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Torah & Tanach
Bereshit: How to Read the Beginning
The first word of the Torah is the best place to learn how the tradition reads — slowly, on many levels, expecting more than one true thing at once.
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What Is Kabbalah?
The inner heart of Judaism, in plain language — what it is, what it isn't, and how to begin.
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The First Human: Adam, the Image of God, and Adam Kadmon
Two very different 'first men' in the tradition — the human Adam of the garden, and the cosmic blueprint of creation — kept clearly apart, in plain language.
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The Work of Middot: Becoming a Better Person, in Practice
Character is something you build, not something you're born with. Here's the Jewish art of working on yourself.
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The Magen David: What the Star of David Really Means
The six-pointed star you have seen your whole life carries a surprising, honest history — and a handful of beautiful readings laid over it since.
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Male and Female He Created Them: Masculine and Feminine in the Kabbalah
What the tradition contemplates about masculine and feminine — as cosmic principles, not a rulebook for real lives. Take from it what speaks to you.
Read →A home for the wisdom, not a wall around it
Judaism has spent thousands of years asking the questions we still ask: how to be a better person, how to love, how to raise children, how to live with doubt and still find meaning. Magen David gathers that wisdom and explains it simply — for the curious and the committed alike.
Everything here is free. We write as learners and teachers in the tradition, in the warm, practical spirit of teachers like Rabbi Zamir Cohen — in our own words, pointing you to the sources and teachers worth knowing.