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Articles by My Jewish Learning
Discovering Kabbalah and the Zohar
Kabbalah was a mainstream philosophy of Judaism for 400 years and the Zohar has been a core to understanding the ...
Longing: Poems of a Life Book Launch
Join CCAR Press to celebrate the release of “Longing: Poems of a Life” by the acclaimed poet, playwright, educator, and ...
Mussar and Kabbalah
Mussar is a path of contemplative practices and exercises that help you become aware of the habit patterns that stop ...
Space: Understanding the Tree of Life
Space: A key to consciousness in Kabbalah is the Tree of Life, a visual map of how infinite and finite ...
Poetry and Kabbalah
Allen Afterman, in his opening line of Kabbalah and Consciousness calls Kabbalah the “holographic, poetic universe of Judaism.” What poetry ...
Soul: An Introduction to Kabbalah
Soul: The study of Kabbalah enables us to discover what is hidden from our perception in plain sight. In this ...
A Visit to the Heart of the Ancient Silk Road: The Jews of Uzbekistan
According to tradition, the oldest of Uzbekistan’s Jewish communities, that in Bukhara, was established more than 2,000 years ago following ...
Tour of Jewish Bessarabia: Today’s Moldova
Today Moldova is still a home to some 15,000 – 20,000 Jews. Historically, this land was known as Bessarabia, and ...
Demystifying History Part 2: FDR and the Holocaust
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the greatest president of the twentieth century, a magnificent leader during the Depression and in the ...
Exodus — The Ship that Launched a Nation
The story of the Exodus, the ship that carried 4,500 Jewish refugees from Europe to Palestine in 1947, encapsulates the ...