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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Waves and Particles

I made this Tree of Life Diagram diagonal to hint at the shape of the first Letter א Aleph. The 11th Sefirah, Daat, has a black dot to make it stand out, because it is the interface between the 3 higher Sefirot associated with the mind, and the 7 lower ones associated with the body. The Sefirot are spoken of as emanations of God's Light. א Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew word… 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… 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… 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… more

Quote from ‘The Way of God’

"The Root of all religious observance and spiritual practice is for us to be constantly aware of God. It should make us realize that we were created for the singular purpose of consciously experiencing the Creator. Observance and practice should help us see that the only reason we were brought into the world is to use our spiritual powers to overcome our material attachments and… 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… more

Straight Into the Round

As in my painting 'The Tree of Life', the 3 columns of the Sefirot arrayed in this Tree of Life Diagram represents Nurture or our ability to choose. We can act with Kindness (associated with the right column), with Strength (the left column), and with Beauty (the middle column). Choosing is seen as Masculine in the Kabbalah, whereas Nature (as represented here by the Sefirot in their… more

72 Holy Names

One of the most complex meditative techniques of the Kabbalah uses the 72 three-letter Names of God in this picture. These 216 letters (72 x 3 = 216) actually comprise One Name. This Name is mentioned in the Bahir and the Zohar, in Rashi’s commentary on the Talmud, but it was Rabbi Abraham Abulafia, the controversial 13th Century Kabbalist, who taught how to use this Name in order to attain… 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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