Kosmic Kabbalah Art

What is Kosmic Kabbalah Art?

The word 'cosmos' refers to the physical universe seen as an orderly harmonious Whole. The original Greek word 'Kosmos' however, refers to the Whole of all existence - in all realms - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. The Hebrew word Kabbalah refers to the ancient mystical teachings that describe the Kosmos as an orderly harmonious Whole.

The teachings and much of the artwork presented on this site deal with Kosmic themes that are based on the Kabbalah: Infinity, Eternity, Kosmogeny, Holy Names, Mandalas, Sacred Geometry, Fractals, and Sefirotic Maps of the Kosmos (Tree of Life Diagrams).

All of the Giclee prints on canvas as well as all the prints on paper are hand-signed. The canvas prints can be stretched and framed without glass. The paper prints should be framed with glass.

There are some new pictures that are only now available as Giclee prints on canvas. To view them go to 'New Works' under the 'Artworks by Subject' heading.

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Grove of Olive Trees

There is a small grove of ancient olive trees outside of Zefat. It is about a fifteen-minute walk from my house, after two or three hairpin turns on the dirt road that goes down to Wadi Amud. I used to like to sit in this grove surrounded by these ancient trees and meditate or study Kabbalah. These trees were certainly here when Rabbi Isaac Luria was in Zefat in the 16th Century, and maybe he… more

The Abuhav Synagogue

The Abuhav Synagogue is one of the most beautiful synagogues in Safed. Rabbi Yitzchak Abuhav was a leader of the Spanish Jewish community expelled from Spain in 1492. He died on his way to the Holy Land. The synagogue was built by his students to house his personal Torah scroll which is still read three times a year. A legend claims that this synagogue was actually built in Spain before the… more

Meron Landscape

This is a multi-media painting I made many years ago from a photograph I took. Meron is to the west of Safed and is famous as being the site of the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, the famous 2nd Century kabbalist who is the leader of the group of kabbalists whose teachings are presented in the Zohar. The tomb (which is not seen in this painting) is to the right on the top of the orange hill… more

Mandala Number 12

This is a Geometric picture based on the number 12. A circle can be seen in the center of this image with a 12-pointed star embedded in it. There are 12 more circles of the same size surrounding and touching the central circle. They overlap each other. The number 12 is an important organizing number in the Kabbalah. In Sefer Yetzirah, the 12 Simple Letters in Time are the 12 months; in Space… more

Quantum Uncertainty

Some people see this picture as stars in space, but I see it as subatomic particles, quanta. That is why I named it Quantum Uncertainty. According to the Kabbalah, everything created - whether large or small is relative and subjective. Only God is Absolute and Unlimited. Even the totality of Space is 'tiny' compared to the Divine Infinity; and even the particles that inhabit the quantum… more

Primary Shapes

“3 Mothers ש מ א Shin, Mem, and Aleph in the Soul dimension are the head, the belly, and the chest. The head is created from Fire, the belly is created from Water and in the chest is the Breath of Air that is between them." (Sefer Yetzirah 3:6) The 3 Mothers can also hint at the 3 primary shapes in Geometry - the triangle, the circle, and the rectangle. ש Shin is Gematria 300, or in Simple… more

32 Paths of Creation

"With 32 Mystical Paths of Wisdom God (Yah...) engraved and created His Universe with 3 ספרים Sefarim: With Sefer ספר (letters), with Sefar ספר (numbers) and with סיפר Sippur (a story). (These 32 Paths are:) 10 Sefirot of Nothingness and 22 Foundation Letters - 3 Mother Letters, 7 Double Letters and 12 Simple Letters." The 32 Paths of Mystical Wisdom derive from the first chapter of Genesis,… more

Kosmic Event

This image evokes a cosmic event in deep space like the ones photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Many see it as the Milky Way Galaxy . Edwin Hubble was the first astronomer to realize that our Galaxy is only one of billions or trillions of galaxies that are in our Universe. This was in the 1920's. Pretty much everyone before that assumed that the Milky Way was the entire Universe. … more

THE ARTIST DAVID FRIEDMAN

I immigrated to Israel in 1977 at the age of 20, and spent two years studying Torah in Jerusalem, where I met my wife, Miriam. We got married in 1979 and moved to Zefat.

In Zefat, I mostly immersed myself in the study of the Talmud and other classic texts of Judaism as well as Kabbalah, but I continued to make art at night.

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Since the ancient classic Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Creation) inspires much of the art that is shown on this site, I feel that is

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