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Once Round the Sun
A little man named Uncle Peppercorn takes a boy named Peter on a magical voyage, along the way explaining the wonders of nature, the earth, and the stars.
Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism
A comprehensive treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the overwhelmingly visual nature of religious experience in Jewish spirituality from antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Using…
Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermenutics and Poetic Imagination
This long-awaited, magisterial study-an unparalleled blend of philosophy, poetry, and philology-draws on theories of sexuality, phenomenology, comparative religion, philological writings on Kabbalah, Russian formalism, Wittgenstein, Rosenzweig,…
Alef, mem, tau: kabbalistic musings on time, truth, and death
"This highly original, provocative, and poetic work explores the nexus of time, truth, and death in the symbolic world of medieval kabbalah. Demonstrating that the historical and theoretical relationship between kabbalah and western philosophy is far…
The Sabbath in the Classical Kabbalah
This volume is a critical study of the mystical celebration of the Sabbath in the classical period of the Kabbalah, from the late 12th to the early 16th century.