Aryeh Kaplan

Broschiertes Buch

Meditation and Kabbalah

Beschreibung

A lucid presentation of the meditative methods, mantras, mandalas and other devices used, as well as a penetrating interpretation of their significance in the light of contemporary meditative research. Meditative methods ofthe East might have been derived from the mystical techniques of the prophets, and this intriguing possibility, mentioned in the Zohar, is also discussed.

Autor

Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan was born in New York City and was educated in The Torah Voda'as and Mir Yeshivot in Brooklyn. After years of study at Jerusalem's Mir Yeshiva, he was ordained by some of Israel's foremost rabbinic authorities. He also earned a master's degree in physics and was listed in Who's Who in Physics in the United States. In the course of a writing career spanning only twelve years, Rabbi Kaplan earned a reputation as one of the most effective, persuasive, scholarly, and prolific exponents of Judaism in the English language. He died on January 28, 1983, at the age of 48.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Red Wheel
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 145mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780877286165
• ISBN-10: 0877286167
• Artikelnr.: 21576542