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


King Charles should step aside for Prince Harry to be king, mystic says

King Charles cracking under pressure and may need to step down, but Harry is more suited for the throne than William numerologically, numerologist Ifat Orlov says.

 King Charles III

What if Adam hadn’t eaten the fruit?

In this article, we conclude the essay called: 'The First Creation of Adam'. 

 Being tempted with forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden

First creation of Adam: What is the Serpent?

The account of the conversation between the Woman and the Serpent is one of the most enigmatic in the Torah; it’s a subject of many debates and commentaries.

 Satan, Battistero di San Giovanni, Florence by Dimitris Kamaras

What can Jewish mysticism teach us about psychedelics?

There’s simply no definitive proof in the archeological and textual evidence of the use of psychoactive drug use in ancient Jewish religious activity.

 psychedelic mushrooms (illustrative)

Veteran pop-folk artist Shem-Tov Levi takes on 18th-century Italian poet

His slot in the forthcoming Oud Days Festival draws on the writings of 18th century Italian rabbi, kabbalist, philosopher, and poet Moshe Haim Luzzatto.

 SHEM-TOV LEVI brings the curtain down on the four-day Oud Days Festival event.

'The Kabbalistic Tree': Exploring a unique dimension of Jewish thought - review

It is a comprehensive history and development of these trees, which includes multiple examples that the author has collected to illustrate his subject.

 ‘Kabbala Denudata’ frontispiece foldout engraving by Johann Christoph Sartorius, 1677.

4,000 years of 'The Logic of the Impossible' - Interview

An in-depth interview with Eduard Shyfrin - founder of the theory of the Kabbalah of Information.

 EDUARD SHYFRIN demonstrates for Israel in London’s Trafalgar Square, Oct. 22

The first creation of Adam: 'It is not good that man is alone'

In this article I will try to provide an answer to the “simple” question of why G-d made woman.

 Adam and Eve

'The Souls of the World of Chaos': Understanding the whole palace - review

When so many attack ideological opponents, the text frames more nuanced critiques

 PRAYER FOR souls: Saying ‘Kaddish’ at an old Jewish cemetery in Prague.

The first Creation of Adam: The Serpent within

This article analyzes he contradictions between the two accounts of the Creation of Man in the Torah and attempt to answer them.

 Jörmungandr is the Midgard Serpent