The Thirteen Petalled Rose: Discourse on the Essence of Jewish Existence and Belief - Softcover

Steinsaltz, Adin

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9780465085613: The Thirteen Petalled Rose: Discourse on the Essence of Jewish Existence and Belief

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ISBN 10: 046508561X ISBN 13: 9780465085613

Publisher: HarperCollins (USA), 1985

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In this classic of Jewish mysticism, the world-renowned scholar seeks to answer the major questions asked by modern Jews about the nature of their existence in God’s universe.

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This little book is a book for the soul. It begins, quite deliberately (and perhaps to the dismay of some readers), with a view of another reality. It does not proceed from this world, or from the familiar ways of man in our society. Instead, it seeks to go from the genuine center of all being to the world and to human life. There is no attempt here to speak of Judaism, to prove its worth or to justify it; rather, to let the message communicate itself. And if a person permits his soul to listen, the soul will soon learn that all it needs to do is remember. Because in some dim and enigmatic way, it already knows all this.--Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

About the Author:

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz is internationally regarded as one of the leading scholars and rabbis of this century. His education includes a degree in mathematics from Hebrew University, in addition to his rabbinic studies. Rabbi Steinsaltz founded the Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications; under its aegis, he has published fifty-eight books on the Talmud, Jewish mysticism, religious thought, sociology, historical biography, and philosophy. His biography of the famed Rabbi Menachem Schneerson will be published in 2007. These books have been translated into Russian, English, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, and Dutch. He lives in Jerusalem.

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