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By Gershom Scholem

Reviews
"Along with Scholem's significant developments in Jewish Mysticism, this can be the traditional paintings in its field." -- Choice

"Comprises a few of Scholem's such a lot widely conceived highbrow efforts, facing such common concerns as creativity and culture, Scripture and its interpretation, faith and delusion, and the character of spiritual authority." -- Arthur eco-friendly, Brandeis University

"Makes the complicated and interesting global of kabbalistic image and delusion available to a much broader viewers, rendering it in phrases which are of curiosity to modern readers." -- Elliot R. Wolfson, long island University

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In "On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism", Gershom Scholem publications the reader throughout the important topics within the difficult heritage of the Kabbalah; clarifying the kinfolk among mysticism and proven spiritual authority, the mystics' interpretation of the Torah and their makes an attempt to find the hidden that means underlying Scripture, the strain among the philosophical and the paranormal thoughts of God, and the symbolism hired in mystical religion.

About the author
Gershom Scholem, who died in 1982, is still the largest gun in kabbalah scholarship, and "On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism" could be his such a lot available booklet at the topic. It includes definitive essays at the relation of the Torah to Jewish mysticism, the mythology of the kabbalah, and where of Jewish mystics within the Jewish group. This e-book helped reinvigorate 20th-century Jewish experiences with an expertise of the dwelling fact of God, after the nineteenth century's extra astringent scholarly emphasis on legislation and philosophy. It indicates how Jewish mystics were much less fascinated about adherence to orthodoxy than their Christian opposite numbers, and freer of their expression of the divine features of eroticism. in addition, Scholem bargains nice perception concerning the ways in which kabbalah has not just threatened the authority of institutional faith, but in addition served as a resource of its energy.

By Fritjof Capra

PDF | 332 pages | English

From Publishers Weekly

In trying to exhibit how encounters with a number of humans fueled the writing of his bestsellers The Tao of Physics and The Turning element, Capra's new publication is alternately superficial and meaty. That he as soon as sat subsequent to Alan Watts at a cocktail party, heard Krishnamurti lecture and exchanged observations with Indira Gandhi is revealing of not anything; nor is the exact synopsis of the author's studying behavior. extra fascinating are conversations recorded right here with physicists Werner Heisenberg and Geoffrey chunk, psychotherapists Stanislav Grof and R. D. Laing, economists Hazel Henderson and E. F. Schumacher, and with figures similar to structures theorist Gregory Bateson, holistic melanoma therapist Carl Simonton and feminist Charlene Spretnak. How Capra got here to understand parallels among sleek physics and jap mysticism, then went past this to a platforms point of view embracing ecology and non secular knowledge, is the heady subject of this self-preoccupied yet frequently stimulating set of talks.

From Library Journal

Capra, writer of The Tao of Physics , is known for his certain combination of physics and mysticism. right here he lines the improvement of his notion through proposing a sequence of conversations with many influential thinkers, together with Werner Heisenberg, R. D. Laing, Alan Watts, and Margaret Lock. those conversations happened among 1969 and the "Big Sur Dialogues" symposium in 1979 and diversity in topic from technology to politics, anthropology to holistic drugs. Capra feels that his contribution has been in simple terms to set up hyperlinks among the guidelines of those hugely unique thinkers, all of whom figured principally in his evolution from a standard physicist to the spokesman for a brand new imaginative and prescient of reality.

About the Author

Fritjof Capra bought his PhD in theoretical physics from the college of Vienna and has performed examine in high-energy physics at numerous ecu and American universities. Capra has written and lectured broadly in regards to the philosophical implications of recent technological know-how and is writer of 'The Tao of Physics', 'The Turning Point' and 'Uncommon Wisdom'. at the moment Director of the Centre for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California, he lives in Berkeley along with his spouse and daughter.