Spirituality
'Jews are Magic': Museum exhibit explores Jewish fascination with occultism
Jews Are Magic,” opening this month at YIVO’s Manhattan headquarters, explores the Jewish fascination with mysticism, fortune telling, amulets, psychics, and occult practices.
Human rights group honors Jews, Christians, and Jerusalem
Sinking, spooky feeling? A subsonic sound may be at fault
David Kosak on cultivating hope as a discipline in a digitally saturated, emotionally complex world
Shvat: The month of self-nurture
At this time of year, the nights are still longer than the days, but we have turned the corner on this. The darkness that prevails at night is beginning to lessen.
A math loving, star-gazing mystic - the Vilna Gaon reexamined
2020 marks 300 years since we were gifted with the extraordinary Torah mind of the Vilna Gaon.
Parashat Chayah Sarah: Prayers- Self-confidence, acceptance and despair
Our nation’s three daily prayers are among the important legacies we received from the fathers of the nation.
Jewish spirituality at meditation retreats across the world
“Meditation was something I was aware of, but I hadn’t engaged in it at all at that time,” Jacobson-Maisels says.
WATCH: Hakafot at the Western Wall for Simchat Torah
Thousands of people attended the traditional celebrations marking the end of Sukkot and the acceptance of Torah.
‘Awareness evolves through pain...’
‘... In every loss, there is spiritual gain’
New Year – new beginnings
It seems that many people set themselves up for some form of disappointment just days or weeks into the new calendar year.
Did Martin Buber distort Hassidism?
According to Rabbi Ronald H. Isaacs in his 1999 study of Jewish philosophers, Buber’s approach to Hassidim was an outgrowth of his childhood.
In new book, Barack Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz goes on a Jewish journey
Being reintroduced to Judaism as an adult made Hurwitz curious to know what else she had missed out on — so much so that for the next five years she embarked on a spiritual journey of sorts.
What is kavana?
Can we see how kavana, which in Hebrew really means the act of going in a particular direction applies to real life as well as of course to all prayers, blessings, and mitzvot?
