Kabbalah 365: Daily Fruit from the Tree of Life [Hardcover]

Gershon Winkler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2004

Every day is a chance for a new beginning - an awakening. Start each day with the gift of time-tested wisdom from the Kabbalah. Kabbalah 365 is a unique collection of rare Jewish mystery and understanding. People from all walks of life are finding their paths illuminated within the Kabbalah. Each selected reading, one for every day of the yearly cycle, encourages honest contemplation, true inspiration, and deep reflection. Here are just a few examples: If you are in a hurry to get to an appointment, and you are riding on a train that is moving too slow, do you think you will arrive at your destination any faster by getting up and running through the train? Likewise, when the time is right for you, you'll be arriving at your destination - no sooner, no later. In the meantime, make sure you are on board. If you are rubbing two sticks together and are having difficulty lighting a fire, move to another place and try again. Likewise, if you are having difficulty in the place where you are, shift to another place. Experience the vastness and riches of the Kabbalah with Kabbalah 365, which ably preserves the integrity of the original texts, some translated here for the first time, and renders insights in easy-to-understand language.

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About the Author

Rabbi Gershon Winkler is a longtime practitioner and interpreter of the Kabbalah, teaching workshops across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Israel. He is the cofounder and executive director of the Walking Stick Foundation and Retreat Center in the San Miguel Wilderness of New Mexico, where he currently resides.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (August 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740747207
• ISBN-13: 978-0740747205
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,210,421 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars a very good book, December 6, 2010

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This review is from: Kabbalah 365: Daily Fruit from the Tree of Life (Hardcover)

The title is a collection of short inspirational aphorisms and reflections drawing on Jewish wisdom, one for each day of the year. The book as such is beautiful. The only thing that, in my opinion, detracts from its value is that the same author has published another similar title - "Daily Kabbalah - Wisdom from the Tree of Life" and the contents of the two books coincide by about 90%.

Rabbi Gershon Winkler is a kind of controversial figure in the Jewish world - sometimes nicknamed as "the cowboy rabbi" (which I cannot help taking as a tribute because I also like westerns). His books give me the impression that he is an unconventional rabbi, but his Jewish devotion is genuine and some of his ideas are actually pretty good.

Let me also take this opportunity to express appreciation for Amazon.com for mediating the purchase from a third party. Unfortunately, when a book is "available from these sellers", they usually refuse to deliver merchandise to my country (don't know why it's a problem) and I am glad that Amazon.com offered its fulfillment in this particular instance.