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What is the teaching of kabbalah and Hasidism if not expansion (Torat ha-harḥavah)? The tangible world should expand, the given worlds should increase, and this Torah that is written and passed down…
Contributor:
Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
Places:
Berlin, Germany
Date:
1910–1918
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The Birth of the Ba‘al Shem Tov
One of the greatest phenomena, running like a thread throughout the spiritual history of the Jewish people, is mysticism, a remnant of ancient mythology, which could…
Contributor:
Avraham Kahana
Places:
Zhitomir, Russian Empire (Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
Date:
1900
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This remarkable manuscript of practical kabbalah was written in Eastern Europe in the mid-eighteenth century; at the end of that century it was owned by the Radvil Hasidic dynasty. In contrast to…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Ukraine)
Date:
ca. 1740