The ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv has unveiled a rare 16th-century prayer book based on the mystical teachings of Rabbi Isaac Luria, timed with the Lag B’Omer holiday. The manuscript, ...

Imagine the scene. Silence. Church lights dim. On the altar table and the floor and steps around it, dozens of candles flicker, some atop pillars of pink and purple, the Advent colors. In pews, 50 or ...

In honor of the Lag B’Omer holiday beginning Monday night, the ANU Museum of the Jewish People is unveiling a 16th-century prayer book based on the teachings of Rabbi Isaac Luria, known as Ha’ari, a ...

To the mystic, prayer is not an occasional petition to God, but full-time work as tangible and varied in technique as anything a man can make with hand or mind. Sometimes a mystic is able to leave ...