Creator Bio
Eitan Fishbane
b. 1975
Eitan P. Fishbane has published and taught extensively on sacred time and ritual practice in Jewish mysticism from medieval to modern times. Among Dr. Fishbane’s authored and edited books are The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar (Oxford University Press, 2018) and The Sabbath Soul: Mystical Reflections on the Transformative Power of Holy Time (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2012), a volume designed for a general readership and with an eye toward theological and spiritual meaning. He is currently completing a related volume entitled The Sabbath in Hasidic Thought: Sacred Time and Mystical Consciousness. You can find out more about him at www.eitanfishbane.com.
Content by Eitan Fishbane
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Sabbath Candle Lighting and the Revelation of Divine Light Within
A hasidic mystical reflection on the luminous nature of God and the human soul and the revelatory encounter of the ritual of Sabbath candle lighting.
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The Transformative Power of Holy Time
Fishbane offers a contemporary theological and mystical reflection on sacred Sabbath time, with its awakening of spiritual insight and inner tranquility.
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[Coming Soon!] Jewish Mysticism & Shabbat: Sacred Time and God’s Oneness
This page from a kabbalistic manuscript depicts the inner processes of the divine (the sefirot). Visualization plays an important part in kabbalah, and these diagrams provided a divine cartography…
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Understanding Jewish Mysticism Through the Sabbath
Kabbalists prayed using the basic Jewish prayers but added elements according to their own tradition. The prayers are often presented with kavanot (special devotional forms, meanings, and mystical…