Avinoam J. Stillman

Jul 15, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Eli Rubin |Akiva Schick |Avinoam J. Stillman |Abraham Socher

University of Pennsylvania Press 424 pp., $64.95 Kabbalistic literature presents its teachings as simultaneously original and ancient—milin hadatin atikin, in the Zohar’s memorable idiom. Those who embrace Kabbalah often do so in the belief that all contemporary mysteries and problems can be resolved, or at least understood, through the ancient wisdom it conveys.