The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism

Daniel C. Matt

1995

How to Approach Kabbalah

What should your intention be as you draw near to this wisdom?

Pursuing the straight path, dividing your time between Bible, Talmud, and this wisdom, partaking of each. Learning this wisdom for its own sake: to enter its mysteries, to know your Creator, to attain a wondrous level of comprehension of the Torah, to pray in…

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Daniel C. Matt

b. 1950

Zohar-scholar Daniel C. Matt earned his doctorate at Brandeis University. He served as professor of Jewish spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley from 1979 until 2000, and is an author, translator, and leading scholar of Jewish mysticism. He is producing a multivolume, annotated English translation of the Zohar.

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