Translating Ḥayyim of Volozhin’s kabbalistic treatise.

Yitzchok Hutner’s kabbalistic interpretation of the holiday.

A review of Circle, Arrow, Spiral.

The value of lived religious experience over rationalist claims.

Avraham Yurovitch, who died in 2002, was a rabbi of some prominence in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox community. He was also a mystic who taught meditative techniques. . .

Discussion of the afterlife is largely absent from Jewish religious discussion today, but for a long time the concept of postmortem reward and punishment was. . .

The Italian humanist Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was among the first of many Renaissance Christian thinkers to become interested in Jewish mysticism. David Navarro reviews. . .

A Yiddish expression that translates literally as “I have it in my left earlock,” and figuratively as “I don’t give a damn,” is not one. . .

Rather than eschewing the physical, the Chabad movement aims to reveal the material world as another form of divine expression.

A search for the origins of a well-known rabbinical expression leads to the New Testament, and specifically to the book of Matthew.