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Nine and a Half Mystics: The Kabbala Today » (REPRINT)

Book cover image of Nine and a Half Mystics: The Kabbala Today by Herbert Weiner

Authors: Herbert Weiner, Adin Steinsaltz (Afterword), Elie Wiesel
ISBN-13: 9780684843254, ISBN-10: 0684843250
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Date Published: July 1997
Edition: REPRINT

Author Biography: Herbert Weiner

Book Synopsis

This revised edition of a modern classic includes a new Foreword by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel and an Afterword by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, editor of The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition, as well as a Coda by the author in which he explores the many paths being traveled today in the search for the treasures of the Kabbala.

	Foreword
	Preface to the New and Expanded Edition
	Preface to the First Edition
1	He Who Touches Is Touched	3
2	A Mystic on East Broadway	23
3	The Accountant	57
4	Chambers Within Chambers	91
5	Mysticism for the Masses	121
6	The Lubavitcher Movement	155
7	Bratzlav--The Dead Hasidim	197
8	Exercises in Modern Hasidism	227
9	The Fragrance of Eden	261
10	The View from the Root Above	291
	Epilogue: "... And So?"	327
	Coda:"... And So?" Twenty Years Later	343
	Afterword: Mysticism in the Jewish Tradition	385
	Acknowledgments	393
	Index	395