Ellenson Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at Hebrew Union College Jewish ...

SAFED, Israel — Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, is known around the world thanks to the many Hollywood celebrities who have embraced its teachings. While Madonna and Demi Moore may be seen walking in ...

The question addressed in this article explores the intersection of theology and mysticism in Judaism and Islam. All religions have mystical elements in every aspect of religious life, from the ...

(RNS) — Jews are not unfamiliar with pain and suffering. We memorialize national calamity with holidays, rituals and remembrances, as we do today on Holocaust Remembrance Day. We have highly scripted ...

It should come as no surprise that, while sitting in a local café, about to take in the final chapter of a book that includes mysticism, folklore, fantasy, and a story about a rabbi who creates a ...

Edited by Lawrence Fine, Eitan Fishbane, and Or N. Rose, Jewish Lights, $24.99 (200p) ISBN 978-1-58023-434-4 Insights into the significance of traditional Jewish mysticism for today's Jews take center ...

If you haven't read Hebrew since the rite-of-passage ceremony known as the bar mitzvah, customarily conducted at the age of 13, then a willfully obscure text of ancient Jewish mysticism is probably ...

Kabbalah, Judaism's mystical tradition, has been practiced for at least 800 years and is, at its essence, as old as mankind. And yet, judging by a profusion of classes, books and celebrity ...

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