Arthur Kurzweil

Kabbalah For Dummies (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

See how ancient Jewish mystical traditions and rituals can transform your life Kabbalah For Dummies presents a balanced perspective of Kabbalah as an "umbrella" for a complex assemblage of mystical Jewish teachings and codification techniques. Kabbalah For Dummies also shows how Kabbalah simultaneously presents an approach to the study of text, the performance of ritual and the experience of worship, as well as how the reader can apply its teaching to everyday life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118068625
• Artikelnr.: 37485435

Autorenporträt

Arthur Kurzweil is known as America's foremost Jewish genealogist. The author/editor of several books, he lectures extensively on the subjects of Judaica, magic, and mysticism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I: So, What's the Big Secret? Unmasking Kabbalah.
Chapter 1: What Is Kabbalah? Chapter 2: Magic, Mishegas, and Other Things
that Kabbalah Isn't. Chapter 3: Looking Back: A Brief History Of Kabbalah.
Part II: Cutting to the Core of Kabbalah. Chapter 4: The Link between
Heaven and Earth: Kabbalah's Own Top-Ten Countdown. Chapter 5: Everything
(Even a Traffic Jam) Is for the Best. Chapter 6: Our Bodies Don't Have
Souls; Our Souls Have Bodies. Chapter 7: Like Déjà Vu All Over Again:
Reincarnation in Kabbalah. Chapter 8: Instant Karma's Gonna Get You. Part
III: Livin' La Vida Kabbalah. Chapter 9: Living One Day at a Time. Chapter
10: Living One Week at a Time. Chapter 11: A Year in the Life of a
Kabbalist. Chapter 12: A Kabbalist's Life Cycle. Part IV: Fine-tuning the
Essential Skills of the Kabbalist. Chapter 13: Discovering the Kabbalistic
Books that Really Matter. Chapter 14: Hitting the Books -- and Kissing
Them: Studying Like a Kabbalist. Chapter 15: Praying Like a Kabbalist.
Chapter 16: Knowing the Unknowable God. Part V: The Part of Tens. Chapter
17: (Almost) Ten Myths about Studying Kabbalah. Chapter 18: Ten Great
Kabbalists in History. Chapter 19: Ten Places that Kabbalists Visit. Part
VI: Appendixes. Appendix A: Books and Authors You'll Thank Me For
Recommending. Appendix B: Patriarchs, Swindlers, Prophets, and Sinners:
Meet 100 Torah Characters. Appendix C: A Glossary of Everything Kabbalah.
Index.