Category: Books

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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”...

I learned from the Cleveland Jewish News, but could have learned from many source about Lawrence Kushner‘s first fiction book Kabbalah: A Love Story. As I was educated by so many of his previous...

Last year, when I was taking a class on Religion and Film, I had an idea that I wanted to write up, but didn’t get to it. I had an epiphany that 2001: A...

This (from The Salt Lake Tribune) was the first of the few reviews I bumped into about Arthur Goldwag’s The Beliefnet Guide to Kabbalah. It quotes Rabbi Lawrence Kushner’s introductsion “this includes ghosts, dybbuks,...