Judaism and Love: Essays on Jewish Thought and Translations from the Lurianic Kabbalah (Josef Blaha)

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"This book "Judaism and Love" consists of two essays and two translations from Aramaic and Hebrew into English. The translations are in the field of the Lurianic Kabbalah, especially the translation by Rabbi Joseph ibn Tabul (ca. 1545-1610), one of the most beloved disciples of Rabbi Isaac Luria. It is the first translation of his work into English. Up to now nearly all translations in the field of Lurianic Kabbalah are from the work of Rabbi Hayim Vital. This book wants to be new in the research of the Lurianic Kabbalah."

Josef Blaha was born in Brno in the year 1963. He has been teaching the Jewish Studies at the Charles University in Prague since 1998. In last ten years he teaches the Holocaus Studies and Introduction in the Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism. He published eighteen books in the field of Jewish studies. Among them are three translations from Hebrew and Aramaic into English in the years 2015-2018. His main field of academic interest is the book Zohar and the philosophy and theology of Rabbi Luria.