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  • Jewish Mysticism

    This website, organized by Deb Platt, provides quotations from various Jewish works on the Kabbalah including those of Rabbi Yehuda L.Ashlag, who comments upon Isaac Luria's Ten Luminous Emanations, Daniel C. Matt, and Gershom Scholem.

  • Judaism Reading List: Kabbalah and Mysticism

    A copious bibliography of titles on Jewish mysticism, each with a link to amazon.com.

  • Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism

    Mysticism is said to be an integral part of Chasidism, whilst other traditional Jews "take it with a pinch of salt". Despite these different views Judaism has never, we are told, regarded mysticism with suspicion, or as in some ways sinister as non-Jews have often done. The author discusses how non-Jews, and not least the Christian Kabbalists of the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods, have distorted the teachings of the Kabbalah, whilst outlining some of the fundamental doctrines of the tradition.

  • Sprituality: Kabbalah 101

    Here may be found a number of articles on Kabbalistic thought by various rabbis. Rabbi Noson Weisz, for example, provides several articles on the soul, whilst Rabbi Shimon Lieberman contributes a history of the Kabbalah in two parts, as well as articles on the sefirot.