Category: Resources/links

The Etz Haim Library/Livraria Montezinos* just put 190 manuscripts online, including 24 Kabbalah related ones. Here is a partial list of them: Sefer Etz Hayim. Kabbalistic work compiled from the teachings of Isaac Luria...

David Shasha in an article written for the Huffington Post argues that The vertical-authoritarian model reflects an atavistic, anti-modern approach that relies on superstition and magic to express Jewish values, while the horizontal-dialogical model...

Moshe Idel’s article on Abraham Abulafia appeared last week on the Hartman Instistute‘s website’s  “reflections” section. The opening paragraph servs as its abstract: The kabbalist Abraham Abulafia journeyed to the Land of Israel at...

When I watched the movie Avatar the tree the Na’vi live in and by reminded me of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. I didn’t explore the idea, but Rabbi Arthur Waskow did. He wrote...

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...

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...

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:...

MySefer.com‘s tagline is the “the largest online provider of Hebrew Sifrei Kodesh.” Nevertheless they also offer books in English, Yiddish, Russian and Spanish and French. Their English books on Kabbalah are from the following...