In this review of Professor Scholem's recently published English lectures, "Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism", an account is given of the methods of Professor G. Scholem, which combine exact ...
For many years, Americans have dug through the recesses of world religious heritage seeking an ancient, yet relevant, truth. Jewish mysticism — like Buddhism, paganism and Hinduism before it — is the ...
Nan Goodman doesn’t spend much time wondering what Madonna, Mick Jagger or Ashton Kutcher may have gotten from dabbling in the “Kabbalah trend” of the early 2000s. What concerns Goodman are what ...
Jewish Social Studies plays an important role in advancing the understanding of Jewish life and the Jewish past. Key themes are issues of identity and peoplehood, the vistas opened by the integration ...
The question addressed in this article explores the intersection of theology and mysticism in Judaism and Islam. All religions have mystical elements in every aspect of religious life, from the ...
In 1941, Gershom Scholem published "Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism," a groundbreaking study of Kabbalah's murky origins, complicated texts and arcane ideas. Scholem, who died in 1982, concluded the ...
Edited by Lawrence Fine, Eitan Fishbane, and Or N. Rose, Jewish Lights, $24.99 (200p) ISBN 978-1-58023-434-4 Insights into the significance of traditional Jewish mysticism for today's Jews take center ...
In Safed, a center of kabbalah, ordinary citizens shocked by the Oct. 7 attacks are carrying military-grade weapons. Prayers at Safed Old Jewish Cemetery this month.Credit... Supported by By Damien ...