Mysticism in Judaism

According to Jewish mystical sources, Jerusalem is the place where the construction of the Earth began, namely at the center with the Foundation Stone. Why this place? Because the Holy Land is at the central point of the surface of the Earth; Jerusalem occupies the central point of the Land of Israel; and the original Temple of Jerusalem stands at the center of the Holy City.

Of further significance is the fact that the Holy of Holies of the Jerusalem Holy Temple was the dwelling place for the Shekinah, the Holy Spirit expressed as a feminine presence and the core of Jewish mysticism.

Jewish mysticism is the doctrine of esoteric knowledge and the interpretation key, "soul" of the Torah, of the religious mystical system of Judaism.

The word Jerusalem yerushalem, yerushalayim (Hebrew) has many interpretations in Jewish mysticism. It can represent the earth. In Kabbalah symbols, it is also the city of God or the heavenly Jerusalem, the goal of human spiritual attainment. Mysticists hold Jerusalem as an earthly paradise modeled after a heavenly archetype, the celestial Jerusalem. In the largest sense, the name of Jerusalem connotes "the place where later God will show , or make known on earth, the fullness and perfection (shalem) of what is above".

The name of Jerusalem in Jewish mysticism is also interpreted as meaning "foundation of peace," whose consonants (SHLM) mean perfect or whole (shalem) or peace (shalom). The earthly site where this peace is established is Yeru or Yir'eh (which was also one of Jerusalem's seventy names). The Hebrew root, yarah, means "to found," so shalem will be founded here.