What Kabbalah books are about?
This Chabad article by Naftali Silberberg summarizes somewhat cynically what Kabbalah books are about: Open up a book of Kabbalah, and you will discover that: a) there are countless spiritual worlds. b) In actuality...
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Mirta Kupferminc: Borges and the Kabbalah
Mirta Kupferminc is an Argentinean Jewish artist. She published five books, The word “publish” may not directly apply to her work, because they are handmade individual artworks. One of them is Borges y la...
Authors for Chabad Women Retreat
I read this blog entry and I realized it is a copy of an article from the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle. It describes a retreat designed for Jewish Chabad women. What grabbed my attention...
Kabbalah for the Masses?
The question above was on the mind of enough rabbis and academics to organize a conference around it. As I read the summary in the JewishJournal.com almost everybody who is somebody in today’s world...
Leet: The Universal Kabbalah (2004)
The Backyard Professor’s blog entry on cool video about sound and creation (and rice and a metal sheet) re-introduced me to Leonora Leets. She has four Kabbalah books out, of which I already listed...
Laitman: Kabbalah Revealed (2007)
A press release from last month announced Michael Laitman’s new book: Kabbalah Revealed: The Ordinary Person’s Guide to a More Peaceful Life. One of my favorite principles Kabbalah (and most religions I respect) teaches...
Smith: Let There Be Light (2006)
Howard Smith (an observant Jew and a research astrophysicist) wrote in a column at Newsday.com: The mystical Jewish Kabbalists of 16th-century Israel developed a cosmology with striking similarities to that of modern science. […T]he...
Weiman: A Simple Guide to Happiness (2006)
Following the lead of the intro line of Rabbi Max Weiman’s monthly column at the JewishInStLouis.org to Amazon.com I realized that his new book was published in November. The description of the 68 page...
Mirsky: Dante, Eros, Kabbalah (2003)
I more or less accidentally came upon this book as I was looking for something else, not even Kabbalah related. I didn’t find out much about it, as there is only one Amazon review...
Ariel: Kabbalah: The Mystic Quest in Judaism (2006)
In the same Cleveland Jewish News item where it was announced that David S. Ariel will step down from the presidency of Siegal College I learned of his “Kabbalah: The Mystic Quest in Judaism”...
