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Kabbalah For Dummiesby Arthur Kurzweil
John Wiley & Sons 2011; US$ 19.99Kabbalah For Dummies presents a balanced perspective of Kabbalah as an “umbrella” for a complex assemblage of mystical Jewish teachings and codification techniques. Kabbalah For Dummies also shows how Kabbalah simultaneously presents an approach to the study of text, the performance of ritual and the experience of worship, as well as how the reader can apply its teaching to everyday life. more...
Jewish Tales of Mystic Joyby Yitzhak Buxbaum
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 21.50Jewish Tales of Mystic Joy reveals the happiness that awaits us if we strive for real spirituality. The stories are about pious rabbis and humble tailors, about dancing, singing, laughing, and crying, but their common denominator is always joyous ecstasy. Drawing us into a world of devotion, the tales allow us to taste the bliss that comes from a life lived from the very center of one's self. Each story comes alive in joy and produces a "holy shiver" that speaks to the soul. more...
The Wayby Michael Berg
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 14.95"The simple and practical wisdom I have gained by reading this book and studying Kabbalah is immeasurable." --Madonna "This book will inspire your soul. Michael Berg has accomplished the monumental task of translating the eternal truths of life into spiritual common sense. Without a doubt, The Way will become one of the sacred texts of your own life." -Caroline Myss, Ph.D., author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Sacred Contracts The spiritual way of Kabbalah has grown from a hidden treasure into a widespread mainstream movement that has helped people from every walk of life, all around the world, to improve their lives. In this bestselling book, Michael Berg of The Kabbalah Centre-the world's leading educational institution teaching the wisdom... more...
Torah Yogaby Diane Bloomfield
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004; US$ 19.95This highly original book introduces a fascinating new approach to yoga and Torah by combining the practice of classic yoga postures with traditional and mystical Jewish wisdom. Each chapter begins by presenting a central Jewish spiritual concept that engages readers of all faiths on a personal level. It offers an in-depth exploration of the concept, quoting and commenting on sacred Jewish texts from the Pentateuch (Five Books of Moses) and other sources. It then guides its readers with mastery and clarity through a meditation and a set of fundamental yoga postures--clearly illustrated by beautiful photographs--for both beginning and advanced yoga students. The Torah concept is actualized and experienced through the practice of these postures.... more...
The Maiden of Ludmirby Nathaniel Deutsch; Janusz Bardach
University of California Press 2003; US$ 40.00Hannah Rochel Verbermacher, a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir, was born in early-nineteenth-century Russia and became famous as the only woman in the three-hundred-year history of Hasidism to function as a rebbe?or charismatic leader?in her own right. Nathaniel Deutsch follows the traces left by the Maiden in both history and legend to fully explore her fascinating story for the first time. The Maiden of Ludmir offers powerful insights into the Jewish mystical tradition, into the Maiden?s place within it, and into the remarkable Jewish community of Ludmir. Her biography ultimately becomes a provocative meditation on the complex relationships between history and memory, Judaism and modernity. History first finds the Maiden... more...
Alef, Mem, Tauby Elliot R. Wolfson
University of California Press 2006; US$ 55.00This highly original, provocative, and poetic work explores the nexus of time, truth, and death in the symbolic world of medieval kabbalah. Demonstrating that the historical and theoretical relationship between kabbalah and western philosophy is far more intimate and extensive than any previous scholar has ever suggested, Elliot R. Wolfson draws an extraordinary range of thinkers such as Frederic Jameson, Martin Heidegger, Franz Rosenzweig, William Blake, Julia Kristeva, Friedrich Schelling, and a host of kabbalistic figures into deep conversation with one another. Alef, Mem, Tau also discusses Islamic mysticism and Buddhist thought in relation to the Jewish esoteric tradition as it opens the possibility of a temporal triumph of temporality... more...
Enlighten Up: The Keys to Kabbalahby Barrie Dolnick
Penguin Group Inc. 2005; US$ 11.99Throughout the ages, the Kabbalah has influenced some of the world's most impressive movers and shakers. Now every woman who wants to expand her knowledge and venture into new mystical experiences can access this ancient source of wisdom. Written by the author of AstroBabe and KarmaBabe, this tantalizing book unlocks the treasures of the Kabbalah to help readers navigate the universe-and answer the most important questions about human existence. Once shrouded in secrecy and passed down through men alone, this ancient mystical tradition has helped thousands of people make their dreams come true. For both the merely curious and truly serious, this fascinating peek into this mystical Jewish tradition will change and illuminate every reader's life. more...
Reading the Zoharby Pinchas Giller
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 135.00Comprising over a thousand pages of densely written Aramaic, the compilation of texts known as the Zohar represents the collective wisdom of various strands of Jewish mysticism up to the thirteenth century. In this book, Pinchas Giller examines certain sections of the Zohar, and the ways in which the doctrines of kabbalah took shape around them. more...
The Receivingby Tirzah Firestone
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 9.99A highly respected rabbi, therapist, and teacher restores women's spiritual lineage to Judaism and empowers women to reclaim their rightful connection to Jewish teachings, Kabbalah, and to their own spiritual wisdom. more...
A New Kabbalah for Womenby Perle Besserman
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 22.00What is Kabbalah and how can women apply it to their own lives? In this book, bestselling author and teacher of Jewish mysticism and meditation Perle Besserman shares a feminine approach to spirituality. "A New Kabbalah for Women" traces the history of female-centered worship and tells the story of the author's search for her own path to truth. more...









