Essence & Expression; Etzem & Giluyim

A corner of the universe that is utterly, exclusively, one’s own.

Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and the essence of Jewish mysticism

One of the first things that Moses asked G-d at the Burning Bush: They're going to ask me, "What is His name?" What is the significance of this question? And what is the meaning of G-d's elusive answer?

Commonly perceived as a concession to the weaker sex by the stronger, the rule is actually founded upon a very different rationale

What's the story with those "lots" anyway? Why did Haman cast them, and why do we make such a big deal out of them? The parallels and differences between Purim and Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur is the day that our animal, emotional, intellectual and spiritual selves are linked to form a harmonious one

When a Jew abandons Torah, does he or she lose their connection with G-d? Or is it the Torah that loses its connection with G-d?

Wine has no secrets: when a thing is what it is, it's the same from the inside looking out and from the outside looking in

Sages and mystics explore the primordial "mind" of G-d to ask: Is it the Torah that makes the Jew a Jew, or is it the Jew who makes the Torah a Torah?

"Perhaps I can help you," said the Baal Shem Tov. On small slips of paper he wrote, in simple Yiddish, "morning prayers," "addition for Mondays and Thursdays," "for Shabbat," and inserted them in the innkeeper's siddur