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The chosen will become herds : studies in twentieth-century Kabbalah / Jonathan Garb ; translated by Yaffah Berkovits-Murciano.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garb, Jonathan.
- Standardized Title:
- Yeḥide ha-segulot yihyu la-ʻadarim. English
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Cabala--History--20th century.
- Cabala.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 218 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "Originally published as Yeḥide ha-segulot yihyu la-ʻadarim : ʻiyunim be-Kabbalat ha-meah ha-ʻesrim, c2005 by the Shalom Hartman Institute and Carmel Press, Jerusalem"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 9780300123944
- 0300123949
- OCLC:
- 291194088
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