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"Pirke Avot, the Ethics of the Fathers, is a slim collection of rabbinic wisdom that reads like a walk through a garden of luminous sayings..."

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Kabbalah

The Sepher Ha-Zohar (The Book of Light)

by By Burho De Manhar

Ancient (before 500 CE)AdvancedSelf-Knowledge & Transformation

Sepher Yetzirah

by Unknown

Ancient (before 500 CE)AdvancedCosmos & Creation

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Pirke Avot (Ethics of the Fathers)

by Unknown

Ancient (before 500 CE)IntermediateEthics & the Good Life

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Jewish Mysticism

Sefer Raziel HaMalakh (Book of Raziel)

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Medieval (500–1500 CE)AdvancedCosmos & Creation

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Cover of Pirke Avot (Ethics of the Fathers)

Pirke Avot, the Ethics of the Fathers, is a slim collection of rabbinic wisdom that reads like a walk through a garden of luminous sayings. From the chain of teaching passed from Sinai to the sages, it gathers counsel on humility, justice, study, and deeds, urging a life woven from reverence and kindness. It reminds us that the world rests on learning, service, and loving actions, that character is the truest crown, and that while the task is vast we are called to begin. Newcomers will find clear, memorable lines to live by and a gentle invitation to return, ponder, and act.

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Cover of Sefer Raziel HaMalakh (Book of Raziel)

Sefer Raziel HaMalakh stands at the crossroads of prayer and practice, a thirteenth century compendium said to be whispered by the angel Raziel to Adam at the gates of Eden. Its seven treatises shine like seven lamps, weaving praises of the One with instructions in angelic names, letters, celestial signs, and protective rites. Part hymn, part handbook, it promises orientation within the hidden architecture of creation and companionship from the worlds of light. Readers meet Solomon and sages who guard its precepts, yet the tone remains intimate and reverent. For seekers of Jewish mysticism this book offers a doorway and a map, both ancient and strangely immediate.

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Cover of The Sepher Ha-Zohar (The Book of Light)

The Book of Light, in this classic early English rendering, opens the Torah like a lamp in the night. Through dialogues of wandering sages and parables that shimmer with secrecy, it reads Genesis as a living map of creation, the soul, and the ten emanations of the Divine. This selection follows the story from the opening verses to Lekh Lekha, weaving mythic images with precise symbolic hints. Expect a narrative rhythm rather than academic argument, a text to be pondered more than parsed. For seekers of Kabbalah, it offers a doorway into luminous depths and quiet astonishment.

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Sepher Yetzirah, the Book of Formation, is a spare and luminous blueprint of creation through language and number. In brief sentences it maps ten sefirot and twenty two Hebrew letters into the thirty two paths of wisdom, where breath becomes sound and sound becomes world. Letters are sorted into three mothers, seven doubles, and twelve simples, each shaping elements, planets, and zodiac. Attributed to Abraham yet layered in origin, the text sits at the root of Kabbalah and later mystical practice. Read it as a meditative instrument rather than a system to memorize, a small book that opens like a prism onto cosmology and consciousness.

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