http://www.sefarim.net/blog Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:11:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Urim Publications just published Tzror HaMor Torah Commentary, a classic commentary from the late 15th century by Rabbi Avraham Saba, including many interpretations derived from the Zohar. Here is the official description from the publisher: Rabbi Avraham Sabba was born in Castile in 1440 and spent the first 50 years of his ... http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2008/10/06/saba-tzror-hamor-2008/ The JTA announced in May the opening of the Jerusalem Kabbalah Museum. It opened in June and its director is Rabbi Chaim Dalfin. Having the director's name helped me to identify its website, because that was the main connection that made me sure it is indeed JewishCulturalMuseum.com (, which was the ... http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2008/10/03/kabbalah-museum/ The (New York) Jewish Week had a book review on "The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican," written by Rabbi Benjamin Blech and Roy Doliner, a docent and guide at the Vatican. Here are some excerpts that caught my attention The book claims that there was Jewish ... http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2008/10/02/blechdoliner-the-sistine-secrets/ I learned about Rabbi Yaacov Haber's (and Rabbi David Sedley) new book titled Sefiros from an entry of Yitzchok Adlerstein's Cross Currents blog. The post dismisses most books in English about Kabbalah, but praises this one. Then goes on to argue with or more specifically elucidate whether sefiros are ... http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2008/10/02/haber-sefiros/ Now that the year 5769 started I will attempt to restart this blog. The goal is still the same: collect information about books published on English about Kabbalah, with a particular focus on the ones written from a religious Jewish or from an Academic perspective. Shanah Tova! http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2008/10/02/new-beginnings/ On April 1 I received the first suggestion from a website visitor for a book to be included in this site. Joe Markel recommended The Key to Chassidus. The author was listed as Bitzalel Malamud. I tried to find out more about the book, but it was not listed on ... http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2008/04/15/mittler-rebbemalamud-the-key-to-chassidus-2002/ Eliahu Klein's "A Mystical Haggadah: Passover Meditations, Teaching, and Tales" was published just in time for this year's Passover. Here is the book description that appears on every site that lists it: In a generation that has seen an explosion in popularity of books about mystical and meditative traditions, very little ... http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2008/04/14/klein-a-mystical-haggadah-2008/ On the top of the pages of this site up till now you could see ads served up by Google. These text based advertisements were based on the words found on my website. However the spirit a lot of them represented was not exactly in alignment with the spirit of ... http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2008/03/30/new-ads/ Yesterday I visited the central branch of the local library for the first time. (In the past I usually went to the local branch.) They have about 30-40 books on or related to Jewish Kabbalah. I picked up a gem I haven't seen or knew about before. It is an ... http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2008/03/28/kalisch-sefer-yezirah-1877/ Rabbi Jonathan M. Case self-published a book titled, Journey to the Soul: Kabbalah's Pathway for Your Present and Future through Outskirts Press. The publisher put up a webpage through which the book can be ordered and even issued a press release. The author has a blog and a website  and ... http://www.sefarim.net/blog/2008/03/27/case-journey-to-the-soul-2008/