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The Essential Zohar : The Source of Kabbalistic Wisdom
The Essential Zohar The Source of Kabbalistic Wisdom
Author: Rav P.S. Berg
ISBN-13: 9780609807316
ISBN-10: 0609807315
Publication Date: 4/6/2004
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Harmony/Bell Tower
Book Type: Paperback
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Stephany avatar reviewed The Essential Zohar : The Source of Kabbalistic Wisdom on + 19 more book reviews
Kabbalah, often defined as a Jewish mystical tradition, actually encompasses "the spiritual heritage of all mankind," according to Rav P.S. Berg in The Essential Zohar. Berg, the dean of the Kabbalah Centre has concentrated a core of teachings from the central kabbalistic text, the Zohar, in a single volume that makes kabbalistic wisdom accessible to readers of all religious traditions. The Zohar, which dates back to the second century B.C.E., offers tools for doing the work of kabbalah: "transforming chaos and fragmentation into unity and completion." The Zohar's biblical commentaries and rabbinical stories of apparently "surprise happenings, sudden insights, and full-blown epiphanies" are intended to help readers open themselves to similar revelations. And Berg explains that all of the Zohar's rarified spiritual stories have potential for practical application, to help readers "replace doubt with certainty and darkness with Light."
ellzeena avatar reviewed The Essential Zohar : The Source of Kabbalistic Wisdom on + 149 more book reviews
If you want to learn about Kabbalah (not the sort for conducting "magick" but the actual intuitive, mystical philosophy), read Aryeh Kaplan and other real scholars; Berg is presenting the junk version.