The chosen will become herds: studies in twentieth-century kabbalah
New Haven, ]Conn.[
Yale University Press
"Originally published as Yehide ha-segulot yihyu la-adarim: iyunim be-Kabalat ha-me&1x02bc;ah ha-esrim, c2005 by the Shalom Hartman Institute and Carmel Press, Jerusalem."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references )p. 185-207( and index
Jonathan Garb; translated by Yaffah Berkovits-Murciano
Introduction: the study of twentieth-century kabbalah: dilemmas and possibilities -- Jewish mysticism in the twentieth century: major trends -- The drive to disseminate kabbalah -- The concept of power in national mysticism -- Psychological notions of power -- Sacred space and sacred persons -- Circumvention and violation of halakha -- The upsurge of mysticism as a Jewish and global phenomenon