by hadassah | Aug 26, 2024 | Videos
Isaac Luria- The ARI Isaac Luria, better known as the Ari or the Ari ha-Kadosh “The Holy Lion,” an acronym that refers to his name, Rabbi Isaac, was a mojor figure on the scene in Safed in the 16th century. What do you want to know? Ask our AI widget and get...
by hadassah | Aug 26, 2024 | Videos
Evil in Kabbalah The kabbalists, like others, have struggled with the question of evil, and how we are to understand both moral and natural evils in the world. At some point there begins to develop a rather unique approach to this old problem, and the...
by hadassah | Aug 26, 2024 | Videos
Hasidei Ashkenaz Hasidei Ashkenaz refers to a group of pietists who were active in the Rhineland in the 12th and the 13th centuries. Tracing their lineage back to a family that had emigrated from Palestine to southern Italy in the 9th century and then were...
by hadassah | May 15, 2024 | Videos
Abraham Abulafia Abraham Abulafia was a Spanish Kabbalist from the 13th century who was responsible for developing a special kabbalistic path which he referred to as kabbalah nevuit – “prophetic Kabbalah” – sometimes referred to in the scholarship as the...
by hadassah | May 15, 2024 | Videos
Kabbalah in Safed in the 16th Century In the wake of the expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the 15th century, Safed, a town in northern Israel became a major center both and economically speaking and religiously speaking. Within a...
