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Yaakov Kronenberg is eminently suitable to write this ground breaking work on Jewish astrology. Yaakov is an accomplished scholar in Rabbinical and kabbalistic texts and studied with many of the kabbalistic masters of the previous generation. Besides that he studied privately for a number of years with an old Jewish Hungarian mystic in New york city ancient and medieval astrology and is an accomplished astrologer in his own right giving him the background and understanding to explore the old Jewish texts.
An author and subject index to selected and American Anglo-Jewish journals of general and scholarly interests.
Yaakov Kronenberg is eminently suitable to write this ground breaking work on Jewish astrology. Yaakov is an accomplished scholar in Rabbinical and kabbalistic texts and studied with many of the kabbalistic masters of the previous generation. Besides that he studied privately for a number of years with an old Jewish Hungarian mystic in New york city ancient and medieval astrology and is an accomplished astrologer in his own right giving him the background and understanding to explore the old Jewish texts.
"This compelling book pours a clear light onto the concealed reasons why certain events appear in our lives and the world at large. Exploring the ancient principles of Kabbalistic Astrology reveals that each of us is born into an astrological environment best suited for the completion of the corrections that we must make in our lives."--Publisher description.
In the traditional Jewish liturgy, a man thanks God daily for not having been made a gentile, a woman, or a slave. Yoel Kahn traces the history of this prayer from its extra-Jewish origins to the present, demonstrating how different generations and communities understood the significance of these words.Marginalized and persecuted groups used this prayer to mark the boundary between "us" and "them," affirming their own identity and sense of purpose. After the medieval Church seized and burned books it considered offensive, new, coded formulations of the three blessings emerged as forms of spiritual resistance. Book owners voluntarily expurgated the passage to save the books from being destroy...
Above the Zodiac: Astrology in Jewish Thought uncovers the profound connection between Jewish mysticism and classic astrology by citing the many references scattered throughout Jewish literature to the influence of the stars on human destiny. Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson gives a month-by-month rendering of Jewish astrology according to kabbalah, summarizing the complex system of elements in Jewish thought that correlates to each astrological sign. The book also explains the unique relationship the Jewish people have to astrology, and under what circumstances astrological consultations are permitted to individuals.