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Author Garb, Jonathan.

Title The chosen will become herds : studies in twentieth-century Kabbalah / Jonathan Garb ; translated by Yaffah Berkovits-Murciano.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 218 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: the study of twentieth-century Kabbalah: dilemmas and possibilities -- Jewish mysticism in the twentieth century: major trends -- The drive to disseminate kabbalah -- The concept of power in national mysticism -- Psychological notions of power -- Sacred space and sacred persons -- Circumvention and violation of halakha -- The upsurge of mysticism as a Jewish and global phenomenon.
Summary A noted expert on Kabbalah, Jonathan Garb places the 'kabbalistic Renaissance' within the global context of the rise of other forms of spirituality, including Sufism and Tibetan Buddhism.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Cabala -- History -- 20th century.
Cabala.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Title Yeḥide ha-segulot yihyu la-ʻadarim. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008084749
Other Form: Print version: Garb, Jonathan. Yeḥide ha-segulot yihyu la-ʻadarim. English. Chosen will become herds. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009 9780300123944 (DLC) 2008054918 (OCoLC)291194088
ISBN 9780300155044 (electronic book)
0300155042 (electronic book)
0300123949 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780300123944 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780300123944 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
128235275X
9781282352759