Electrifying Torah Insights about Angels
Electrifying Torah Insights about Angels
Malachim are spoken of constantly and understood barely at all. What are they, what are they sent to do, and where does the Gemara say they are standing right now?
Fifty-five essays on the unseen world — the ranks of malachim and what each is for, the malachim a person makes by his own actions, the heavenly choir, the adversary who becomes an ally, the malach at the splitting of the sea, and the ones the Gemara says walk a man home on Friday night.
Baba Basra and Sanhedrin are the spine of it, with the Arizal, the Vilna Gaon, the Ramban and the Zohar.
For a reader who wants the subject handled with sources rather than atmosphere.
Rabbi Yehoshua Alt has written thirteen seforim in the Insights series, and writes the weekly Fascinating Insights sheet carried on JewishPress.com.
184 pages · hardcover or paperback · 6 × 9 in · English
What is inside
55 essays. A few of them:
- Royal Ranking
- Angels and Action
- Malachim in Motion
- Defective Angels
- The Math of Eternity
- Heavenly Choir
- Adversary To Ally
- Higher Than Heaven’s Messengers
- The Angel at the Splitting of the Sea
- The Angelic Pause Before Praise
- and 45 more
Masechtos cited
Baba Basra · Sanhedrin · Pesachim · Menachos · Chullin · Shabbos · Megillah · Zevachim · Taanis · Moed Katan · Yevamos · Nedarim · Gittin
Sources
Rashi · Arizal · Vilna Gaon · Midrash · Ramban · Zohar · Tur · Shelah · Maharal · Rambam · Baal Shem Tov · Shulchan Aruch · Tosafos · Yerushalmi · Kli Yakar · Maharsha · Ramchal · Chofetz Chaim · Igros Moshe · Bnei Yissaschar · Ohr Hachaim · Ibn Ezra · Aruch Hashulchan · Nefesh Hachaim · Lubavitcher Rebbe
What reviewers said
“His book, “Electrifying Torah Insights About Angels,” draws from the depths of the Torah to shed light on a subject that is often mentioned only in passing.”
Rebecca Klempner, The Jewish Link
184 pages · 6 x 9 in · English