"In his #novel #AFoolsKabbalah, #SteveStern #writes in a manic whirl of disturbing and hilarious images as he follows the great historian of #Jewish #mysticism #GershomScholem on his journey to gather up the remains of a vanished civilization."

"Steve #Stern’s new novel, A Fool’s #Kabbalah, is a #comedy about #tragedy and a tragedy about comedy. It is a #mystical #fable of real events and a realistic account of mysticism. There are Jewish #jokes and Jewish jokesters and #Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters. #Kafka, Kabbalah, #Zionism, and the #shtetl of #Zyldzce (pronounced, perhaps, as “zilch”); #WalterBenjamin, #HannahArendt, love for a #rabbi’s beautiful daughter, and an #occult midnight marriage to an unearthly albino girl in a white gauze dress; shit jokes, fart jokes, raw misery, deep #philosophy, brutal #history and brutal #fantasy, broken hearts and heartfelt joy—these exuberantly disparate topics are somehow, improbably, made to cohere."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/09/the-possibility-of-humor-fools-kabbalah-steve-stern/

EL ALEPH: Kitty is The Center of The Universe א

#Emblematica #AIart + #collage #TAROT #alchemy #kabbalah #pataphysics #cats #catsofmastodon

Liber Taro*: REINA ISIS

Madre, doncella lunar, compañera, desposada de Pan: El Ángel-Ministro de Dios para cada hombre.*

#Emblematica #AIart #collage #TAROT #alchemy #kabbalah #pataphysics #surrealism #magick #chaosmagick

Liber Taro* INSTRUCCIONES DE USO.
"Lege, lege, lege, re-lege, ora, labora et invenies."

#Emblematica #Artbook #collage #Pataphysics #TAROT #alchemy #kabbalah #apocalypse #magick #chaosmagick #surrealism #fnord

*RUEDA DEL TARO* 🎯

I have almost ready (85%?) a 5th book of Pataphysical Emblematica:

LIBER TARO
a kind of Detournément and very free and magickal approach to TAROT.

#collage + #AIart #EMBLEMATICA #Pataphysics #alchemy #Kabbalah #Tarot #Magick #Chaosmagick #surrealism #bulldada #Eros

One of my fun experiments is with peg people.

I wondered what I could use that would be good both as an icon for an altar but also be portable in a pocket or handbag and not get lost in the murky depths like a charm.

This is the answer I came up with, icons representing each of the Sephirot.

You can order a copy of a single icon or of the set here: https://artisans.coop/products/kabbalah-sephirot-peg-icons

#Kabbalah #Sephirot #Altar #FediArt #MastoArt #Handmade #HandCrafted #NotAI #NoAI #FediGiftShop #Tarot #BespokeArt

"Unfortunately, many people know the holiday of #Purim, which occurs next week, only as the “#Jewish #Halloween” – as a big dress-up (or strip-down) party celebrated with meaningless mirth and carnival-like abandon.

I beg to offer a more sober, #theological, and #kabbalistic gloss on the #holiday.
#Tanach (the Bible), #Talmud, #Halacha, and #Kabbalah elevate #wine from beverage to blessing – linking joy to holiness, song to gratitude, and harvest to hope.

Drinking wine on Purim is a method of catapulting our consciousness to a perfected world where God’s presence is dominant and evil is vanquished.

Throughout the Jewish canon, beginning with the Bible, the vital relationships between man and woman, between man and God, and between the Jewish people and their God are expressed via the metaphors of vine and wine."

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-888108