# Ispirazione mistica/Bibliografia

Ispirazione mistica
● — IntroduzioneIspirazione mistica/Introduzione
● — Testi classici dell'ebraismoIspirazione mistica/Testi classici
● — Guida alla traslitterazioneIspirazione mistica/Traslitterazione
* In principio...Ispirazione mistica/Capitolo 1
* I primi profetiIspirazione mistica/Capitolo 2
* I profeti classiciIspirazione mistica/Capitolo 3
* Fine della profezia?Ispirazione mistica/Capitolo 4
* Saggi e RabbiniIspirazione mistica/Capitolo 5
* Ascesa misticaIspirazione mistica/Capitolo 6
* I primi messiaIspirazione mistica/Capitolo 7
* Filosofi e maimonideiIspirazione mistica/Capitolo 8
* Medioevo: Hasidei AshkenazIspirazione mistica/Capitolo 9
* Medioevo: Prima CabalaIspirazione mistica/Capitolo 10
* Cabala classicaIspirazione mistica/Capitolo 11
* La mistica di SafedIspirazione mistica/Capitolo 12
* I messia dell'era post-InquisizioneIspirazione mistica/Capitolo 13
* Hasidismo: Un nuovo paradigmaIspirazione mistica/Capitolo 14
● Appendice 1: La stesura della BibbiaIspirazione mistica/Appendice 1
● Appendice 2: Le SefirotIspirazione mistica/Appendice 2
● Appendice 3: Teurgia e potenziamentoIspirazione mistica/Appendice 3
● Appendice 4: TestimonianzaIspirazione mistica/Appendice 4
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## Bibliografia composita
### Riferimenti basilari

Encyclopedia Judaica CD-ROM edition. Jerusalem: Judaica Multimedia (Israel), 1997. Also second edition, online by subscription to Gale Virtual Reference Library databases.
The Encyclopedia of Judaism. Edited by Geoffrey Wigoder. Jerusalem, Israel: Jerusalem Publishing House, 1989. CD-ROM version published along with Dictionary of Jewish Biography, by Davka Corp., Chicago, IL: 1992–1993.
Gribetz, Judah. Timetables of Jewish History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Holtz, Barry W., ed. Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts. NY: Touchstone Books, Simon & Schuster, 1984.
———.The Schocken Guide to Jewish Books: Where to Start Reading about Jewish History, Literature, Culture, and Religion. NY: Schocken Books, 1992.
Klein, Ernest. A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English, Jerusalem, Israel: University of Haifa & Carta, Jerusalem, 1987.

### Libri di preghiera

Ha-siddur ha-shalem (The Complete Prayer Book; Hebrew, English). Translated and arranged by Philip Birnbaum. NY: Hebrew Publishing, 1977.
The High Holyday Prayer Book: Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Translated and arranged by Ben Zion Bokser. NY: Hebrew Publishing, 1959.
The Prayer Book: Weekday, Sabbath and Festival. Translated and arranged by Ben Zion Bokser. NY: Hebrew Publishing, 1957.

### Bibbie e Apocrifi

Barnstone, Willis, ed. The Other Bible. Harper & Row, 1985.
The Book of Enoch (Enoch 1). Translated by R. H. Charles. In The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament. Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. Cfr. anche il wikilibro Antologia ebraica.
The Book of Enoch (Enoch 1). Translated by E. Isaac. In The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Vol. 1. Edited by J. H. Charlesworth. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983. Cfr. anche il wikilibro Antologia ebraica.
The Five Books of Moses. (English) Translated with commentary and notes by Everett Fox. NY: Schocken Press, 1997.
The Jerusalem Bible (English, Hebrew) English text revised and edited by Harold Fisch. Jerusalem, Israel: Koren, 1992.
Tanach: The Holy Scriptures in The CD-ROM Judaic Classics Library. Includes The Bible (based partially on The Jerusalem Bible, Koren [above]); The Soncino Talmud, The Soncino Midrash Rabbah, The Soncino Zohar. (Hebrew, English) Published by the Institute for Computers in Jewish Life and Davka Corp., Chicago, IL, 1991–96.
Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures, 2 vols. (Hebrew, English) Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1955.
Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures: The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text. (Hebrew, English) Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1985.
The Wisdom of Solomon: A New Translation. The Anchor Bible. NY: Doubleday, 1979.

