RELIGION / Judaism / Kabbalah & Mysticism

Paper · Semantic Scholar

If you think that religion and mathematics have nothing to do with each other... think again! “From the dawn of history, sages have intertwined numbers with magic to create the Gods, demons, and the world views needed by the rest of us to make existence seem comprehensible” (Cole, 1987). The Kabbalistic numerology of Jewish mysticism is said to reveal the deep, hidden meaning of Scripture, known in Hebrew as Razah D…

Reference · Wikidata

non-fiction work by Gershom Scholem

Book · DOAB

German-born Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem (1897–1982), the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, delved into the historical analysis of kabbalistic literature from late antiquity to the twentieth century. His writings traverse Jewish historiography, Zionism, the phenomenology of mystical religion, and the spiritual and political condition of contemporary Judaism and Jewish civilization. Scholem famously recounted re…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

Issue 50.6 of the Review for Religious, November/December 1991.