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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Kosmic DNA

When the Sefirot are presented in the Tanya (the classic text from the first Lubavitcher Rebbe) they are called 3 Mothers and 7 Doubles. The 3 Mothers refer to the three higher Sefirot. The Seven Doubles refer to the seven lower Sefirot. However, the original source of the terms Three Mothers and Seven Doubles is the Sefer Yetzirah, where the 22 Hebrew Letters are presented as three… more

Meditating on a Burning Lamp

"10 Sefirot of Nothingness: Their end is embedded in their beginning and their beginning is embedded in their end like a flame tied to a burning coal For the Master is Singular, He has no second and before One what do you count?" (Sefer Yetzirah) A common meditative technique in the Kabbalah is to contemplate the flame of a burning lamp. Our soul is likened to the energy of the… more

Blessing the Family

This picture is closely related to my picture Family Tree of Life. The large face at the top represents a Grandfather who blesses his Children through their Fathers and Mothers that are on his arms. The Grandfather's hands rest upon the head of a dark-haired Son whose hands rest upon the head of a Daughter with reddish hair. The Grandfather represents Adam who was created… more

Aleph

The first Hebrew letter - א Aleph - represents the unification of opposites. Its shape is comprised of an upper red part (actually a Hebrew letter י Yod); a lower blue part (an upside-down י Yod); balanced by a yellow diagonal part (a ו Vav which is a prefix that means ‘and’). It can also be seen as the numeral 1. The two are united into One by the Vav. The Gematria… more

Supernova

I call this picture Supernova because of its explosion of warm colors away from the cool center. "Supernovae are exploding stars. They represent the very final stages of evolution for some stars. Supernovae explosions release tremendous amounts of energy, about 1020 times as our Sun releases every second. Our Sun, fortunately, will not end its life as a supernova. Currently,… more

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… 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

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… 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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| 15 November

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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