For an English-speaking beginner today, the single most likely first encounter with a real Kabbalistic primary source is a book with his name on the cover. Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan spent a relatively short life producing an extraordinary body of careful, sourced translation and explanation that brought authentic Jewish texts, including some of the most difficult […]
Search his name online and the results tend toward the sensational: hidden codes, secret predictions, mystical powers attributed to a man who supposedly never slept more than two hours a night. Some of this circulates as folklore that grew up around a genuinely towering figure. Very little of it reflects the actual character of Rabbi […]
Ask most Jews who study Torah with any regularity and they will recognize the name Ramban instantly, usually from the margin of a Chumash, where his commentary sits alongside Rashi’s as one of the two most consulted voices on the weekly Torah portion. Fewer know that the man behind that commentary, Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman, […]
“How do I study Kabbalah?” is one of the most common questions a sincere beginner asks, and one of the most poorly answered online. Search results tend to split into two unhelpful extremes: a weekend workshop promising instant access to ancient secrets, or a forum insisting the subject is entirely off-limits to anyone who has […]
Most people encounter ideas about Kabbalah before they encounter Kabbalah itself. They hear that it teaches you can manifest wealth through intention, that the physical world is an illusion to be transcended, that a red string can absorb bad energy, or that ten “energy centers” describe personality types the way a horoscope might. Some of […]
Ask ten people what Kabbalah is and you will likely get ten different answers. A red string. A celebrity fad. A book of spells. A secret code hidden in the Torah. Somewhere underneath all of that noise sits something much older, much more disciplined, and much less strange than the popular version suggests: a serious […]
The Baal Shem Tov tried more than once to reach the Holy Land, and every time he was turned back. An axle cracked on the road. A storm rose on the sea and a captain refused to sail further. Once he arrived in Istanbul with his daughter Udel and his attendant Reb Tzvi Sofer, penniless […]
The calling to repair, also known as Tikkun Olam, is incumbent upon everyone There is a concept that runs like a golden thread in Kabbalistic thought: the idea that the world as we experience it is not yet complete, and that we, as human beings, are called upon to participate in its completion. This concept […]
The Zohar, the Arizal, and centuries of Kabbalistic tradition teach that Brit Milah touches the very root of the soul and reshapes a Jew’s spiritual reality in ways that ripple through all the worlds. There are moments in Jewish life that transcend the ordinary. The birth of a son carries with it waves of joy, […]
Rosh Chodesh, the sanctification of the new moon, is one of the most spiritually charged moments in the Jewish calendar. It is far more than a date on a calendar or a liturgical formality. In the teachings of the Kabbalists, Rosh Chodesh marks a quantum renewal, a monthly rebirth of the Shechinah herself, and an […]
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