KABBALISTIC TALES: [translated]

By Matthew Lynch

Kabbalistic mysticism of Judaism, like all mysticism, is an attempt to arrive at a personal undertanding of the Living Godhead in all of its power and beauty. Like the Gnostics, Neoplatonists, Hermeticists, and Sufis, the Kabbalists took an individualistic approach to the knowledge of God, rather than leaving it to the various orthodox authorities to tell them what they believed God's will to be. In this sense western mystical systems are closely akin to eastern philosophy such as Buddhism, Vedantism, and Jainism, and just as in these systems we find mystical sages and saints. Yet unlike the saints of the western orthodoxies who died for a faith, these men lived in such a way as to come ever closer to God by opening the mind to the reality infinite becoming, or as it has been expressed in the past, they understood that God was as much a Verb as a noun. The mighty Kabbalist sage ARJ or "The Lion" exemplifies the uniquely Jewish approach to mysticism. Righteousness mixed with compassion, reincarnation within the laws of Scripture, good humor in the midst of the cosmic struggle between light and darkness, saintliness mixed with just a touch of the rogue, such was ARJ. For those who wonder what man who was shaped by personal striving toward God through the prism of the Zohar, this is the book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521512086
• ISBN13: 9781521512081
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"