I'll get the one negative point out of the way first: This book is trying to cover over a thousand years worth of Jewish and Christian religious thought... in a hundred pages. This is why, despite it being a very short book, it has actually taken a while to read: Some pages are so jam-packed with...
70 M O D E R N T I M E S I I : S A F E D A N D T H E L U R I A N I C K A B B A L A H 6 Modern Times II: Safed and the Lurianic Kabbalah Following the destruction of the great Jewish center in the Iberian peninsula in 1492, groups of Jewish intellectuals gradually congregated in the small town of ...