Nine and a Half Mystics

Authors| Herbert Weiner
Language| English
Subject| religion, mysticism
Publisher| Collier Books

Publication date

| 1969
Part of a series on

Kabbalah

Concepts

* Ein Sof
* Tzimtzum
* Ohr

* Ayin and Yesh
* Sephirot

* Four Worlds

* Seder hishtalshelut

* Tree of Life
* Merkavah

* Jewish angelic hierarchy

* Shekhinah
* Partzufim

* Qliphoth
* Tohu and Tikun

* Sparks of holiness

* Messianic rectification

* Gilgul
* Kabbalistic astrology

* Gematria
* Notarikon
* Temurah

* Names of God in Judaism

* Shemhamphorasch

* Tzadik
* Tzadikim Nistarim

* Anthropomorphism in Kabbalah

* Panentheism

History

|  Pre-Kabbalistic Jewish mysticism

* Tannaim
* Heichalot
* Sefer Yetzirah
* Chassidei Ashkenaz

Medieval

* Bahir
* Toledano tradition

* Prophetic Kabbalah
* Zohar

Kabbalistic commentaries
on the Bible

Mainstream displacement of
rationalism with Kabbalah

Renaissance

Selective influence on
Western thought

Mysticism after
Spanish expulsion

Mystics of
16th-century Safed

* Cordoveran Kabbalah

* Lurianic Kabbalah

* Maharal's thought

Popular Kabbalistic
Mussar

Early modern

* Baal Shem-Nistarim

* Sabbatean mystical heresies

* Emden–Eybeschutz controversy

* Immigration to the Land of Israel

* Traditional Oriental Kabbalists

* Beit El Synagogue

* Eastern European Judaism

* Hasidic Judaism / philosophy

* Lithuanian Jews

* Hasidic-Mitnagdic schism

Modern

* Hasidic dynasties

Mysticism in
religious Zionism

Academic interest in
Jewish mysticism

Non-Orthodox interest in
Jewish mysticism

Practices

* Torah study

* Mystical exegesis

* Mitzvot
* Minhag

* Customary immersion in mikveh

* Meditation
* Kavanot
* Teshuvah

* Deveikut
* Prayer
* Nusach

* Tikkun Chatzot
* Tikkun Leil Shavuot

* Pilgrimage to Tzadik

* Pilgrimage to holy grave

* Lag BaOmer at Meron

* Asceticism
* Practical Kabbalah

People

|  100s

* Four Who Entered the Pardes

* Simeon bar Yochai

1100s

* Isaac the Blind
* Azriel

1200s

* Nahmanides
* Abraham Abulafia

* Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla

* Moses de Leon

* Menahem Recanati

1300s

* Bahya ben Asher

1400s
1500s

* Meir ibn Gabbai
* Joseph Karo

* Shlomo Alkabetz
* Moshe Alshich

* Moshe Cordovero

* Isaac Luria
* Chaim Vital

* Judah Loew ben Bezalel

1600s

* Isaiah Horowitz
* Abraham Azulai

1700s

* Chaim ibn Attar
* Baal Shem Tov

* Dov Ber of Mezeritch

* Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

* Shalom Sharabi
* Vilna Gaon

* Chaim Joseph David Azulai

* Nathan Adler

* Schneur Zalman of Liadi

* Chaim Volozhin

1800s

* Nachman of Breslov

* Ben Ish Chai
* Shlomo Eliyashiv

1900s

* Abraham Isaac Kook

* Yehuda Ashlag
* Baba Sali

* Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Role

|  History

* Torah
* Tanakh
* Prophecy

* Ruach HaKodesh

* Pardes exegesis

* Talmudical hermeneutics

* Midrash

Jewish commentaries
on the Bible

* Oral Torah

* Eras of Rabbinic Judaism

* Generational descent in Halacha

* Generational ascent in Kabbalah

* Rabbinic literature

* Talmudic theology

* Halakha
* Aggadah
* Hakira

* Classic Mussar literature

* Ashkenazi Judaism

* Sephardi Judaism

* Modern Jewish philosophies

* Jewish studies

Topics

* God in Judaism

* Divine transcendence

* Divine immanence
* Free will

* Divine providence

Kabbalistic reasons
for the 613 Mitzvot

* Jewish principles of faith

* Jewish eschatology

* Primary texts

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Nine and a Half Mystics: The Kabbala Today is a 1969 book on Jewish mysticism by Rabbi Herbert Weiner. The book includes interviews with a number of Jewish mystics and scholars, as well as the author's encounters with various Jewish groups practicing who incorporate mysticism in their religious practice.

## Contents

* 1 Nine and a Half Mystics
* 2 Interviews
* 3 Encounters
* 4 See also
* 5 References

## Nine and a Half Mystics

Nine and a Half Mystics explores themes on Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism as well as those Jewish groups where the mystical tradition is active.[1]

Weiner, a Reform[2] rabbi, based the book on his travels to various Jewish communities in his search for Jewish mysticism.[3] For many American Jews, Weiner's work was their first exposure to the Jewish mystical tradition.[4][2]

## Interviews

Nine and a Half Mystics includes a number of interviews with Jewish mystics and scholars including:

* Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe
* Dr. Gershom Sholem
* Dr. Martin Buber
* Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook
* Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
* Rabbi Dovid Cohen, "The Nazir"

## Encounters

In addition to interviews, Rabbi Weiner also travelled to various Jewish communities where Jewish mysticism is incorporated in religious practice. Weiner visited the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Brooklyn, the Breslov community in New York and Israel, among others.

## See also

* Kabbalah

## References

1. ↑ Kaplan, Dana Evan. Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal. Columbia University Press, Aug 13, 2013. Accessed March 7, 2014.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rabbi Herbert Weiner. NJ Jewish News. Accessed March 7, 2014.
3. ↑ 9 1/2 Mystics: The Kabbala Today Today by Herbert Weiner. Commentary Magazine. Acceded March 7, 2014.
4. ↑ Rabbi Herbert Weiner. The Star Ledger. Accessed March 7, 2014.

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