Aryeh Kaplan

Meditación Judía: Una Guía Práctica es una obra accesible y profunda que introduce al lector a la tradición espiritual de la meditación dentro del judaísmo, una tradición que fue una parte auténtica e integral de la vida religiosa judía hasta el siglo XVIII.

This a lecture given by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan z'tl which discusses the question of the age of the Universe according to Torah thought: Is it around 6000 years old or billions? Rabbi Kaplan goes through various approaches to this question....

A lucid in-depth presentation of the meditative techniques and practices used by the ancient Kabbalists. The Kabbalah is divided into three branches—the theoretical, the meditative, and the magical. While many books, both in Hebrew and English, have explored the theoretical Kabbalah, very...

Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan has translated Sefer Yetzirah, the oldest and most mysterious of all kabbalistic texts, and now brings its theoretical, meditative, and magical implications to light. He expounds on the dynamics of the spiritual domain, the worlds of the Sefirot, souls, and angels. When...

Until the publication of the Zohar, The Bahir was the most widely quoted primary source of Kabbalistic teachings. The Bahir is quoted in every major book on Kabbalah and it is cited numerous times by Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban) in his commentary on the Torah.