The Torah, Kabbalah and Jewish Poetry
Author : Josef Bláha
Publisher : Marek Konecný
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Bible
ISBN : 8090386024
Author : Josef Bláha
Publisher : Marek Konecný
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Bible
ISBN : 8090386024
Author : Peter Cole
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0300169167
Introduces renderings of, and commentary on, Kabbalistic verse that emerged directly from Jewish mysticism and that reveals the foundations of both language and existence itself.
Author : Rachel Barenblat
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 2015-12-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781508715153
The Omer is the period of 49 days between Pesach (Passover) and Shavuot. Through counting the Omer, we link liberation with revelation. Once we counted the days between the Pesach barley offering and the Shavuot wheat offering at the Temple in Jerusalem. Now as we count the days we prepare an internal harvest of reflection, discernment, and readiness. Kabbalistic (mystical) and Mussar (personal refinement) traditions offer lenses through which we can examine ourselves as we prepare ourselves to receive Torah anew at Shavuot. Here are 49 poems, one for each day of the Omer, accompanied by helpful Omer-counting materials. Use these poems to deepen your own practice as we move together through this seven-week corridor of holy time. Rachel Barenblat has gifted her readers with a set of insightful poems to accompany our journey through the wilderness during the Counting of the Omer. Deft of image and reference, engaging and provocative, meditative and surprising, this collection is like a small purse of jewels. Each sparkling gem can support and enlighten readers on their paths toward psycho-spiritual Truth. -- Rabbi Min Kantrowitz, author of Counting the Omer: A Kabbalistic Meditation Guide Rachel Barenblat comes bearing a rich harvest. In Toward Sinai, her series of poems to be read daily during the counting of the Omer, a poem chronicles every step between Exodus and Sinai. The poems exist in the voices of the ancient Hebrews measuring grain each day between Passover and Shavuot, and also in a contemporary voice that explores the meaning of the Omer in our own day. Together, the poems constitute a layered journey that integrates mysticism, nature, and personal growth. As Barenblat writes: "Gratitude, quantified." -- Rabbi Jill Hammer, author of The Omer Calendar of Biblical Women
Author : Allen Afterman
Publisher : Sheep Meadow Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 22,20 MB
Release : 2005-03-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
According to Rodger Kamenetz, Allen Afterman’s Kabbalah and Consciousness makes the major traditions of Jewish mysticism more clear and profoundly revealing than any other work on the subject. Elie Wiesel says, “Poetry and mysticism are magnificently reconciled in Allen Afterman’s book on Kabbalah’s secret imagery and silent invocations.” Here also is Afterman’s poetry, described by Yehuda Amichai as “an almost private religious poetry for our post-religious age.” The book includes an important interview with the author.
Author : Larry Tabick
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827609485
"The book collects a wide variety of interpretations of Torah passages, commentaries, and midrash rooted in the mystical side of Jewish tradition, translated by Rabbi Larry Tabick ... The quoted authors span many centuries and speak from many schools of thought"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Josef Bláha
Publisher : Marek Konecný
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Cabala
ISBN : 8026039017
"This book deals with the Kabbalah and also with Hebrew literature and poetry. The book also deals with modern issues of philosophy, Levinas and Heidegger, and the relationship between philosophy and Kabbalah"--back cover.
Author :
Publisher : SkyLight Paths Publishing
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 27,15 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1893361519
The best-selling author of The Essential Kabbalah now offers readers the best introduction to the Zohar. The splendor and enigmatic appeal of the Zohar, the major text of the Jewish mystical tradition, has never intrigued readers of all faiths more than it does today. But how can we truly understand it? Daniel C. Matt brings together in one place the most important teachings from the Zohar, the cornerstone of Kabbalah--described as a mixture of theology, mystical psychology, anthropology, myth, and poetry--alongside facing-page stories, notes, and historical background that illuminate and explain the text. Ideal for the first-time reader with no prior knowledge of Jewish mysticism. Guides readers step-by-step through the texts that make up the Zohar--midrash, mystical fantasy, commentary, and Hebrew scripture--and explains the inner meanings of this sacred text, recognized by kabbalists as the most important work of mystical teaching, in a way that is both spiritually enlightening and intellectually fascinating.
Author : Sue Swartz
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781934730515
From Genesis to Deuteronomy, from "Bereshit" to "Zot Haberacha," from Eden to Gaza, from Eve to Emma Goldman, "we who desire" interweaves the mythic and the mundane as it follows the arc of the Torah with carefully chosen words, astute observations, and deep emotion. ""we who desire" began as daily writing practice, a poem on the weekly Torah portion. I refined, edited, slashed, leaving only those words that tell a story, the real story of creation and covenant, liberation and desire. Especially desire. I have turned it and turned it for decades, this manual of instruction, this text that called me into forever. Turned it until the words felt right, until I was able to admit its hold on me. Fire and splendor. Fire and splendor." -Sue Swartz Sue Swartz has used a brilliant, fortified, playful, serious, humanely furious moral imagination, and a poet's love of the music of language, to re-tell the saga of the Bible you thought you knew-and make its implications crystal clear for the life you are right now living. Amen. -Alicia Ostriker, author, "For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book" Consistently on key, Swartz's lyrical voice moves deftly between the Biblical past and our gritty, contemporary moment-often interweaving the two in surprising ways. -Yehoshua November, author, "God's Optimism" Sue Swartz does magnificent acrobatics with the Torah in We Who Desire. She takes the English that's become staid and boring, and adds something that's new and strange and exciting. These are poems that leave a taste in your mouth, and you walk away from them thinking, what did I just read? Oh, yeah. It's the Bible. -Matthue Roth, author, "Yom Kippur A Go-Go," "My First Kafka" It is more than their accessibility that marks Sue Swartz's poems as special - it is the access they give the reader to sudden emotion: wonder, desire, laughter, hurt. Swartz has taken the well-worn motif of Torah commentary-in-verse and created something entirely new and entirely wonderful. -Lawrence Bush, author, "American Torah Toons," "Waiting for God: The Spiritual Explorations of a Reluctant Atheist""
Author : Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780877286875
We can read Exodus as an allegory of the psychological bondage we experience until we each find a way to the "promised land" of the spirit. Based on Biblical text, traditional material, and Jewish folklore, this book is an interesting read for Jewish and Christian scholars, and people on a spiritual path.
Author : Christine A. Meilicke
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780934223768
"On a more specific level, this book analyses Rothenberg's use of postmodern "appropriative strategies," such as collage, assemblage, palimpsest, parody, pastiche, forgery, found poetry, and theft. These strategies illustrate the concept, practice, and problematics of appropriation." "Embracing postmodern experimentation and drawing on heterodox Jewish sources, Rothenberg constructs a contemporary American Jewish identity that does not rely on institutionalized Judaism."--Jacket.