### Rotoli del Mar Morto

Eisenman, Robert and Michael Wise. The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered. NY: Penguin Books, 1993.
Martinez, Florentino Garcia and Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar, ed. The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition (2 vols.) Leiden, Netherlands: Brill & Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI and Cambridge UK, 2000.
Martinez, Florentino Garcia. The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English. Translated by W.G.E. Watson. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1994, 1997.
Schiffman, Lawrence. Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls: The History of Judaism, the Background of Christianity, the Lost Library of Qumran. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1994.
Vermes, Geza. The Dead Sea Scrolls in English. London: Penguin Books, 1990.
———. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English. London: Penguin Books, 1997.
Wilson, Edmund. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea. NY: Oxford University Press, 1955.

### Zohar

Green, Arthur and Lawrence Fine. A Guide to the Zohar. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004.
Hellner-Eshed, Melila. A River Flows in Eden: The Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar. Translated from the Hebrew. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009.
Matt, Daniel C., ed. and trans. Zohar: Annotated & Explained. Woodstock, VT: Skylight Paths, 2002.
———, ed. and trans. Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1983.
———, ed. and trans. The Zohar: Pritzker Edition. Vols. 1–3. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004–2006.
Sperling, Harry, Maurice Simon, and Paul Levertoff, trans. The Zohar (5 vols.). London: Soncino Press, 1978 [1931–34].
Tishby, Isaiah, and Fischel Lachower, ed. The Wisdom of the Zohar: An Anthology of Texts (3 vols.) English translation by David Goldstein. Oxford, UK: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, Oxford University Press, 1989, 1991 [Hebrew, 1949].

