Even as young as four years old, Yorini Nachman felt he was making an unconscious search for truth. He was naturally drawn to magic and illusions, the only side of mysticism a kid could comprehend, Yorini explained.
"My search meant to find boundaries, what can and what can not be done. I wanted to know what I am capable of and what not."
At the age of 13 he was already a star, having a popular show on stage. Slowly his interested shifted from magic tricks to supernatural - telepathy, hypnosis and the power of the mind.
At the age of 13 he had a breakthrough. He decided to stop the clock in his parents' house. And after 20 minutes in front of the clock, it did actually stop.
"It was a critical point. It was the first time I saw something clearly and didn't understand how it had happened. I was ecstatic but in the same time I realized that things might be different from the very way I thought they were. And that was when the real search began."
Yorini felt he couldn't trust conventional knowledge anymore. He also knew that his supernatural skills were something that could not be learned in school.
Gradually in his performances he left more and more space for the supernatural - the true magic as he called it - and unexplainable events kept on happening.
"I realized that I could read the thoughts of people. I didn't know why but I knew what items a certain person carried in his pocket or what happened to him 10 years ago. It was shocking."
Continuing in the showbiz was a natural choice, as Yorini was frequently invited to TV and radio shows. Commonly, during broadcasts clocks stopped and spoons and folks got bent.
"It was like a dream coming true, as a child I always wanted to be someone like Uri Geller. And here I was having the same effect on people as he had in his time."
But he still felt something was missing. In his spare time hidden from the public, Yorini was writing songs, drawing pictures and sculpturing.
"Art was something that I always put aside because of all the performances on stage, but it felt close to my heart all the time."
Soon he was invited for a well advertised supernatural magician road show. Most unfortunately for him the show was aired exactly the same time when Uri Geller - after years of exile - has just returned to Israel to do a very similar show.
The two performers soon met and Yorini was told, although he was a great performer he could never be another Uri Geller. "It hit me in the heart…and I froze."
Yorini knew it was time to move on. He went to join his father's business in London. He became a successful businessman with a great salary but inside himself he felt further from his truth.
"One day I couldn't take it anymore. I said, Ok now I must leave all this comfort and return to Israel to devote my life to sculpturing, because that was what I really wanted to do."
Prominent galleries immediately showed interest in his work and soon he had his first solo exhibition in Israel and little later in London, where he exhibited along side Prince Charles' drawings.
"I discovered the kabbalah and I saw that I'm not alone in my search for truth. Moreover I saw what the kabbalah talks about is a simple, global, absolute truth. It changed my whole concept of thinking," says Yorini.
"The kabbalah says if a person stays as he is born, meaning that his nature and character don't change, than he is nothing more than an animal. Animals stay the same from birth, but a person can and must evolve to be above his or her nature. And the kabbalah offers you the tools to do that. This was something I always wanted…to be above nature and all of the sudden I realized it can be done."
His first step on the long road of evolution was excluding anger from his life. "The kabbalah teaches us that if we get angry we damage ourselves and our environment. From the spiritual point of view our soul leaves us in a time of anger since it can not copy with angry emotions. But with understanding and awareness we can change our habit of anger."
The kabbalah teaches if a person does one thing right then it'll trigger a chain reaction so that person can evolve even further. Yorini decided to try to stop getting angry. After a few months, he noticed his anger had abated, "So I said OK if this is possible than what next?"
Be reasonable demand the impossible
"This was my motto in life so I made myself a silver necklace with these words on it. As people saw it, they started to ask me to make one for them too. And things just rolled from there."
Yorini found that he wanted to convey the positive messages of the Kabbalah by creating jewellery. "Drawings and sculpturing are rather far from the public, these pieces are mostly seen in galleries or in the homes of the lucky few who can afford their price. Jewellery is more affordable to many people. I hope for my jewellery to draw people closer to the Kabbalah, or just make them feel good."
His very first pieces resembled army dog tags. "I always see myself as a soldier. Earlier I was a soldier in the army. Today I don't believe in the army anymore, but I still see myself as a soldier, a soldier of peace, and I believe that everyone who wears these necklaces is taking a part, whether knowingly or not in the peace operation of spreading the word of love."
People often say that Yorini's jewellery makes them feel good, giving them confidence or protection. Mainly they contain hand carved inscriptions and symbols of the Kabbalah.
In his workshop everything has a numerical value, whether it be the length, weight or the price of the pieces. Necklaces are often left with 18 cm or 32 cm long chain, in the Kabbalah 18 represents life and there are said to be 32 avenues of wisdom that the whole world was created upon.
Today Yorini's jewellery is sold in over 30 prominent shops in Israel as well as in Europe, US and Japan. His dream to be an artist has come true and with the help of his jewellery, spiritual messages are translated into day to day life experiences positively influencing the lives of many of its wearers.