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	Judaism 101: Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism
		The areas of Jewish thought that most extensively discuss these issues, Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, were traditionally not even taught to people until the age of 40, when they had completed their education in Torah and Talmud.
		Jewish tradition tells that the souls of all Jews were in existence at the time of the Giving of the Torah and were present at the time and agreed to the Covenant.
		The mystical school of thought came to be known as Kabbalah, from the Hebrew root Qof-Bet-Lamed, meaning "to receive, to accept." The word is usually translated as "tradition." In Hebrew, the word does not have any of the dark, sinister, evil connotations that it has developed in English.
	www.jewfaq.org /kabbalah.htm (1559 words)

	Jewish Mysticism: Introduction
		The prevailing opinion--among theologians as well as in the mind of the ordinary man--seems to be that Judaism and mysticism stand at the opposite poles of thought, and that, therefore, such a phrase as Jewish mysticism is a glaring and indefensible contradiction in terms.
		The mystic is a cosmopolitan, and, to him, the differences between the demands and beliefs and observances of one creed and those of another are entirely obliterated in his one all-absorbing and all-overshadowing passion for union with Reality.
		Nowhere in Jewish literature is the idea of prayer raised to such a pitch of sublimity as it is in the lives and writings of the Jewish mystics.
	www.sacred-texts.com /jud/jm/jm04.htm (2822 words)

	Jewish Mysticism - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Jewish communities in 1665-1666 were in a frenzy of mystical excitement caused by this announcement which was accompanied by exagerations of miraculous accomplishments and called for the end to Jewish exile and the return on clouds to Jerusalem.
		It was a populist mystical movement opposed by the traditional Rabbis but the Besht’s charismatic power to draw the masses of Jews to experience devotional joy and to turn life into a type of worship of God’s creation provided the ordinary Jew a direct path to the Godhead.
		The Symposium of Jewish Mysticism and its Charismatic Figures at UT Austin, on Sunday Oct. 17th, 2004 is open to the public gratis for a series of stimulating lectures by the leading academic specialists of Jewish mysticism.
	menic.utexas.edu /creees/jewish_mysticism/introduction.html (931 words)

	Essays.cc - Jewish Mysticism & The Kabbalah
		Jewish mysticism Three types of mysticism may be discerned in the history of Judaism: the ecstatic, the contemplative, and the esoteric (Agus).
		Nevertheless, Jewish mysticism's own set of problems about the origins of the universe and of man, of evil and sin, of the meaning of history, of the afterlife and the end of time is rooted in the very ground of Judaism and cannot be conceived outside of an exegesis of revealed Scripture and rabbinical tradition.
		Jewish mystics have long taught that the lack of a sense of purpose or direction is a sure sign that we have somehow lost our way and need guidance to remember our personal tikkun (sphere of rectification/redemption) for our present existence.
	www.essays.cc /free_essays/f3/arm6.shtml (1458 words)

	Who's Who in the History of Western Mysticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Mysticism spurred in part by the abuse and neglect by her husband.
		Her trauma becomes mystical as she argues that purgatory is a stage on the mystical path, the final purification of the effects of self-love.
		Martin Luther (1483-1546): While Luther had a well-known antipathy to mystics, it is also true that there is the foundation of mystical life in his theology of the heart, particularly in his early thought.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/gthursby/mys/whoswho.htm (4414 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Ideas & Belief: Overview: Mysticism in Modern Ti
		The Zohar, the classic mystical Torah commentary, would be included in any post-biblical Jewish canon, 16th century mystic Isaac Luria’s concept of tikkun ha-olam (repairing the world) is a hallmark of Jewish theology, and Hasidism—once a controversial movement—is now considered one of Judaism’s most traditional factions.
		Jewish Renewal, a self-described “transdenominational movement grounded in Judaism’s prophetic and mystical traditions,” merges a concern for social justice with an interest in personal spiritual experience.
		In recent years, popularized books about Jewish mysticism have been published by the score, and classes on kabbalah are popping up at community centers and New Age institutes all over the world.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /ideas_belief/Kabbalah_and_Mysticism/Mysticism_TO_Modern_CMS.htm (706 words)

