The Kabbalah of Adolescence

Do you remember what it was like to be an adolescent? The anger, the confusion, the rebellion? The intense need to express yourself, even in ways that were upsetting to the people around you? Or maybe you are the parent of an adolescent. Maybe you long for the days when he or she was a [...]


An Open Letter to the Jewish Community

Dear Friends: Let me begin by apologizing in advance for what follows. It is not my intention to lecture anyone about anything. I am no tzaddik, to be sure, and I have no right to preach about righteousness to anyone, let alone members of a community who, in many cases, have a moral compass much [...]


The Secret of the Void

Several years ago I had a quiet but intense experience at the wedding of a close friend. I was early, and as I sat at my table I watched the other guests entering the room. One came in elated, dancing like a performer on stage. Another was withdrawn, inward, as if mulling over some sadness [...]


Judaism

In the late sixteenth century, four separate editions of the Nostradamus prophecies were published in the city of Paris, each of which contained major textual alterations from all other editions: thirty-nine prophetic stanzas were entirely deleted and replaced with other stanzas. Morten St. George, author of Incantation of the Law Against Inept Critics: A Guide [...]


The Spirituality of the Jewish Kabbalah

Kabbalah revolves the problems concerning the spiritual worlds. Therefore, the student attracts spiritual lights during the study of the Bible. Studying other parts of the Torah also awakens a certain spiritual illumination, but the intensity of the light during the study of Kabbalah is much stronger than when studying other writings. However, one must make [...]


800-Year Generation Cycles

Description: The 800-year Generation Cycle describes the secondary age of Adam. The Mesoamerican Calendar doubles 400-years for 800-years. Enoch in the Holy Bible used a 364-day-calendar-year. Numerical matching modified the Mayan 104-year Venus Round for the Biblical primary 105-year age of Seth. Twenty multiples of 20-year Katun lunar/solar cycles amount to the Mayan 400-year Baktun [...]


Finding G-d* in the Details

Have you ever been excited about an idea, a project, or a goal, so excited that you felt like you could reach out and touch it – only to find that when you try to bring it into actuality the whole thing breaks down? It’s a common experience. In it’s pure ungrounded form, in your [...]