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.

Artworks

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The Seven Days of Creation

In Sefer Yetzirah, the Seven Doubles in Time are the 7 days of the week - based on the Story of Creation in the Book of Genesis. The scene in the circle (in the yellow ring) represents the 1st Day of Creation - when God created Light, separated it from the Dark, and “saw that the Light is Good”. Moving clockwise to the next circle (in the orange ring) represents the 2nd Day - when God… more

Geometric Play with Fives and Sixes

This image containing various Geometric shapes and stars is basically divided into 9 sections - hinting at the 9 higher Sefirot (3 x 3). The fractal repetitions within each section hints at the 10th Sefirah Malchut. Although Jewish people often claim the 6-pointed star as our own and call it a Jewish Star or the Magen David, and it does appear on the Israeli flag, this star is in fact used by … more

Family Tree of Life

Rabbi Isaac Luria (known as the Ari) described the Ten Sefirot in great detail in a way known as Partzufim (Faces of God). This how Prophets and Kabbalists see God in their own likeness and form. And since humans come in many forms - Masculine and Feminine, Young and Old - the Partzufim are seen in all of these forms. In this picture, the blue square symbolizes the Masculine, the red triangle… more

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

Ancient Olive Tree

The ancient tree in this picture is at least one thousand years old. Its diameter is almost two meters wide. The insides of olive trees get hollow as they grow older, and their trunks twist in a spiral around their hollow core. I remember taking my wife and kids there when they were younger and all of us could fit inside the hollow core of this beautiful and ancient tree. Several years ago I… more

Pardes

I painted this picture not long after I made 'The Orchard of the Torah'. I wrote the 4 letters of the Hebrew word for orchard פרדס (pardes) along the horizontal line dividing the picture in half. 4 pairs of trees representing the 4 levels of the Torah expressed by the 4 letters of Pardes - פשט - רמז - דרש - סוד - simple, hinted, derived and secret.draw the eye inward to the center of the… more

Kosmic Energy Field

This is a recent abstract painting of mine, acrylic on paper. I like the play of colors here as well as the feeling of movement and energy. Many of my pictures are about light and colors - which are vibrations of light. The entire spectrum of visible light is just a small part of electromagnetism which is spoken of in science as electromagnetic 'fields'. This picture has the energetic… more

Mandala Number 6

This Geometric picture is based on the number 6. A bright orange 6-pointed Star of David (Magen David) is embedded in the central circle. A smaller white Magen David is embedded in the hexagon that is the center of the orange Star. The hexagon at the center of that white Magen David can be seen as a cube. This motif is similar to the one I used in my picture 'The Holy Palace'. If you zoom-… 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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