richards | February 21, 2016
The Hasidim Last night PBS aired an extraordinary documentary titled "A Life Apart: Hasidism in America." Most people are familiar with Hasidim as the "ultra-orthodox" in Israel. On TV news, you usually see the men in their long black coats, beards and sidecurls on the front lines of some demonstration for expansion into Palestinian land
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richards | February 21, 2016
Beginning in the 10th century, Jewish mystics and philosophers wrote commentaries on Sefer Yetzirah, a book about the secrets of creation probably written around the third century. At the same time, Jewish mystics compiled works of heikhalot literature, an early corpus of texts focused on mystical ascents to heaven
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