There’s hardly anything I love more than a unique mythological fantasy, and "The Sanhedrin Chronicles" by J.S. Gold surpassed ...

“What mystical power could a single letter have?” he wondered. Hebrew, which is read from right to left, likely originated sometime during the middle of the second millennium B.C.E., written and ...

In the Jewish case, probably the most famous warning is the tale of the four rabbis who entered Pardes (literally orchard or paradise, but understood to refer to the mystical quest to visit the ...

Soon after its founding in the mid-eighteenth century by Jewish mystics, Hasidism rapidly gained popularity in all strata of society, especially among the less educated common people, who were ...

the Jewish mystical system that dates to the twelfth century, persists among many Hasidim. (In a classically American Hasidic mix of tradition and modernity, one can now buy specialized computer ...

This is how men look in New Square. Miraculous Rabbis. The people of New Square are Hasidim, adherents of a Jewish mystical movement that sprang from the ghettos of eastern Europe in the 18th ...

A fascinating analysis of why there are no female mystics in medieval Judaism. This book addresses a central question in the study of Jewish mysticism in the medieval and early modern periods: why are ...