I'm no scholar about this. Wiki is a good start. My best (and almost sole) reference is an incredible work in progress by Daniel Matt -- the brother of David Matt, my long time TM friend -- The Zohar 1: Pritzker Edition.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Zohar-1/Daniel-Matt/e/9780804747479/?pwb=1&; Daniel Matt's preliminary book, The Essential Kabbalah, is great for cutting your teeth on Kabbalah. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Essential-Kabbalah/Daniel-C-Matt/e/9780062511638 I've had lunch with Daniel and got to "grill him good" about Advaita and spirituality in general, and I came away deeply impressed with his wide angle views. He is quite comfortable with Advaita's concepts. Daniel and David were fathered by a famous Rabbi on the east coast, and I'm too lazy to look up his name, but he was a great teacher in his own right -- I've read a number of his essays and found him very morally sobering. All in all, not a second of one's time is wasted by Daniel. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" <steve.sun...@...> wrote: > > > Any paricularly useful links you can provide to this? > > Thanks > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > If you read about the Sefirot, you'll be impressed by the delicacy and > nuance -- the chart is meant to define God's, um, "personality," and I > find nothing in these concepts that has the least friction with, say, > Advaita. This thing is as deep as a religion can make a thing. Just to > read about it brings up exceedingly precise questions. And once you have > the question, you're 90% of the way to the answer. > > > > Edg > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@ wrote: > > > > > > > > > You meant to convey to us the infinity of the Brahman or > something more material > > > > > > --- On Sun, 5/23/10, TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] tree > > > Date: Sunday, May 23, 2010, 6:25 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
