Product Description: Keter is a close reading of fifty relatively brief Jewish texts, tracing the motif of divine coronation from Jewish esoteric writings of late antiquity to the Zohar, written in thirteenth-century Spain. In the course of this investigation Arthur Green draws a wide arc including Talmudic, Midrashic, liturgical, Merkavah, German Hasidic, and Kabbalistic works, showing through this single theme the spectrum of devotional, mystical, and magical views held by various circles of Jews over the course of a millennium or more...read more

Product Description: From Abraham Isaac Kook to Zeitlin, Jewish spirituality has a rich mystical tradition. This volume gathers the most significant and treasured writings from the Jewish mystics as published in the Classics of Western Spirituality series...read more

Product Description: Find inspiration for a satisfying spiritual life of practice through the combination of contemporary mindfulness meditation and classical Hasidic spirituality."The lessons in Kedushat Levi were not originally intended as intellectual curiosities or as demonstrations of R...read more

Product Description: The most powerful Hasidic teachings made accessible―from some of the world's preeminent authorities on Jewish thought and spirituality."The teachings of Torah, from beginning to end, are read here as a path toward liberation, a way of uplifting your soul and allowing it to journey homeward, back to its Source in the oneness of all being...read more

Examines the meaning, history, and origin of the core Hebrew words that are shared and understood throughout the Jewish world and why it is important for people to know and use these words in their original Hebrew. Reprint.

Explains the fundamental ideas and spiritual teachings of Kabbalah while discussing how it can be interpreted to serve a contemporary spiritual quest without destorying the soul of its tradition.

The Zohar is the great medieval compendium of Jewish esoteric and mystical teaching, and the basis of the kabbalistic faith. It is, however, a notoriously difficult text, full of hidden codes, concealed meanings, obscure symbols, and ecstatic expression. This illuminating study, based upon the last several decades of modern Zohar scholarship, unravels the historical and intellectual origins of this rich text and provides an excellent introduction to its themes, complex symbolism, narrative structure, and language.A Guide to the Zohar is thus an invaluable companion to the Zohar itself, as well as a useful resource for scholars and students interested in mystical literature, particularly that of the west, from the Middle Ages to the present. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The new Jewish spirituality lies somewhere between God's elusive presence in our world and our search for authentic language to describe it. Personal journeys seldom have a clear beginning, and they rarely have a definite end. If there is an end to our journey, surely it is one that leads to some measure of wisdom, and thence back to its own beginning...read more

Selections from Hasidic teachings identify the obstacles to prayer and, through parables and explanations, tell how to find meaning in prayer

Product Description: Part of the World Spirituality series, this is a broad-ranging, illustrated, scholarly treatment of core topics in Jewish spirituality from the Middle Ages to the present.

Product Description: Part of the World Sprituality series, this is a broad-ranging, illustrated, scholarly treatment of core topics in Jewish spirituality from the earliest text references in Biblical times, through Second Temple Judaism and the Middle Ages. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A biography of the controversial Hasidic rabbi and author of mystic tales, explores the personal conflicts that affected his spiritual philosophy