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The Man Who Hauled Light

21.01.2026 60

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Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

“They Threw Him In The Pit . . . And Sat Down To Eat Bread” While He Screamed

04.01.2026 90

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Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

Why Did the Righteous House Of Jacob Abandon Dinah’s Baby Under a Thornbush?

02.01.2026 50

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The Moment of Terrible Freedom: When Nothing is Left to Cling To

03.12.2025 20

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Four Entered Pardes: The Three Lights Of Tohu . . . And Rabbi Akiva: A Chiddush

23.11.2025 70

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The Moon, the Ram, and Dinah: Three Substitutes, One Hidden Feminine Sacrifice

20.11.2025 70

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The Birth of the Mirror: Self-Consciousness as the First Sin

18.11.2025 10

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Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

The Cavalry Of Righteousness: The Tzaddikim & The Zohar’s “Horses Of Might”

16.11.2025 60

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Ishmael & Esau Personify “Honor Your Father”… But Not “Honor Your Mother”?

09.11.2025 60

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Was It A Spiritual Necessity For Jacob To Have Married Leah First? A Chiddush

26.10.2025 60

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Can The Infinite One Contemplate Himself Without An “Other” To Act As A Mirror?

25.10.2025 20

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The Divine ‘Dance Of The Seven Veils’: A Sod on Jewish Time

24.10.2025 10

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Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

Ein Sof As Ayin: Why Is The Universe Mostly Void?

19.10.2025 50

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Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

Q. Why Did The Sons Of Moses Not Match Their Father’s Greatness?

07.10.2025 50

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Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

The Death Of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai (A Gilgul Of Moses)

23.09.2025 10

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The Choicest to the Eternal: Sanctification of Will As ‘First Fruit’ In Ki Tavo

15.09.2025 10

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Rav Kook on Rabbah Bar Channa’s “The Frog, The Serpent, and The Raven”

27.08.2025 50

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Life After Kundalini

26.08.2025 30

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Rav Kook, Rabbah Bar Bar Channa, The Giant Desert Corpse, And The Dor De’ah

24.08.2025 70

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G-d Spoke And We Became: Why So Many Words For ‘Speak’ In Torah?

08.08.2025 20

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Yehi Ohr and Unfolding the Name of 42

21.07.2025 20

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The Begadim Chamudot & The Chashmal

17.07.2025 30

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From Hevel to Ba’al to Bilaam: The Beit-Lamed Root

08.07.2025 30

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Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

The Womb of Catastrophe in Jewish Time

07.07.2025 60

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Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

Striking the Rock: Today’s Challenge?

06.07.2025 20

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Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

Ezekiel’s Prophecy and the Pulse of the Present

21.06.2025 20

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Yael Chaya Miriam Gray