Citadel Press is proud to announce the newest titles in the Wisdom Library, a collection of books showcasing the thoughts and writings of diverse literary, philosophical, political, and scientific immortals. These books deserve a place on every home bookshelf and in every student's basic library. ...

The religious philosophy of the Hebrews. None of the Gnostic systems has so often been compelled under the hands of critics to change its birthplace as the so-called Kabbalah. No monument of Oriental philosophy has called forth such conflicting hypotheses as to the time and place of its composition as the universal code of the Kabbalists, the Zohar. No writer of the history of philosophy has undertaken to translate the picturesque, metaphorical ...

Between 1941 and 1945, the years of cataclysm for European Jewry, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe published a remarkable monthly journal entitled Hakeriah Vehakedusha "Reading and Holiness." A collection of discourses from this journal is published here for the first time in English translation. Many of the discourses have as their central theme the concepts of self-sacrifice for G-d and the Jewish people, repentance and strengthening the observance ...

1864 and 1863. The text is comprised of two essays, one on The Essenes, the second on the Kabbalah. The Essenes is a sect or order of Judaism, found in ecclesiastical histories and Cyclopaedias, and is derived from the short notices of Philo, Pliny, Josephus, Solinus, Porphyry, Eusebius and Epiphanius. In this essay the author strives to give an impartial statement of the doctrines and practices of the Essenes and to show their relationship to ...

Revealing things your Rabbi or Bube never told you - this book sharply challenges the usual biblical interpretations and viewpoints, providing radical alternatives to the glib answers we all received. ...

Que signifie le mot Kabbalah ? Que veut dire recevoir ? Quels sont les sujets traits dans la Kabbalah ? Quelle est l'histoire de la Kabbalah ? Qu'est-ce qu'un Kabbaliste ? Que penser de Madonna, Kabbalah et show-business ? Les femmes peuvent-elles apprendre la Kabbalah ? Qu'est-ce qu'un Tikun ? Quelles sont les diffrentes origines des mes ? Quel est le rle des prires ? Rponses ces questions et 150 de plus dans un langage clair et concis
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As Moshe Idel demonstrated, this book is incorrectly attributed to Rabbi Shem Tov Sefardi de Leon. Its apparently true author is a direct disciple of Avraham Abulafia, Natan ben Saadyah Harar. He describes instructions he received from his teacher, believed to be Aubulafia himself, along with his ecstatic experiences. This gives the book unparalleled importance, as auto-biographical works in Kabbalah are extremely rare. Additionally, he explains ...

Dealing specifically with the Divine Names and Sefirot, this is a deeply mystical text in the Jewish tradition written in the 13th century by the lay preacher Avraham of Cologne. Once it happened that Avraham walked into the synagogue of Shelomoh ibn Adret's father. While he was on the western side of the synagogue, a voice was coming out at the opposite side. They asked it every kind of question, and the voice also known as the "voice of ...

Known only in restricted circles and closely guarded from unworthy hands, this is one of the most secret books of Kabbalah. It carefully describes the upper worlds in a very ethereal and symbolical language. It uses practical methods and pronunciations of the Divine Names that were employed by the High Priest in the Temple. It describes the names of Angels and Demons, and also explains how to summon them. This text is written for advanced ...

Ktavim Chadashim contains many unpublished works by Chaim Vital, the foremost disciple of the Ari (Isaac Luria). Here, for the first time, we publish two main sections in English, which are the commentary on Brit Menucha (Covenant of Rest), and the secret fourth part of Shaarei Kedusha (Gates of Holiness). The commentary on Brit Menucha deals with Kabbalah Ma'asit (Practical Kabbalah). It is much more than a simple commentary, because it ...