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Essays from the Frater Eisenheim Blog tagged jewish mysticism.
An essay on Daat, the invisible sephirah of the Kabbalah, and its role as abyss and bridge between the upper and lower worlds of the Tree of Life.
Read essay →An essay on the biblical image of the silver cord in Ecclesiastes and the Jewish mystical tradition of the soul that, in sleep, rises and returns, bound to the body by a subtle link.
Read essay →An essay on the symbolism of the pillars of cloud and fire in the book of Exodus, and what they reveal about providence, discernment, and free will.
Read essay →An essay on Jewish and Christian mysticism concerning the human body as a spiritual garment, reflecting on fall, exile and restoration in the light of Kabbalah and gnosis.
Read essay →An essay on the Sefer Yetzirah, a foundational text of Jewish mysticism, and its vision of the creation of the world through the Hebrew letters and the primordial numbers.
Read essay →An essay on the Baal Shem Tov, Hasidism, and the idea that the divine presence dwells within the simplest of everyday things, revealing devekut as a path of life and not merely of ecstasy.
Read essay →An essay on the Shemhamphorasch, the seventy-two names derived from Exodus, and the essential difference between invoking with reverence and possessing with spiritual violence.
Read essay →An essay on the symbolic gesture of Elijah's mantle and what it reveals about spiritual succession, prophetic charisma, and the living transmission of oral tradition.
Read essay →An essay on the Tetragrammaton, the divine names in Kabbalah, and the Jewish reverence for the Ineffable Name, reflecting on language, silence and sacred mystery.
Read essay →An essay on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life as a symbolic map of human character, inviting the reader to an ethical and contemplative examination of the self.
Read essay →An essay on the Shimmush Tehillim, a Jewish tradition that ascribes to the Psalms powers of intercession and protection, and on the boundaries between devotion and the magic of the word.
Read essay →An essay on Hekhalot literature and the mysticism of the Merkabah, a Jewish tradition describing the ascent of the soul through the celestial palaces to the divine throne.
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