A Vision of the Future: Jewish Mysticism in the Twenty-First Century
TO a large extent, the steady advance of materialism, scepticism and atheism in the modern
Folklore
TO a large extent, the steady advance of materialism, scepticism and atheism in the modern
WHEN Moses de León (1240-1305) was said to have produced the Sefer ha-Zohar at the
ONE fascinating chapter in the gradual evolution of Jewish spirituality during the seventeenth and eighteenth
THERE is a nineteenth-century Romantic called France Prešeren (1800-1849) who, in Slovenia, is still widely
WITH the advent of the seventeenth century, the Kabbalistic vanguard was taken up by figures
ISSUED in 1953, at a time when Europe was still emerging from the dark shadows
THE various spiritual and philosophical strands that were circulating among the denizens of European Jewry
WITH the Ashkenazi Jews of the old Khazar Empire bringing their religious mystique into Europe
WHILST Merkabah and Hekhalot mysticism deal with themes relating to chariots, thrones and divine palaces,
ONE important mystic of the First Century was Yohanan ben Zakkai (30-90 CE), a Jewish