### Bibliografia generale

Abelson, Yehoshua. Jewish Mysticism: An Introduction to the Kabbalah. NY: Hermon Press, 1969, 1980. [1913].
Alfasi, Eliyahu and C.T. Bari, ed., Baba Sali, Our Holy Teacher. Translated from the Hebrew by L. Dolinger. NY: Judaica Press, 1986.
Alter, Judah Aryeh Leib. The Language of Truth: The Torah Commentary of the Sefat Emet: Rabbi Yehudah Leib Alter of Ger. Translated and interpreted by Arthur Green. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1998.
Altmann, Alexander. Studies in Religious Philosophy and Mysticism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1969.
Ariel, David. The Mystic Quest: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism. NY: Schocken Books, 1992.
Armstrong, Karen. A History of God. NY: Knopf, 1993.
Ashlag, Yehudah. In the Shadow of the Ladder: Introductions to Kabbalah by Rabbi Yehuda Lev Ashlag. Translated from the Hebrew with additional chapters by Mark Cohen and Yedidiah Cohen. Safed, Israel: Nehora Press, 2002.
———. Ten Luminous Emanations. Translated by Philip Berg and Levi Krakovsky.Los Angeles: Kabbalah Publishing, 2005.
The Bahir (Sefer ha-bahir) (Book of Brilliance) Translated with commentary by Aryeh Kaplan. (Hebrew, English) York Beach, Me.: Samuel Weiser, 1979, 1990.
Band, Arnold J. Nahman of Bratslav. The Tales. NY: Paulist Press, 1978.
Ben-Amos, Dan and Jerome R. Mintz, trans. and ed. In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov [translation of Shivhei ha-Besht]. Bloomington, Indiana and London, UK: Indiana University Press, 1970.
Bialik, Hayim Nahman, and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitsky. The Book of Legends (Sefer ha-aggadah): Legends from the Talmud and Midrash. Translated by William G. Braude. NY: Schocken Books, 1992. CD-ROM published by Davka Corporation, Chicago, IL: 1995–2003.
Blenkinsopp, Joseph. A History of Prophecy in Israel. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1983.
Blumenthal, David. Understanding Jewish Mysticism: A Source Reader: The Merkabah Tradition and the Zoharic Tradition. NY: Ktav, 1978.
Bokser, Ben Zion. The Jewish Mystical Tradition. NY: Pilgrim Press, 1981.
———. The Talmud: Selected Writings. NY: Paulist Press, 1989.
———. Wisdom of the Talmud. NY: Citadel Press, 1962 [Philosophical Library, 1951].
Buber, Martin, ed. Ecstatic Confessions: The Heart of Mysticism. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996.
———. Hasidism and Modern Man. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1988.
———. The Origin and Meaning of Hasidism. Translated from the German and edited by Maurice Friedman. NY: Horizon Press, 1960.
———. Tales of the Hasidim. (incorporating Book One, The Early Masters, and Book Two, The Later Masters) NY: Schocken Books, 1991.
———. Tales of Rabbi Nachman. Translated from the German by Maurice Friedman. NY: Horizon Press, 1951.
Buchler, Adolph. Some Types of Jewish-Palestinian Piety: The Ancient Pious Men. NY: Ktav, 1968 [1922].
Caravella, Miriam. The Holy Name: Mysticism in Judaism. Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, Punjab, India: Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 2003 [1989].
Cardozo, Abraham Miguel. Abraham Miguel Cardozo: Selected Writings. Translated from the Hebrew by David J. Halperin. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2001.
Cohen, Shaye J.D. From the Maccabees to the Mishnah. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1987.
Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. Jewish Mysticism: An Anthology. Oxford: Oneworld, 1995.
Cordovero, Moses. The Palm Tree of Deborah. Translated from the Hebrew with introduction and notes by Louis Jacobs. London: Valentine, Mitchell, 1960.
Dan, Joseph, ed. The Heart and the Fountain: An Anthology of Jewish Mystical Experiences. NY: Oxford University Press, 2002.
———. Jewish Mysticism, Vol. I: Late Antiquity. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1998.
———. Jewish Mysticism, Vol. II: The Middle Ages. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1999.
———. Jewish Mysticism, Vol. III: The Modern Period. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1999.
———. Jewish Mysticism, Vol. IV: General Characteristics and Comparative Studies. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1999.
Dan, Joseph, and Ronald C. Kiener, ed. and trans. The Early Kabbalah. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1986.
Dan, Joseph, and Frank Talmage, ed. Studies in Jewish Mysticism: Proceedings of Regional Conferences Held at the University of California, Los Angeles, and McGill University in April, 1978. Cambridge, MA: Association for Jewish Studies, 1982.
Davidson, John. The Divine Romance. Bath, UK: Clear Books, 2004.
———. ed. A Treasury of Mystic Terms. Part I, vols. 1–6. New Delhi, India: Science of the Soul Research Centre, 2003.
Davis, Avram, ed. Meditation from the Heart of Judaism: Today’s Teachers Share Their Practices, Techniques and Faith. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 1999.
———. The Way of the Flame: A Guide to the Forgotten Mystical Tradition of Jewish Meditation. NY: HarperCollins, 1996.
Dever, William K. Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? Grand Rapids, MI and Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2003.
