To Touch the Divine: A Jewish Mysticism Primer

by Zalman Posner, Jonathan Sacks, Jacob Schochet

A symposium on Jewish mysticism held in 1981 by the Lubavitch Foundation of Great Britain provided the framework for this series of talks.

The resulting essays are unlike academic treatments of Jewish mysticism in which study is divorced from the life-giving tradition from which it springs. Addressed to a diverse audience, they deal with the difference between mysticism and mystical experience, between Jewish and other forms of mysticism, with meditation, cults, Kabbalah and concepts of the Tanya as expressed in contemporary idiom.

144 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[Nechamah Goldfarb]

A wonderful collection of writing from brilliant holy men on basic Jewish mystical ideas.

[Jayde Schwerin]

Interesting...

[Lori Ben-ezra]

This book is a compilation of eight essays, but is really only enjoyed half of them. In particular, essays by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz and Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks were home runs. Those essays provided thought provoking ideas on deep, esoteric issues.