The Promised Land: Israel between Geography and the Soul
An essay on the land of Israel as a mystical symbol and messianic horizon, traversing Jewish, Christian and esoteric traditions with reverence and balance.
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kabbalah
Essays from the Frater Eisenheim Blog tagged kabbalah.
The Temple of Solomon: sacred architecture and the mirror of heaven on earth
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 →The Celestial Jerusalem: Sacred Geometry of a Hope
An essay on the celestial Jerusalem as a universal spiritual symbol, exploring its numerical, eschatological and interior symbolism within the Judeo-Christian and esoteric traditions.
Read essay →The Divine Spark Imprisoned in Matter: Notes on the Exile and Return of the Soul
An essay on the ancient intuition that the human soul carries a divine spark exiled in matter, and on the paths of gnosis, discernment and charity that lead to its recognition.
Read essay →The Seventy-Two Names of God: History and Meaning
An essay on the Kabbalistic tradition of the Shemhamphorasch, the seventy-two divine names, their origin in Exodus, and their spiritual and philosophical significance.
Read essay →Tikkun Olam: the reparation of the world as spiritual mission
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 →Gematria: When Hebrew Letters Become Number and Meaning
An essay on Hebrew gematria as a hermeneutic tradition of Kabbalah, exploring its history, its limits, and its value as a meditation upon sacred language.
Read essay →Hear: the Shemá Israel and the mystery of Unity
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 →Elohim: the Name That Is Many and Is One — Reflections on the Sacred Word
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.
Read essay →The Merkabah: the Throne, the Vision, and the Silence of the Prophet
An essay on the mysticism of the Merkabah in Judaism, the prophetic vision of the divine Throne, and what it reveals about the limits and dignity of spiritual experience.
Read essay →Ein Sof: the Formless Infinite in Jewish Mysticism
An essay on Ein Sof, the unutterable Infinite of the Kabbalah, and on what Jewish mysticism teaches us about the silence that precedes all divine manifestation.
Read essay →The Tree of Life in Kabbalah: the Ten Sephiroth as a Map of the Soul
An essay on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life and its ten Sephiroth, read as a symbol of the interior itinerary of the human soul toward the Absolute.
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