[PDF] The Essential Kabbalah

• Author : Daniel C. Matt
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release Date : 2010-10-12
• ISBN : 9780062048134

A translation of the Kabbalah for the layperson includes a compact presentation of each primary text and features a practical analysis and vital historical information that offer insight into the various aspects of Jewish mysticism.

• Author : David S. Ariel
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release Date : 2006
• ISBN : 0742545644

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.

• Author : Daniel C. Matt,Introduction by Houston Smith
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1995
• ISBN : OCLC:731248051

Kabbalah emerged as a distinct movement within Judaism in Medieval Europe.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1998
• ISBN : OCLC:1034680485

A translation of the Kabbalah for the layperson includes a compact presentation of each primary text and features a practical analysis and vital historical information that offers insight into the various aspects of Jewish mysticism.

• Author : Perle Besserman
• Publisher : Shambhala Publications
• Release Date : 1998-01-20
• ISBN : 9780834826656

Jewish mystics from biblical times to the present have explored the hidden secrets of the Torah in quest of a single goal: to lose the self in the Infinite "No-thingness" (Ein Sof) and be at one with God. In language accessible to the layperson, this Shambhala Guide provides a detailed introduction to the complex world of Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism. With an extensive background in meditation practice, Perle Besserman emphasizes Kabbalah's spiritual disciplines, grounded in righteous living, devotional practices, and

• Author : Lynne L. Hume Ph.D.,Nevill Drury
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release Date : 2013-01-24
• ISBN : 9781440804199

A rare combination of personal and academic, this book showcases the myriad avenues for transcending the boundaries of reality through direct sensory experience. • Highlights techniques, rituals, and training of magical practitioners • Counterpoints the rational with the emotional and compares the past with the present • Takes a cross-cultural, historical, and anthropological approach that is accessible to all readers • Includes experiences of academics, shamans, occultists, healers, sorcerers, pagans, medieval magicians, cybermagicians, and indigenous peoples across the world

• Author : Perle Besserman
• Publisher : St. Martin's Press
• Release Date : 2015-04-28
• ISBN : 9781250083111

The red bracelet: it graces the wrists of numerous celebrities - from Madonna to Britney Spears - who have converted to the spiritual practice of Kabbalah. But what is Kabbalah and how can women apply it to their own lives? In A New Kabbalah for Women, bestselling author and teacher of Jewish mysticism and meditation, Perle Besserman, shares a feminine approach to spirituality. Since the time of Moses, Jewish mysticism has been barred to women, and Shekhinah, the feminine side

• Author : Daniel Chanan Matt
• Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
• Release Date : 1998-02-01
• ISBN : 9781879045897

Mysticism and science: What do they have in common? How can one enlighten the other? By drawing on modern cosmology and ancient Kabbalah, Matt shows how science and religion can together enrich our spiritual awareness and help us recover a sense of wonder and find our place in the universe. Drawing on the insights of physics and Jewish mysticism, Daniel Matt uncovers the sense of wonder and oneness that connects us with the universe and God. He describes in understandable

• Author : Arthur Kurzweil
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2011-04-20
• ISBN : 9781118068625

Kabbalah For Dummies presents a balanced perspective of Kabbalah as an “umbrella” for a complex assemblage of mystical Jewish teachings and codification techniques. Kabbalah For Dummies also shows how Kabbalah simultaneously presents an approach to the study of text, the performance of ritual and the experience of worship, as well as how the reader can apply its teaching to everyday life.

• Author : Ruth Whitney
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release Date : 2021-05-21
• ISBN : 9781725293175

In Six Stages on the Spiritual Path, we learn about spirituality and its stages as well as how spirituality helps to reduce our suffering and create more love. Writings from ancient to contemporary mystics across the world provide us with practical and spiritual wisdom that will make our lives happier and more loving. In the first stage on the mystic way, children experience awe and wonder, but they do not realize that this is a spiritual experience. While all indigenous

• Author : J. Philip Newell
• Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
• Release Date : 2002-11-01
• ISBN : 9780819225474

Few issues have caused the church more difficulty through the ages than those surrounding the human body. Throughout much of Christian history, spiritual seekers have considered the body to be, at best, a hindrance to spiritual enlightenment, and, at worst, an enemy to be suppressed. Many of our contemporary negative preoccupations with physical appearance, image, and sexuality derive from this ancient and habitual denial of the notion that we were created in God's image. In Echo of the Soul bestselling

• Author : Nevill Drury
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 2011-03-02
• ISBN : 9780199793051

The Western magical traditions are currently undergoing an international resurgence. In Stealing Fire from Heaven, Nevill Drury offers an overview of the modern occult revival and seeks to explain this growing interest in ancient magical belief systems. Gnosticism and the Hermetica, the medieval Kabbalah, Tarot and Alchemy, and more recently, Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, collectively laid the basis for the modern magical revival, which first began to gather momentum in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. Western magic has

• Author : Joseph B. Meszler,Elyse Goldstein
• Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
• Release Date : 2006
• ISBN : 9781580233095

A deeply personal exploration of Judaism's most sacred statement. Delve into the spiritual history of the Sh'ma and claim your own personal meaning in these enduring words. Traces the Sh ma through the ages and in the lives of Jewish historical figures."

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Citadel Press
• Release Date : 2006
• ISBN : 0806527781

The wisdom of the Kabbalah distilled to 175 pages. Mathers presents representative chapters from the Zohar (the 'Book of Splendour', which forms the main body of the Kabbalah), exploring topics as diverse as the nature of mankind's relationship with God; wisdom, reason and knowledge; restoring harmony to the world; and love, kindness and the knowledge of God. Traditionally reserved for scholars, this material is provided in a clear and accessible format that provides daily guidance both for scholars of the Kabbalah

• Author : James D. Proctor
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 2005
• ISBN : 9780195175332

This collection of essays looks at the relationship between science and religion. The book begins from the premise that both science and religion operate in, yet seek to reach beyond specific historical, political, ideological, and psychological contexts.