	Qabbalah - Tree of Life - Crystalinks
		According to Jewish tradition dating from the 13th century, this knowledge has come down as a revelation to elect saints from a remote past, and preserved only by a privileged few.
		It is considered part of the Jewish Oral Law by the majority of religious Jews in modern times, although this was not agreed upon by many Talmudic and medieval scholars, as well as many modern liberal rabbis and a minority of Orthodox rabbis.
		Jewish mystical traditions always appeal to an argument of authority based on antiquity.
	www.crystalinks.com /kabala.html (2149 words)

	Jewish Mysticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Jewish Mysticism is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Good Friday and Easter Sunday are a borrowing from the ancient Mysteries -- the mystic death and resurrection of the unconquered sun, exemplified by the mystic death and resurrection of the successful neophyte.
		He accepts with reluctance theurgy and mystic incantation as those are "powerless to purify the noëtic (manasic) principle of the soul": theurgy can "but cleanse the lower or psychic portion, and make it capable of perceiving lower beings, such as spirits, angels and gods" (Aug. De Civ.
	www.experiencefestival.com /jewish_mysticism (1474 words)

	Jewish_mysticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Following the upheavals and dislocations in the Jewish world as a result of the Spanish Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, the trauma of Anti-Semitism during the Middle Ages, Jews began to search for signs of when the long-awaited Jewish Messiah would come to comfort them in their painful exiles.
		His charisma, mystical teachings that included repeated pronounciations of the holy Tetragrammaton in public, tied to an unstable personality, and with the help of his own "prophet" Nathan of Gaza, convinced the Jewish masses that the "Jewish Messiah" had finally come.
		Nevertheless, in the 1960s, Rabbi Saul Lieberman of the Jewish Theological Seminary, is reputed to have introduced a lecture by Scholem on Kabbalah with a statement that Kabbalah itself was "nonsense", but the academic study of Kabbalah was "scholarship".
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Jewish_mysticism (5549 words)

	Jewish Mysticism
		Why mystical tradition is a part of the modern Jewish experience: The Bible, midrash, the Jewish prayer book and rabbinic literature teach us that mysticism is not something we “do” but is an attitude toward how we approach our daily lives, an important way of understanding, organizing and enriching Jewish religious life today--and every day.
		How mysticism contributes to Jewish spirituality: Through becoming aware of the Jewish mystical tradition and its goals, we share in the work of restoring harmony to the world we live in.
		Michael Fishbane is Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies and chair of the Committee on Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago.
	www.wordtrade.com /religion/judaism/jewishmysticismR.htm (1612 words)

	Jewish Mysticism: Editor's Preface (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		GENERAL and special studies on Christian mysticism are numerous enough; but it is somewhat remarkable that, in their introductory pages, authors, who have much to say of Plotinus and Neoplatonism, have nothing or very little on the still more cognate subject of Jewish mysticism.
		The impression left with the general reader is that there is little of a mystical nature in the legitimate tradition of Jewish religion, and that the Kabbalah is simply a morbid and late growth, fed entirely by elements foreign to the genius of Israel.
		To write profitably on Jewish mysticism, it is necessary to have, not only a discriminating sympathy with the mystical standpoint, but also a first-hand knowledge of Jewish religious literature, the peculiar genius of which, perhaps, no one but a member of the race that has produced it can adequately appreciate and interpret.
	www.sacred-texts.com /jud/jm/jm01.htm (285 words)

