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Tamar Frankiel teaches the history of religions at the University of California, Riverside.

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Called a "brief introduction for Christians," it is really a "brief introduction for anybodys." I do not understand how it is directed at Christians, except that it is an introduction for a wide American readership. Why not just: "Kabbalah: A Brief Introduction." Anyway, it does a good job in the first few chapters describing the rudiments of Kabbalah, the tree of life, and the like. The concepts are introduced competently, with nice examples, and in an easy-to-read format. But, by the time the book gets to the end, it turns into a smarmy and saccharine mash of "new agey" platitudes about being nice and being your best. Shades of new age self-help gurus (I kept thinking of Sylvia Browne) when she talked about seeing her dead aunts floating above her hood as she drove down the freeway (p. 149). Then her weird, liberal views on things. As many new age Kabbalah writers do, she will hypocritically talk about the beauty of tradition and then bash traditional modes of morality of roles of gender (e.g., p. 79). And, why assume society progresses from hunting and gathering to "war and empire, and later racism, nationalism and even genocide" (p. 76), to which she approvingly quotes the appallingly horrible and biased commie writer Barbara Ehrenreich (p. 171n2). And, no: "Until 400 CE the idea of reincarnation was permitted by the early church." No. Not really. (Some Christian and Gnostic writers talked about reincarnation, and some heterodox thinkers may have believed in it, but, no orthodox Christian teaching or Church countenanced reincarnation.) It is on such shaky new age foundations thus that the book falls down flat. The Beliefnet Guide to Kabbalah does a better job as an introduction to the Kabbalah.… (mehr)
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