New beginnings
Now that the year 5769 started I will attempt to restart this blog. The goal is still the same: collect information about books published on English about Kabbalah, with a particular focus on the...
Author: Kabbalah Books
Mittler Rebbe/Malamud: The Key to Chassidus (2002)
On April 1 I received the first suggestion from a website visitor for a book to be included in this site. Joe Markel recommended The Key to Chassidus. The author was listed as Bitzalel...
Klein: A Mystical Haggadah (2008)
Eliahu Klein‘s “A Mystical Haggadah: Passover Meditations, Teaching, and Tales” was published just in time for this year’s Passover. Here is the book description that appears on every site that lists it: In a...
New ads
On the top of the pages of this site up till now you could see ads served up by Google. These text based advertisements were based on the words found on my website. However...
Kalisch: Sefer Yezirah (1877)
Yesterday I visited the central branch of the local library for the first time. (In the past I usually went to the local branch.) They have about 30-40 books on or related to Jewish...
Case: Journey to the Soul (2008)
Rabbi Jonathan M. Case self-published a book titled, Journey to the Soul: Kabbalah’s Pathway for Your Present and Future through Outskirts Press. The publisher put up a webpage through which the book can be...
Schwartz: Gabriel’s Palace (1994)
Magdelene, a blog dedicated to “Prayers and Reflections: Spiritual Inspirations from many traditions” posted introduction and two very short stories (related to the Golem/Maharal) from Howard Schwartz‘s collection of Gabriel’s Palace: Jewish Mystical Tales....
Dunn: Window of the Soul (2008)
The Ranger (from Texas) had an interview with James Dunn, the author of a new book titled Window of the Soul: The Kabbalah of Rabbi Isaac Luria. “Author” may not be the most correct...
Is Mussar the “New Kabbalah”?
A few weeks ago Jay Michaelson wrote a double book review for Forward on two Mussar related books: Everyday Holiness: The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar by Alan Morinis and A Responsible Life: The...
Is Kabbalah Mysticism?
An interesting debate is going on at Zeek magazine. Last December Boaz Huss argued in an article that the word “mysticism” should not be used in relation to Kabbalah and it being a theological...
