Non­fic­tion

The Rel­a­tiv­i­ty of Death, Vol. I: Basic Prin­ci­ples of Kab­bal­ah of Infor­ma­tion, Com­plete The­o­ry of Infor­ma­tion Space, Mir­a­cles and Maxwell’s Demon

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September 1, 2025

In The Rel­a­tiv­i­ty of Death, Part One, Eduard Shyfrin brings a dis­tinc­tive and ambi­tious voice to con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish thought, draw­ing on Kab­bal­ah, infor­ma­tion the­o­ry, and mod­ern physics to explore endur­ing ques­tions of life, death, and mean­ing. Build­ing on the ideas intro­duced in his best­selling From Infin­i­ty to Man, Shyfrin launch­es the first vol­ume of a four-part series. For the first time, he presents Kab­bal­ah as a sys­tem­at­ic, infor­ma­tion-based frame­work — what he calls the Kab­bal­ah of Infor­ma­tion. Draw­ing on both Jew­ish mys­ti­cal sources and sci­en­tif­ic think­ing, he describes cre­ation as a coher­ent infor­ma­tion­al sys­tem gov­erned by intel­li­gi­ble prin­ci­ples. Shyfrin intro­duces the con­cept of Infor­ma­tion Space,” a struc­ture com­posed of con­cepts and forces, gov­erned by the laws of dis­tance, like­ness, hier­ar­chy, and cor­re­spon­dence. This mod­el allows him to pro­pose orig­i­nal insights and address ques­tions that have long remained unan­swered. Writ­ten in clear and acces­si­ble lan­guage, The Rel­a­tiv­i­ty of Death, Part One offers a com­pelling intro­duc­tion to these ideas for seri­ous read­ers and edu­ca­tors, while lay­ing the ground­work for the vol­umes to follow.

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