Sunday, August 5, 2007

Kabbalah - The Relationship Between Writing and the Divine


• Hoffman, Edward The Hebrew Alphabet: A Mystical Journey. Chronicle Books, 1998.

• A nice Wikipedia overview of the Kabbalah.

(Recommendations from Dr. Mira Amiras):
•Kaplan, Aryeh, (transl & commentary, bilingual) Sefer Bahir [The Book of Illumination]. Weiser Books, 1989. Amazon.com link

•Kaplan, Aryeh, (transl & commentary, bilingual) Sefer Yetzirah [The Book of Formation] (transl as "The Book of Creation" which is a big problem and a long story). Weiser Books, 1997. Amazon.com link

•Matt, Daniel. (transl & commentary with the help of a committee of kabbalistic scholars) Zohar: The Pritzger Edition.. Stanford University Press, 2003. Amazon.com link.

Any books by the following authors:

Gershom Scholem

Aryeh Kaplan

Moshe Idel

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