Because a welter of details sometimes conceals the Torah s aura of holiness, Jewish mystics and spiritual teachers for centuries have attempted to reveal that aura through creative interpretation. The Aura ofTorah explores these attempts in an effort to bridge the gap between the Torah text and the modern Jewish spiritual quest.

This book collects a wide variety of interpretations of Torah passages, commentaries, and midrash rooted in the mystical side of Jewish tradition, includingoriginal Hebrew and Aramaic texts translated by Rabbi Larry Tabick. The quoted authors span many...