Jewish mystical texts say God “looked into the Torah and created the world” and studying the Torah is a way of studying God’s mind. So why is it that Jewish study centers are filled almost exclusively ...

Ultra Orthodox Jews pray at the tomb of Rabbi Isaac Ben Solomon Luria, founder of the practical Kabbalah, in the ancient cemetery of Safed, Israel, a city associated with Jewish mysticism, in 2007.

A few years ago, Rabbi Yakov Travis, an Orthodox rabbi with a Brillolike beard, was perusing the Judaism section at Borders when he came across the subsection on Kabbalah. The books were written ...

In this Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018 photo, Amos Finish an Ultra-Orthodox Jew, poses for a portrait in Jerusalem's Old City. Facial hair is trendy worldwide these days, but in Jerusalem, beards have never ...