In the Jewish case, probably the most famous warning is the tale of the four rabbis who entered Pardes (literally orchard or paradise, but understood to refer to the mystical quest to visit the ...

A fascinating analysis of why there are no female mystics in medieval Judaism. This book addresses a central question in the study of Jewish mysticism in the medieval and early modern periods: why are ...

(credit: Uri Bareket/The National Library of Israel) Mystical Jewish traditions, such as those found in the Kabbalah and the ...

the Jewish mystical tradition. Kimelman took the crowd through the words of “L’cha Dodi,” a poetic prayer sung at the opening of Shabbat — and explained its Kabbalistic significance.

Soon after its founding in the mid-eighteenth century by Jewish mystics, Hasidism rapidly gained popularity in all strata of society, especially among the less educated common people, who were ...

Jewish mystics have historically felt a special affinity towards this holiday and secular zionists later adopted it as a way of establishing a connection to the Land of Israel devoid of anything ...