Explore the Lamed Vav mythos in the Kabbalah, early Hasidism, and Jewish folklore. Highlights the tradition of the Lamed Vav-36 hidden righteous individuals in every generation who sustain the world with acts of kindness. Relates the Lamed Vav mytho...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503639706)
In this innovative intellectual biography, Oded Yisraeli offers an unprecedented, comprehensive portrait of Rabbi Moses b. Nahman, or Nahmanides (1194ca. 1270), one of the greatest Jewish thinkers and writers of the Middle Ages. Nahmanides creati...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009630405)
The phenomenon of African Indigenous Spirituality (AIS) includes new groups whose program is restoring forms of pre-Christian and pre-Islamic spirituality. This Element presents an ethnography of The Revelation Spiritual Home (TRSH). It examines the...Loe edasi...
The phenomenon of African Indigenous Spirituality (AIS) includes new groups whose program is restoring forms of pre-Christian and pre-Islamic spirituality. This Element presents an ethnography of The Revelation Spiritual Home (TRSH). It examines the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503643666)
A World of Piety offers an historical-critical inquiry into the practical aims of Castilian kabbalah, including the Book of the Zohar, revealing the overlooked pietistic and revivalist aims of these texts--...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503641716)
Scholars have long argued that early Hasidic teachings introduced a psychological dimension to kabbalistic traditions and revitalized modern Judaism. Focused on the inner soul, Hasidism encouraged worshippers to experience joy and delight through th...Loe edasi...
Games of Inheritance: Kabbalah, Tradition, and Authorship in Jorge Luis Borges explores the thought of Argentine author and public intellectual Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) on questions of authorship and literary tradition. The book focuses on Borg...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978843967)
Games of Inheritance explores the thought of Argentine author and public intellectual Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) on questions of authorship and literary tradition. The book focuses on Borges’s engagement with Jewish literary and intellectua...Loe edasi...
An exploratory, mystical, and feminist companion for the traditional Jewish practice of counting the Omer.The Omer Calendar of Biblical Women is a meditative guidebook for counting the Omer, the forty-nine days between Passover...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Mar-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503642072)
Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of ?im um. The onset of modernity, Eli Rubin argues, was heralded by this startl...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Feb-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: For Dummies, ISBN-13: 9781394315130)
A trustworthy, easy-to-read guide to an integral part of Judaism Kabbalah For Dummies, 2nd Edition is your factual and objective guide to understanding Kabbalah—a spiritual practice, also known as the “received tradition,” thats...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Nov-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479835225)
Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America’s religious identityIn 1688, a leading Quaker thinker and activist in what is now New Jersey penned a letter to one of his closest disciples concerning Kabbalah, or what he calle...Loe edasi...
Gott in der Lehre des Geheimen erfahren Um die Kabbala ranken sich viele Mythen. Höchste Zeit, mit den Missverständnissen aufzuräumen und diese ganz spezielle Denktradition im Judentum einmal genauer zu betrachten: Denn Kabbala ist vor al...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Oct-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503640214)
While premodern kabbalistic texts were not chronicles of historical events, they provided elaborate models for understanding the secret divine plan guiding human affairs. Hartley Lachter analyzes innovative kabbalistic doctrines, such as the idea of...Loe edasi...
Reel Kabbalah studies representations of esoteric Jewish conceptual traditions known as Kabbalah and Hasidism in five important fictional films from the first decade of the twenty-first century. The book considers how film both stands in...Loe edasi...
