SAFED, Israel – Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, is known around the world thanks to the many Hollywood celebrities who have embraced its teachings. While Madonna and Demi Moore may be seen walking in ...

In the early 2000s, it was rare to see celebrities like Madonna, Ashton Kutcher and Lindsay Lohan without a piece of red string tied around their wrists. The bracelet signalled that they followed the ...

Mainstream Jews cannot stand the Kabbalah Centre. You can tell by the way they mock it, highlight its every flaw (huge offices! expensive bracelets!) and deride Madonna, Britney Spears, Ashton Kutcher ...

When Philip Berg decided in the early 1970s to teach kabbalah to the masses, he predicted that orthodox rabbis would stone him and his wife, Karen. For a long time, that seemed a pompous overstatement ...

ANYONE who’s read a celebrity gossip rag has seen them — modest red strings encircling the wrists of Hollywood royalty such as Madonna and Britney Spears. But the strings aren’t just another form of ...

To many people, Kabbalah is that little red string bracelet celebrities wear after they supposedly find spirituality in rehab. But to Rabbi Jonathan Seidel, Kabbalah is much more than a trend: It’s a ...

SAFED, Israel — Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, is known around the world thanks to the many Hollywood celebrities who have embraced its teachings. While Madonna and Demi Moore may be seen walking in ...

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Kabbalah is the teaching of that which is secret, since it is hidden from the average reader and becomes revealed only under very special conditions. Kabbalah, often referred to as “the secrets” of ...

The complex teachings of kabbalah can take years to learn, much less master. Why not start by coloring them in? Tzfat-based artist David Friedman has translated his vivid, psychedelic depictions of ...