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The Kabbalah of Relation by Rabbi Bezalel Naor book review

The Kabbalah of Relation by Rabbi Bezalel Naor book review

Book Review[1] by Dovid Sears Bezalel Naor, The Kabbalah of Relation (Spring Valley, NY: Orot, 2012) Before discussing Rabbi Naor’s new book, I must say that anything with his name on the cover should be of interest to any explorer of Jewish mystical tradition. Despite some twenty first-rate scholarly works in English and Hebrew, Bezalel Naor remains a “hidden light,” perhaps too brilliant for many to gaze upon directly. He is one of the leading intellectuals in the traditional world…

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The Head Movements of Shema’

The Head Movements of Shema’

THE HEAD MOVEMENTS OF SHEMA’ by Bezalel Naor Rabbi Bezalel Naor is a multifaceted scholar, recognized as the leading interpreter of R. Kook in the English language. His newest book is The Limit of Intellectual Freedom: The Letters of Rav Kook. It can be purchased from his website, www.orot.com. The most important utterance in Judaism is the Shema’: Shema’ yisrael adonai eloheinu adonai ehad. (Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.) This declaration of the absolute…

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