/ Essays on Chassidic philosophy, Kabbalah, and Jewish mystical thought — a quiet reading room for the inner Torah. /essays/nekudim-and-the-tree /essays/nekudim-and-the-tree Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Let's go all the way in, because the mechanics matter here, and the mechanics are all consciousness. /essays/descent-for-the-sake-of-ascent /essays/descent-for-the-sake-of-ascent Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT Sometimes the soul must go down in order to rise — and the going down, rightly understood, is already part of the rising. /essays/shattering-and-repair /essays/shattering-and-repair Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT Before the world could be whole, it had first to break. The cracks are not the failure of creation — they are its purpose. /essays/the-two-trees /essays/the-two-trees Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT In the garden stood two trees, and the whole of our labor is to learn which one we are eating from.