Sefer Yetzira: Chronicles of Desire
Awesome, Hershy! How come you get all the best, deepest Torahs? (Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach)This unique and innovative interpretation of Sefer Yetzira ties together all the strands of Izbicy's classic hasidic thought in one coherent and comprehensive overview. (Rabbi Jacob Lainer, The Radzyner Rebbe)It takes one who can taste what is behind the words of a text to handle the translation/rendering of theSefer Yetzira/Book Of Creation.Up to now it has not had someone who could stretch his sacred imagination into an ancient classical text and yet render it so that we too can follow it…Worch has done just that. Rather than trying to makeSefer Yetzira,…fit to the Zoharic/Lurianic model, this work leaps forward in a spiritually stimulating post-modern form... a stellar achievement. (Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi, co-author of A Heart Afire; Stories and Teachings of the Early Hasidic Masters)