Dresner, Samuel. The Zaddik: The Doctrine of the Zaddik According to the Writings of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef of Polnoy. NY: Schocken Books, 1960 (Jason Aronson edition, 1994).
Drob, Sanford L. Kabbalistic Metaphors: Jewish Mystical Themes in Ancient and Modern Thought. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 2000.
Elior, Rachel. Jewish Mysticism: The Infinite Expression of Freedom. Translated from the Hebrew Paneha ha-shonot shel ha-herut by Yudith Nave and Arthur Millman. Oxford, UK and Portland, OR: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2006.
———. The Mystical Origins of Hasidism. Translated from the Hebrew Herut al-haluhot by Shalom Carmi. Oxford, UK and Portland, OR: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2006.
———. The Three Temples: On the Emergence of Jewish Mysticism. Portland, OR: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2005.
Epstein, Perle Besserman. Kabbalah: The Way of the Jewish Mystic. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 1988.
Etkes, Immanuel. The Besht: Magician, Mystic, and Leader. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2005; published by University Press of New England, Lebanon, NH. Translated from the Hebrew Ba’al ha-shem: ha-Besht – magyah, mistikah, hanhagah by the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History: Jerusalem, 2000.
Ezekiel, Isaac A. Sarmad: Martyr to Love Divine. Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, Punjab, India: Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 2005.
Faierstein, Morris M., trans. and ed. Jewish Mystical Autobiographies: Book of Visions and Book of Secrets. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1999.
The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan (Mishnah Avot de-Rabbi Nathan). Translated by Judah Goldin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1955.
Fenton, Paul. “Shabbetay Sebi and His Muslim Contemporary Muhammad an-Niyazi” in David Blumenthal, ed. Approaches to Judaism in Medieval Times, vol. III, no. 134, pp. 81–88. Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1988.
Fine, Lawrence. Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos: Isaac Luria and his Kabbalistic Fellowship. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003.
———, trans. Safed Spirituality, Rules of Mystical Piety, The Beginning of Wisdom. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1984.
Finkelstein, Israel, and Neil Asher Silberman. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts. NY: Touchstone Ed., Simon and Schuster, 2002.
Fishbane, Eitan. As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009.
Fishbane, Michael. “Biblical Prophecy as a Religious Phenomenon,” in Jewish Spirituality: From the Bible Through the Middle Ages. Edited by Arthur Green. NY: Crossroad, 1986.
Fleer, Gedaliah. Rabbi Nachman’s Fire: An Introduction to Breslover Chassidus. NY: Shulsinger Bros., 1972.
Fohr, S. D. Adam and Eve: The Spiritual Symbolism of Genesis and Exodus. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986.
Franck, Adolph. The Kabbalah or the Religious Philosophy of the Hebrews. Translated by I. Sussnitz. New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1967 [1926].
Frank, Daniel H., and Oliver Leaman, ed. History of Jewish Philosophy Oxford, UK: Routledge, 1996.
Freely, John. The Lost Messiah: In Search of the Mystical Rabbi Sabbetai Sevi. NY: Overlook Press, 2003.
Friedman, Richard Elliott. Who Wrote the Bible? San Francisco and NY: HarperCollins, 1997.
Garb, Jonathan. The Chosen Will Become Herds: Studies in Twentieth Century Kabbalah. Translated from the Hebrew. New Haven, CT & London: Yale University Press, 2009.
Giller, Pinchas. Shalom Shar’abi and the Kabbalists of Beit El. NY: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Ginzberg, Louis. Legends of the Bible. Translated from the German by Henrietta Szold. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1992 [1956, 1913].
———. Legends of the Jews (CD-ROM). Institute for Computers in Jewish Life and Davka Corp., Chicago, IL: 1998 [1911–1948].
Goldin, Judah, ed. and trans. The Living Talmud: The Wisdom of the Fathers and Its Classical Commentaries. NY: Mentor Books, 1957.
Goodenough, E.R. By Light, Light: The Mystic Gospel of Hellenistic Judaism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1935.
Green, Arthur. Ehyeh: A Kabbalah for Tomorrow. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2003.
———, ed. Jewish Spirituality: From the Bible through the Middle Ages (vol. 1), and Jewish Spirituality: From the Sixteenth-Century Revival to the Present (vol. 2). NY: Crossroad, 1986 and 1987.
———. Keter: The Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.
———. Tormented Master: The Life and Spiritual Quest of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 1992.
Gruenwald, Ithamar. Apocalyptic and Merkavah Mysticism. Leiden, Netherlands & NY: Brill, 1980.
Hallamish, Moshe [Moses]. An Introduction to the Kabbalah. Albany, NY: State University of NY Press, 1999.
Hames, Harvey. “Exotericism and Esotericism in Thirteenth Century Kabbalah.” Also reproduced in Hames’ The Art of Conversion: Christianity and Kabbalah in the Thirteenth Century. Leiden, Netherlands & Boston: Brill, 2000.
Heschel, Abraham Joshua. The Earth is the Lord’s. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 1995.
