New Jewish Books
A collection of lectures on the features of the movement of mysticism that began in antiquity and continues in Hasidism today. An examination of mysticism from its beginnings in antiquity to its latest phase...
This remarkable and groundbreaking study explores the author’s view that there is a close correspondence between the basic tenets of alchemy and those of Jewish esoteric tradition, generally known as Kabbalah. The author, Arturo...
The first study of its kind, Magic, Mysticism, and Hasidism explores the supernatural motifs and elements in Jewish folktales and hasidic stories through the ages. Thoroughly researched and annotated, Professor Gedalyah Nigal’s work examines...
In Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction, Joseph Dan, one of the world’s leading authorities on Jewish mysticism, offers a concise and highly accurate look at the history and character of the various systems developed...
This long-awaited, magisterial study-an unparalleled blend of philosophy, poetry, and philology-draws on theories of sexuality, phenomenology, comparative religion, philological writings on Kabbalah, Russian formalism, Wittgenstein, Rosenzweig, William Blake, and the very physics of the...
A study tracing the historical development of Kabbalistic traditions and leaders throughout the world also encompasses meditations, exercises, visualizations, and invocations for those wishing to try their hand at spiritual enlightenment.
This little book presents Gershom Scholem discoveries in the area of Jewish Gnosticism which go behind of what he already did in his “Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism”. Here, Scholem presents a radical re-evaluation...
What if a believer in God wants to adopt the atheistic teachings of Nietzsche? Golan shows Nietzsche can deepen ones religious experience and explain eternal life. Did Nietzsche love or hate Jews? Golan presents...
This volume represents the first attempt to study Slavonic pseudepigrapha collectively as a unique group of texts that share common theophanic and mediatorial imagery crucial for the development of early Jewish mysticism.
This book analyzes the use of symbolism and theurgy in two sections of the Zohar, the central text of the kabbalah. These compositions, Tiqqunei ha-Zohar and Ra’aya Meheimna have been particularly loved by kabbalists....
