Authors: David S. Ariel
ISBN-13: 9780742545649, ISBN-10: 0742545644
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: January 2006
Edition: REV
Today, many people from all faiths are exploring the Kabbalah. What was once contoversial and esoteric teachings from midieval Jewish mystics now is becoming one of the latest spiritual trends sweeping across America. The book has a completely revised introduction and several substantially revised chapters, making key ideas less abstract and more comprehensible to readers, and now includes a section called the 10 Main Conceptual Principles.
1 | Seekers of unity : the nature of mysticism | 1 |
2 | Visionaries, mystics, and Kabbalists : the history of Jewish mysticism | 23 |
3 | The hidden and the revealed : the infinite God of Jewish mysticism | 43 |
4 | The calculus of the divine world : the teaching of the Sefirot | 65 |
5 | The Shekhinah : the feminine aspect of God | 95 |
6 | Entering the garden : the meaning of Torah | 113 |
7 | The oneness of being : the destiny of the soul | 129 |
8 | The mystic drama : the religious life of the Jewish mystic | 149 |
9 | Raising the sparks : modern Jewish mysticism | 171 |
10 | Mysticism and meditation : the mystic quest | 203 |