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November Collection benefitting G’mach: San Diego’s Jewish Gift Closet
Beth Israel encourages all members and guests to bring new items from the below list throughout the month of November 2022, to help support G'mach: San Diego's Jewish Gift Closet. G'mach is an acronym for Gemilut Chasadim or Deeds of loving-kindness. Items donated to the G'mach are given for free to recipients in need from […]
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The Kabbalistic Tree: When, Where and Why Jews Began to Visualize and to Draw the Mystical Shape of the Divine as a Porphyrian Tree
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Most students of kabbalistic literature find themselves “visualizing” its cosmogonic and cosmological teachings. The iconic Kabbalstic “Tree of Life” is certainly the best known kabbalistic symbol, and is often the first thing conveyed to those being exposed for the first time to this lore. What few realize is that complex graphical scrolls have been a […]
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