Books about Stefan Zweig
What is it about Stefan Zweig that has so captured the contemporary imagination? In the last year alone, the elusive Austrian writer was the named inspiration for Wes Anderson’s recent film The Grand Budapest...
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Rabbi Jerry Winston
Rabbi Jerry Winston, author of Colors from the Zohar: Drawn from the Classic of Jewish Mysticism and The Mystical Sabbath: Candlelight and Kabbalah has passed away on December 19, 2010 May his memory be for...
Velvel: Kabbalah You (2010)
Zalman Velvel, “writer, storyteller, speaker” has a comedy CD out titled Kabbalah You. I wish you Shabbat Shalom with a segment from it:
Waldygo’s painting
Patricia Waldygo created this meditation painting in the early 1980s, based on the viewpoint of an early theosophist, Dion Fortune. She issued a press release last week announcing that the prints of the paintings...
Cohen: A Tapestry of the Soul (2010)
Here is a quote introducing an interview with Yedida Cohen from last week on the Israel National Radio: Why did G-d create the world? What is our purpose in life? Why does evil exist?...
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...
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...
Marc Nichanian
Marc Nichanian, the author of “Our Place in al-Andalus: Kabbalah, Philosophy, Literature in Arab Jewish Letters” (2002) has a new book out about genocide: “The Historiographic Perversion”. The Armenian Reporter summarizes Nichanian’s thesis this...
The Maiden of Ludmir – Jewish Hasidic Rebbe
Lisa Erickson, the woman who runs the “Mommy Mystic: women’s spirituality in the 21st century” blog ran a series of 5 entries last summer, titled “5 religions, 5 women mystics.” The Jewish installment was...
