Tantur Ecumenical Institute LibraryThe Essential Kabbalah : the heart of Jewish mysticism / Daniel C. Matt.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York, New York : HarperSanFrancisco, 1995.Description: xii, 221 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 9780062511645
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| 296.1 L578n Nine Talmudic readings / | 296.1 L853is Israel's past in present research : essays on ancient Israelite historiography / | 296.1 M284s Six treatises attributed to Maimonides / | 296.1 M43e The Essential Kabbalah : the heart of Jewish mysticism / | 296.1 M584c Confronting creation : how Judaism reads Genesis : an anthology of Genesis rabbah / | 296.1 M764r A rabbinic anthology, | 296.1 N298mi The Midrash : an introduction / |
Bibliography: pp. 219-221.
Contents: 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.
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