Written in southern Italy in the tenth century, Shabbatai Donnolo s "Sefer Hakhmoni" is one of the earliest commentaries on "Sefer Ye irah." The volume offers t

Sefer Hakhmoni by the 10th-century Jewish polymath Shabbatai Donnolo is one of the first texts written in Hebrew in medieval Europe and one of the most importan

In this provocative book, Marla Segol explores the development of the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic. Drawing extensively on Jewish myth and

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The Sefer Yetsirah (the Book of Creation ) is a core text of the early kabbalah, yet scholars have struggled to establish even the most basic facts about the wo