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Ehyeh: A Kabbalah for Tomorrow Author: Arthur Green $11.55 |
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Editorial Review:
Join one of the world's leading interpreters of Jewish mysticism in discovering why the words of the past reveal the path of our future.
Kabbalah teaches that there is a secret unity of all Being, hidden within the multiplicity and diversity of life as we experience it. In order to discover God--or the real meaning or the essential Oneness of Being--we need to turn inward, to look more deeply at the world around us. Scratch the surface of reality and you will discover God. We, in fact, discover the Oneness of Being by staying right here, paying as close attention as we can to the present in which we live.
--from Chapter 2
Through wisdom gained from his own forty-year spiritual search for the Divine Presence within, Arthur Green challenges us to question the assumptions of modern consciousness, and by doing so open ourselves to learning from Kabbalah, a profound tool of human understanding.
Drawing on the wisdom of the Zohar, the masterwork of the Jewish mystical tradition, and other kabbalistic texts, join Green in examining:
How is the kabbalistic tradition relevant to today's seeker?
Are the ancient and mysterious symbols of any value to us in out very different world?
How should Kabbalah be refitted so that it might serve as an appropriate vehicle for a contemporary spiritual quest?
Can this be done without destroying the soul of the tradition and while acknowledging today's reality?
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
Setting the record straight:
All of the good points about EHYEH have been mentioned by other reviewers. I only want to correct two things said by the reviewer from San Ramon:
1. Zalman Schachter-Shalomi is very much alive as of this writing.
2. Arthur Green is not on the right wing of anything.
Unwordly: 
No doubt an honest and deep thinker, Arthur Green's journey seeking a deeper approach to Judaism left me trailing far behind. Too esoteric, too me centered, too Reconstructed for my tastes. Too artificial in linking modern thought, Kabbalah and a practical world view. Kabbalistic thought can be challenging enough... adding an additional vision seemed overactive. But I wish the author well in his exploration toward finding his personal Shangrila. He certainly is commited to it.
Mysticism from a Jewish Renewal perspective:
Rabbi Green, has written this book as a exposition of his personal Jewish mystical theology. The book is intended for the Jewish mystical seeker, who is dissatisfied with traditional normative Judaism. It is a liberal perspective, although to be fair, Green is definately on the right wing of the Jewish Renewal movement.
The book lays out the system of sfirot, olamot, and shemot in basic terms, provides some guided meditations, provides a negative critique of Lurianic kabbalah (too complicated to be...more info
Enlightening: 
Arthur Green has a writing style wich feels as though you are having a fireside talk with an older,very wise man (don't know if that's how he is but that's how he comes across).There where several points in this book where I had to put it down because the points he elucidated where so clarifying and enlightening.Awesome book.
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