The ten sefirot, often translated as “emanations” of God, are a concept developed in Jewish kabbalistic theology. The kabbalists understood God as both infinite and hidden as well as manifestly ...

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 ...

God funnels His will through the primary Sefirot of intellect, creating a world where each event, interaction is part of a larger, comprehensible pattern We are now ready to introduce the 10 Sefirot - ...

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Reprinted with permission from Iyyun, an institute for the exploration of the deeper dimensions of Torah. In a self-contained and rigid paradigm of cause and affect, action/reaction, freedom is merely ...

Prayer lifts us above a fragmented world, where we turn our focus to only One God, whose many attributes make up one cohesive union In previous articles we discussed the idea of 10 Sefirot - the 10 ...

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 ...