Rabbi Pamela Wax introduced me to a practice in this article that I should have been aware of:

“Tikkun middot” is a practice of the Mussar movement. Mussar typically translates as “ethics”. …It is the week of generosity in my “tikkun middot” cycle. Every week has a quality that I engage as a spiritual practice with my friend Helen, a rabbi in San Francisco. One week it might be gratitude. Another patience. Another humility. …

I mention it here, because she connected the growing practice to Alan Morinis’ book Climbing Jacob’s Ladder: One Man’s Rediscovery of a Jewish Spiritual Tradition. Aonther book onto my reading list.

Here is the transcript of an conversation with Rabbi David Cooper–the author of God Is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism–in an Australian radio show. He talks about Kabbalah as a universal practice, Abraham Abulafia, practice and tradition, red strings, the Kabbalah Center and Madonna. Informative, little quick piece. I liked that he didn’t outright condemn the Kabbalah Cneter but put a perspective on it saying “when it’s putting out good teachings and when it’s helping people, then I would applaud it.”

The Judaicaplus.com webstore has an extensive selection of books on Kabbalah. Their list contains 414 items written in Hebrew and 71 in English. Definetely a good resource.