At sundown Friday, 30 Chicagoans will join an anticipated 3,000 students of mysticism in New York for the Kabbalah Centre’s observance of Rosh Hashanah, when they believe the universe will be in ...

Why is the Ka’ba the older brother of the Jerusalem Temple? Prophet Abraham is connected to both sacred sites. Prophets Abraham and Ishmael rebuild the destroyed Ka’ba; and Prophets Abraham and Isaac ...

The Jewish mystic, like his counterparts in other religions, seeks an ecstatic union with or knowledge of God, Scholem wrote. Mystical works offer accounts of such experiences, instruction in how to ...

Rabbi Rachel Adler is a woman of many accomplishments. She is a celebrated and revered feminist theologian. She is the David Ellenson Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at Hebrew Union College Jewish ...

SAFED, Israel — Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, is known around the world thanks to the many Hollywood celebrities who have embraced its teachings. While Madonna and Demi Moore may be seen walking in ...

(RNS) — Jews are not unfamiliar with pain and suffering. We memorialize national calamity with holidays, rituals and remembrances, as we do today on Holocaust Remembrance Day. We have highly scripted ...

It should come as no surprise that, while sitting in a local café, about to take in the final chapter of a book that includes mysticism, folklore, fantasy, and a story about a rabbi who creates a ...

Kabbalah, Judaism's mystical tradition, has been practiced for at least 800 years and is, at its essence, as old as mankind. And yet, judging by a profusion of classes, books and celebrity ...

Years ago when interviewing for a rabbinic position in Denver, a longtime member of the synagogue who has since become a very close friend asked me the following question: “Rabbi, when I die, will I ...