New Jewish Books
Last summer’s issue of the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture has an indepth review of Joel Hecker’s Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah, “the first book-length study of mystical...
The basic description of Yitzchak Ginsburgh‘s (Body, Mind and Soul: Kabbalah on Human Physiology, Disease and Healing) book sounds new agey and simplistic: This healing manual explains Kabbalah’s centuries-old perception of human physiology, its...
I have to admit I do not have much faith in this book, but it is new and out and might relate to Kabbalah, so feel obliged to mention it. I am talking about...
Here is Liorah Chanah‘s blog entry in which she collected “Magickal Judaism Academic Resources.” I am afraid I will shamelessly lift from her list the books that are not yet in my collection. Besides...
I followed the tracks from an Associated Press article at Combined Jewish Philanthropies that starts with “A Jewish organization is demanding an apology from a Georgia lawmaker after a memo using his name claims...
The ever prolific popularizer of Kabbalah , Yehuda Berg, published a book on “Kabbalah on Love“, with the subtitle “Technology for the Soul.” Digital Cubics’ blog copied the summary from Amazon: “Berg makes the...
Oyve, the Daily Southtown told me the plot of a new book: In ‘The Book of Names,’ a fictional, nefarious offshoot sect of the ancient Gnostic tradition known as the Gnoseos has learned the...
Yet another Kabbalah book that does not fit my basic focus: Jewish Kabbalah. This one sounds new age-y as well, for example at Powell it is listed under (alternate) spirituality. But at Amazon.com it...
Here is a review (or more like description) of a book that does not fit into my narrow Jewish Kabbalistic interests on at least multiple accounts. Éliphas Lévi and the Kabbalah – The Masonic...
On January 1, 1837 an earthquake shook and destroyed most of the city of Safed and Tiberias at 2 PM. There were between 2 and 4000 victims. This HaAretz article covers the story through...
