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Turn
Aside from Evil and Do Good
An Introduction and a Way to the Tree of Life
Translated, annotated, and with an introduction
by Louis Jacobs
Author Information - Contents - Publication Details
A guide to would-be hasidic kabbalists on how to live a holy life, this
work conveys the full flavour of the hasidic approach to kabbalism. Comprehensive
and accessible scholarly annotations elucidate the kabbalistic ideas and
imagery and clarify the sources to which the author refers. This masterpiece
will be of interest to anyone interested in hasidism and Jewish mysticism
or the religious way of life and its social history.
Louis Jacobs, founding rabbi of the New London Synagogue, is a renowned scholar with an international reputation as a lecturer. He is the author of The Jewish Religion: A Companion (1995) and of many other distinguished books, several of them published by the Littman Library, including Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1999) and Hasidic Prayer (paperback 1993), and A Tree of Life: Diversity, Flexibility, and Creativity in Jewish Law (second edition 2000).
Author Information - Contents - Publication Details
| Format | 23.5 x 15.5 cm / 6" x 9" |
| Pages | 198 pages |
| ISBN | 978-1-874774-11-2 |
| Price | £14.95 / $24.95 |
| Date of publication | 1995 |
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© The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008