The Sefirot and Meditation
Exploring the Inner Dimensions of Jewish Experience Soft Cover, 395 pages The groundbreaking book, The Sefirot and Meditation: Exploring the Inner Dimensions of Jewish Experience, explains the sefirot as Divine channels through which an infinite God creates and sustains a finite world, and how they manifest and influence the material world and the human soul. […]
Forgetting and Remembering- Parshat Eikev
Parshat Eikev One of the special fruits of the land of Israel are olives. The Talmud teaches a very unique quality of olives: eating olives leads to forgetfulness, while eating olive oil leads to a good memory. Based on this idea the advice given when eating olives is to always pour a bit of olive […]
Abraham’s Journey- Parshat Masei
Parshat Masei The number forty-two, the number of journeys mentioned in this portion has many deep associations in Kabbalah (See Orchard of Delights on this portion). One of these associations is connected to Abraham. The prophet Isaiah exclaimed in God’s name: “But you, Israel My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, […]