BOOKS BY OUR FACULTY
Cowan, Paul and Cowan, Rachel. Mixed Blessings: Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks in an Interfaith Marriage. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.
Fine, Lawrence, ed. Essential Papers on Kabbalah. New York, New York: University Press, 1995.
Fine, Lawrence, ed. Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period. Princeton Readings in Religion, Princeton University Press, 2001.
Fine, Lawrence. Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos—Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic Fellowship. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003.
Fine, Lawrence and Ben Zion Bokser. Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook: The Lights of Penitence, Lights of Holiness: The Moral Principles, Essays, Letter and Poems. Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1978.
Fine, Lawrence. Safed Spirituality; The Classics of Western Spirituality Series. New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1984.
Gold, Shefa. Torah Journeys: The Inner Path to Your Promised Land. Teaneck, New Jersey: Ben Yehuda Press, 2006.
Green, Arthur. Ehyeh: A Kabbalah for Tomorrow. Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2002.
Green, Arthur. A Guide to the Zohar. Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press, 2004.
Green, Arthur. Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl—Upright Practices, Light of the Eyes. New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1982.
Green, Arthur. Seek My Face: A Jewish Mystical Theology. Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, second edition, 2003 [Originally published as Seek My Face, Speak My Name: A Jewish Mystical Theology. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, 1992]
Green, Arthur. Tormented Master: The Life and Spiritual Quest of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav. Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1992.
Green, Arthur. These Are the Words: A Vocabulary of Jewish Spiritual Life. Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1999.
Green, Arthur and Barry W. Holtz, editors and translators. Your Word is Fire: The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer. Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1993.
Hellner-Eshed, Melila. A River Issues Forth from Eden: On the Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar. [available in Hebrew only]
Slater, Jonathan, P. Mindful Jewish Living: Compassionate Practice. New York: Aviv Press, 2004.
Polen, Nehemia and Lawrence Kushner. Filling Words with Light: Hasidic and Mystical Reflections on Jewish Prayer. Woodstock, Vermont. Jewish Lights Publishing, 2004.
Polen, Nehemia. The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto, Northvale NJ, Jason Aronoson, 1994.
Polen, Nehemia ed. The Rebbe’s Daughter: Memoir of a Hasidic Childhood, by Malkah Shapiro, translated from the Hebrew, edited, and with introduction and commentary by Nehemia Polen, Philadelphia PA, Jewish Publication Society, 2002.
Strassfeld, Michael. A Book of Life: Embracing Judaism as a Spiritual Practice. New York: Schocken Books, A Division of Random House, Inc. 2002.
IJS Selected Bibliography
The IJS faculty has compiled a bibliography with suggestions of books that you might like to read in order to contextualize and deepen your learning in the areas of meditation, prayer, yoga, education/adolescent development, spirituality and social justice, and/or Kabbalah and Hasidut. In many ways, these books reflect "where we are coming from," and what we have found meaningful ourselves.
Click here to download the bibliography (.pdf file).
