#kabbalist

[diemelusine]

The Kabbalist by Isidor Kaufmann (1853-1921). Jewish Museum, Manhattan.

[punishedsaints]

[nicolasabal]

Does the revelation of Da’at coincide with the arrival of rupture? Is that arrow knowledge breaking through? Or is it love—the force that consciousness needs to transcend war and barbarism?

¿La revelación de Da’at coincide con la llegada de la ruptura?

¿Es esa flecha el conocimiento abriéndose paso?

¿O es el amor —la fuerza que la conciencia necesita para trascender la guerra y la barbarie?

A love bomb in the heart of the sea

Acrílico, collage y láminas de oro sobre tela

1.37 x 1.20 mts

Las tensiones geopolíticas y afectivas atraviesan las obras de Nicolás Abal, donde el paisaje funciona como campo de conflicto, deseo y violencia latente, articulando una mirada crítica sobre el mundo contemporáneo y sus dinámicas de poder.

Geopolitical and emotional tensions run through the works of Nicolás Abal, where the landscape functions as a field of conflict, desire, and latent violence, articulating a critical perspective on the contemporary world and its power dynamics.

[tallat-of-thralls]

Husband: the match box is wet. Howd that happen?

Me: what do you mean?

Husband: the one that was on the counter. Its wet.

Me:...

Husband: *looking aimlessly around the room with a cigarette hanging off his lip*

Me: check the Tree of Life box.

Husband: the what?

Me: Tree of Life box.

Husband: *lifts lid find about a dozen match boxes* Jesus! Why does the tree of life box have so many matches?

Me: Sulphur.

Husband:???

Me, a complicated chaos witch: Sulphur is the alchemic symbol for the soul. :)

Husband, a simple country druid:... Ill take your word on that, hun.

[ginzyblog]

Poet, Kabbalist, Mystic, Lionel Ziprin and photographer, folk historian, Clayton Paterson, Small Press Book fair, New York City,  snapped by Allen, December 2, 1990.  We’ve made several posts about Lionel this week on our website allenginsberg.org Shimmy on over if you want more on this completely fascinating character. But in brief:   Poet, artist, Kabbalist, descendent of mystics and, some say, mystic himself, Lionel Ziprin has spent a lifetime in the artistic ferment and social upheavals of the Lower East Side.   His life straddles the LES of Henry Roth (Call It Sleep) and Michael Gold (Jews Without Money), as well as the East Village of Thelonious Monk and Allen Ginsberg. Ziprin penned comic books after the war, lectured on the Zohar in the sixties to Bruce Connor and Ira Cohen, composed a thousand-page epic poem entitled Sentencial Metaphrastic, (‘I reduced it to 785 pages. I call it the longest and most boring poem since Milton’s Paradise Lost’). He nurtured the work of his friend Harry Smith, who recorded the liturgical music of Ziprin’s grandfather, the eminent Orthodox rabbi and Kabbala scholar Naftali Zvi Margolies Abulafia, at his yeshiva, the legendary Home of the Sages of Israel, on the Lower East Side, in the early fifties.   - David Katz  / Jewish Quarterly 2006.. #lionelziprin #claytonpaterson #harrysmith #theloniousmonk #lowereastside #LES #bruceconnor #allenginsberg #newyorkcity #kabbalist #mystics #henryroth #iracohen #zohar (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGVoZO3BaUp/?igshid=1s1850386pk14

[holy-mountaineering]

A Kabbalist’s Magical Vestaments as seen in the Jewish Museum of Amsterdam’s current Kabbalah exhibit.

(Taken from the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic’s instagram)

[esoterica333]

From Aryeh Kaplan’s commentary on the “Sefer Yetzirah”.

[lunaamplified]

Happy 73rd birthday to one of my absolute biggest inspirations. this may well be my favorite photoshoot of his, from my favorite era.

David Bowie, 1975, by Steve Schapiro.