Dr. Shapiro reveals Rabbi Kook's surprising, sometimes radical, and breathtaking ideas, prompting us to rethink what we have ...

“Renewing the Old Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook” is such a book. [2] Dr. Shapiro reveals Rabbi Kook’s ...

I realized more and more that my wife is a gift from God. Since I am a rabbi, it is not surprising that I think about life in religious terms. I am also a student and teacher of Kabbalah (Jewish ...

The name Rechovot Hanahar (Streets of the River), derived from its mention in Bereishit 36:31, was interpreted by Kabbalah as referring among other things to the period before Creation, and was also t ...

There are many layers to our experience of reality, some of them hidden from view. David Lynch helped reveal them.

Creating a roundup of the 25 best-selling books of all time is harder than it sounds. Books—especially those published hundreds of years ago—were published in different editions and translated ...

Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people). The books of Heine, Kafka, and Brod were consigned to the bonfires of May 10, 1933, when Germans were ordered: “Reiningt eure ...

Jews call their tradition Kabbalah. Muslims have Sufism ... tells readers what he has learned through his studies in the new book Mysticism. Late in the book, after too many efforts to say ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. Another year of reading has come and gone, leaving mental trails of ...

In hassidic lore, these five sons were compared to the Five Books of Moses. As the second son, Rabbi Yitzhak saw himself as the Book of Exodus, saying his father had told him that his life would ...