Naftali Imber
Nextbook.org relaunched its publication(s) in June. Instead of publishing the Nextbook Reader paper, It now has an online magazine called Tablet. All the content of past Nextbook Reader issues have been moved to the...
Category: People
Hakham Yosef Chaim Yahrtzeit
September 2, i.e. Elul 13, was Hakham Yosef Chaim‘s 100th Yahrtzeit. He is better known as Ben Ish Chai after his most popular book. It “is a collection of homilies he gave over two...
Kabbalistic bibliomancy
Excerpt from a Forward article about a Rabbi Chaim Yosef Sharabi, and Israeli psychic who offers amulets and predictions. Rabbi Chaim then set a laptop-sized book spine-down on the desk and instructed my relative to...
Spinoza and Kabbalah
Kvond posted an entry on his Spinoza centered philosophy blog titled Frames/Sing in June to point out “the connection between some of Spinoza’s most elementary ideas, and the thesis that Spinoza was strongly influenced...
Bruria Finkel and the “The Divine Chariot”
The following article at The LookOut News is the summary of an interview with (and short life story of) Bruria Finkel, an artist whose works are based on and in Kabbalah. While Bruria Finkel...
Kabbbalah to Go podcast
A few weeks ago the “Kabbbalah to Go” podcast restarted posting Harav Yitzchak Ginsburgh‘s lectures as podcasts. Last March the site posted 3 lectures in four parts. Then there was a big break and...
Lamentations of Youth: The Diaries of Gershom Scholem, 1913-1919 by Gershom Scholem
Translator: Anthony David Skinner I just read a review of Lamentations of Youth in the New York Sun. . The subtitle of the work tells you whay I am mentioning this book on...
Shabbetai Tzvi video
In the short segment from the History Channel’s program on Shabbati Tzvi we learn a bit about why the restrictions on who should study Kabbalah was created.
Yitzhak Buxbaum
Nextbook published an interview yesterday with Yitzhak Buxbaum. He talks about his atheist phase in college and he shifted towards religion and mysticism, his relation to Judaism and how his gigantic book on “Jewish...
Laszlo and Laitman
On a Hungarian forum on Kabbalah somebody posted a slightly ambiguous message indicating that there is a book written together by Micheal Laitman and Ervin Laszlo. I deeply respect Ervin for his work in...
