Author: Gary Hanson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465330534
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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DYNAMAIC KABBALAH is an exciting new way of understanding the universal principles of Kabbalah. You will learn who you are, where you came from, and your direct connection to the universe. DYNAMIC KABBALAH will guide you to add greater meaning and purpose to your life. Pastor Michael Thurman, Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama says, "Powerful stuff! Explains how the energies in the Universe influence our spiritual lives." Rabbi Stephen Listfield, Agudath Israel Synagog in Montgomery, Alabama says,"DYNAMIC KABBALAH is well thought out, well researched, well written. Simple and easy to understand even for someone unfamiliar with Kabbalah." Pastor Marie Jones,Rebeccas Reads Book Reviewer, writes, "I read tons of spiritual and religious books. I really got so much out of this book. Totally relevant to...our life issues. I guarantee this book will get you as excited about Kabbalah as it did me!" So, if you are at all curious as to why so many people are turning to Kabbalah today, DYNAMIC KABBALAH reveals it all.

Author: Joseph Dan
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809127696
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Here are previously unavailable texts, including The Book Bahir and the writings of the Iyyum circle, that were written during the first one hundred years of this movement that was to become the most important current in Jewish mysticism. This movement began in the late 12th century among Rabbinic Judaism in southern Europe.

Author: Moshe Idel
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300126263
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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This survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one of the world's foremost Kabbalah scholars. Idel charts the ways that Kabbalistic thought and literature developed in Italy and how its unique geographical situation facilitated the arrival of both Spanish and Byzantine Kabbalah.

Author: Sanford L. Drob
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433103049
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Kabbalah and Postmodernism: A Dialogue challenges certain long-held philosophical and theological beliefs, including the assumptions that the insights of mystical experience are unavailable to human reason and inexpressible in linguistic terms, that the God of traditional theology either does or does not exist, that «systematic theology» must provide a univocal account of God, man, and the world, that «truth» is «absolute» and not continually subject to radical revision, and that the truth of propositions in philosophy and theology excludes the truth of their opposites and contradictions. Readers of Kabbalah and Postmodernism will be exposed to a comprehensive mode of theological thought that incorporates the very doubts that would otherwise lead one to challenge the possibility of theology and religion, and which both preserves the riches of the Jewish tradition and extends beyond Judaism to a non-dogmatic universal philosophy and ethic.

Author: Daniel Chanan Matt
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809123872
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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This is the first translation with commentary of selections from The Zohar, the major text of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. This work was written in 13th-century Spain by Moses de Leon, a Spanish scholar.

Author: Moshe Idel
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300046991
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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In this prizewinning new interpretation of Jewish mysticism, Moshe Idel emphasizes the need for a comparative and phenomenological approach to Kabbalah and its position in the history of religion. Idel provides fresh insights into the origins of Jewish mysticism, the relation between mystical and historical experience, and the impact of Jewish mysticism on western civilization. "Idel's book is studded with major insights, and innovative approaches to the entire history of Judaism, and mastery of it will be essential for all serious students of Jewish thought."--Arthur Green, New York Times Book Review "Moshe Idel's original, scholarly, and stimulating study of Kabbalah contains the promise of a masterwork."--Elie Wiesel "Moshe Idel's book can help the nonspecialized reader to reconsider the whole of Kabbalistic tradition in comparison with many aspects of contemporary thought."--Umberto Eco "There can be no dispute about the importance and originality of Idel's work. Offering a wealth of complementary insights to Gershom Scholem and his school, it will command a great deal of attention and serious discussion."--Alexander Altmann

Author: Moshe Idel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110597608
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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This volume addresses the complex topic of the preeminent status of the divine feminine power, to be referred also as Female, within the theosophical structures of many important Kabbalists, Sabbatean believers, and Hasidic masters. This privileged status is part of a much broader vision of the Female as stemming from a very high root within the divine world, then She was emanated and constitutes the tenth, lower divine power, and even in this lower state She is sometime conceived of governing this world and as equal to the divine Male. Finally, She is conceived of as returning to Her original place in special moments, the days of Sabbath, the Jewish Holidays or in the eschatological era. Her special dignity is sometime related to Her being the telos of creation, and as the first entity that emerged in the divine thought, which has been later on generated. In some cases, an uroboric theosophy links the Female Malkhut, directly to the first divine power, Keter. The author points to the possible impact of some of the Kabbalistic discussions on conceptualizations of the feminine in the Renaissance period.

Author: Benjamin Blech
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
ISBN: 0757301231
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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In these troubled times, people are asking very difficult questions about God and their faith: If I suffer, does that mean I deserve it? Why do innocent people, especially children, die tragically? How can God be so cruel? Does God ever intervene during times of trouble? Who really runs the world-God or man? Do my prayers do any good? Why does God allow sickness, torture and evil to exist? Benjamin Blech admits, the answers are not simple. There is no one-size-fits-all explanation. Indeed, not only are there many answers, but in different situations several explanations may apply. Blech wrote this book as an intellectual analysis of Jewish wisdom on the subject of suffering. His theories are the fruit of thousands of years of debate, examination and struggle. Jewish wisdom teaches that there are rich and inspiring answers to the ultimate question: If God is good, why is the world so bad? Take part in the most important spiritual journey of all-the quest for serenity in the face of adversity-and discover that in the accumulated wisdom of the ages lies a time-tested solution for turning despair into hope and sorrow into faith.

Author: Sanford L. Drob
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN: 1461734150
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Symbols of the Kabbalah: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives provides a philosophical and psychological interpretation of the major symbols of the theosophical Kabbalah. It shows that the Kabbalah, particularly as it is expressed in the school of Isaac Luria, provides a coherent and comprehensive account of the cosmos, and humanity's role within it, that is intellectually, morally, and spiritually significant for contemporary life.

Author: Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110688026
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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The experience of birth has functioned through the ages as a vital metaphor foundational to all fields of art, philosophy, religion and literature. This book highlights the significance of birth in Jewish culture, as a challenge to existential philosophy and the centrality of death in Western culture. Similarities between Kabbalistic and midrashic perceptions of birth and its current place in cultural and psychoanalytic discourse are discussed.