Kabbalah is considered by some Jewish leaders to be the purview of men over 40 who have studied the Torah for years. But today many religious centers and universities offer beginners a more accessible version.One of the best known: the Kabbalah Centre, which claim 400,000 students--including ...
a physician and one of America’s leading herbalists. Dr. Puleo claimed to have been intuitively guided to examine the Book of Numbers (4th book of the Hebrew Bible and 4th of five books of the Jewish Torah). In Chapter 7 of the Book, between Verses 12 and 83, Dr. Puleo ...
Dr. Hugh Schonfield, whose work on the Dead Sea Scrolls is well-known, developed one of the more interesting theories. Schonfield, who had studied a Jewish cipher called the Atbash cipher, which was used in translating some of the Dead Sea Scrolls, claimed that when one applied the cipher...
philosophies, and worldviews. But I think I would argue that one of those common elements is anopennessto the radical plurality of things, an affirmation of the inherently multiple nature of the manifold powers that compose the world, and hence a ...
The model has been attributed to theJewish Kabbalah,Christian mysticismandSufism, a mystical form of Islam. In fact, it has been posited that Dante apparently had very good knowledge of the Enneagram since the characters in The Divine Comedy correspond largely to the Enneagram types!
Jewish mysticism, particularly Kabbalah, attributes deep spiritual, symbolic, and mystical significance to names and the Hebrew alphabet. According to Kabbalah, the letters are not merely linguistic symbols but cosmic forces that serve as the building blocks of creation. The new Customized Ancient ...
So: Did You Take the Quiz? I’d love to know your score, and what question(s) surprised you: Comments are open. ––– The quiz question I got wrong? I didn’t know what Kabbalah is: “an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism,” as Wikipedia says. ...
Kabbalah & the God Question; Jewish mysticism is feeling quite the publicity bump, thanks to its newly minted celeb devotees. But behind the Hollywood glitter is a centuries-old pursuit of knowledge about many of life's grandest mysteries.(NEWS)(FAITH & VALUES)Barbieri, Susan M...
The recent revival of interest in Kabbalah, in part due to the efforts of celebrities including Madonna, Brittany Spears, and Demi Moore, has brought with it a new public for kabbalah accessories, including hamsas. Hamsascan be purchased todayin Judaica shops around the world, and even through...
Israel has a festival for planting trees, which is calledTu Bishvat, which is also known as the New Year for trees. The term “Tu Bishvat: comes from the Jewish date, meaning the 15th of Shvat, which is the fifth month in the Jewish calendar. It is celebrated by planting trees and ...