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When Kabbalah Came to the Masses
The printing press and Jewish mysticism.
It is something of a truism that the printing press enabled the Reformation by allowing for the rapid dissemination of early Protestant tracts. For Jews, the printing press had similarly wide-ranging effects, but the most influential new ideas it made available were those of the Kabbalah. Reviewing Andrea Gondos’s new book on this subject, Avraham Oriah Kelman writes:
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When Kabbalah Came to the Masses
The printing press and Jewish mysticism.