... to give to us if only we can receive. Giving and receiving are at the heart of kabbalistic doctrine, hence it is no great surprise that the esoteric spiritual tradition of Judaism is called Kabbalah, which literally means “receiving.” According to Kabbalah, our purpose as created beings is to receive...

...Paul Levy Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2014 W hen sigmund freud was first introduced to the Kabbalah, he exclaimed, “This is gold!” Carl Jung expressed a similar excitement, going so far as to say that the kabbalistic writings of Rabbi Baer from Mesiritz “anticipated my entire psychology...

... Shekhinah beyond theory into practice? [BOOKS] of the brilliant aesthetic developed in a May we actually, as Debbie Friedman’s polyglot Andalusia. The album skillfully KABBALAH FOR song promises, “be blessed...

...DAVID SEIDENBERG Response to Arthur Green’s Review of KABBALAH AND ECOLOGY: God’s Image in the More-Than-Human World . Cambridge University Press , 2015 Copyright © 2017 Tikkun magazine 2017 Pixabay Pixabay A rt green and i agree on so many important issues—not only...

... or light waves, then every being is an image of God, a Buddha, a Christ. In addition, the Cosmic Christ (or Cosmic Wisdom) is the “pattern that connects” (see Col. 1:15–20). For Kabbalah, there are sparks of the dimension of divinity in all things, whether inanimate or living, whether wholly of nature...

... is the modern conundrum. Good luck, Israel! I’d pray for you if I were religious. — John Balawejder, Santa Cruz, CA INSIGHTS FROM KABBALAH I am a new subscriber to Tikkun magazine. I must say that since I received my first issue in Spring 2015, my heart has been leaping with joy. The space...

... with him in Jerusalem in the summer of 1986 he described to me with glee his notion that oil would be discovered under that same Western Wall where he met “Shoshana”—so that all the theocratic politicians would have to choose between money and religion. When I told him I was going to a kabbalah class...

...ARTHUR GREEN KABBALAH AND ECOLOGY: God’s Image in the More-Than-Human World . by Seidenberg David M. , Cambridge University Press , New York , 2015 . Copyright © 2017 Tikkun magazine 2017 Illustration by Hanna Barczyk Illustration by Hanna Barczyk I have to begin...

... WWW.TIKKUN.ORG TIKKUN 75 CULTURE As far back as 1989, Lawrence Fine, a Creator-Eloheinu, Divine Steward of the Seder, we bring out this precious part that scholar of Lurianic Kabbalah, showed how...

... in the Bible through Kabbalah and Hasidism, to bear fruit only in the postwar turn by Jewish Renewal to New Age religion in America. It is Schachter-Shalomi who articulates this spiritual, cultural, and aesthetic tradition in metaphysical terms. In doing so, he moves through and beyond the neo-Hasidic revival...

.... In nearly all his novels there is a character or characters with a mystic vision of the world: some are students of Kabbalah, trying to approach God through meditation. “In Kabbalah, all books can be read on four levels: literal, allegorical, ethical, and mystical,” Zimler told me in an interview in 2007...

... our fate. We’re not going to “get it all together,” much as we might wish or hard as we might try. One of the profound gifts of Kabbalah is the example of reducing multiplicity to polarities, thereby making them manageable. This acceptance of duality has helped me remain engaged and energized over...