———. God in Search of Man. NY: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1979 [1961, 1955].
———. Maimonides: A Biography. Translated by J. Neugroschel. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982, 1983.
———. The Prophets. Perennial Classics ed., NY: HarperCollins, 2001 [Harper & Row, 1962].
ibn Gebirol, Solomon. Fountain of Life [Fons Vitae]. Translated by Harry E. Wedeck. Charleston, SC: BiblioBazaar, 2008 [1962].
Idel, Moshe. “Hitbodedut as Concentration,” in Jewish Spirituality: From the Bible through the Middle Ages. Edited by Arthur Green. NY: Crossroad, 1986.
———. Kabbalah: New Perspectives. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990.
———. Messianic Mystics. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.
———. The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia. Albany, NY: State University of NY Press, 1988.
Jacobs, Louis. Hasidic Prayer. NY: Schocken Books, 1972.
———. Hasidic Thought. NY: Behrman House, 1976.
———. Holy Living: Saints and Saintliness in Judaism. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1990.
———. The Schocken Book of Jewish Mystical Testimonies. NY: Schocken Press, 1996 [1977].
Johnson, Paul. A History of the Jews. NY: Harper & Row, 1988.
Judah ben Samuel he-Hasid. Medieval Jewish Mysticism: Book of the Pious. (Translation by Sholom Alchanan Singer of Sefer hasidim.) Northbrook, IL: Whitehall Company, 1971.
Kamenetz, Rodger. The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet’s Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1997.
———. Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today’s Jewish Mystical Masters. San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins, 1997.
Kaplan, Aryeh. The Chasidic Masters. NY: Moznaim, 1989.
———. Jewish Meditation. NY: Schocken Books, 1985.
———. The Light Beyond: Adventures in Hassidic Thought. NY: Moznaim, 1981.
———. Meditation and the Bible. NY: Weiser Books, 1978.
———. Meditation and the Kabbalah. York Beach, ME. Samuel Weiser, 1982. “Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim.” Article in Encyclopedia Britannica Premium Service.
Kedourie, Elie, ed. The Jewish World. History and Culture of the Jewish People. NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1979.
Knight, Douglas, and Gene Tucker, eds. The Hebrew Bible and Its Modern Interpreters. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1985.
Kohler, Kaufmann. “Atonement.” Article in Jewish Encyclopedia.com, 2004.
Kook, Abraham Isaac. Abraham Isaac Kook: The Lights of Penitence, the Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, Essays, Letters, and Poems. Translated and introduced by Ben Zion Bokser. NY: Paulist Press, 1978.
Krakovsky, Levi I. The Omnipotent Light Revealed. Wisdom of the Kabbalah. NY: Yesod, n.d.
Lamm, Norman. The Religious Thought of Hasidism: Text and Commentary. NY: Ktav, 1999.
Langer, Jiri. Nine Gates to the Chasidic Mysteries. Translated by Stephen Jolly. Jerusalem, Israel: Yahdav Books.
Leet, Leonora. Renewing the Covenant: A Kabbalistic Guide to Jewish Spirituality. Rochester, VT. Inner Traditions International, 1999.
Lenowitz, Harris. The Jewish Messiahs. NY: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Liebes, Yehuda. Studies in Jewish Myth and Jewish Messianism. Albany, NY: State University of NY Press, 1992.
Luzzatto, Moshe Chayim [Hayim]. The Path of the Upright: Mesillat Yesharim. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1995.
Maimonides, Moses. The Guide of the Perplexed, vols. I & II. Translated by Shlomo Pines. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1963.
Maimonides, Obadyah. The Treatise of the Pool (Al-maqala al-hawdiyya). Translated and introduced by Paul Fenton. London: Sufi Trust, Octagon Press, 1981.
Malter, Henry. Saadia Gaon: His Life and Works. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1942.
Marcus, Ivan. “The Devotional Ideals of Ashkenazic Pietism,” in Jewish Spirituality: From the Bible Through the Middle Ages. Edited by Arthur Green. NY: Crossroad, 1986.
Matt, Daniel C., trans. and intro. The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1996.
———. God and the Big Bang. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 1996.
Muller, Ernst. History of Jewish Mysticism. NY: Yesod, n.d.
Myer, Isaac. Qabbalah. The Philosophical Writings of Solomon ibn Gabirol . . . and their connection with the Hebrew Qabbalah and Sepher ha-Zohar, etc. NY: Samuel Weiser, 1970 [Philadelphia: 1888].
Nathan of Nemirov. Rabbi Nachman’s Wisdom: Shevachay ha-Ran / Sichos ha-Ran. Translated and annotated by Aryeh Kaplan, Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld, ed. NY: Sepher Hermon Press, 1973.
Neusner, Jacob. First-Century Judaism in Crisis. Nashville and NY: Abingdon Press, 1975.
———. There We Sat Down: Talmudic Judaism in the Making. NY: Ktav, 1978.
———. “Varieties of Judaism in the Formative Age,” in Jewish Spirituality: From the Bible through the Middle Ages. Edited by Arthur Green. NY: Crossroad, 1986. This article also appears in Neusner’s book, Torah from Our Sages. NY: Behrman House, 1997.
Paquda, Bahya ibn. The Book of Direction to the Duties of the Heart (Hovot ha-levavot). Translated by Menahem Mansoor. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.
Patanjali, V. Thoughts on Indian Mysticism. New Delhi: Sagar Publications, 1978.
