The following 8 books were added. They were all found on DiscountSeforim.com.

• Ben Zion, Raphael: The Anthology of Jewish Mysticism
• Dubov, Nissan Dovid: Inward Bound: A Guide to Understanding Kabbalah
• Erlanger, Gad: Signs of the Times: The Zodiac in Jewish Tradition
• Luzzatto, Moses Hayyim: Secrets of the Redemption
• Safran, Alexandre: Wisdom of the Kabbalah
• Tatz, Akiva: Living Inspired
• Winkler, Gershon: Dybbuk
• Winkler, Gershon: The Soul of the Matter: A Jewish-Kabbalistic Perspective on the Human Soul Before, During, and After Life

• Abrahami, Abe: Ethics and Meta-Kabala
• Arad, Kobi: The Secrets Of Kabbalah: Manifest Your Deepest Fantasies !!!
• Barron, Paul Harry: A Collection of Magical Secrets & A Treatise of Mixed Cabalah
• Cohn, Tzvi Meir : Baal Shem Tov: Divine Light
• Ginsburgh, Yitzchak: A Sense of the Supernatural – Interpretation of Dreams and Paranormal Experiences
• Ginsburgh, Yitzchak: Anatomy of the Soul
• Hoffman, Edward: The Kabbalah Reader: A Sourcebook of Visionary Judaism
• Koreis, Voyen: The Kabbalah – a timeless philosophy of life
• Littlewood, John: The Way: A Celtic Qabalah
• Meir, Rivka Bat: Meneket Rivkah: A Manual of Wisdom and Piety
• Mohorosh of Heichal Hakodesh Breslov: Positive Living. The Best of Breslov on Positive Living.
• Pinson, DovBer: Thirty-Two Gates of Wisdom: Awakening Through Kabbalah
• Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman, Netanel Miles-Yepez (editors): A Heart Afire: Stories and Teachings of the Early Hasidic Masters
• Schneider, Sarah Yehudit: You Are What You Hate: A Spiritually Productive Approach to Enemies
• Scovitch, Joseph: JFK’s Death and the Kabbalah
• Shadrach, Nineveh: Magic Squares and Tree of Life: Western Mandalas of Power
• Trugman, Avraham Arieh: Return Again: The Dynamics of Reincarnation
• Weor, Samael Aun: Alchemy & Kabbalah: The Keys of Radical Spiritual Transformation

Kvond posted an entry on his Spinoza centered philosophy blog titled Frames/Sing in June to point out “the connection between some of Spinoza’s most elementary ideas, and the thesis that Spinoza was strongly influenced by concepts found in the Kabbalah and the Zohar.”

In it he extensively quotes  by Henry Walter Brann’s essay titled “Spinoza and Kabbalah“, in the book “Spinoza: Context, sources, and the early writings” edited by Genevieve Lloyd. The quote posits that Spinoza was influenced by Abraham (Alonzo) Herrera’s book “Door of Heaven”, which was written in Spanish and translated into Hebrew by Isaac Aboab.

While I only add those anthologies to this site’s catalog where every essay has a connection to Kabbalah (hence Lloyd’s collection will not be included), but it is certainly worthy to mention here.

• Ashlag, Yehudah: Kabbalah for the Student
• Ashlag, Yehudah: Shamati: I Heard
• Ashlag, Yehudah: The Wisdom of Truth: 12 Essays by the Holy Kabbalist Rav Yehuda Ashlag
• Berg, Michael: The Secret History of the Zohar
• Berg, Yehudah: Kabbalah on the Sabbath
• Berg, Yehudah: The Power of Kabbalah for Teens
• Berg, Yehudah: The Way of the Kabbalist: A User’s Guide to Technology for the Soul
• Epstein, Gerald: Kabbalah for Inner Peace
• Laitman, Michael: Together Forever: The Story About the Magician Who Didn’t Want to Be Alone
• Laitman, Michael: The Zohar: Annotations to the Ashlag Commentary
• Unterman, Alan : The Wisdom of the Jewish Mystics
• Winkler, Gershon: Daily Kabbalah: Wisdom from the Tree of Life

The following article at The LookOut News is the summary of an interview with (and short life story of) Bruria Finkel, an artist whose works are based on and in Kabbalah.

While Bruria Finkel is known in the local political arena as a tireless activist who ran for [Santa Monica] City Council 15 years ago, in artistic circles she’s known as a prominent artist whose symbolic works delve into the mysteries of the Kabbala.

A translator of the works of the 13th Century Spanish Kabbalist poet Abraham Abulafia, Finkel’s works were recently exhibited at Track 16 in Santa Monica, and she is currently looking for a permanent home for her bronze sculpture series, “The Divine Chariot,” in the appropriate space in her native Israel.

