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.
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