David Lynch taught me how to be Jewish. That claim may seem bizarre – perhaps as strange, oracular, and inscrutable as many of the lines in Lynch’s films, music and art. After all, Lynch, who ...

The word “Ma” (מה) in Hebrew has the numerical value (gematria) of 45. According to The Sacred Alphabet by Josy Eisenberg and Adin Steinsaltz, the 40 (מ, Mem) represents stability ...

Friends turned suddenly into field archeologists, interpreters of Kabbalah, and Talmudic scholars presented critical information. Occasionally, even I had something to contribute. Apparently ...