Review
I consider it a fascinating effort to catch Kabbalah by a sensitive and keen mind. Afterman's book represents illuminating reverberations of Kabbalistic concepts in a poetic consciousness. -- Professor Moshe Idel, Hebrew University
Poetry and mysticism are magnificently reconciled in Allen Afterman's book on Kabbalah's secret images and silent invocations. -- Elie Wiesel
Poetry and mysticism are magnificently reconciled in Allen Afterman's book on Kabbalah's secret images and silent invocations. -- Elie Wiesel
Product Description
The Kabbalah, the major work of Jewish mystical learning, maps the poetic universe of Judaism. As never before this philosophy is made clear, relevant, and exciting, and Afterman explains the Kabbalah with a keen sense of advocacy. The book concerns itself with movement from ordinary consciousness towards union, the rectification of the eternal in everyday reality, and an exploration of male and female modes of living.of a Jewish garment worker and an internationally known gypsy singer, with whom he later toured. After graduating from UCLA, Harvard Law, Monash University, he left America for New Zealand and Singapore, and eventually bought a cattle ranch in Australia. In 1981, he emigrated to Israel. He died tragically in 1992. Kabbalah and Consciousness was his last published work.
