Category: Resources/links

Kabbalahtogo seems to be a clearing house of Chabad podcasts. Today Sholom Ber Dubov posted on the “Ancient Books of the Kabbalah.” I will listen to it (61 minutes) after Shabbat, but wanted to...

Al found an obscure book and asking for more information about. Help him if you can. Here is the book’s title: The Philosophical Writings of Solomon Ben Yehudah Ibn Gebirol or Avicebron And their...

Here is Liorah Chanah‘s blog entry in which she collected “Magickal Judaism Academic Resources.” I am afraid I will shamelessly lift from her list the books that are not yet in my collection. Besides...

I followed the tracks from an Associated Press article at Combined Jewish Philanthropies that starts with “A Jewish organization is demanding an apology from a Georgia lawmaker after a memo using his name claims...

This Chabad article by Naftali Silberberg summarizes somewhat cynically what Kabbalah books are about: Open up a book of Kabbalah, and you will discover that: a) there are countless spiritual worlds. b) In actuality...

Rabbi Pamela Wax introduced me to a practice in this article that I should have been aware of: “Tikkun middot” is a practice of the Mussar movement. Mussar typically translates as “ethics”. …It is...

The Judaicaplus.com webstore has an extensive selection of books on Kabbalah. Their list contains 414 items written in Hebrew and 71 in English. Definetely a good resource.

Three recent articles pointed my attention to the business enterprise called Kabbalah Centre. An interview with one of its rabbis on beliefnet, an expose in the Telegraph, and a social review of Madonna’s embracing...

Fort Wayne’s News Sentinel had a short summary of a workshpo in Ohio titles The Spark Within Me: My Soul. In the course of the straightforward account were these lines: In his book “Practical...

Rabbi Max Weiman updated the list of books on his Kabbalah Made Easy website. It includes now 14 books, and a recommendation of all of R. Mattisyahu Glazerson’s works. I appreciate that his own...