Reflections on Jewish mysticism
By: Josef Blaha ; jazykové úpravy anglického textu, Gerald Cary-Elwes
Edition: Vydání prvni.
Publisher: Josef Blaha
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Praha
Language: eng; heb
Translated from: heb
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9788026039013
Subjects: Mysticism; Judaism; Cabala; History; Jewish philosophy; Hebrew poetry; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text chiefly in English; some citations in Hebrew with English translations.
Table of contents: title: 1. How the Kabbalah can be relevant to people today; title: 2. Maharal- MORENU HA RAV-OUR TEACHER AND OUR RABBI-Judah ben Bezalel-The High Rabbi of Prague-The great personality in Czech Judaism (1525-1609); title: 3. Some aspects of the religious philosophy of the Maharal; title: 4. Some aspects of the philosophies of Heidegger and Levinas; title: 5. Kabbalah as an infinite encounter between God and Man; title: 6. Face and infinity in Emmanuel Levinas and in the Kabbalah; title: 7. Judaism and love; title: 8. The influence of Gnosticism and Platonism on the Kabbalah; title: 9. Neoplatonic influences on three Spanish Jewish poets; title: 10. Longing for God and Zion in poems of Judah Halevi confronting the suffering of the Jewish people; title: 11. The possibility of redemption; title: 12. Exile and evil; title: 13. Why do Jewish people have to suffer so much? Unde malum? Where is the origin of evil according to Kabbalistic sources?; title: 14. The messianic idea in Judaism; title: 15. Solomon ibn Gabirol's yearning for God; title: 16. Gleanings from modern Hebrew poetry and philosophy.