Philo. The Works of Philo: New Updated Edition, Complete and Unabridged in One Volume. Translated by C. D. Yonge. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1995 [1855].
Ponce, Charles. Kabbalah: An Introduction and Illumination for the World Today. Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing, 1978.
Rabinowicz, Harry M. The World of Hasidism. London: Valentine, Mitchell, 1970.
Robinson, George. Essential Judaism : A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs and Rituals. NY: Atria Books, 2001.
Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman. Spiritual Intimacy: A Study of Counseling in Hasidism. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1991.
———. Wrapped in a Holy Flame: Teachings and Tales of the Hasidic Masters. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.
Schatz-Uffenheimer, Rivka. Hasidism as Mysticism: Quietistic Elements in Eighteenth Century Hasidic Thought. Translated from the Hebrew by Jonathan Chipman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Schaya, Leo. The Universal Meaning of the Kabbalah. Penguin Metaphysical Library. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1974.
Schneerson, Menachem. On the Essence of Chassidus. NY: Kehot Publication Society, 1978.
Schochet, Jacob Immanuel. Mashiach [Messiah]: The Principle of Mashiach and the Messianic Era in Jewish Law and Tradition. NY: S.I.E., 1992.
Scholem, Gershom. Kabbalah. NY: New American Library [Meridian Books], 1978; reprinted by Buccaneer Books, 1988.
———. Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism. NY: Schocken Books, 3rd ed., 1971, 1995.
———. The Messianic Idea in Judaism and Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality. With a new foreword by Arthur Hertzberg. NY: Schocken Books, 1995 [1971].
———. Origins of the Kabbalah. Translated by Allan Arkush, edited by R.J. Zvi Weblowsky. Princeton, NJ: Jewish Publication Society & Princeton University Press, 1987.
———. Sabbatei Sevi, The Mystical Messiah. Translated and edited by R. J. Zwi Weblowsky. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973. Schwartz, Howard. Gabriel’s Palace: Jewish Mystical Tales. NY: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation. Translated and edited by Aryeh Kaplan. NY: Samuel Weiser, 1991.
Sepher Rezial Hamelach, The Book of the Angel Rezial. (Contains several sections attributed to Eleazar of Worms, including Sodei rezaya.) Translated from the 1701 Amsterdam edition by Steve Savedow. NY: Weiser Books, 2000.
Shapira, Kalonymus Kalman. Conscious Community: A Guide to the Inner Work. Translated and introduced by Andrea Cohen-Kiener. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
——— To Heal the Soul: The Spiritual Journal of a Chasidic Rebbe. Translated and edited by Yehoshua Starrett. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
Singh, Maharaj Charan. Spiritual Discourses, vol. 1. Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, Punjab, India: Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1987.
Steinsaltz, Adin. Learning From the Tanya: Volume Two in the Definitive Commentary on the Moral and Mystical Teachings of a Classic Work of Kabbalah. Translated by Edward Levine, Tuvia Natkin, and Yaacov David Shulman. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2003.
———. Opening the Tanya: Discovering the Moral and Mystical Teachings of a Classic Work of Kabbalah. Translated by Yaacov Tauber. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2003.
———. The Thirteen Petalled Rose. Translated by Yehuda Hanegbi. NY: Basic Books, 1980.
Trachtenberg, Joshua. Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004 [1939].
Unterman, Alan. The Wisdom of the Jewish Mystics. NY: New Directions, 1976.
Verman, Mark. The Books of Contemplation: Medieval Jewish Mystical Sources. Albany, NY: State University of NY Press, 1992.
———. History and Variety of Jewish Meditation. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1996.
Vital, Hayim. Sha’ar ha-hakdamot (The Gate of Introductions), Introduction. Included in Vital’s Ets hayim (“The Tree of Life,” Warsaw 1891).
———. The Tree of Life: Chayyim Vital’s Introduction to the Kabbalah of Isaac Luria (The Palace of Adam Kadmon). Translated by Donald Wilder Menzi and Zwe Padeh. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1999.
Wiesel, Elie. Somewhere a Master: Further Hasidic Portraits and Legends. Translated from the French by Marion Wiesel. NY: Summit Books (Simon & Schuster), 1982.
Wilson, Robert. Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1950.
Winston, David, trans. Philo of Alexandria: The Contemplative Life, the Giants, and Selections. NY: Paulist Press, 1981.
Winston, David. “Was Philo a Mystic?” In Studies in Jewish Mysticism: Proceedings of Regional Conferences Held at the University of California, Los Angeles, and McGill University in April, 1978, pp. 15–39. Edited by Joseph Dan and Frank Talmage. Cambridge, MA: Association for Jewish Studies, 1982.
Wolfson, Elliot R. “From Mystic to Prophet: Abraham Abulafia & Ecstatic Kabbalah,” extracted from “Jewish Mysticism: A Philosophical Overview,” in History of Jewish Philosophy, Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman, ed. (Oxford, UK: Routledge, 1996).
Wolfson, Elliot R. Through a Speculum that Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.