Latest posts
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‘A Jewish Prayer for Anxious Days’
When fear is loud, the Psalms give you words — out of the depths, in my distress I called. A Jewish way to pray through anxiety, drawn from the sources.
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‘A Jewish Answer to Anxiety’
Judaism does not shame anxiety — the Psalms name fear out loud and turn it toward God. A gentle Jewish way to meet anxious days, drawn from the sources.
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‘Fear Not: The Words God Says Most Often’
Fear not — be not afraid — is one of the most repeated phrases in the Torah, always joined to for I am with you. What it asks of you, from the sources.
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‘Cast Your Burden: The Weight You Were Never Meant to Carry’
Cast your burden on the LORD, and He will sustain you. What it means to hand over the weight you carry, drawn from the Psalms and the Jewish sources.
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‘The Tree of Life: Kabbalah”s Map of the Sefirot’
The Kabbalistic Tree of Life maps the ten sefirot and the paths between them. What the tree means, drawn from Sefer Yetzirah — not the occult version.
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‘The Shechinah: The Indwelling Presence of God’
The Shechinah is God’s nearness — the Presence that dwells among us. What the Shechinah means in Jewish thought and Kabbalah, and how to sense it.
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‘The Twenty-Two Letters: How the World Was Spoken Into Being’
Kabbalah teaches that God created through the twenty-two Hebrew letters. What Sefer Yetzirah says about the letters of creation, and why it matters.
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‘The Divine Names: The Sealed Name in Kabbalah’
In Kabbalah the names of God are doorways of contemplation, not spells. What Sefer Yetzirah teaches about the divine name that seals creation.
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‘The Hidden God: When the Divine Face Is Concealed’
Hester panim — the hiding of God’s face — names the seasons when the Divine feels absent. What Jewish thought says about concealment, and how to wait in it.
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‘The Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom’
Sefer Yetzirah says God made the world through thirty-two paths of wisdom — the ten sefirot and twenty-two letters. What the paths are, and how to walk them.