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Fresh translation and facing-page annotations bring the compelling
wisdom of the Hebrew prophets to life. Hundreds of commentaries and
dozens of Bible translations make the Hebrew prophets available to
modern-day readers, but most often these sources focus on history
or apologetics, losing the reader who is searching for spiritual
insight. The Hebrew Prophets: Selections Annotated & Explained
makes the wisdom of these timeless teachers available to readers
with no previous knowledge of the prophets. With fresh,
contemporary commentary, Rami Shapiro reveals the central themes
covered by all the prophets: moving from ignorance to wisdom,
injustice to justice, cruelty to compassion and despair to joy.
This unique look at the Hebrew Prophets sharpens the personal
nature of their message and highlights their critique of the
spiritual errors we all face in life, challenging readers to
correct those errors and experience a life of awakening and joy.
The wisdom of Jewish spirituality and mysticism can be a companion
for your own spiritual journey. Tanya, "It Was Taught," is one of
the most powerful and potentially transformative books of Jewish
wisdom. Written in 1797 by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the
founder of Chabad Hasidism, Tanya sets forth the fundamentals of
Jewish spirituality and mysticism. While a focus of daily study by
tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews, Tanya is little known outside
the world of Jewish mysticism. Until now, its kabbalistic terms and
esoteric language have made this essential text of Jewish
spirituality inaccessible to most readers. In this engaging volume,
Rabbi Rami Shapiro offers a contemporary English translation of key
selections of Tanya coupled with commentary designed to clarify and
amplify the wisdom it contains. He also outlines the philosophical
and spiritual framework on which Tanya is based—God's nonduality;
the five dimensions of reality and their corresponding
intelligences (body, heart, mind, soul, and spirit); the purpose of
mitzvot, the practices of Jewish life, as catalysts to God
realization and the hallowing of all life through godliness—to
help you understand the selected Tanya translations in a way that
enhances your own spiritual development. Now you can benefit from
the wisdom of Tanya even if you have no previous knowledge of
Judaism or Hebrew terminology. This SkyLight Illuminations edition
presents the core teachings of Tanya, with insightful yet
unobtrusive commentary that will deepen your understanding of the
soul and how it relates to and manifests the Divine Source from
which all life comes, in which all life lives and to which all life
returns.
Although Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) is well-known today-as
a philosopher, a Jewish theologian and a social activist-Heschel
the poet is not. Nevertheless, those who have read his writings in
English, spiritual classics like The Sabbath and Man is Not Alone,
and have been moved by the power of his prose and the subtlety of
his expression, will not be surprised to find that in his youth he
had actually published a volume of Yiddish poetry in the heyday of
Yiddish literature before the Holocaust. The 66 precious poems of
Der Shem Ham'forash-Mentch, published by Indsel Verlag in Warsaw in
1933, remained close to Heschel's heart all of his life, though few
people knew of their existence. It was more than a decade after his
passing before most of his admirers learned of them, being treated
to a few tantalizing snippets in Samuel Dresner's anthology, I
Asked for Wonder (a line taken from the dedication of Der Shem
Ham'forash-Mentch). But what was unknown to most of Heschel's
readers was that a complete translation of his poetry in English
already existed in his lifetime; and still more amazing, it had
been made by his younger contemporary, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (b.
1924), who would himself become a towering figure in Jewish and
world spirituality, but who at the time was just coming into his
own and looked to the older Heschel as a mentor. As we learn in the
introduction, the first drafts of these translations were given as
gifts to Heschel after his heart attack in 1969 to cheer him
through his convalescence (sometimes accompanied by recordings of
Schachter-Shalomi reading both the Yiddish originals and the
English translations ) Schachter-Shalomi notes that Heschel was
satisfied with some of these early drafts and unsatisfied with
others. The poems were deeply personal to him and the translations
would need to be revised. Unfortunately, Heschel died before he and
Schachter-Shalomi could come together to discuss a revision and the
translations were put on a shelf. But now, in honor of the 40th
anniversary of Heschel's passing, Schachter-Shalomi has taken them
down again and completed his own revision for the modern reader of
sacred poetry. Thus, we have in this volume something truly
unique-the combined work and vision of two of the 20th century's
greatest Jewish spiritual luminaries and master's of Yiddish
Dr. Edward Hoffman, a world-renowned thinker and writer in
humanistic psychology, reveals how the Kabbalah exerted a profound
influence on the establishment and growth of Western psychological
thought through such towering thinkers as Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud,
and Abraham Maslow. With a new introduction and updated
bibliography, The Way of Splendor: The 25th Anniversary begins with
an historical presentation of Kabalistic metaphysics and cosmology,
then discusses the psychological dimensions of Kabbalah on such
topics as dreams, meditation, sexuality, community, health and
emotions. The Way of Splendor is a classic yet timely book that
shows how to integrate spirituality with counseling, emphasizing
the day-to-day relevance of the visionary experience.
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