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		<title>The Zohar and later mysticism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BecomingJewish.Org, a site that &#8220;offers information about Conversion to Judaism&#8221; published a summarizing article no the Zohar and later mysticism in January. Its eight paragraphs (and short bibliography)  cover a lot of ground from a neutral point of view as possible.
Check it out.
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		<link>http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2010/02/11/the-zohar-and-later-mysticism/</link>
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		<title>6th annual Kabbalah Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 6th annual Kabbalah Day at the JCC in Manhattan was this last Sunday. Its focus was Safed. The (New York) Jewish Week published an introductory article about it. At the organizers&#8217; website (JInsider and JCC Manhattan) there wasn&#8217;t much information about the event. These were some of the workshops:

Key Teachings and Meditative Practices of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2010/02/10/6th-annual-kabbalah-day/</link>
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		<title>Michaelson: Taking Avatar Seriously</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jay Michaelson&#8217;s musings related to the movie Avatar in Forward compares and contrasts its message to that of Kabbalah in the areas of  spiritual and practical environmentalisms. He connects mysticism and environmentalisms in two ways, namely:
“Avatar’s” deep ecology is interwoven with its pantheistic,  quasi-kabbalistic notion of a “web of life.” Indeed, the latter necessitates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2010/02/09/michaelson-taking-avatar-seriously/</link>
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		<title>Everything is God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the last day of January there was an event in Boston titled &#8220;Everything is God: A Boston Jewish Spiritual Woodstock&#8220;. (A similar event will happen in San Francisco on February 11. See  Facebook.) Here is the description of the Boston even from its Facebook page:
LEARN:  at an expert panel featuring Rabbi Danya [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2010/02/08/everything-is-god/</link>
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		<title>The Kabalistic Secret to Weight Loss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann, director of the Schottenstein Chabad House, has lost 60 pounds by following the teachings of Kabbalah. He developed a six-week class to help people look at food and self-control differently.
Full article in the Columbus Dispatch.
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		<link>http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2010/02/07/the-kabalistic-secret-to-weight-loss/</link>
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		<title>Haaretz article on the Jewish occult</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A newly discovered piece of stained, wrinkled paper conjures up the details of a Jewish exorcism that appears to have been performed sometime in the 18th or 19th century.
The ghostly document details the prayers that were performed on Qamar bat Rahmah to try to rid her of the spirit of her dead husband, Nissim ben [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2010/02/03/haaretz-article-on-the-jewish-occult/</link>
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		<title>Idel: Kabbalistic Manuscripts in the Vatican Library</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professor  Moshe Idel a leading professor of studying and teaching Kabbalah in an academic setting posted an entry on the Seforim blog about Kabbalah manuscripts kept in the Biblioteca Apostolica  Vaticana (Vatican Library). It is an expansion of remarks delivered at the  February 2009 symposium hosted at the National Library of Israel, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2010/02/02/idel-kabbalistic-manuscripts-in-the-vatican-library/</link>
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		<title>Excerpt from a Karen Armstrong interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you make of those who say they are &#8220;spiritual, but not religious&#8221;?
I can&#8217;t stand that. Spiritual often just means some kind of wishy-washy me-ism, where I&#8217;m having a lovely experience without much discipline. You know, designer Kabbalah in Hollywood or designer yoga.
Yoga is not about aerobic exercise or finding the lovely oceanic peacefulness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2010/02/01/armstrong-interview/</link>
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		<title>Photograph God: Kabbalah Through a Creative Lens (upcoming)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mel Alexenberg is working on a new book titled &#8220;Photograph God: Kabbalah Through a Creative Lens.&#8221; and he is documenting the process and the book at the Photograph God blog. Here is how the top of his blog looks like that reveals the links to be followed there:

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		<link>http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2010/01/31/photograph-god/</link>
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		<title>Hoffman: The Kabbalah Deck (2000)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hoffman&#8217;s intentions with his box containing &#8220;The Kabbalah Deck: Pathway to the Soul&#8221; were evinced on page 4 of 160 page booklet:
&#8220;I&#8217;ve increasingly felt the need for an entirely new resource – one that would make the Kabbalah more dynamically personal and interactive. This format would certainly not replace the classic study of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2010/01/29/hoffman-the-kabbalah-deck-2000/</link>
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