Kabbalah

What’s a dybbuk, and how did it get into Jewish lore?

Morris Faierstein
June 24 2025 12:01AM

The bizarre career of Jacob Frank.

Pawel Maciejko
Feb. 20 2025 12:01AM

Heresy, kabbalah, magic, science, Freemasonry, and two angry rabbis.

Maoz Kahana
Feb. 5 2025 12:01AM

A mystical creed that hasn’t entirely faded away.

Matt Goldish
Jan. 16 2025 12:01AM

The printing press and Jewish mysticism.

Avraham Oriah Kelman
Dec. 12 2024 12:01AM

Reincarnation, visits to Muslim fortunetellers, and exorcisms.

Morris Faierstein
Oct. 31 2024 12:01AM

Abraham Isaac Kook.

Yehudah Mirsky
Sept. 12 2024 12:01AM

A new book tackles the history of one of Kabbalah’s most elusive ideas.

Eli Rubin
July 23 2024 12:01AM

Ashlag’s ladder to the Zohar.

Yehuda Fogel
July 12 2024 12:01AM

An unresolved paradox when it comes to secular culture.

Mark Gottlieb
July 1 2024 12:01AM

Leo Perutz’s By Night Under the Stone Bridge.

June 17 2024 12:01AM

Shavuot reflections from a country at war.

June 7 2024 12:01AM

And the rabbi who tried to convert the pope.

Tamar Marvin
April 9 2024 12:01AM