All fun stuff - for Hebrew readers.


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CHERUB PRESS IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE PUBLICATION of


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ספר השם המיוחס לר' משה די ליאון
ההדירה והוסיפה מבוא, הערות ומפתחות
מיכל אורון
Sefer ha-Shem Attributed to R. Moses de León

Sefer ha-Shem Attributed to R. Moses de León, ספר השם המיוחס לר' משה
די ליאון, Edited, annotated and introduced by Michal Oron , (Sources
and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 25; 2010, 240 pages,
ISBN 1-933379-12-X, in Hebrew). Sefer ha-Shem is a carefully
constructed and highly detailed commentary to the ten sefirot. It
rivals, if not surpasses, Gikatilla’s Sha‘arei Orah in its clarity and
function as an introduction and guide to Theosophic Kabbalah. This
beautiful edition serves as a primer to Spanish Kabbalah and serves as
a major guide for the beginning and advanced student of kabbalistic
texts in the original Hebrew, with an introductory study, copious
notes and a full index of central terms and names of the sefirot.

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שם הכותב וכתיבה אוטומטית
בספרות הזוהר ובמודרניזם
מאת עמוס גולדרייך
Automatic Writing
in Zoharic Literature and Modernism
by Amos Goldreich

Automatic Writing in Zoharic Literature and Modernism, שם הכותב וכתיבה
אוטומטית בספרות הזוהר ובמודרניזם, by Amos Goldreich (Sources and
Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 24; 2010, 408 pages,
ISBN 1-933379-17-0, in Hebrew). This richly detailed monograph
explores the phenomenon of mystical and magical techniques which
induce a different state of consciousness that leads to literary
production. The impetus of the study is the suggestion, offered in the
celebrated testimony of R. Isaac of Acre, that R. Moses de León was
able to write the Zohar using shem ha-kotev, a magical application of
the divine name. It has been demonstrated that the later stratum of
the Zohar, that is Tiqqunei ha-Zohar, was actually written using this
technique. All scholarly treatments of the topic, including new
evidence from manuscript sources and a history of related phenomena
amongst kabbalists, and on through the development of similar
techniques in modernism, such as automatic writing experiments in
early twentieth-century English occultism and French surrealism, are
all discussed at length in this monumental study.


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Concealed and Revealed: ‘Ein Sof’ in Theosophic Kabbalah, בנסתר
ובנגלה: עיונים בתולדות ה'אין סוף' בקבלה התיאוסופית , by Sandra
Valabregue-Perry (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish
Mysticism 23; 2010, 312 pages, ISBN 1-933379-16-2, in Hebrew).  This
volume offers a detailed analysis of the traditions and
conceptualization of the Ein Sof in Theosophic Kabbalah, from the
first kabbalists in Provence and Gerona (including R. Isaac the Blind
and R. Azriel of Gerona) and on through R. Isaac of Acre and the
Zoharic literature. The study further explores central problems
discussed by the kabbalists, including the relationship between Ein
Sof and Keter, concepts of infinity, negative theology, questions of
ontology and the role of divine emanation.