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The Language of the Heart: Mysticism and Tradition in Jewish and Catholic...

The article reflects on the historical, theological, and mystical intersections between Jewish Pharisaic teachings, early Christian thought, and Catholic hermeneutics. It explores the tension between...

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The Three Lights: A Reflection on Hebrew Catholic Spirituality

 In our age, awash with the distractions of exterior religiosity and secular fragmentation, there is a quiet yearning in certain hearts — a yearning to return not to simplicity of practice alone, but...

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From Barley to Fire: A Mystical Reflection for Passover and Easter

 At the heart of both Passover and Easter lies a mystery of deliverance through the narrow place, of the soul’s passage through constriction into expansiveness. This is a season of transformation—a...

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The Three Lights and Spiritual Renewal

 In a fragmented age, when many are turning either to externalized religion or restless secularism, there is a quiet, burning thirst in the human soul for a deeper unity —something ancient yet alive,...

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Miriam, Rose of the Sea and Queen of the Incarnational Glory

 “The Rose is the Cup of Blessing.” So teaches the Zohar. And the Rose, says the saints, is Mary.She is the Shoshannah among the thorns (Song of Songs 2:2)—the mystical flower, opening in purity upon...

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Miriam, Living Tabernacle of the Divine Will

 The Rose is the Cup of Blessing — and in the Heart of the Rose dwells the Fiat of Heaven and Earth. It was not only at the moment of the Incarnation that Mary said “Fiat”, but in every breath, every...

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The Womb of the Icon, the Icon of the Womb: A Marian Reflection

 The Black Madonna emerges from the sacred veil not as a relic of the past, but as a living icon of the hidden soul, concealed within the enfolding darkness of Our Lady’s mystical womb. This is no...

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The Hidden Light in the Womb of the Will: A Marian Reflection

 In Likutey Moharan I:6, Rebbe Nachman speaks of the Or Ganuz, the Hidden Light that was set aside at Creation for the righteous in the world to come. He teaches that this Light is accessible even...

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Voice of the Turtle and the Song of Desire: A Marian-Luisan Paradigm

 In the dance between the "vertical structuralist" and the "lateral mystic," we are already hearing the music of Bereshit as Bara-Shir— “He created a song” — or even T'bara Shir, “She created a song.”...

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The Rose and the Rabbi: A Fairytale of Thorns, Stars, and Tea

 Once upon a time, in a land stitched together by old prayers and laughing rivers, there lived a rather reluctant mystic named Rabbi Tzofiel Featherbeard. He had two great loves: tea with scones with...

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The Temple of the Four Faces: A Sacred Dialogue

LEVINAS: I do not see God in the stars, nor in abstract theorems. I see God in the widow, in the orphan, in the trembling hand that reaches for bread. The Face is not a metaphor. It is a commandment....

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Who Has Created These?: The Gaze Toward She-Who-Is-Hidden

  Mi — Who? Elah — These? The Divine as Question and GazeThe Zohar begins with Rabbi Eleazar's call:"Lift up your eyes on high, and see — Who has created These?" The Hebrew plays upon a mystical...

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The Hidden Rose: A Reflection on the Zohar’s Opening

In the beginning, the Rose opens—not in the garden of the world, but in the garden of Divine Thought. Not among lilies and other flowers, but among the thorns—among the trials and jagged sharpness of...

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The Rose Among Thorns: Entering the Gates of the Zohar: A Teaching Reflection

Teaching Reflection for Group Study or MeditationTitle: “The Rose Among Thorns: Entering the Gates of the Zohar”Introduction Chaverim, today we are invited to step gently into the opening lines of the...

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The Secret of the Rose: Miriam in the Zohar, Lady of Light and Sea

In the radiant garden of the Zohar, the Rose of Sharon blossoms not merely as a poetic flourish, but as a living symbol — layered in fire and dew, in Hebrew letters and divine mysteries. She is Miriam,...

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The Bucket of the Mother – D’li ha-Imma

 At the centre of this reflection lies a deeply symbolic and numinous act: drawing water. In Zoharic language, to draw water is to draw forth hidden Torah — the Sod (Secret) — from the supernal...

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The Cosmic History of Earth and Humanity

 The Creation of Adam and the Genesis of HumanityIn the Year 4006 BC, the first man, Adam haRishon, was created. Adam, along with Eve, is the common ancestor of all human branches, including the...

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A Creationist Perspective on the Geologic Time Scale

Although I make use of the conventional labels and sequences of the evolutionary-based geologic column—terms such as Cambrian, Permian, Jurassic, and so forth—I do so purely out of convenience, not...

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Reimagining Catastrophe: A Visionary Retelling of Earth’s Ancient Drama

What if the story of Earth’s past—its climate shifts, its floods and famines, the rise and fall of its peoples—were not only geological and historical but also deeply theological and mythical? What if...

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St. Joseph the Hidden Abba: The Restoration of Fatherhood in the Age of Collapse

 In the trembling twilight of a world without fathers, a luminous silence remains. It is the silence of St. Joseph, the man entrusted with the two holiest treasures of heaven and earth: Jesus and Mary....

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