The Essential Kabbalah by Daniel C Matt

The Essential Kabbalah by Daniel C Matt

FOSTERING THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD, VOLUME 1: In this volume, Desmond Tomlinson recounts his early childhood years on the tropical island of Jamaica and how his family was broken apart by the authorities. Together with his siblings, he was raised in a single-parent home. His father practiced subsistence farming and adhered to Rastafarian doctrines, including the then illegal use of marijuana in religious rituals. Desmond was homeschooled because his father feared public schools would result in a corrupt and oppressive Babylonian indoctrination. This lifestyle, being at odds with societal norms, triggered severe and irreversible consequences, including a violent attack by police. He and the other children were transferred to orphanages, divided, and placed in foster care. The mainstream Christian doctrines would replace the Rastafarian ones, and his family would never be fully reunited again.

Daniel C. Matt is a leading authority on the Zohar and Kabbalah. He is the author of the best-selling The Essential Kabbalah (HarperSanFrancisco, translated into seven languages); Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment (Paulist Press); God and the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony Between Science and Spirituality and Zohar: Annotated and Explained (Jewish Lights). He is also the author of the annotated translation The Zohar: Pritzker Edition (Stanford University Press). He has so far completed six volumes of this immense project, which has been hailed as a monumental contribution to the history of Jewish thought. Formerly professor of Jewish spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Daniel C. Matt now resides in Berkeley.

Daniel C. Matt is available to speak on the following topics:

• Shekhinah The Feminine Half of God
• Raising the Sparks: Finding God in the Material World
• The Mystical Meaning of Torah
• The Zohar Masterpiece of Kabbalah
• God and the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony between Science and Spirituality