books.google.com - One of the most important scholars of our century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) opened up a once esoteric world of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, to concerned students of religion. The Kabbalah is a rich tradition of repeated attempts to achieve and portray direct experiences of God: its twelfth-and...http://books.google.com/books/about/Origins_of_the_Kabbalah.html?id=9dRi8v-j7OMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareOrigins of the Kabbalah