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.
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kabbalah
Essays from the Frater Eisenheim Blog tagged kabbalah.
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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