This document discusses several novels that incorporate Kabbalah themes and teachings. It provides summaries for 10 novels that use fictional stories to convey Kabbalist ideas in an accessible way for general readers. The novels cover a range of genres and approaches for integrating Kabbalah into fictional narratives, from love stories and autobiographies to mysteries and science fiction. They demonstrate how authors have found creative ways to introduce Kabbalah concepts to broader audiences through the medium of novels.

1. Kabbalah Novels
Gabor Por
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2. What is Kabbalah?
(“That which has been received”)
● Science (Sholem)
● Magic (Trachtenberg)
● Religion (Chabad)
● Self Help (Aaron)
● Business (Berg)
● Fad (Madonna)

3. What is a Novel?
(“New and different from what has been known before”)
● Long narrative
● In prose
● Fictional characters and events
● In the form of a sequential story

4. Kabbalah: A Love Story
by Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
● Year: 2007
● 208 pages
● Publisher: Broadway

5. Kabbalah: A Love Story
by Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
"If I write Kabbalah, no one
but Kabbalists will read
beyond the first pages. But
if I conceal the Kabbalah
inside a story, then people
will have to read the
Kabbalah to find out how
the story ends."

6. Education of a Kabbalist
by Kabbalist Rav (Philip S.) Berg
● Year: 2004
● 167 pages
● Publisher: Kabbalah Publishing

7. Education of a Kabbalist
by Kabbalist Rav (Philip S.) Berg
“My teacher, Rabbi
Brandwein... said, 'I've been
waiting for someone to appear
who would explain Kabbalah
completely and perfectly-so
perfectly that every-one would
at last be brought back to
spirituality. And I have decided
that this person is you.'”

8. De Kabbalist ("The Kabbalist")
by Geert Kimpen
● Year: 2006
● 336 pages (in Dutch)
● Publisher: De Arbeiderspers

9. De Kabbalist ("The Kabbalist")
by Geert Kimpen
“They accuse me of acting as if
I was chosen by God. They are
envious of me and envy is a
harmful poison. They are
incapable of believing that
someone came to realizations
that are beyond their intellect.”

10. A Zsidó Menyasszony
("The Jewish Bride")
by Patrícia Eszter Margit
● Year: 2009
● 492 pages (in Hungarian)
● Publisher: Konkrét Könyvek

11. “I am writing a book about the
meeting points of Kabbalah,
Christian mysticism and
Taoism. The deeper I
understand the Zohar the
more evident it becomes how
many teachings are common
between Kabbalah and
Eastern religions.”
A Zsidó Menyasszony
("The Jewish Bride")
by Patrícia Eszter Margit

12. The Memorist
by M. J. Rose
● Year: 2008
● 464 pages
● Publisher: MIRA

13. The Memorist
by M. J. Rose
“He’d learned that his
impatience resulted from his
not being able to tolerate what
the present moment had to
offer. In the Kabbalah, every
letter of the Hebrew alphabet
has several layers of
meaning. In life, he had
learned, every moment did,
too. And in every past life.”

14. The Book of Names
by Jill Gregory & Karen Tintori
● Year: 2007
● 320 pages
● Publisher: St. Martin's Press

15. The Book of Names
by Jill Gregory & Karen Tintori
“Ancient Kabbalists believed that
everything in the spiritual realm is
reflected and transmitted to our
physical realm on earth through the
cycles of the stars and planets.
They taught that the stars and
planets are an integral part of God’s
great design. That everything in the
heavens is mirrored on earth.”

16. The Cabalist's Daughter:
A Novel of Messianic Redemption
by Yori Yanover
● Year: 2008
● 296 pages
● Publisher: Ben Yehuda Press

17. The Cabalist's Daughter:
A Novel of Messianic Redemption
by Yori Yanover
“The Cabalist's Handbook of
Practical Messianic
Redemption devotes a great
deal of space and persuasive
effort to clarify that God is not
Satan's enemy; rather Satan is
an aspect of God, a very Dark
Aspect--indeed, the darkest
God Himself could imagine.”

18. The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
by Richard Zimler
● Year: 1998
● 272 pages
● Publisher: Overlook Books

19. The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
by Richard Zimler
“According to Kabbalah
honey has one-sixtieth the
sweetness of manna; dream
one-sixtieth of the power of
prophesy; the Sabbath one-
sixtieth the glory of the world
to come. And the sleep of
sickness, what is its fraction
of death?”

20. Kabbalah Novels:
A range of genres and approaches
● Love story
● Autobiography
● Biography
● Journey
● Suspense
● Mystery
● Science fiction
● Historical fiction
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