Remembering the Druze, Muslims, and Christians Who Gave Their Lives for the Jewish State
“To attain a strong, independent state, you must sacrifice. And if I have to, I’ll sacrifice another son.”
April 25, 2023
How Jewish Mystics Drew Maps of the Divine
The kabbalistic tree.
Open any book offering an explanation of Kabbalah to the non-religious reader and you will likely find a diagram of interconnected circles representing the hierarchy of the ten sefirot, or emanations of God that correspond to His different attributes. The long history of such illustrations is the subject of J.H. Chajes’s book The Kabbalistic Tree, which gets its title from the Hebrew word ilan traditionally used to describe them. Avinoam Stillman writes in his review:
April 25, 2023
A British Parliamentarian Argues That Jews Have Suffered Prejudice, but Never Racism
“In pre-civil rights America, . . . Jewish people were not required to sit at the back of the bus.”
The Conservative Rabbi Who Kept God—by Another Name—in Israel’s Founding Document
Harry Zvi Davidowitz and the Rock of Israel.
How Jewish Mystics Drew Maps of the Divine
The kabbalistic tree.
A Mysterious Jerusalem Inscription Might Be Connected to the Kingdom of Sheba
Could the ancient South Arabian alphabet be the key to evidence of the queen’s visit to Solomon?