Jewish Mystical Autobiographies
Subtitle: Book of Visions and Book of Secrets (Classics of Western Spirituality)
Contributors: Morris M. Faierstein (Editor, Translator); Hayyim Ben Joseph Vital (Editor); Isaac Judah Jehiel Safrin (Editor)
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780809138760
Subjects: Judaism; Mysticism; Vital, Hayyim ben Joseph,; Rabbis; Cabala; Biography; Religious; Religion; Biography / Autobiography; Judaism - General; Biography/Autobiography; Dreams; Religious aspects; 1542 or 3-1620; Tsefat; Israel
First sentence: The genre of spiritual autobiography has a long and distinguished history in the Christian tradition that can be traced back to the Confessions of St. Augustine.