Yeshivas are mostly places where Orthodox men study the Torah. A D.C. rabbi wants to change that. ... Jewish mystical texts say studying the Torah is a way of studying God’s mind.

THE MOUNTAIN OF SILENCE: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality; By Kyriacos C. Markides; Doubleday $22.95, 256 pages A Seeker and His Mentor Explore Faith, Mysticism and History - Los Angeles Times ...

THE MOUNTAIN OF SILENCE: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality Kyriacos C. Markides, . . Doubleday, $22.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-385-50091-3 ...

This may be the best of times or worst of times for a series about an Orthodox investigator who employs Kabbalistic mysticism to solve crimes, but Avraham Avraham (“My parents liked the name ...

Mysticism is dying, and taking true religion with it. Monasteries have dwindled. Contemplative orders have declined. Our religious leaders no longer preach the renunciation of the world; our ...

Archbishop Anthony Bloom (of blessed memory) was the head of the Russian Orthodox Church of Great Britain. He was once asked by a reporter what religion he would be were he not Orthodox.

Ultra Orthodox Jews pray at the tomb of Rabbi Isaac Ben Solomon Luria, founder of the practical Kabbalah, in the ancient cemetery of Safed, Israel, a city associated with Jewish mysticism, in 2007.

Dhimitris Gkinos, an assistant to Iconographer Leoidas Diamantopoulos, dips his brush in paint Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, while working with group from Athens to paint several Greek Orthodox icons ...