The Gift of Kabbalah

Tamar Frankiel

2001

Why is it that human beings encounter so many problems in life? Why are we beset with war and racism, political and ethnic conflicts, disharmony with our environment, and shattering events in our personal lives? Kabbalah tells us that the ultimate cause of our problems, from our personal lives to the widest range of humanity, is forgetting who we…

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Creator Bio

Tamar Frankiel

b. 1946

American-born Tamar Frankiel is dean of academic affairs and a professor of comparative religion at the Academy for Jewish Religion in Los Angeles. She has taught at the Claremont School of Theology, the University of Judaism, Stanford University, Princeton University, and U.C. Berkeley and Riverside. Frankiel’s fields of specialization include mysticism and comparative religion in America.

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