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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Hershy J. WorchPublisher: University Press of America Imprint: University Press of America Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 23.20cm Weight: 0.794kg ISBN: 9780761849742ISBN 10: 0761849742 Pages: 532 Publication Date: 15 December 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsIt takes one who can taste what is behind the words of a text to handle the translation/rendering of the Sefer Yetzira/Book Of Creation. Up to now it has not had someone who could stretch his sacred imagination into an ancient classical text and yet render it so that we too can follow it Worch has done just that. Rather than trying to make Sefer Yetzira, fit to the Zoharic/Lurianic model, this work leaps forward in a spiritually stimulating post-modern form... a stellar achievement.--Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi Awesome, Hershy! How come you get all the best, deepest Torahs? -- Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach This unique and innovative interpretation of Sefer Yetzira ties together all the strands of Izbicy's classic hasidic thought in one coherent and comprehensive overview. -- Rabbi Jacob Lainer, The Radzyner Rebbe It takes one who can taste what is behind the words of a text to handle the translation/rendering of the Sefer Yetzira/Book Of Creation. Up to now it has not had someone who could stretch his sacred imagination into an ancient classical text and yet render it so that we too can follow it…Worch has done just that. Rather than trying to make Sefer Yetzira, …fit to the Zoharic/Lurianic model, this work leaps forward in a spiritually stimulating post-modern form... a stellar achievement. -- Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi, co-author of A Heart Afire; Stories and Teachings of the Early Hasidic Masters Author InformationJ. Hershy Worch was born in England in 1955 and ordained in 1992 by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. He served as rabbi of Congregation Ohave Shalom of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Currently, he resides in Los Angeles, California, teaching Jewish texts at the Open Yeshiva - Yeshiva Ateret Tzvi. His previously published works include Sacred Fire: Torah from the Years of Fury 1939-1942, The Kabbalist Haggadah - A Handbook of the Seder, and My Soul Thirsts - A Collection of Hasidic Songs. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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