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What is Kabbalah?(“That which has been received”)

● Science (Sholem)● Magic (Trachtenberg)● Religion (Chabad)● Self Help (Aaron)● Business (Berg)● Fad (Madonna)

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What is a Novel?(“New and different from what has been known before”)

● Long narrative● In prose● Fictional characters and events● In the form of a sequential story

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Kabbalah: A Love Storyby Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

● Year: 2007● 208 pages● Publisher: Broadway

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Kabbalah: A Love Storyby Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

"If I write Kabbalah, no one but Kabbalists will read beyond the first pages. But if I conceal the Kabbalah inside a story, then people will have to read the Kabbalah to find out how the story ends."

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Education of a Kabbalistby Kabbalist Rav (Philip S.) Berg

● Year: 2004● 167 pages● Publisher: Kabbalah Publishing

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Education of a Kabbalistby Kabbalist Rav (Philip S.) Berg

“My teacher, Rabbi Brandwein... said, 'I've been waiting for someone to appear who would explain Kabbalah completely and perfectly-so perfectly that every-one would at last be brought back to spirituality. And I have decided that this person is you.'”

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De Kabbalist ("The Kabbalist")by Geert Kimpen

● Year: 2006● 336 pages (in Dutch)● Publisher: De Arbeiderspers

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De Kabbalist ("The Kabbalist")by Geert Kimpen

“They accuse me of acting as if I was chosen by God. They are envious of me and envy is a harmful poison. They are incapable of believing that someone came to realizations that are beyond their intellect.”

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A Zsidó Menyasszony("The Jewish Bride")

by Patrícia Eszter Margit

● Year: 2009● 492 pages (in Hungarian)● Publisher: Konkrét Könyvek

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“I am writing a book about the meeting points of Kabbalah, Christian mysticism and Taoism. The deeper I understand the Zohar the more evident it becomes how many teachings are common between Kabbalah and Eastern religions.”

A Zsidó Menyasszony("The Jewish Bride")

by Patrícia Eszter Margit

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The Memoristby M. J. Rose

● Year: 2008● 464 pages ● Publisher: MIRA

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The Memoristby M. J. Rose

“He’d learned that his impatience resulted from his not being able to tolerate what the present moment had to offer. In the Kabbalah, every letter of the Hebrew alphabet has several layers of meaning. In life, he had learned, every moment did, too. And in every past life.”

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The Book of Namesby Jill Gregory & Karen Tintori

● Year: 2007● 320 pages ● Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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The Book of Namesby Jill Gregory & Karen Tintori

“Ancient Kabbalists believed that everything in the spiritual realm is reflected and transmitted to our physical realm on earth through the cycles of the stars and planets. They taught that the stars and planets are an integral part of God’s great design. That everything in the heavens is mirrored on earth.”

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The Cabalist's Daughter:A Novel of Messianic Redemption

by Yori Yanover

● Year: 2008● 296 pages ● Publisher: Ben Yehuda Press

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The Cabalist's Daughter:A Novel of Messianic Redemption

by Yori Yanover

“The Cabalist's Handbook of Practical Messianic Redemption devotes a great deal of space and persuasive effort to clarify that God is not Satan's enemy; rather Satan is an aspect of God, a very Dark Aspect--indeed, the darkest God Himself could imagine.”

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The Last Kabbalist of Lisbonby Richard Zimler

● Year: 1998● 272 pages ● Publisher: Overlook Books

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The Last Kabbalist of Lisbonby Richard Zimler

“According to Kabbalah honey has one-sixtieth the sweetness of manna; dream one-sixtieth of the power of prophesy; the Sabbath one-sixtieth the glory of the world to come. And the sleep of sickness, what is its fraction of death?”

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Kabbalah Novels:A range of genres and approaches

● Love story● Autobiography● Biography● Journey● Suspense● Mystery● Science fiction● Historical fiction

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