About Sefarim.net
The purpose of this site is to collect all books published
in English about Jewish Kabbalah. It will only list one edition
for each book. Only a small sample of non-Jewish Kabbalah books will be included.
History:
- 2009
- February 9: 100th blog entry
July 17: 3000th visit (3786 pageviews)
August 6: 500th book
October 12: 600th book
- 2008
- July 5: 1000th visit this year (2109 pageviews)
December 31: Todal for this year: 1995 visit with 3785 pageviews -
- 2007
- September 7: content was moved to the new domain and the "suggest a book" and "search Kabbalah sites" features were added.
- August 24: registered the seferim.net domain.
- March 25: the new version of the list went live with
311 books transferred from the previous verison.
- March 17: I bought ReaderWare and
started to move the content of the site into it.
April 8: 400th book
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- 2004
- I started to blog about Kabbalah related books. My first entry was
from December 23 . That year I
made 4 entries, in 2005 14, and in 2006 only 9.
- 2000-2002
- I updated the list more or less regularly.
After that I found less time to do so.
- 2000
- The list starts 58 items. The earliest
version from May 20 of that year can be found on archive.org.
Categories
In order to differentaite amongts the hundreds of books it is useful to cluster them by some criteria. On this site you will find the categories listed below. You may disagree with the classification, but I believe it is still can be helpful. (Some books belong to more than one category.) The focus of this site is on the first four categories.
- Academic - Books written from an academic perspective. The work
has (at least some) scholarly merits or intentions.
- Religious - Books written with explicitly religious context and objective. To help to create religious
Jewish experience or put the teachings of the Kabbalah into a religious
perspective. Primary books (Zohar, Bahir,
Sefer Yetzirah…) also included here, because they were written from a this perspective.
- Fiction - Fictional works, novels, short stories, poetry with
strong Kabbalistic themes.
- Meditation/Spirituality - Guides on how to use Jewish Kabbalah for
meditation and/or how Kabbalah can be used to attain/maintain spirituality.
- Commercial - Kabbalah Centre - Books published by the Kabbalah Centre (think Madonna), their affiliates and predecessors.
- Popularizer - Written for generic audience with the explicit purpose of making Kabbalah available to everybody. Introductory type of books and Bnei Baruch/Michael Laitman books are included too
- Qabalah - An umbrella category for all non-Jewish Kabbalah
books, including New Age, Christian, Magick ...
Authority control
- I removed the pre and suffixes from the author's names, including
rabbi, rav, PhD
- I made sure that an author's name appears the same for every book
on the site, even if it is displayed differently on some of his/her books.
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October 10 2009 14:07:55
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