New Jewish Books
The 21st volume of “Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts” (384 pages, hardcover, ISBN 1-933379-15-4) came out in April. It is a Cherub Press publication that can be ordered at Atlas...
Nina Amir wrote a short article in the San Francisco Examiner suggesting that because there is magic both in Harry Potter books and in Kabbalah the series may have more kabbalistic references. She was...
Littman, aka The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, published a book in 1995 by Zevi Hirsch Eichenstein (1763–1831): “Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good An Introduction and a Way to the Tree of...
Jay Michaelson wrote up in Forward a guide about the many books that are intended for novice students of the Kabbalah as introductions to the topic: “Perplexed by the Guides? When It Comes to...
Today Iregistered the KabbalahBooks.co domain. For now it will simply point to this site (kabbalahbooks.co). If the hopes of the new .co TLD* will materialize I might rebrand the site and will run it...
Last week I wrote about a recently published book by Mr. Zvi Mark, a Senior Lecturer at Bar Ilan University and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem is a busy scholar,...
Earlier this month David Shasha, the director of the Center for Sephardic Heritage wrote an interesting article in The Huffington Post titled, “Dangerous Mystic Motifs in Judaism.” He starts it off with these words:...
Too Much of Nothing by Michael S. Moore is a ghost story written from the perspective of the ghost. He died in a car accident several years before the time of the writing. We...
Here is a quote introducing an interview with Yedida Cohen from last week on the Israel National Radio: Why did G-d create the world? What is our purpose in life? Why does evil exist?...
In April Academic Studies Press published Zvi Mark‘s “The Scroll of Secrets: The Hidden Messianic Vision of R. Nachman of Breslav“. You can read reviews/blurbs on the Publisher’s site. The announcing email included information...
