Sefer Yetzirah

• Author : Aryeh Kaplan
• Publisher : Weiser Books
• Release Date : 1997-05-01
• Total pages : 424
• ISBN : 9781609254483

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Summary : Now in its 7th printing since republication in 1997, the Sefer Yetzirah has established itself as a primary source for all serious students of Kabbalah. Rabbi Kaplan's translation of this oldest and most mysterious of all Kabbalistic texts provides a unique perspective on the meditative and magical aspects of Kabbalah. He ...

• Author : Edward Hoffman
• Publisher : Shambhala Publications
• Release Date : 2010-04-13
• Total pages : 304
• ISBN : 9781609254483

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Summary : This comprehensive and accessible entrée into the world of Kabbalah covers 1,600 years of Jewish mystical thought and features a variety of thinkers—from the renowned to the obscure—unavailable in any other volume. It’s a fresh take on an ancient tradition compiled by Edward Hoffman, a psychologist and ...

• Author : Aryeh Kaplan
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release Date : 1982
• Total pages : 355
• ISBN : 9781609254483

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Summary : Meditative methods of Kabbalah. A lucid presentation of the meditative methods, mantras, mandalas and other devices used, as well as a penetrating interpretation of their significance in the light of contemporary meditative research....

• Author : Solomon Ibn Gabirol
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2016-06-30
• Total pages : 344
• ISBN : 9781609254483

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Summary : Poet, philosopher, and sensitive misanthrope, a spectacular fly in the ointment of the refined eleventh-century Andalusian-Jewish elite, Solomon Ibn Gabirol comes down to us as one of the most complicated intellectual figures in the history of post-biblical Judaism. Unlike his worldly predecessor Shmuel HaNagid, the first important poet of the ...

• Author : Yochanan Silman
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release Date : 1995-07-01
• Total pages : 370
• ISBN : 9781609254483

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Summary : This book relates the various strata of Halevi's Book of Kuzari to the different periods of Halevi's philosophical development....

• Author : Arthur Versluis
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release Date : 2007
• Total pages : 179
• ISBN : 9781609254483

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Summary : Provides overview, from antiquity onwards, on various Western religious esoteric movements. This book includes topics such as: alchemy, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy and more....

• Author : Peter Cole,Aminadav Dykman
• Publisher : Yale University Press
• Release Date : 2012-04-10
• Total pages : 448
• ISBN : 9781609254483

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Summary : Introduces renderings of, and commentary on, Kabbalistic verse that emerged directly from Jewish mysticism and that reveals the foundations of both language and existence itself....

• Author : Moshe Idel
• Publisher : Yale University Press
• Release Date : 2011-01-01
• Total pages : 494
• ISBN : 9781609254483

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Summary : This survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one of the world's foremost Kabbalah scholars. Idel charts the ways that Kabbalistic thought and literature developed in Italy and how its unique geographical situation facilitated the arrival of both Spanish and Byzantine Kabbalah....

• Author : Gabriella Samuel
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2007-10-18
• Total pages : 480
• ISBN : 9781609254483

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Summary : A comprehensive single-volume reference guide to the terms and ideas of Kabbalah by a longtime teacher of Jewish mysticism -perfect for the serious student and newcomer alike. People of all faiths and backgrounds are drawn to the inspiration, knowledge, and spiritual insight that Kabbalah offers. But too often writings on ...

• Author : Yaacob Dweck
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2013-12-26
• Total pages : 296
• ISBN : 9781609254483

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Summary : How the Jewish culture war over Kabbalah began The Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of ...

• Author : Marvin A. Sweeney
• Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
• Release Date : 2020-03-26
• Total pages : 500
• ISBN : 9781609254483

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Summary : Questions of how the divine presence is understood and interacts within the world have been around since the time of the biblical prophets. The Jewish mystical tradition conceives God as active, just, powerful, and present while allowing for divine limitation so as to understand the relationship between G-d and the ...

• Author : Jacobus G. Swart
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release Date : 2018-08-30
• Total pages : 524
• ISBN : 9781609254483

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Summary : The "Shadow Tree Series" comprises a unique collection of Western Esoteric studies and practices which Jacobus G. Swart, spiritual successor to William G. Gray and co-founder of the Sangreal Sodality, has actuated and taught over a period of forty years. In "The Book of Immediate Magic - Part 1" Jacobus G. ...

• Author : Batsheva Goldman-Ida
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release Date : 2017-10-09
• Total pages : 488
• ISBN : 9781609254483

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Summary : Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah presents eight case studies of manuscripts, ritual objects and folk art developed by Hasidic masters in the mid-eighteenth to late nineteenth centuries, whose form and decoration relate to sources in the Zohar, German Pietism, and Safed Kabbalah....

• Author : Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki,J. H. Brennan
• Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
• Release Date : 2001
• Total pages : 253
• ISBN : 9781609254483

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Summary : In this comprehensive reference manual, two leading occult researchers present step-by-step instructions, some never before in print, for developing the most basic and essential skills for magical practitioners of any tradition--creating thought forms through astral manipulation. Magical Use of Thought Forms includes sections on the structure of reality and on ...

• Author : Geoffrey W. Dennis
• Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
• Release Date : 2016-02-08
• Total pages : 504
• ISBN : 9781609254483

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Summary : Jewish esotericism is the oldest and most influential continuous occult tradition in the West. Presenting lore that can spiritually enrich your life, this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia is devoted to the esoteric in Judaism—the miraculous and the mysterious. In this second edition, Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis has added over thirty new ...