Kabbalah: Popular Works

The Zohar, or Book of Splendour, is the foundation text of the Kabbalah, the famous theosophical teaching central to Jewish mysticism. This marvell...

Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping Americas religious identity In 1688, a leading Quaker thinker and activist in what is now New Jersey ...

The Life of the Soul surveys the wide-ranging theories Jewish mystics have offered to the vexing question what precisely transpires after we die? ...

While premodern kabbalistic texts were not chronicles of historical events, they provided elaborate models for understanding the secret divine plan...

This book offers a historical overview of mysticism in the world's major religious traditions. Beginning with a chapter on the nature of mystical e...

Reel Kabbalah: Jewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema studies the ways in which fictional film in the first decade of the twenty-...

Reel Kabbalah: Jewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema studies the ways in which fictional film in the first decade of the twenty-...

Focusing primarily on the close study of literary works presented in the broad cultural and historical context, Jacobs Ladder discusses the reflect...

The Oration by philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (14631494), to which later editors added the subtitle On the Dignity of Man, is the most f...

Idolatry, or its Hebrew equivalent Avodah Zarah¸ is a fundamental feature of a Jewish view of other religions. All religions must pass the test of ...

An unprecedented annotated anthology of the most important Jewish mystical works, A Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism Reader is designed to facilitate ...

Another Modernity is a rich study of the life and thought of Elia Benamozegh, a nineteenth-century rabbi and philosopher whose work profoundly infl...