	Comparing and Contrasting Quantum mysticism and Jewish mysticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		However, there are some things I have gleaned from my study; one of which is that Jewish mysticism is both similar and different from Quantum Mechanics.
		Mysticism = "The experience of a union of something having a spiritual meaning or reality that is neither apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence of the person.
		To wrap this up then, I've tried comparing and contrasting Jewish Mysticism and Quantum mechanics in four different areas: on the nature of the universe, on why the universe doesn't collapse, on what is knowable and not knowable, and on ethics and right behavior.
	www.commercialventvac.com /~jeffs/CAQM.htm (2107 words)

	Barmitzvahs.org - Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism
		The areas of Jewish thought that most extensively discuss these issues, Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, were traditionally not even taught to people until the age of 40, when they had completed their education in Torah and Talmud.
		One prominent Orthodox Jew, when introducing a speaker on the subject of Jewish mysticism, said basically, "it's nonsense, but it's Jewish nonsense, and the study of anything Jewish, even nonsense, is worthwhile."
		The mystical school of thought came to be known as Kabbalah, from the Hebrew root Qof-Bet-Lamed, meaning "to receive, to accept." The word is usually translated as "tradition." In Hebrew, the word does not have any of the dark, sinister, evil connotations that it has developed in English.
	www.barmitzvahs.org /judaism/kabbalah.php (1393 words)

	From Celebrities to Zionists, Kabbalah an Endless Source of Solace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		But it may be that the most powerful movement in Jewish mysticism in the last 50 years has not been the study of Kabbalah but the study of the study of Kabbalah -- not mystical practice but mystical scholarship.
		This scholarly enterprise was established almost single-handedly by the German-born historian Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) in his classic 1941 study, "Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism." He discovered and interpreted "lost" mystical texts, overcame the rationalist scorn that once clouded Kabbalah and argued that mysticism was at the center of Jewish history.
		A devoted cabalist became his "prophet," interpreting his deliberate violations of Jewish law this way: Sabbatai was seeking sparks of divinity deeply hidden even in what was most forbidden; he had to free those sparks from their polluting "husks" and restore them to their divine origins.
	www.rickross.com /reference/kabbalah/kabbalah21.html (1386 words)

	JEWISH MYSTICISM (KABALA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Much of the mystic interpretation of the Torah is based on counting, numbers, and numeric attributes.
		In general, the self appointed gurus of this mysticism maintain a shroud of secrecy and a scent of eliticism around its secrets.
		As a broad observation, mysticism is alien to Jewish culture which is generally specific in ritual, and plain in prayer.
	www.tryagain.com /toknow/kabala.htm (310 words)

	Jewish Magic and Mysticism
		But Jewish mysticism has historically been tinged by large doses of magic, superstition, and demonology.
		Magic and mysticism were once the province of priests and prophets.
		In Talmudic times, Jewish mystics sought to ride the "chariot." In the middle ages, answers were sought in the prayer book.
	www.rossel.net /Magic.htm (205 words)

	Amazon.com: Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		After all, a mystic needs the balance of having his/her feet on the ground (of good scholarship=good theory) as well as his/her head in the clouds (of meditation and mystical attunement).
		One of the more interesting points for me was Scholem's distinction of Jewish Mysticism from other mainstream mysticisms, the central idea that for the Jewish Mysticism G-d can be approached, and must be approached as closely as possible but cannot be wholly unified with.
		I found the Jewish mystics to be a colorful and profound group of thinkers.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805210423?v=glance (2176 words)

	A Surge in Popularity in Jewish Mysticism
		This can hardly be the fate that the Kabbalah’s creators, Jewish mystics in the 13th through 16th centuries who wrote the Zohar and related writings, could have imagined for their teachings, which were intended to reveal the inner meaning of the Torah.
		The Kabbalah Centre markets Jewish mysticism to everyone, Gentile and Jew, adults and children, as a system of tools for self-understanding, to be acquired through its courses, books, tapes and “gear'’ like T-shirts and key rings.
		Jewish tradition holds that wearing a red string that has been brought to the grave site of the biblical matriarch Rachel, in Hebron, can bring children to the infertile and protection from the evil eye.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /5413 (1615 words)

