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This revised edition of a modern classic includes a new Foreword by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel and an Afterword by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, editor of The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition, as well as a Coda by the author in which he explores the many paths being traveled today in the search for the treasures of the Kabbala.
- Sales Rank: #669811 in Books
- Color: Multicolor
- Brand: Brand: Touchstone
- Published on: 1997-07-01
- Released on: 1997-07-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, 1.22 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 420 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
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50 of 52 people found the following review helpful.
A kabbalistic travelogue
By Rabbi Yonassan Gershom
This is another one of those 20th century classics that I am delighted to see back in print. First published in 1969, it remains an excellent and very readable introduction to Jewish mysticism as practiced by Jews in modern times. I discovered it in the early 1970's and literally wore out my first copy. It was one of the pivotal books in my own personal quest, and remains a favorite today.
The "half mystic" in the title is Rabbi Herbert Weiner (Reform), who describes his personal interactions with various Jewish mystics and schools of thought, ranging from the highly academic university professor, Gershom Scholem, to the Breslover Hasidim in Israel, to an eccentric old scholar living in obscurity on East Broadway. There's a fascinating interview with the late Lubovitcher Rebbe (Menachem M. Schneerson) back in the days when he still met with seekers one-to-one, a personal invitation to a Belzer Hasidic wedding celebration, and a dip in the holy mikveh used by 16th-century Rabbi Isaac Luria. Especially interesting are Weiner's experiences among various Hasidic groups in Jerusalem, in a more spiritual time before the "ultra-Orthodox" became so highly politicized. In short, the book is a sort of travelogue through two critical decades, bridging the kabbalah from the last generation to remember the pre-Holocaust world, and into the modern era. For this reason alone, it's a very valuable testimony.
But don't get me wrong --- this book is not just history. Weiner's quest is as valid today as it was over 30 years ago. Interwoven with his personal experiences are clear explanations of the teachings, given in the context where he first received them. His quest to unravel the secrets is your quest also. Little by little, the book teaches you about kabbalah in a very practical, down-to-earth way. Highly recommended!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
He who touches, is touched.
By Hui Shen ben Israel
9 1/2 MYSTICS: THE KABBALA TODAY (1969, reissued 1997) by Rabbi Herbert Weiner is one of my favorite, most cherished books. Rabbi Weiner decided many decades ago to find out what constitutes a Jewish mystic, what comprises mysticism in the Jewish tradition, and how the Kabalah (he renders it as "Kabbala") fits into all of it. This has always been the biggest book of my life and I really can't say why I never dared review it until now.
In no way is this book dated except the passages that address the problems in Israel. Weiner gives a brief history of the Seven Day War, for example, which was a very raw nerve at the time he wrote about it. However, my favorite passages in this book are absolutely the descriptions of Weiner's teachers and friends; it is one unusual case in which name-dropping is a joy because you know something good is coming.
I love Weiner's two-ended spectrum, almost as if he's trying to illustrate the Tree of Life with his own experiences: at the beginning of this journey he meets Rabbi David ha Cohen, an eminent Kabalah teacher - ha Cohen warns him about "touching" sacred things and the dangers. In the center of this beautiful story of learning and research is Weiner's years of study with Rabbi S. Setzer, a preeminent Kabbalist who seemed in some ways to be a future version of Weiner. At the end is the sad, sad story of Weiner's falling out with a beloved friend, Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, the son of the 1st Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Abraham Yitzakh Kook.
In between, in these lovely pages, you'll read Weiner taking a two-pronged struggle and laying it bare for the reader. Firstly, his struggle to find out about Jewish mysticism, and perhaps what a Jewish mystic is supposed to be. The second, Weiner is slowly executing a pattern of Kabalah learning, safe to share with the average reader. Should the reader prove unworthy, I have found, interest will be lost anyway, and the unworthy won't read this. What Weiner reveals is another joy, the true gem of the Jewish People. TORAH is one's life, of course, and is in itself indescribable - but the Kabalah is like the spice of life, the honey, the depth and the Truth for those who are worthy to know.
Weiner knows Gershom Scholem, which has always kept me in awe. He is close to Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, whom I have also studied, which is just as awesome. If you can get it, read Steinsaltz's The Thirteen Petalled Rose. I always think of the Lily, the Fleur-de-Lis, with its 13 petals and a powerful symbol of Israel, but Steinsaltz means something else. Kind of a shame Weiner wrote so little about him. What I personally did not like, though I have studied it closely, is Weiner's mixing it up with the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendl Schneersohn. I can't say if it is Lubavitch or the rebbe-worship, but I just do not like the subject at all.
Much better is to enjoy Weiner's interactions with the living, and his understanding of the dead (such as the Baal Shem Tov and Rabbi Nachman). It's also fun to read and catch up with Rabbi Weiner in his new postscript of the early 1990s, in which he half-confusedly describes what it is like to be southern California's resident "Kabbalist". It is hilarious. In this book you will get a deeper feeling for the Kabalah - mainly what you will get is an understanding of the Jewish soul, the yearning, the loss and the confusion. What is best is that each of those sad things has a powerful, wonderful counterpart - an "opposite number", you might say.
No one writes about that as beautifully as Weiner. Even his being Reform - the source of the break between him and Rabbi Zvi Kook - does not get in the way of the clarity or respectfulness here. Weiner is a true Master, not at all half in any way. A true mystic, and very likely much moreso than some of the people he encounters here.
This may very well be, in the distant future, a tiny newer piece of Kabalah which people will study and decipher. Get it. THIS is the reason books were invented!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Useful Intro to Hasidism
By Edward J. Barton
Herbert Weiner does a nice job of surveying the development and condition of Hasidic and mystical Judiasm. The book itself was written in the mid to alte 1960's, and the afterword rolls you forward to the 80's. Even so, for someone interested in Jewish mysticism and the development and emergence of Hasidism in the 17th through 20th Centuries, the book offers colorful commentary, great background, and homespun storytelling. There isn't a ton on kabbala in the book - but the emphasis on mysticism and Hasidim and the interplay with the kabbala are explored at the outset. If you have interest in the subject, particularly the modern history of Jewish mysticism, this is a must read.
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