MySefer.com
MySefer.com‘s tagline is the “the largest online provider of Hebrew Sifrei Kodesh.” Nevertheless they also offer books in English, Yiddish, Russian and Spanish and French. Their English books on Kabbalah are from the following...
Author: Kabbalah Books
Zwecker: Jewish Meditation (2010)
Tal Moshe Zwecker (a Chabad rabbi) published the Kindle edition of his ” Jewish Meditation – Hisbodedus the lost path of secluded meditation” last week. It is a 34 pages long. Here is his...
The Zohar and later mysticism
BecomingJewish.Org, a site that “offers information about Conversion to Judaism” published a summarizing article no the Zohar and later mysticism in January. Its eight paragraphs (and short bibliography) cover a lot of ground from...
6th annual Kabbalah Day
The 6th annual Kabbalah Day at the JCC in Manhattan was this last Sunday. Its focus was Safed. The (New York) Jewish Week published an introductory article about it. At the organizers’ website (JInsider...
Michaelson: Taking Avatar Seriously
Jay Michaelson‘s musings related to the movie Avatar in Forward compares and contrasts its message to that of Kabbalah in the areas of spiritual and practical environmentalisms. He connects mysticism and environmentalisms in two...
Everything is God
On the last day of January there was an event in Boston titled “Everything is God: A Boston Jewish Spiritual Woodstock“. (A similar event will happen in San Francisco on February 11. See Facebook.)...
The Kabalistic Secret to Weight Loss
Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann, director of the Schottenstein Chabad House, has lost 60 pounds by following the teachings of Kabbalah. He developed a six-week class to help people look at food and self-control differently. Full...
Haaretz article on the Jewish occult
A newly discovered piece of stained, wrinkled paper conjures up the details of a Jewish exorcism that appears to have been performed sometime in the 18th or 19th century. The ghostly document details the...
Idel: Kabbalistic Manuscripts in the Vatican Library
Professor Moshe Idel a leading professor of studying and teaching Kabbalah in an academic setting posted an entry on the Seforim blog about Kabbalah manuscripts kept in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican Library). It...
Excerpt from a Karen Armstrong interview
What do you make of those who say they are “spiritual, but not religious”? I can’t stand that. Spiritual often just means some kind of wishy-washy me-ism, where I’m having a lovely experience without...
