An Introduction To Kabbalah Part 5: Choosing A Teacher
Being a student means you don't know what your teacher knows. I think there are a few basic principles which ought to guide how you look for a teacher.
Being a student means you don't know what your teacher knows. I think there are a few basic principles which ought to guide how you look for a teacher.
Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living
Kabbalah enables the "receiving" of more and more of reality, with more and more depth and sensitivity. Let's see how this works, in each of its three streams.
people.com | Jeffrey Slonim | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment
Sure, he's got Demi Moore. But Ashton Kutcher's wife isn't the only No. 1 in his life. "My best friend? Yehuda Berg," Kutcher, 31, announced Wednes...
Jay Michaelson | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living
Last week, in part two of our introduction to Kabbalah, we suggested that in Jewish mystical theology, "God does not exist -- God is existence itself."
Jay Michaelson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living
At the deepest, most fundamental level, the true reality of our existence is One, Ein Sof, infinite, and thus the sense of separate self that we all have is not ultimately true.
Jay Michaelson | Posted 10.15.2009 | Living
Despite all the fame, or maybe because of it, it's often quite hard to get a clear answer to what Kabbalah actually is. It seems to depend on who you ask.
Jay Michaelson | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
All too often, however, spirituality reinforces rather than transcends conventional limits, boundaries, and notions of the ego. Sandwiched in between manicures and lunch dates, the quickie yoga class becomes just another way to augment and reinforce the self.
Gahl Eden Sasson | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
According to rabbinical lore, Adam and Eve, our primal parents, were created on Rosh Hashanah, which traditionally falls on the New Moon of the seventh month.
Gahl Eden Sasson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
According to astrology, which was developed as a tool to understand the cycles of the seasons, now is the best time in 250 years to transform the health care institutions.
AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
TEL AVIV, Israel — Madonna brought her mix of provocative music and spirituality to the Holy Land with a concert Tuesday in front of 50,000 fans...
AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 08.31.2009 | Entertainment
JERUSALEM — After a long career as a singer, dancer, new-age seeker and megacelebrity, Madonna added a new item to her resume Friday – Isr...
Sheila Marikar | Posted 08.28.2009 | Entertainment
To many women in Hollywood abide by the ridiculous regimen of few hours of cardio here, one hour of lifting there, then a trip to the clinic to get lasered down and Botoxed up.
Jay Michaelson | Posted 08.08.2009 | Living
Why was I angry at my fellow yogis for what their conditioning caused them to do? And, perhaps even more importantly, why be angry at myself for being frustrated?
New York Post | Posted 06.17.2009 | Entertainment
She's always liked them hot, young and Latin, but Madonna's latest boy toy has another special charm -- he was a Kabbalist before they even met. PH...
dailyfill.com | Posted 04.10.2009 | Entertainment
Celebrities love to party just like the rest of us, but last night (March 9) Demi Moore looked to have had a few too many as she headed home. The "Ch...
X17 Online | Posted 04.02.2009 | Entertainment
A stone faced Madonna was spotted leaving Kabbalah in NYC Saturdayay with Brazilian boy toy Jesus Luz. He's closer in age to Lourdes than he is to th...
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 01.16.2009 | Living
For years now I have been passionately arguing the need for the Jewish community to serve as a light unto the nations by promulgating our values to the non-Jewish world.
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 07.17.2008 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — A memoir by Madonna's brother says the singer really does love her husband, director Guy Ritchie, but, apparently, not as much as she...
AP | Posted 07.14.2008 | Entertainment
MIAMI — Alex Rodriguez's wife will file for divorce Monday, according to media reports. Cynthia Rodriguez, who married the New York Yankees star...
New York Daily News | Posted 03.17.2009 | Entertainment
Pop icon Madonna is using kabbalah to brainwash Yankee star Alex Rodriguez into believing they are "soulmates," the ballplayer's estranged wife is tel...
Posted 07.10.2008 | Entertainment
Madonna and Guy Ritchie are spotted arriving for dinner together at Cesca Restaurant in New York City on Tuesday. Guy Ritchie arrived in New York on ...
Marty Kaplan | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living
If scientists believe that invisible dark matter and unobservable dark energy make up the vast majority of the universe, then why should mystical accounts of an unseeable cosmos be any more inconceivable?
Telegraph | Posted 07.08.2008 | Entertainment
"There's no conversation about divorce because there is no divorce," Lady Amber Leighton said. Last week, Madonna, 49, was reported to have met with ...
The Times | Posted 07.04.2008 | Entertainment
Update: Friday's UK Sun reports that Guy Ritchie told wife Madonna he is quitting Kabbalah: "Guy threw himself into it at first and even filled his mo...
Stephanie Pierson and Barbara Harrison | Posted 06.14.2008 | Living
I do. I don't. Or do I? How is today's bride -- her groom in a kilt and yarmulke, her virtual guests, half sisters, whole pre-nup and Santa Mon...
Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.27.2009 | Living