Joseph Karo and the Judeo-Islamic tradition.

And became a guest at the seder.

“You will give truth to Jacob, lovingkindness to Abraham.”

Colonial and Revolutionary thinkers were influenced by a Renaissance tradition of Christian kabbalism.

From medieval anti-Semitism to occult novels to a real-life Harry Potter character.

The legacy of the great scholar of Jewish mysticism.

A message to Isaac Luria.

“Our father Jacob never dies.”

Kabbalah in the colonies.

Ḥayyim of Volozhin—and his ḥasidic grandson.

Before Groucho Marx and Henny Youngman, there was Broka Ḥoza’ah.

In the Middle Ages, one of Judaism’s most enduring symbols took on new meaning.

“By creating symbolic structures on earth that parallel supernal ones, human beings draw God’s presence down into the world.”

Lag ba-Omer and a German Jew’s path to a once-neglected subject.