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


First creation of Adam: Does G-d use Ockham’s Razor? 

Part One - The family of minimal principles

 Orcam's razor

Orthodox pilgrimage to the grave of Kabbalah rabbi buried in Istanbul picks up after COVID slump

Pilgrimages made by Orthodox groups of varying sizes to the grave sites of similarly revered Jewish figures across Europe, are far from uncommon and have spawned a cottage travel industry.

Kabbalah Center in Tzfat

The first creation of Adam - Where, When, Why?

 Adam images

A day in Kabbalistic Safed

The Ruth Safed Hotel is located in the heart of Safed's Artists' Colony and has hosted travelers and merchants.

 RUTH SAFED Hotel.

Reincarnation: What is it, what does Judaism say about it? - explainer

Reincarnation is a belief that the soul is reborn in a new body and identity after death. Some religions believe in it and it is in Kabbalah, and some claim Anne Frank was reincarnated.

Reincarnation

The Red Button of Adam - Part 2

“These are the generations of the heavens and the earth…” 

 Red Button

E. Shyfrin -talks about Kabbalah of Information and condemns aggression against Ukraine

Eduard Shyfrin – a year of breakthrough and sorrow.

 PRAYING AT Rabbi Simeon Bar Yochai’s tomb in Meron. A 1st-century tannaitic sage in ancient Israel and an eminent disciple of Rabbi Akiva, Rashbi is attributed by many with the authorship of the Zohar, chief work of the Kabbalah

Internet goes wild over fake Kabbalah magic circle saying 'tomato soup' and 'I fear squirrels'

Some people who dabble in Kabbalah may have found themselves played for fools by a prankster who made some hilarious fake Hebrew magic symbols.

Cold tomato soup 521

Saving literature from amnesia: Revisiting Isaac Bashevis Singer - review

Even though not clearly observant, Yiddishkeit is manifest in Singer’s writings. The presence of God can be seen in his writings.

 BILGORAJ, POLAND – Isaac Bashevis Singer’s memorial bench in 2016.

UK Jewish lawmaker mourns Queen Elizabeth’s death with Kabbalah lesson

Baron David Wolfson walked his peers through several aspects of Jewish tradition, including gematria, the Jewish practice of finding meaning through the numerical value of words.

Baron David Wolfson