Creation Of The World In Jewish Mysticism

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Publisher : Josef Blaha
ISBN 13 : 802704782X
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creation of the World in Jewish Mysticism written by and published by Josef Blaha. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Zohar – The Book of Splendor is the most important work of the Spanish Kabbalah. Zohar is a Mystical Commentary on the Torah. After the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud it is the third canonical text of Judaism. In this book the reader will have the possibility to read the Mystical Creation Story of the Zohar. Whereas in the Zohar the beginning is connected with the idea of God’s extension in all directions, the reader will have the possibility to read this masterpiece of the Spanish Kabbalah. The Jewish existence in Spain came to an end in the year 1492, when the Jews were expelled from Spain and several years later from Portugal. Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534–1572), the Founder of modern Kabalah, deeply reflected upon the meaning of this worst expulsion of the Middle Ages. Rabbi Luria did not write a lot – he mainly preached and his disciples wrote down what he said. Following a deep meditation, Rabbi Luria came up with a new concept – God put upon Himself a voluntarily Exile, He withdrew from the World – because of His solidarity with Israel. There are many writings falsely attributed to Rabbi Luria. This short Commentary on Zohar by Rabbi Luria is authentic; it was first published in Zion in Jerusalem in 1940, edited by Gershom Scholem. Josef Blaha was born in Brno, Czech Republic in 1963, and is lecturer in Jewish Studies and specializes in Jewish Mysticism. He published fifteen books in Czech and in English dealing with Judaism and especially with the Jewish Mysticism. Josef Blaha teaches the US students at the Charles University in Prague.

Author : Rabbi Max Weiman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1401096557
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Map of the Universe written by Rabbi Max Weiman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-11-10 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Map of the Universe" may be the most important book you ever read. It explains in clear language what life is all about, from a kabbalistic point of view. Rabbi Weiman´s amiable style and breadth of knowledge make this book a delightful and insightful adventure into the world of Jewish mysticism, while leaving your feet firmly planted in the practical world.

Author : Eliahu Klein
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1556435428
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kabbalah of Creation written by Eliahu Klein and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2005-07-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kabbalah of Creation is a new translation of the early Kabbalah of Rabbi Isaac Luria, founder of the most influential Jewish mystical school of the last 400 years. Living in relative obscurity in Northern Galilee, Luria experienced a powerful epiphany that influenced his lyrical, influential text. Poetically and meditatively described, the range of subjects includes the revelation of the Godhead's light in the world and its relationship to every aspect of the human life cycle, including lovemaking, conception, gestation, birth, and maturation.

Author : Yehudah Ashlag
Publisher : Laitman Kabbalah Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0973231564
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to the Book of Zohar, Volume 1 written by Yehudah Ashlag and published by Laitman Kabbalah Publishers. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Science of Kabbalah (Pticha) is the first in a series of texts that Rav Michael Laitman, Kabbalist and scientist, designed to introduce readers to the special language and terminology of the Kabbalah. Here, Rav Laitman reveals authentic Kabbalah in a manner that is both rational and mature. Readers are gradually led to an understanding of the logical design of the Universe and the life whose home it is. The Science of Kabbalah, a revolutionary work that is unmatched in its clarity, depth, and appeal to the intellect, will enable readers to approach the more technical works of Baal HaSulam (Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag), such as 'Talmud Eser Sefirot' and Zohar. Although scientists and philosophers will delight in its illumination, laymen will also enjoy the satisfying answers to the riddles of life that only authentic Kabbalah provides. Now, travel through the pages and prepare for an astonishing journey into the 'Upper Worlds'.

Author : Peter Schäfer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691142157
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Jewish Mysticism written by Peter Schäfer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-24 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Origins of Jewish Mysticism' offers an in-depth look at the history of Jewish mysticism from the book of Ezekiel to the Merkavah mysticism of late antiquity. The author reveals what these writings seek to tell us about the age-old human desire to get close to and communicate with God.

Author : Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780852442593
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish & Christian Mysticism written by Dan Cohn-Sherbok and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gershom Scholem
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691182981
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins of the Kabbalah written by Gershom Scholem and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider audience for the first time. A crucial work in the oeuvre of Gershom Scholem, this book details the beginnings of the Kabbalah in twelfth- and thirteenth-century southern France and Spain, showing its rich tradition of repeated attempts to achieve and portray direct experiences of God. The Origins of the Kabbalah is a contribution not only to the history of Jewish medieval mysticism, but also to the study of medieval mysticism in general. Now with a new foreword by David Biale, this book remains essential reading for students of the history of religion.

Author : Fred Reiss
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595449557
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Secrets of Creation written by Fred Reiss and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sepher Yetzira is a second or third century Hebrew book that is considered to be the seminal work of Kabbalah because it is a mystical interpretation of the Old Testament's creation story, and Kabbalists delve beneath the surface of the Bible to understand the unspoken mysteries of how the world came to be. Ancient Secrets of Creation is a new translation and reinterpretation of Sepher Yetzira that provides the answers to questions about how God created the world, especially how the expression, "And God said" is used. Because of Sepher Yetzira's succinctness and the passage of time, its implicit meanings have been lost. However, this work provides a fresh understanding of Sepher Yetzira by rediscovering and clearly explaining those mathematical, scientific, philosophical, and theological foundations on which it rests. These include pertinent pre-Socratic Greek philosophies; the ideas of Plato, Plotinus, Iamblichus, Neopythagoreanism, and Neoplatonism; as well as the works of Philo of Alexandria, the Old Testament, and rabbinic understandings at the time that Sepher Yetzira was written. This translation and explication unlock the secrets hidden within the Hebrew-language text of Sepher Yetzira, the book that started Kabbalah.

Author : Daniel Chanan Matt
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809123872
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zohar, the Book of Enlightenment written by Daniel Chanan Matt and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first translation with commentary of selections from The Zohar, the major text of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. This work was written in 13th-century Spain by Moses de Leon, a Spanish scholar.

Author : Brian Ogren
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479807982
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kabbalah and the Founding of America written by Brian Ogren and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America’s religious identity In 1688, a leading Quaker thinker and activist in what is now New Jersey penned a letter to one of his closest disciples concerning Kabbalah, or what he called the mystical theology of the Jews. Around that same time, one of the leading Puritan ministers developed a messianic theology based in part on the mystical conversion of the Jews. This led to the actual conversion of a Jew in Boston a few decades later, an event that directly produced the first kabbalistic book conceived of and published in America. That book was read by an eventual president of Yale College, who went on to engage in a deep study of Kabbalah that would prod him to involve the likes of Benjamin Franklin, and to give a public oration at Yale in 1781 calling for an infusion of Kabbalah and Jewish thought into the Protestant colleges of America. Kabbalah and the Founding of America traces the influence of Kabbalah on early Christian Americans. It offers a new picture of Jewish-Christian intellectual exchange in pre-Revolutionary America, and illuminates how Kabbalah helped to shape early American religious sensibilities. The volume demonstrates that key figures, including the well-known Puritan ministers Cotton Mather and Increase Mather and Yale University President Ezra Stiles, developed theological ideas that were deeply influenced by Kabbalah. Some of them set out to create a more universal Kabbalah, developing their ideas during a crucial time of national myth building, laying down precedents for developing notions of American exceptionalism. This book illustrates how, through fascinating and often surprising events, this unlikely inter-religious influence helped shape the United States and American identity.