We have a recent phenomenon in Judaism of often running Jewish event programming that is missing a feeling of enough connection to Judaism. For example, at a Sukkot or Hanukkah gathering, from a ...

We also concluded that there is a connection between the Ark of the Covenant, the Altar and Noah’s Ark, and the Sefirah of Malchut from the realm of Atziluth. The conclusion of the previous article ...

My fellow columnist at the Forward, the estimable J.J. Goldberg, has written a blog post about my May 19 column, “Could the Holy Ghost be Jewish?” In his blog, he respectfully takes exception to my ...

The subject of this letter, the ten sefirot of the World of Atzilut and of the other worlds, is a fundament of both Kabbalah and Chasidut. All the worlds are both created and conducted by means of the ...

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If you don’t follow Philologos, the Forward’s inimitable language columnist, you’re missing one of the outstanding intellectual joys in contemporary Jewish life. I don’t say that idly. Week after week ...

Who or what is the Serpent? According to the Midrash, the Serpent was an upright-walking animal the size of a camel with Satan for a rider. The Serpent pushed the Woman towards the Tree, according to ...