Kabbalah

'The Pendulum' music video by Shyfrin Alliance: Everything has its season

In In the Shadow of Time, the businessman, Kabbalah scholar, and musician transforms ancient wisdom into rock and blues, using songs like "Pendulum" to examine the rhythms that shape human life.

“The Pendulum” by Eduard Shyfrin
Eduard Shyfrin - The Cage

“The Cage” music video by Shyfrin Alliance: The state of Creation before the Sin

YIVO'S EDDY Portnoy, who curated the exhibit "Jews Are Magic," with a reproduction of a High Holiday card featuring a Jewish palm reader, Warsaw c. 1910.

'Jews are Magic': Museum exhibit explores Jewish fascination with occultism

Red Blues Single

Mysticism meets melody in Eduard Shyfrin’s ‘Red Blues’


Eduard Shyfrin introduces a first-ever systematic theory of Kabbalah for the modern era

In ‘The Relativity of Death,’ Shyfrin transforms centuries of mystical thought into a structured framework – connecting information, consciousness, and reality’s deeper architecture.

EDUARD SHYFRIN, author, scientist, and musician.

The memory that turned into a song

A childhood memory of growing up in a crowded Ukrainian apartment, surrounded by family and unconditional love - suddenly became the inspiration for a song written in just half an hour.

Eduard Shyfrin- UNCONDITIONAL

Music, kabbalah, and time: Inside Eduard Shyfrin’s kabbalistic soundscape

In his latest album, Eduard Shyfrin weaves contemporary music with the spiritual depth of Jewish mysticism, creating a deeply reflective listening experience.

Shyfrin (center) at Abbey Road Studios with producer Mike Hedges (L) and arranger Fred Luzignant

Lockdown: Save your time for love

A song born of lockdown, silence, and ancient wisdom.

Lockdown

What a German-Jewish scholar can tell us about pro-Mamdani Jews today

DIASPORA AFFAIRS: The parallels between 1920s Munich and New York (and other places around the US and the world) are glaringly obvious and ominous.

‘WHAT I do think is highly likely is that Jews who are “visibly Jewish” will be the ones to pay the price for the normalization of antisemitism and the demonization of Zionism in New York.’ Here, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani attends a news conference at NYPD headquarters earlier this month.

Black Hole Blues: At the Edge of Time, Space, and No Return

Black Hole is an entity which produces so strong force of gravity that nothing even light can escape.

Black Hole Blues

Jewish concepts of 'afterlife' may be recent adaptations, study finds

In the Hebrew Bible, the term Sheol is the shadowy abode of the dead. It is often depicted as “down below,” silent, and without active praise of God.

The authors describe a shift “from the almost ‘materialistic’ idea of the early Israeli society to the belief in life beyond the grave and the resurrection of the dead…"

Buddha Blues - Ride the Wave of Time

"Music of the Mystic, Mystics of the Music." A journey through Buddhist, Indian, and Kabbalistic insights into the peril and purpose of desire.

Shyfrin Alliance

Colors of time: Music of the mystic, mystics of the music

Exploring the spiritual link between colors, time, and human choice through the lens of Kabbalah and music.

Eduard Shyfrin

When life doesn’t fit: How to adjust your angle for success - opinion

In Judaism, the concept of tzimtzum teaches us that if G‑d can make space for us, surely we can learn to make space for others and new possibilities.

 An illustrative image of mindfulness meditation.