Wecker on Blake in Forward
Menachem Wecker‘s article in Forward on “Did William Blake Know Hebrew?” covers almost a dozen sources and the answer is divided but the most recent scholar suggests no. So the answer for the question...
Category: Resources/links
Abraham Abulafia lecture outline
Here is the outline of a lecture, given at Treadwells in London on November 30, 2009: Structure of the talk: 1. Introduction [5 mins] 2. Context of Abulafia’s life, contemporaries, writings [10 mins] 3....
Institute for Jewish Spirituality
The JTA reported a study of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. It found that “younger Jews are more spiritually inclined than their forbears” and that “Orthodox Jews and Jews who have fewer...
The International Center for Tzfat Kabbalah
A new video by the Jewish Agency‘s Jewish Partnership Online focuses on the value of “Jewish Soul Renewal” through the activity of the Tzahar – Palm Beach Partnership, with a special focus on the...
The Letter of the Maharal on the Creation of the Golem: A Modern Forgery
The always excellent Seforim blog‘s latest entry analyzes a letter that was presented by Chaim Bloch in 1923 as from the Maharal himself on the Golem and its creation. Through literary comparison and other...
Michaelson’s intro at Huffingtonpost
The fourth weekly installment of Jay Michaelson‘s introductory series to kabbalah at Huffingtonpost has been posted a few days ago. It’s subtitle is a bit misleading: “Spiritual practice”. It is not entirely correct as...
The Tree of Life (film, 2008)
Hava Vottera wrote and directed a documentary titled, The Tree of Life, about her journey to discover his family tree.Her search yields great results as she could trace back her family on both of...
Summary of recent Kabbalah books in Forward
Last June Jay Michaelson wrote up a quick overview of recently published books on Kabbalah for Forward. The nominal occasion for the article was that it has been ten years that Madonna got interested...
The Unborn (movie)
Being focused on Kabbalah I have to mention that there is a new movie out, which incorporates some Kabbalistic themes into its horror story: The Unborn. Here is the Wikipedia synopsis: “The Unborn is...
Russia to preserve Rebbe’s books, manuscripts
AP posted a story about how Chabad managed a US judge to issue “a restraining order telling Russia to protect the documents and return any that may already have been removed from the Russian...
