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ILLUMINING THE BOOK OF ILLUMINATION - Rated
Aryeh Kaplan's life work seems to have been to make the mysteries of the Kaballah accessible without cheapening or symplifying them. His other works - MEDITATION AND KABALLAH, SEFER YETZIRAH - go together with this to make a tritych of Kaballistic writing which is full of inisght and illumination. A truly liberating vision of religion which frees us from the dry, confining aridity of so much mainstream faith.
The Bahir is not as well known or as famous as the Zohar. Kaplan has therefore done us a service in translating it here. The text is clearly and lucidly rendered into English. Obscure and baffling as it is at first, Kaplan provides and exhaustive commentary but also shows us how to read it - non linearly, like a lattice, with passages referring and echoing off each other everywhere. The Bahir is a beautiful book, full of the joy, wisdom and divine humanism of the Kaballah. A real book of hope.
My only regret is that Kaplan never did a version of the Zohar itself. It would have been so helpful!
Challenging and Compelling - Rated
As with his other texts reflection and meditation reveal more with each reading. It is difficult at the beginning and perplexing at times. However you are always compelled to return, and no visit is disappointing. Aryah Kaplan is a true teacher, I would recommend any of his texts.
I learned and understood for the first time these teachings - Rated
Aryeh Kaplan Z''L, is the only kabbalist I've been able to understand. He uses every text in Jewish literature available to explain such mystical teachings. He is not afraid of showing some of the deepest secrets of G-d. The best of it is that you get the hebrew text, then the translation and finally his commentary, followed by many notes. He follows the kabbalistic teaching regarding: "Reveal one cubit, buy always hiding two".
Basic, fantastic, - Rated
Difficult but necessary to those who love Kabbalah
