Posts Tagged ‘ kabbalah ’

Alef Beit Stretch

February 4, 2013
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Considering how much Jews love yoga, kabbalah, and Jewish-Eastern hybrids (Soy Vay teriyaki sauce, anyone?), it was only a matter of time until a Jewish yoga emerged. And then re-emerged, in the form of Alef Beit Stretch, the brainchild of Dekelyah Winer, an Israeli Hasidic woman who currently lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.…

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A Kabbalistic Spell Book

August 16, 2012
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Chaim Vital (1543-1620) was one of the most prominent students of the famed kabbalist Rabbi Isaac Luria.…

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Electric Golem

February 16, 2012
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The 1920 German silent film The Golem is a classic of early cinema–dark, tortured, dated, and silly,…

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Praying in the Fields

December 29, 2011
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In the sixteenth century, kabbalists living in Safed developed an elaborate ritual…

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Sway While You Pray

May 1, 2011
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In school, many of us were reprimanded: “Sit…

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Finding God in Madonna

September 29, 2010
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What sort of spiritual seeker uses Madonna as…

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