The first selection of kabbalah from the teachings of Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534-1572) translated fom the original passages of Hebrew. This book fulfills the need to bring a selection of Isaac Luria's teachngs to Judaic and cross-cultural channels in modern society for the first time. Luria's kabbalah is as radical as it is revolutionary, because in ways that other kabbalists never thought possible, he answered not only the Jewish people's deepest questions of exile and homelessness, but with a vision given only to the most gifted of kabbalistic mystics, he was to explain the very structure of the inner worlds of the spirit and of their evolution that led to the ultimate birth of souls and of our cosmos. PROCEEDS DONATED TO THE RABBI BEN-ZAKKAI MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT-UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS (AUSTIN)