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Love's Voice: 72 Kabbalistic Haiku
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BOOK DETAILS

  • Paperback
  • Sep.01.2011
  • 9781585428939

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"Love's Voice" is a doorway to kabbalah for readers at all levels of experience.  Acclaimed novelist Richard Zimler uses the form of haiku to distill kabbalistic philosophy into its most poetic forms, providing a rare and deeply affectiving experience to the reader.  The seventy-two haiku in the book require no special knowledge of kabbalah or, indeed, of any Jewish culture.  Readers who do have some background in kabbalah will find additional - and sometimes hidden - references and meanings in many of these verses.  "Zimler's haiku are themselves sparks of divine light that illumine kabbalistic teachings.  They open us up to truths and ameliorate suffering."  Rabbi Jacob Staub, prefessor of Jewish philosophy and spirituality, Reconstructionist rabbinical college. "Mysterious, intriguing, funny and delightful."  ...
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"Love's Voice" is a doorway to kabbalah for readers at all levels of experience.  Acclaimed novelist Richard Zimler uses the form of haiku to distill kabbalistic philosophy into its most poetic forms, providing a rare and deeply affectiving experience to the reader. 

The seventy-two haiku in the book require no special knowledge of kabbalah or, indeed, of any Jewish culture.  Readers who do have some background in kabbalah will find additional - and sometimes hidden - references and meanings in many of these verses. 

"Zimler's haiku are themselves sparks of divine light that illumine kabbalistic teachings.  They open us up to truths and ameliorate suffering."  Rabbi Jacob Staub, prefessor of Jewish philosophy and spirituality, Reconstructionist rabbinical college.

"Mysterious, intriguing, funny and delightful."   Andrew Solomon, author of "The Noonday Demon"

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Your soul will begin

to sense its depth when you stop

running from silence

*

Shed your fears, tears, dreams

wishes, hopes, rules and regrets;

God greets you naked.

*

Would you see in or

out if you took an axe to

the walls round your soul?

*

You have juggled thoughts

without pause since you were born:

time to let them fall.

*

The entranced poet

tells us that everything rhymes

in the Upper Realms.

*

You will never solve

ev'ry mystery - God is

not a whodunit!

 

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Here is one more of the haiku from my book:

If you want to know

something of the shape of God,

take out your mirror. 

About Richard

Richard Zimler was born in Roslyn Heights, a suburb of New York, in 1956. After earning a bachelor’s degree in comparative religion from Duke University (1977) and a master’s degree in journalism from Stanford University (1982), he worked for eight years as a...

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