By Lawrence Kushner
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“This one is a gem.” —David Mamet, playwright
“Lawrence Kushner . . . revolutionizes our figuring out of God, and indicates how we find our actual nature through establishing ourselves to love.” —Daniel C. Matt, writer of the fundamental Kabbalah
“Part damn-good storytelling, half mind-bending magic, Kabbalah isn’t fairly a singular; it’s an adventure of Jewish mysticism—seductive, cerebral, and funny, informed in a unconditionally specified and lovely voice.” —Debbie Danielpour Chapel
“Like all inventive religious thinkers, Rabbi Kushner . . . blends humor, suspense, and the chic in a modern amalgam of magical realism and the conventional non secular fable.” —Bernard Horn, writer of dealing with the Fires: Conversations with A.B. Yehoshua
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Sometime, someplace, somebody is trying to find solutions . . .
. . . in a thirteenth-century castle
. . . on a teach to a focus camp
. . . in a brand new York urban apartment
Hidden in the binding of an old textual content that has been handed down in the course of the a long time lies the reply to 1 of the heart’s everlasting questions. while the textual content falls into the fingers of Rabbi Kalman Stern, he has no concept that his lonely lifetime of highbrow ambitions is ready to alter as soon as he opens the e-book. quickly later on, he meets astronomer Isabel Benveniste, a girl of technology who stirs his soul as no girl has for a few years. yet Kalman has a lot to profit ahead of he can free up his middle and permit real love into his existence. the most important lies within the mysterious record he reveals contained in the Zohar, the grasp textual content of the Kabbalah.
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I want to know why light is a particle and a wave. And what that astronomer looks like without her glasses. I want to know why when I get excited my syntax goes all to hell. And just who did write The Book of Love, anyway? And I want a sign, yes, I want some kind of sign, an indication that I’m at least on the right track. And I’d like to have a mystical experience just once before I die. . ” • Two • CASTILE By 1260, King Alfonso X of León and Castile had extended the Christian reconquista throughout most of the Iberian Peninsula.
Why is it that seasoned businessmen always tell the truth, but never one word more than what is required? Why is it that you cannot simply tell someone a great religious truth without a whole rigmarole of questions and hints, allusions and mysteries? ” Had there been gambling casinos in thirteenth-century Castile, with such a face Moshe might have done well at the poker table. But, alas, gambling casinos did not appear in Western civilization until much later. Moshe might have made a decent living as an actor, but the only successful theater troupe in all of the Iberian Peninsula in the thirteenth century was in Madrid, and they already had a long waiting list of would-be thespians.
Kabbalah 31 • As was the case throughout most of medieval Europe, Jewish existence depended on a precarious and perpetually shifting balance between privilege and privation. Even though, for instance, it was forbidden to disturb the Jews during their observance of the Sabbath, the number of synagogues was limited by law. To help prevent the possibility of blood libels—wherein Jews were accused of using the blood of Christian children in the preparation of Passover matzah— Jews were forbidden to leave their homes during Easter.