Unveiling Inner

Transformation

Our Mission

Malchut is a mystical school led by Hadar Cohen for those seeking to cultivate a personal relationship with God. Our teachings focus on relating to life’s experiences as channels to the Divine and understanding the self as the portal to liberation. The transformation of the self is inseparable from the world we live in—shifting one brings healing and renewal to the other. Through our two core offerings, God Fellowship and Jewish Mystical School, we provide pathways for spiritual growth, integrating ancient wisdom and modern perspectives, timeless practices with modern approaches. Our purpose is to support participants in ending cycles of trauma and suffering within themselves, creating the foundation for a more liberated and compassionate world.

Our Vision

Our vision is to create a global community where spiritual seekers of all backgrounds can discover, cultivate, and deepen their relationship with the Divine. By offering a space for serious spiritual study, practical application, and personal growth, Malchut aims to guide each individual toward spiritual liberation, self-understanding, and a more profound connection to the world around them. Through the teachings of God Fellowship and Jewish Mystical School, we envision a collective awakening—one where every participant’s unique path contributes to the collective consciousness, shifting hearts and minds toward liberation.

Our Values

Multi-Religiosity

We honor the diversity of paths to God, celebrating the richness of various religious traditions. Malchut creates an inclusive environment where students can explore spiritual perspectives from multiple traditions, deepening their understanding across diverse beliefs. This principle fosters a web of connections, recognizing the common threads that unite humanity while embracing the unique insights each path offers.

Embodied Spirituality

The material and spiritual realms are inseparable, each illuminating the other. This principle guides students to harmonize between the two, cultivating a profound relationship with God through channels of consciousness, energy, and devotion. By grounding spirituality in everyday life, it fosters a vertical connection—an intimate, transformative bond between the individual and the Divine.

Inner and Outer Alignment

Spirituality lives in relationship—with ourselves, with others, and with the world. This principle highlights the horizontal line of connection, where inner transformation is expressed through our relationships and actions in the world. The relational thread of spirituality is vital, as it teaches that our spiritual work is incomplete unless it is reflected in how we engage with and respond to others and the world around us.

Our Philosophy

I was born in Jerusalem to a Jewish family deeply rooted in the traditions of Jerusalem, Aleppo, Shiraz, Baghdad, and Saqqez. Moving to New Jersey at the age of 10, I found myself bridging the worlds of East and West, navigating a life shaped by both ancient and modern cultures.

In 2020, after years of exploring spirituality across various traditions around the world, I felt a calling to create Malchut—a school to continue my ancestors' legacy of devotion to God. I wanted to offer something meaningful to others by sharing my personal approach to spiritual growth, one rooted in my own journey yet influenced by my lineage’s profound connection to the Divine.

Growing up in Jerusalem, I was surrounded not only by spiritual beauty but also by cycles of trauma and violence. My search for liberation led me to realize that true freedom must involve the spiritual—physical solutions alone couldn't answer the deeper needs of the soul.

My path taught me that an intimate connection to God is a source of healing and transformation. Many are raised with religious frameworks rooted in punishment, reflecting the harsh systems around them. In contrast, I experienced God as a healing presence, a force of love and justice.

God is a presence that brings healing to the soul, transforming pain when touched by the Divine. This foundational relationship with God mirrors itself across the world in countless ways, revealing how the Divine weaves through every aspect of existence.

Judaism teaches that there are two paths to serving God: fear and love. This school orients towards love so that the structures of the world can mirror that too. Love is the harder path, it is easy to fear. It takes spiritual work to love. So much of spiritual tradition is about letting the heart lead and surrendering the mind to the heart.

Modern education often focuses on knowledge—history, science, literature—things that can be looked up online. But spiritual schools are different; they focus on character development, on cultivating virtues like humility, compassion, and courage. These qualities cannot be "googled" or read about; they must be practiced, lived, and felt. Malchut seeks to offer a place where seekers from around the world come together in this shared practice.

This approach centers on cultivating the mind, heart, and body as distinct but interconnected aspects of the self, each needing careful attention and growth. Through Malchut, I developed a curriculum rooted in these ideas, with programs like God Fellowship, where students engage with Consciousness, Energy, and Devotion as pathways to spiritual awakening.

My grandfather, a prayer leader in the Aleppo-Jerusalem tradition, was a man of profound faith, and his voice was a direct path to God for those who heard him. My grandmother embodied unconditional love. Malchut is built in their honor, and I carry forward their legacy of love and devotion.

In a world where religion is too often used as a weapon, I strive to revive the spiritual wisdom of Middle Eastern traditions—a spirituality that values both science and faith, wisdom and devotion. I draw inspiration from the teachings of Andalusia, where Kabbalists sought not just to serve God, but to understand God through every field of knowledge, every aspect of life. For me, God is woven into life itself, revealed through our daily experiences. I founded Malchut to offer a framework that would help people find this connection for themselves, guided by the events of their own lives, and to reclaim a vision of spirituality centered on love, justice, and the pursuit of wisdom.

On God Language

At our school, we boldly use the word God. We understand that perhaps this might activate people in various ways, as this word holds charge and connotation. We believe in the importance of using this terminology because we desire to directly address the charge that this word holds and heal the pains that have been caused in our world by misuse of God’s name.

We honor that people are at different stages of relating to God and we make space for that process. If the word God doesn’t work for you at this time, we invite substitutions such as Spirit, Universe, Love, etc. We believe God has infinite names in many languages and traditions. We welcome and embrace the diverse ways of calling to the Holy One.

Our Name

Malchut is a Hebrew word that means queendom. Malchut shares its root origins with the Arabic word Mamlaka, meaning the realm of regality.

From a Kabbalistic perspective, Malchut is one of the 10 Divine Aspects known in Hebrew as the Sefirot. These 10 Sefirot are the foundation of the Tree of Life, the tree kept and protected in the Garden of Eden after the fall of Adam and Eve . Malchut is the last aspect on the tree representing the final stage of creation. It is often synonymous with the Divine Feminine, sometimes known in Hebrew as the Shechina - the Dwelling Presence. Malchut holds the energies from the upper Sefirot and manifests them into the creation of the world. In this way, the meaning of Malchut is the manifestation of God in the world.

The name of this school is Malchut because the foundation of our learning is to return to our royal nature of Divine Beings. It was also chosen to signify our commitment to the embodiment of spiritual teachings in our world.

Our Lineage

Our purpose is to weave multiple spiritual traditions together for the unification of the Holy Name. We believe there are many paths to eternal truths and that these sacred teachings are available to all through life itself. Our lineage is constantly expanding based on the students that study with us and the teachings that channel as our streams widen.

The school was founded by Hadar Cohen, a Jewish mystic with 10 generations from Jerusalem. Many of the spiritual teachings were passed down through her own lineage so the teachings are rooted in the prophetic and royal line of Jerusalem.

We include teachings from ancient near eastern Goddess traditions, Judaism, Kabbalah, Islam, Sufism, Vedanta, Yoga, Yoruba tradition, the teachings of Jesus and Mary, and more. We also integrate modern psychology tools such as the teachings of Wilhelm Reich, Attachment Theory, Integrated Family Systems, Network Spinal Analysis, and more. We are fiscally sponsored by the Ibrahim Baba Institute and we desire to continue his legacy of decolonial devotion and multireligiousty.

If you would like to support our work, you can donate here. We are grateful for any contribution.

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