Friday 13th is widely considered to be the most unlucky day of the year, but many are still in the dark about the origins of ...

In a packed room Monday night, more than 30 people spoke in support of Evanston Township High School teacher Andrew Ginsberg, ...

Credit: Proesi, CC BY-SA, 2.0 DE Kabbalah is a Jewish mystical tradition whose most profound influence is Greek philosophy ... and the structured design of the Tree of Life. Certain Greek ...

For many years, Americans have dug through the recesses of world religious heritage seeking an ancient, yet relevant, truth. Jewish mysticism — like Buddhism, paganism and Hinduism before it — is the ...

and even a Mylar emergency blanket to transform unconventional materials into works that engage with Jewish mysticism and protective symbols such as the evil eye and the Hamsa. Using pom-poms ...

The Zohar, the foundational work of Jewish mysticism, teaches that the soul is indestructible and eternal. The body is simply a vessel. The concept of an afterlife is easier to understand when we ...

Some sources suggest the symbol may have been used in ancient Israel with links to King David, though there’s no conclusive evidence for that. The early use of the shape wasn’t exclusive to the Jewish ...

Many people use Kabbalah as a catch-all term for any mystical practice vaguely associated with Jewish ideas. However, scholars use it for a precise tradition of Jewish mysticism claiming ancient ...

In contemporary Jewish mysticism and literature ... individuals today might see dragons as symbols of their fears, addictions, or moral challenges. Overcoming these "dragons" can be seen as ...

an epicenter of Jewish mysticism. Eyal Ben-Ari tugged at the heavy assault rifle hanging over his shoulder as he tiptoed out of his pink house at sunrise, hoping not to wake his wife or six children.