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October 15, 2021

How Jewish Mysticism, Not Just the Hebrew Bible, Helped to Shape American Religion

Kabbalah in the colonies.

While much has been written of the influence of Christian Hebraism on early American thought, from the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay through the Founding, a new book by Brian Ogren highlights a heretofore overlooked aspect of the phenomenon: the exposure of colonial theologians to the teachings of Kabbalah. Yisroel Ben-Porat writes in his review:

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