Why read Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism?

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A collection of lectures on the features of the movement of mysticism that began in antiquity and continues in Hasidism today.

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1 author picked Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Miguel Farias

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From physical travel to the heavens to elaborate meditations on Hebrew letter permutations and terrifying dialogues with God: the richness of Jewish religious experience is narrated here with historical detail and psychological insight. Its final chapters which bring us close to our times are no less surprising: Scholem describes how the disillusionment with a prophetic figure who converts to Islam to save his own life sparked an atheist movement within Judaism. My favorite book on the psychology of religious experience, though written by a historian.

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