"Scholem's treatment is complex and stylistically brilliant as he systemically analyzes the history and intellectual background of these critical ideas. Highly

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

A classic text on alchemy by the leading scholar of Jewish mysticism, Gershom Scholem, is presented here for the first time in English translation. Scholem look

The idea of a heavenly double—an angelic twin of an earthbound human—can be found in Christian, Manichaean, Islamic, and Kabbalistic traditions. Scholars ha

Sponsored by the Gershom Scholem Center for the Study of Jewish Mysticism.