Authors: Adin Steinsaltz, Yehuda Hanegbi
ISBN-13: 9780465082728, ISBN-10: 0465082726
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: September 2006
Edition: REV
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz is internationally regarded as one of the leading scholars and rabbis of this century. His education includes a degree in mathematics from Hebrew University, in addition to his rabbinic studies. Rabbi Steinsaltz founded the Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications; under its aegis, he has published fifty-eight books on the Talmud, Jewish mysticism, religious thought, sociology, historical biography, and philosophy. His biography of the famed Rabbi Menachem Schneerson will be published in 2007. These books have been translated into Russian, English, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, and Dutch. He lives in Jerusalem.
An expanded edition of the classic text of Jewish mysticism (Kabala) by the world famous Talmudic scholar
Deliberately written without learned quotations or scholarship...this truly new work of theology provides answers with which contemporary men may renew their connection with the God of their fathers.