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Essays from the Frater Eisenheim Blog tagged judaism.
An essay on the Shemhamphorash and the tradition of the seventy (or seventy-two) Names of God, read as a symbolic multiplication of divine mercy within Kabbalistic angelology.
Read essay →An essay on the Menorah of the Temple of Jerusalem as a priestly symbol of sacred light, exploring its historical, liturgical and spiritual meaning within Judaism.
Read essay →An essay on Joseph of Egypt, called by his brothers 'master of dreams,' and on oneiric interpretation as a legitimate — and perilous — path of approach to the sacred.
Read essay →An essay on the figure of the Destroying Angel in biblical and Talmudic traditions, exploring the balance between divine justice and mercy.
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 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.
Read essay →An essay on the Tzimtzum in Lurianic Kabbalah: the contraction of Ein Sof, the primordial void, and the mystery of how the Infinite makes room for the world.
Read essay →An essay on the Temple of Solomon as sacred architecture, exploring its spiritual symbolism, its memory in Israel, and its echo in the initiatic tradition.
Read essay →An essay on the Jewish concept of tikkun olam, the reparation of the world, and its ethical resonance for every seeker who wishes to unite faith and transformative action.
Read essay →An essay on the Shemá Israel, the central prayer of Judaism, and its declaration of divine unity as a philosophical and spiritual key for all monotheistic traditions.
Read essay →An essay on the divine name Elohim, its mysterious grammar and the power of the sacred word within monotheistic traditions, between reverence, philosophy and discernment.
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