New Jewish Books
To commemorate today’s Holocaust Memorial Day I point your attention to Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson‘s book The Holocaust in Torah Codes: This book cites many findings in which words relating to the Holocaust are encoded in the Torah...
Bar-Ilan University Press is offering five of their English books 65-70% off, for the next three days, ending January 29, 2014. One of the books is Philosophic Mysticism: Studies in Rational Religion by David Blumenthal. You...
The second video of the class* outlined the differences between magic, mysticism, paranormal and their relation to and psychology. The text of the summary below is taken verbatim from the transcript or from the slide...
The first video of the Modern European Mysticism and Psychological Thought class gave a working definition of mysticism and two approaches of its relation to psychology. The text of the summary below is taken verbatim...
Posting with permission from an email: I’ve had the privilege of becoming the exclusive seller of a interesting Doctorate entitled: LOVE: Kabbalah and Messianism in the Poetry of Rabbi Yisrael Najara By Shelly Elkayam...
Boaz Huss‘ essay on The Theologies of Kabbalah Research will be in the February issue of Modern Judaism . Here is the opening paragraph: It is commonly accepted today that Gershom Scholem’s study of Kabbalah was shaped...
Paul Levy wrote an article for the latest issue of Tikkun magazine [29(1): 37], titled “Light Hidden in the Darkness: Kabbalah and Jungian Psychology” The first 10 paragraphs is available for non-subscribers too. Here...
The suggested readings for the Modern European Mysticism and Psychological Thought I introduced in the previous post are listed below. Clicking on the title will lead to you to the book’s page at Amazon.com. I...
A course started today on “Modern European Mysticism and Psychological Thought” at Coursera. It is free, all online, in English and seven weeks long. Jonathan Garb of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem teaches it....
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...
