A Day of Kabbalah
Today is the Day of Kabbalah in Manhattan. It is an all day conference, hosted by Rabbi Naftali Citron, who used to be the Chabad rabbi in Santa Cruz, CA, where I met him...
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Hames: Like Angels on Jacob’s Ladder (2008)
SUNY (State University of New York Press) published a new volume in January titled “Like Angels on Jacob’s Ladder” It was written by Harvey J. Hames a Senior Lecturer of Medieval History at Ben-Gurion...
Cohn: Baal Shem Tov: Faith Love Joy (2007)
The Baal Shem Tov foundation published what they call the first authorized edition of stories of Besht. “Baal Shem Tov: Faith Love Joy” was written by the Clevelenad, Ohio based foundation’s director Howard Cohn....
Laura: Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century (2008)
A 1997 book of tangential interest for Jewish Kabbalah just got reissued. In my opinion the book is more connected to Goddess imagery than to Jewish Kabbalah, but the author based on her ideas...
Schochet: Mystical Concepts in Chassidism (1998)
I just (re-)dsicovered the “10 best books” to study Kabbalah on Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum’s site (azamra.org). I found one on his list I was not familiar with: Mystical Concepts in Chassidism: An Introduction to...
Tzvi Leshem: Between Messianism and Prophecy
Rabbi Tzvi Leshem finished his PhD dissertation recently at Bar Ilan University The English title of his work (written in Hebrew) is Between Messianism and Prophecy: Hasidism According to the Piaseczner Rebbe and it...
Short essay on Kabbalah
Christopher Smith, a Master’s student in Christan History at Wheaton College, wrote a nice little introductory essay to Kabbalah an posted it on his blog. This is a thorough work if one would need...
Jewish Lights Publishing winter sale
Jewish Lights Publishing is still having its winter sale. I was having a bit of had time what to include and what not from their 70+ books, if my objective is to include books...
Howard Smith webinar
Today at 5 PM PST Howard Smith will present a free, 90 minute webinar titled “Modern Cosmology and Kabbalah Religion in the Age of Science An Introduction“. It is free of charge, but one...
Yitzhak Buxbaum
Nextbook published an interview yesterday with Yitzhak Buxbaum. He talks about his atheist phase in college and he shifted towards religion and mysticism, his relation to Judaism and how his gigantic book on “Jewish...
