Category Archives: Kabbalah books

In the month of August I added 50 books (bringing to the total to 541) to Sefarim.net, the site where I catalog of books published in Ebglish about Jewish Kabbalah. Besides documenting those additions I also wrote four blog entries. There … Continue reading →

I checked that out of the 430 books listed on Seferim.net which ones are listed at Google Books, LibraryThing and WorldCat. There were 386, 331, 394 respectively. I added all these links to the appropriate books. Technical sidenote: In order … Continue reading →

I created the first version of the seferim.net site today. I added a few features to the list of books: a suggest a book feature, with a math exercise to protect against spammers and bots. a feature allowing to search … Continue reading →

I’ve been wanting to create a proper site for and around my list of Kabbalah books. I have been thinking what domain to register for this purpose. I wanted it short, so names like kabbalahbooks.com or kabbalahlibrary.com are out. I … Continue reading →

The review of Reb Schachter-Shalomi’s new book (First Steps to a New Jewish Spirit) at J. reads like an enhanced table of contents. It lists lots of questions and wets the appetite to get the answers. Or at least get … Continue reading →

A Greenflame blog entry summarizes a Newsarama piece on a comic book by Shooter and Wohl called Seven connecting “the superhero genre with the spiritual themes from Kabbalistic literature.” I think that’s bit of an exaggeration, because the article mostly … Continue reading →

J. had a book review/introductory article on Arthur Kurzweil’s long titledbook on/with Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz: On the Road with Rabbi Steinsaltz: 25 Years of Pre-Dawn Car Trips, Mind-Blowing Encounters, and Inspiring Conversations with a Man of Wisdom (published by Wiley)

In three hours this morning I managed to gather the information for 122 Kabbalah related books. It took me another hour to format them and ensure authority control on authors’ names and publishers’, so I could add them to the … Continue reading →

The current issue of the Independent in Santa Barbara has in interview with professor Richard D. Hecht about Kabbalah. He is a religious studies professor with whom I took four classes. I just kept signing up for his classes because … Continue reading →