The sages teach that the world began with prayer. Until God and Adam communicated there was no fulfillment of Adam’s needs for survival and glorifying God. In fact, God’s created universe stood waiting for humanity’s birth on the sixth day. Only after Adam prayed for rain did the earth come forth with its bounty. Prayer […]
The spiritual teachings of Israel’s biblical prophetesses from a kabbalistic perspective: – Explores the lives and symbolic significance of seven female prophets: Sarah, Miriam, Devorah, Chanah, Avigail, Chuldah, and Esther – Uses the gematria of Jewish metaphysics to demonstrate that prophecy is a mystical initiatory path by which Divine Will is made known, not only […]
4/11/1997 Lena called to share the experience f her fathers death on April 16, 1987 and signs from him after death I wanted to share the experience that I had with my father’s death. He died of cancer and the last week that he was alive I spent with him at home. My mom and […]
4/11/97 Mary, A mother tells of communicating with her son after death and a sign before his death There’s a lot of stuff going on. We lost our twenty one year old son three months ago, and he certainly is communicating. He worked at the lighthouse at Tiny point in Southern Maryland. And all of […]
4/11/97 Bart told this story about a woman who knew she was going to die. I have a third party story that has always intrigued me. I used to be in the orthopedic business and a friend of mine who is an orthopedic surgeon told me a story of a woman that came in for […]
Dancing Letters are made from a commercial crafts clay called Sculpy. The soft shapes are hardened by oven baking. Each letter is made initially from a small hand rolled ball of clay. This ball is to imitate the description of what the Almighty Creator did in order to create the world. We are […]
About Sanctuary of the Divine Presence Learn more or pre-order a copy Kabbalistic initiatory teachings for becoming a vessel for illumination, prophecy, and peace by creating an inner dwelling place for God’s divine presence • Reveals practices for self mastery and revelation based on the holy design of the first Hebrew Sanctuary, the lives of […]
I was sitting across the street from this image in mid-town NYC. I was so taken with its state of decay against the beautiful yellow wall, which seemed quite delicate to me. A flying cow I thought to myself or a flying dog – Mercury? Likely some common, seemingly Japanese cartoon image I am unfamiliar […]
Here we are on Dog Wood Farm getting ready to go for a drive. The dogs are a little restless here, anxious to get on the road. They love to travel and they go everywhere with me, even to the grocery store.
In 1999, 104 years after the Impressionist painter Edgar Degas used a camera to create forty or so photographs, they went on public display. Degas, we learn, saw these works as experiments and explorations of a medium new to the world in general, and to the artist in particular. He never showed them publicly and […]
(Summary of a talk given to the Spiritus Society in 2009) by Zohara M. Hieronimus In the ancient teachings of Judaism, there are complete records of the phenomenology of coming to union with the Creator, as well as teachings on spiritual health and healing. What one discovers in them is that union with God, and […]
Does anyone else notice how loud life has gotten? Given that I am hard of hearing, you might think noise would not be an issue. There are all kinds of noises. There are the literal sounds we hear at home, of people talking, of dogs barking, of water flowing. There are noises that frighten us, […]
It was time to clean the hen house. I grabbed a sack of pine wood shavings and an oversize trash bag from the run- in, the wide shovel and my gloves. After bagging up all the old shavings, wet from water and hen droppings, I began to shake new bedding onto the floor. Before I […]
Oct.5, 2011 Prayer is powerful. Those who know this from personal experience use prayer for seeking guidance from G-d about their own lives, for healing themselves and others. One can use prayer to praise G-d for the miracle of life itself and the things we have to be grateful for. Many people like myself, pray […]
Watching from the kitchen window, we observed three healthy fox run around the perimeter of the hen house, playing with each other as if no one was watching. One ran south while another ran north. One simply plopped down on the grass about 20 feet from the hen’s yard. They were healthy fox which is […]