The journey that took Finkel from the Holy Land to Santa Monica and her lifelong fascination with Jewish mysticism seems to trace the full circle that has become a major symbol in her art.

Read the full article with pictures.

I added 14 books to the site/database:

• Berg, Michael: On Global Responsibility: Kabbalah and the Way to End Chaos
• Berg, Yehudah: Kabbalah on Sleep
• Berg, Yehudah: Kabbalah: The Power to Change Everything
• Berg, Yehudah: The Kabbalah Haggadah: Pesach Decoded
• Brand Medwin, Michele: A Spiritual Travel Guide to the World of God: Part I: Packing for the Journey
• Drob, Sanford L.: Kabbalah and Postmodernism: A Dialogue
• Guetta, Alessandro: Philosophy and Kabbalah: Elijah Benamozegh and the Reconciliation of Western Thought and Jewish Esotericism
• Michaelson, Jay: Everything Is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism
• Milgram, Goldie (Editor): Seeking and Soaring: Jewish Approaches to Spiritual Direction
• Schreiber, Aaron M.: Quantum Physics, Jewish Law, & Kabbalah: Astonishing Parallels
• Segal, Arthur: A Spiritual and Ethical Compendium to the Torah and Talmud
• Segal, Arthur: The Handbook to Jewish Spiritual Renewal: A Path of Transformation for the Modern Jew
• Twyman, James F.: The Kabbalah Code: A True Adventure
• Unterman, Alan: The Kabbalistic Tradition: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism

Excerpt from a news article:

An exhibition devoted to the life and legacy of scholar and philosopher rabbi Loew, according to legends a creator of supernatural monster Golem from the early 17th century, opens at Prague Castle on Wednesday to mark the 400th anniversary of Loew’s death.

The exhibition, staged by the Prague Castle Authority along with the Jewish Museum in Prague, is opened in the Imperial Stable (Cisarska konirna) from August 5 to November 8.

“Although golem is a concept of Jewish mysticism, it is evidently only loosely associated with rabbi Loew. No hints is contained in his work that he would ever attempt such mystical spiritual exercise as the creation of a golem,” Jewish Museum director Leo Pavlat said.

Read more at the original site or on the museum’s page about the exhibition.

I added 16 books to the site/database:

• Cohn-Sherbok, Dan: A Dictionary of Kabbalah and Kabbalists
• Fishbane, Eitan: As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist
• Garb, Jonathan: The Chosen Will Become Herds: Studies in Twentieth-Century Kabbalah
• Glazer, Aubrey L.: Contemporary Hebrew Mystical Poetry: How It Redeems Jewish Thinking
• Halbertal, Moshe: Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought and its Philosophical Implications
• Hellner-Eshed, Melila: A River Flows from Eden: The Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar
• Icon Group International: Kabbalah: Webster’s Timeline History, 777 – 2007
• Idel, Moshe: Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism
• Idel, Moshe: Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought
• Jospe, Raphael: Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages
• Ogren, B.: Renaissance and Rebirth: Reincarnation in Early Modern Italian Kabbalah
• Oliver, Paul: Mysticism: A Guide for the Perplexed
• Schneider, Sarah Yehudit: Kabbalistic Writings on the Nature of Feminine and Masculine
• Weinstein, R. Vb.: Juvenile Sexuality, Kabbalah, and Catholic Reformation in Italy: Tiferet Bahurim by Pinhas Barukh Ben Pelatiyah Monselice
• Wolfson, Elliot R.: Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson
• Wolfson, Elliot R.: Through a Speculum That Shines

The Book Giveaway is a simple website, where every week anyone can enter to win one of five books, no strings attached. This week, till Friday, one of the selected books are M.J. Rose’s The memorist. The description of the book at the site explains why I mention it in this blog.

THE MEMORIST follows the compelling adventures of a memory expert, Meer Logan and her father Jeremy – a Kabbalist, known as the Jewish Indiana Jones – from New York City to the ancient cobblestone streets of Vienna as they attempt to learn the meaning behind Meer’s hauntingly vivid memories. What they discover could reveal a frighteningly powerful secret hidden for generations by one of the greatest composers of all time.
As a child, Meer suffered from the dreads: memories of another time and place always accompanied by the faint strains of elusive music. Now the dreads are back. The past has reached out again in the form of a strange letter that sets her on a search to unlock the mystery of who she once was.
With each step she comes closer to remembering the connections between a clandestine reincarnationist society, a lost flute linked to Ludwig van Beethoven, and David Yalom, a journalist who understands all too well how the past affects the future.
David knows loss firsthand – terrorism is a reality that cost him his family. He’s seen every solution promised by security experts around the world – and he’s seen every solution fail. Now in a concert hall in Vienna, he plans to force the world to understand the cost of those failures in a single violent act. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.