Gabriel's Palace: Jewish Mystical Tales

438 Pages·1994·22.973 MB·English

by  Howard Schwartz

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Gabriel's Palace
BY HOWARD SCHWARTZ
Poetry
Vessels
Gathering the Sparks
SleepwalkingBeneath the Stars
Fiction
A Blessing OverAshes
Midrashim
The Captive Soul ofthe Messiah
Rooms ofthe Soul
Adam's Soul
Exiitor
ImperialMessages: One HundredModern Parables
Voices Within the Ark: The ModemJewish Poets
Gates to the New City: A Treasury ofModernJewish Tales
The Dream Assembly: Tales ofRabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
&
Elijah's Violin OtherJewish Fairy Tales
Miriam's Tambourine:Jewish Talesfrom Around the World
Lilith's Cave:Jewish Tales ofthe Supernatural
Gabriel's Palace:Jewish Mystical Tales
Children's Books
The Diamond Tree
The Sabbath Lion
GABRIEL'S
PALACE
Jewish Mystical Tales
Selected and Retold by
HOWARD SCHWARTZ
New York Oxford
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1993
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Copyright © 1993 by Howard Schwartz
Jacket illustration © 1993 byJohn Swanson
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Schwartz, Howard, 1945-
Gabriel'spalace:Jewishmysticaltales/
selectedandretoldby Howard Schwartz.
p. cm.
Includesbibliographicalreferencesand index.
ISBN0-19-506292-2
I. Legends,Jewish. 2. Cabal—a.
3. Mysticism—Judaism. 4.—Hasidim Legends.
5. Tales. 6. Jews Folk—lore.
I. Title. BM530.S465 1993 296.1*9 dc20 92-28722
Someofthesetaleshavepreviouslybeenpublished in
thefollowingnewspapersand journals:
TheForward,Parabola,
TheSagarinReview, TheSt. LouisJewishLight,
TheSt. LouisPost-Dispatch,
TheSt. LouisPost-DispatchMagazine,
and Tikkun.
Someofthesetalesarealsoincludedinthe
anthology TheWaysofReligion:
AnIntroductiontotheMajorTraditions,
editedbyRogerEastman.
135798642
PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica
onacid-freepa|)er
For Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
The Mysteries in these books are clothed in stories.
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Tosefta Lemidrash Pinhas