Eight hundred years before Oliver Sacks started poking around patients’ brains to see how they produce hallucinations, another Jew, Abraham Abulafia, was doing similar research on himself — by ...

Eduard Shyfrin, PhD, founder of the theory of the Kabbalah of Information and Kabbalah expert, speaks with Robert Lawrence Kuhn, host of the Closer To Truth TV series. What is Kabbalah? Can we explore ...

The Book of Shemot, Parashat Terumah: "The Ark shall be a precise blend of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high." In the previous article (“And ...

Dr. Israel Netanel Rubin rejects Kabbalah so sharply that his criticism begins with the word itself. Rubin, a scholar of Jewish thought, says the term was adopted to suggest continuity with earlier ...

When I was growing up, I saw my father letting the flame of his Jewish identity burn down as low as it could go without extinguishing altogether. He viewed all formal aspects of Judaism with bemused ...

Kabbalah is so… last decade. I still remember the flush of excitement, confusion, appreciation and concern that I felt in 1998 when I first read that Madonna was going to The Kabbalah Centre, and that ...

Former supporters of the Kabbalah Centre have sued the Los Angeles-based spiritual organization for fraud, alleging the misuse of more than $1 million they contributed to a building fund and ...