Essential Kabbalah The Heart of Jewish Mysticism

Name: Essential Kabbalah The Heart of Jewish Mysticism
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ISBN: 9780062511638

ISBN-10: 0062511637

ISBN-13: 9780062511638

Edition: 1996

Authors: Daniel C. Matt

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Two reporters from the Financial Times go behind the scenes to detail both nobility and corruption in the fight for compensation of Holocaust survivors. Half a century after World War II, a small group of Americans launched a campaign to confront the world with the fact that many assets looted by the Nazis had never been returned to their owners. They wanted to write the final chapter in the story of the Holocaust's survivors, most of whom were nearing death, and wanted recognition of the debt that these victims were owed. Backed by class action lawsuits and threats of economic sanctions, a disparate group of lawyers, politicians, and Jewish advocacy groups mounted an enormous challenge…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/6/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Daniel C. Matt has written many books and articles on Jewish spirituality, including Zohar:The Book of Enlightenment and God and the Big Bang. He is a professor of Jewish mysticism at the Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA.



Foreword


The Ten Sefirot


Introduction: A Glimpse of the Orchard


Ein Sof: God as Infinity


Ein Sof and the Sefirot


Ayin: Mystical Nothingness


The Ten Sefirot


Creation


Letters of the Alphabet


Mind, Meditation, and Mystical Experience


Dangers of Contemplation


Revelation and Torah


Living in the Material World


The Wisdom of Kabbalah


Notes


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