What were the ten curses that God decreed upon the Nachash, the Primordial Serpent in the Garden of Eden? How do they relate to the curses on Adam and Eve, and what does it all have to do with the Sabbath and the coming Messianic Age?
This video is an excerpt from a full-length class on Feminism and Judaism, available here.
For more on the connection between the Serpent and Mashiach, see here.
The Islamic Caliphate conquered Jerusalem and the Holy Land in 638 CE. With minor exceptions, various Muslim powers continued to dominate the land for the next 1300 years, until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. What is the deeper spiritual reason for this? Why did Muslims, the descendants of the Biblical Ishmael, merit to hold onto God’s Land for 13 centuries? Hear the Zohar’s surprising prophetic answer in this short video:
This video is an excerpt from ‘Did the Talmud Predict Today’s Crisis in Israel?’
For ‘Understanding the Arab-Israeli Conflict in 5 Easy Points’, see here.
In this class, we embark on a one-thousand year journey to uncover how Sephardic Jews transformed the world and played an instrumental role in major global movements, revolutionary scientific discoveries, and even the establishment of the United States of America!
We explore how Sephardic Jewish communities differ from Ashkenazi Jewish communities, and which unique trends and thoughts characterized Sephardic Judaism throughout history.
Please see also ‘What Does It Really Mean to be Sephardi?’
For the class about Feminism and Judaism that was referred to, see here.
On the Rambam and the Karaites, see here.
On the Donmeh and the Father of Modern Turkey, see here.
For more on the Zohar’s prophecy of Seven Continents, see here.
For more on the Zohar’s prophecy of the special year 1648, see here.
For short bios on the great figures discussed in this class:
Avraham bar Chiya haNasi
Ibn Ezra
Maimonides
Abraham Zacuto
Chaim Vital
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
Yehuda Alkali
Moses Montefiore