The Poetry of Kabbalah : Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

Taking up Gershom Scholem's call to plumb the "tremendous poetic potential concealed" in the Kabbalistic tradition, this book provides dazzling English renderings of works composed on three continents over a period of some fifteen hundred years. It presents the texts in their original languages alongside the English translations.