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

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

'The Origins of Jewish Mysticism' offers an in-depth look at the history of Jewish mysticism from the book of Ezekiel to the Merkavah mysticism of late antiquit

Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem—the 20th century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history with a radical reading of Kabbalah—P

With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to