	REL R341 3645 Introduction to Jewish Mysticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This course will introduce the student to the mystical tradition within Judaism by providing an overview of the various religious movements, personalities, and writings in which Jewish mysticism is manifest; and by presenting an overview of the main ideas and characteristics of Jewish mysticism in its various forms.
		In addition, by examining and, at times, challenging the categories and methods that have traditionally characterized the study of Jewish mysticism, the student will become familiar with many of the key issues and trends in the modern scholarly analysis of this tradition.
		By combining historical and thematic approaches to the study of Jewish mysticism the course will familiarize the student with the distinct characteristics of different historical manifestations of Jewish mysticism, while also demonstrating the continuity and underlying unity of the mystical tradition within Judaism.
	www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blspr02/rel/rel_r341_3645.html (208 words)

	Revived interest in Jewish mysticism stirs controversy
		This can hardly be the fate that the Kabbalah’s creators — Jewish mystics in the 13th through 16th centuries who wrote the Zohar and related writings — could have imagined for their teachings, which were intended to reveal the inner meaning of the Torah.
		The Kabbalah Centre markets Jewish mysticism to everyone, Gentile and Jew, adults and children, as a system of tools for self-understanding, to be acquired through its courses, books, tapes and “gear,” which includes T-shirts and key rings.
		Jewish tradition holds that wearing a red string that has been brought to the gravesite of the biblical matriarch Rachel, in Hebron, can bring children to the infertile and protection from the evil eye.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /6022 (1005 words)

	Jewish Mysticism
		Scholars of Jewish Mysticism have often commented upon the phenomenological similarities between important forms of Jewish mysticism and of Western Esotericism (see, e.g., the theosophical systems of the Zohar and of Jacob Boehme).
		Beyond the Renaissance period, the influence of Jewish mysticism or specific aspects of it may be traced (albeit in increasingly derivative forms) throughout the history of Western Esotericism.
		Patterns of historical influence and interaction between Jewish Mysticism and Western Esotericism, in their various historical manifestations, are therefore of crucial importance.
	www.kheper.net /topics/Kabbalah/JewishMysticism.htm (258 words)

	Jewish Mysticism
		A vast bounty of tales recounting the mystical experiences among rabbis can be found in the Talmud, the Zohar, Jewish folktales, and Hasidic lore.
		A lucid, accessible introduction to the esoteric mystical tradition in Judaism known as Kabbalah.
		This guide to Jewish philosophical literacy is refreshingly versatile because Ariel has no ideological investment in a particular Jewish denomination.
	www.mazornet.com /jewishcl/bookstore/jewish_mysticism.htm (503 words)

	Mysticism Resources
		The Metaphysics of Mysticism: A Commentary on the Mystical Philosophy of St. John of the Cross
		Maimonides' Intellectualist Mysticism and the Superiority of the Prophecy of Moses
		Jewish Mysticism and Morality: Kabbalah and its Ontological Dualities.
	pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~janzb/mysticism (1207 words)

	Kabbalah Jewish mysticism and path to enlightenment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		There is a lot of recent interest in kabbalah jewish mysticism.
		The Gnostic Christian path is similar to the Jewish Kabbalah.
		Mysticism, like Gnosticism, is the path of finding the direct experience of God.
	www.gnostic-jesus.com /kabbalah_jewish_mysticism/kabbalah_jewish_mysticism.html (275 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: Judaism: Mysticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Jewish Mysticism in Talmudic Era: Outline - Eleazar Segal's course outline of the vision of the Chariot(Maaseh Merkavah)found in Ezekiel and Isaiah with talmudic commentary.
		New Kabbalah - Demonstrates the relevance of Jewish mysticism to contemporary theology, philosophy and psychology.
		SPIRAL - Kabbalah for the 21st Century - New millenium, mystical interpretations of the Torah.
	dmoz.org /Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Judaism/Mysticism (1179 words)

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