Shmuel Ozhekh: 'The greatest blockage to a person's spirituality is their own mind'
Rabbi Shmuel Ozhekh first encountered Jewish mysticism as a teenager at an outreach camp, where a class on angels sparked a sense of purpose and opened a lifelong spiritual path for him. In this conve...
26 Loka 40min
Ricka Razel: 'You want to be happy? Say thank you'
Ricka Razel did not grow up religious; she grew up a musician in a famous Israeli family band. Nowadays, she still sings, though she is an observant mother of eight. Jewish mysticism has been the brid...
19 Loka 25min
Meir Sendor: 'God is manifest in plain sight'
For Rabbi Dr. Meir Sendor, mysticism is fundamentally the “direct experience of divine reality.” His profound engagement with Jewish mysticism, he shares, was initially sparked by a series of personal...
12 Loka 56min
Shmuel Braun: 'When it comes to God, I'm the object and God is the subject'
Rabbi Shmuel Braun draws an important distinction between the terms mysticism and Pnimiyut HaTorah [inner dimensions of Torah]. While mysticism is about having an experience of the divine that is not ...
5 Loka 41min
Gedale Fenster: 'Focus on the message, you won't stay in the mess'
For Gedale Fenster, Jewish Mysticism is not a retreat from reality but the "expanded consciousness" needed to see that “the problem is the solution.”Gedale Fenster is an internationally renowned motiv...
14 Syys 33min
Victoria Hanna: 'The riddle is a part of our existence'
Victoria Hanna sees tremendous power in riddles. In many ways, she argues, questions are more important than answers. The Israeli musician uses sounds and letters to understand God and the world, beli...
7 Syys 37min
Shlomo Pill: 'Mysticism is really just a mapping of human experience'
For Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Pill, self-satisfaction is the biggest obstacle to living a more spiritual life. Based on the teaching of the Arizal, Rabbi Isaac ben Solomon Ashkenazi Luria, he argues that a sen...
31 Elo 26min
Fally Klein: 'To me, God is the unanswerable question that keeps you asking'
Fally Klein stumbled upon Jewish mysticism almost on her own, as a teenager battling cancer. Now she’s on a journey to fill in the gaps in her knowledge and anchor her natural spiritual inclinations i...
24 Elo 55min
