The Kabbalah Reader

This comprehensive and accessible entre into the world of Kabbalah covers 1600 years of Jewish mystical thought and features a variety of thinkersfrom the renowned to the obscureunavailable in any other volume. Its a fresh take on an ancient tradition compiled by Edward Hoffman a psychologist and respected scholar of Judaism who reveals how this supposedly esoteric material is relevant to a host of contemporary concerns such as ethics emotional health intuition and creativity meditation social relations and leadership and higher states of consciousness. . Contributors include: Moses Chaim Luzzatto Moses Cordovero Abraham Abulafia Maimonides Nachmanides The Maharal Nachman of Breslov The Baal Shem Tov The Gaon of Vilna The Netziv The Ben Ish Chai Yehudah Ashlag Kalonymus Shapira Baba Sali Abraham Joshua Heschel Menachem Mendel Schneersohn Adin Steinsaltz Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi Jonathan Sacks and many others along with excerpts from the Sefer Yetzirah Sefer HaBahir and Sefer HaZohar.