Kindred-spirits

“Nonsense is nonsense, but the history of nonsense is science”.  This oft quoted remark was uttered by the eminent scholar, Saul Lieberman in his introduction to Gershom Scholem’s talk about the scientific study of Kabbalah. ‘Nonsense’ being a belief in the existence of the Kabbalah’s unseen upper worlds, of armies of angels, belief in the…

I am interested in astrology as a system that supports and enforces Torah values; I believe that the dictum ובחרת בחיים’ (דברים 30:19)’ , ‘choose Life’ may be interpreted in light of the Midrash: ‘Rabbi Simone said every herb without exception has a heavenly mazal [angelic supervisor] that strikes it and says to it: ‘Grow!’…