The Schocken Book of Jewish Mystical Testimonies: A Unique and Inspiring Collection of Accounts by People Who Have Encountered God, from Biblical Times to the Present - Softcover

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A unique and inspiring collection of accounts by people who have encountered God, from Biblical times to the present.
Foreword by Karen Armstrong

The Schocken Book of Jewish Mystical Testimonies brings together the few accounts we have by Jewish mystics of their encounters with the divine. The sources collected in this volume--spanning two thousand years and including material from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East--include depictions of peak religious experiences and visions, examples of ecstatic prayer, and counsel on how to keep company with the divine.

Supplemented with commentary by Louis Jacobs, one of the world's most knowledgeable scholars of Jewish mysticism, these accounts offer an exciting new window on Jewish religious experience and inspiration to spiritual seekers of all persuasions.

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The Schocken Book of Jewish Mystical Testimonies, edited by Louis Jacobs, is one of the oddest and most interesting books about Kaballah in print. Because, in general, Jewish mystics have been more interested in describing the spiritual realities they have discovered than in reflecting on how these mysteries affected them personally, there's precious little St. Catherine-style God-as-my-lover ecstasy in this book. Jewish Mystical Testimonies may be more useful as a resource for comparing the various techniques Jews have used to attain mystical vision than for learning about what mysticism feels like once the higher levels are reached. Alexander Susskind's urgent advocacy of the advantages of raising the hands in prayer, for instance, or Jacob of Marvege's teaching on the value of fasting, or Aaron Roth's insistence on the need for a personal guru to guide one toward greater illumination, all demonstrate the need for intentional, disciplined preparation before mystical experience can take place. --Michael Joseph Gross
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"A rich collection of readings in the ancient, hidden Jewish lineage of ascents of the soul."
--Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

"Scintillating accounts of mystical experience that can guide contemporary spiritual seekers through the beyond within."
--Daniel C. Matt, author of The Essential Kabbalah

"A rare and important collection of original documents of the spirit brought together for the first time by a master hand."
--Arthur Green, Professor of Jewish Thought, Brandeis University

"With radiant clarity, this book provides flight paths to heavenly realms."
--Rodger Kamenetz, author of Stalking Elijah

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  • PublisherSchocken Books
  • Publication date1997
  • ISBN 10 0805210911
  • ISBN 13 9780805210910
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