Reflections on the Popularity of Mysticism in Western Society Today (A General and Jewish Perspective)
Reflections on the Popularity of Mysticism in Western Society Today (A General and Jewish Perspective)

Summary/Abstract: Recently we were informed by the media all about Madonna’s trip to the Kabbalah conference in Tel Aviv sponsored by the questionable Center for the Research of Kabbalah. This was after Roseanne Barr and Michael Jackson had studied Hassidut with R. Shmuley Boteach. But Kabbalah’s popularity in the West has not begun just today. It is a trendy fashion that has taken the place of the cults and eastern religions. A sort of non-conventional and non-establishment movement seen by the religious establishment as genuine. In the e-mail site “Idra”, where academics in the field of kabbalah can get feedback from their colleagues, the question was posed if the pop kabbalah can be seen as a legitimate new school of thought. What is this new craze?

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