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Elliot Wolfson: ‘Jewish mysticism is the garment that I wear in this world’
Season 2 Episode 31
Professor Elliot Wolfson, one of the world’s foremost scholars of Jewish mysticism, has dedicated over forty years to teaching and researching Kabbal…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Efraim Palvanov: 'Every person can be the Messiah'
Season 2 Episode 30
What is taught today as basic science, argues Efraim Palvanov, was taught centuries ago in the Zohar. To Efraim, complex scientific functions such as…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Fruma Schapiro: 'The direct path of connection to Hashem is through the simple and the small'
Season 2 Episode 29
Fruma Schapiro’s connection to Jewish mysticism is deeply entrenched in Chabad Hasidism. She has seen the way it can transform lives and nourish soul…
3 months ago
YY Jacobson: 'Jews were chosen to hold onto the frequency of redemptive consciousness'
Season 2 Episode 28
In this insightful conversation, Rabbi YY Jacobson presents Jewish mysticism as a dynamic framework for consciousness and connection rather than abst…
3 months, 1 week ago
Oshra Koren: 'If this is not redemption, I don't know what is'
Season 2 Episode 27
For Rabbanit Oshra Koren, mysticism is the soul and spirit of the Torah that animates the "body" of Jewish law. It is a path of deep longing that wak…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Jonnie Schnytzer: 'The world caught up with kabbalists'
Season 2 Episode 26
For Dr. Jonnie Schnytzer, Jewish mysticism teaches us to recognize that nothing in this world is the way it appears to be. Kabbalistic study is a pro…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Dina Etigson: 'The point is not to transcend this world but to bring God here into it'
Season 2 Episode 25
For Dina Etigson, encountering Jewish Mysticism has been a transformative experience. Beyond the academic and textual Judaism she already knew and lo…
4 months ago
Biti Roi: 'Every generation brings mysticism to a different stage'
Season 2 Episode 24
For Dr. Biti Roi, the texts of Jewish mysticism aren’t just ideas to study – they are a life force. A renowned scholar of Zohar, Kabbala, and Chasidu…
4 months, 1 week ago
Zvi Leshem: 'Modernity in general was a movement that was anti-mystical'
Season 2 Episode 23
As director of the Gershom Scholem Collection for Kabbalah and Hasidism at the National Library of Israel, Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem dedicates much of his…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Devori Nussbaum: 'I see God as this one coherent frequency of truth'
Season 2 Episode 22
For Devori Nussbaum, Jewish mysticism is the study of the soul behind the psyche, a transformative framework that integrates the profound spiritual t…
4 months, 3 weeks ago