What can Kabbalah teach us about our lives today?
What can it teach us about our future?
According to the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah, Ehyeh, or “I shall be, ” is the deepest, most hidden name of God. Arthur Green, one of the most respected teachers of Jewish mysticism of his generation, uses this simple Hebrew word to unlock the spiritual meaning of Kabbalah for our lives.
When Moses experienced his great moment of call at the Burning Bush, he asked God, “When people ask me, ‘What is His name?’ what should I say to them?” God answers with this mysterious phrase, “I shall be what I shall be, ” and says to Moses, “Tell them that ‘I shall be’ sent you.”
God’s puzzling answer makes the conversation sound like a koan-dialogue between a Zen master and disciple…. Like the koan, the text here is reaching to some place beyond words, seeking to create a breakthrough in our consciousness. What is it trying to tell us?
—from the Introduction
Blending Jewish theology and mysticism, Arthur Green invites us on a contemporary exploration of Kabbalah, showing how the ancient Jewish mystical tradition can be retooled to address the needs of our generation.
Drawing on the Zohar and other kabbalistic texts, Green examines the fundamental ideas and spiritual teachings of Kabbalah, encouraging today’s modern seeker to stretch to new ways of thinking with both heart and mind, setting us on a rewarding path to the wisdom Kabbalah has to offer.
Table of Content
Confession, by Way of a Preface · ix Introduction: Ehyeh as a Name of God · 1 PART I: REREADING THE OLD TRADITION 1 Kabbalah Old and New · 9 2 There Is Only One · 19 3 Torah: Creation’s Truth Revealed · 29 4 Sefirot: The One and the Ten · 39 5 ‘Olamot: Four Steps to Oneness · 61 6 Shemot: The Way of Names · 74 PART II: LOOKING TOWARD TOMORROW 7 Seeking a Path · 91 8 Great Chain of Being: Kabbalah for an Environmental Age · 106 9 All about Being Human: Image, Likeness, Memory · 120 10 What about Evil? · 138 11 The Life of Prayer · 153 12 Community: Where Shekhinah Dwells · 166 Afterword: To Keep on Learning—Where Do I Go from Here?
About the author
Arthur Green, Ph D, is recognized as one of the world’s preeminent authorities on Jewish thought and spirituality. He is the Irving Brudnick professor of philosophy and religion at Hebrew College and rector of the Rabbinical School, which he founded in 2004. Professor emeritus at Brandeis University, he also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where he served as dean and president.Dr. Green is author of several books including Ehyeh: A Kabbalah for Tomorrow; Seek My Face: A Jewish Mystical Theology; Your Word Is Fire: The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer; and Tormented Master: The Life and Spiritual Quest of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav (all Jewish Lights). He is also author of Radical Judaism (Yale University Press) and co-editor of Speaking Torah: Spiritual Teachings from around the Maggid’s Table. He is long associated with the Havurah movement and a neo-Hasidic approach to Judaism.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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