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On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead: Basic Concepts in the Kabbalah
In the Zohar and other writings of the Kabbalah, Jewish mystics developed concepts and symbols to help them penetrate secrets of the cosmos that cannot be understood through reason or intellect. These ideas about God, human beings, and creation…
The Jewish Moral Virtues
A book of ethical wisdom applied to contemporary life.
This book, by Eugene B. Borowitz and Frances Weinman Schwartz, is about philosophical meditations on ethics of contemporary life, and is structured on the twenty-four virtues of Yehiel ben…
This book, by Eugene B. Borowitz and Frances Weinman Schwartz, is about philosophical meditations on ethics of contemporary life, and is structured on the twenty-four virtues of Yehiel ben…
What Number is God?: metaphors, metaphysics, metamathematics, and the nature of things
Ch. 1. Meta-View -- Ch. 2. Image-ination in Mathematics and Religion -- Ch. 3. Holy Mathematics -- Ch. 4. God the Definite Integral and Cantorian Religion -- Appendix A. Understandings of Sign, Symbol, Metaphor, and Model in Religion and Mathematics:…
Safed Spirituality: rules of mystical piety, the beginning of wisdom
Gathers sixteenth-century writings about ethics, mysticism, and Jewish spirituality by some of the many teachers in the Galilean community of Safed.
The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia
Lectures on Persian poetry. Translations from the poems of Sanai, Attar, Rumi, Saadi and Hafiz