The articles in this book deals with a wide range of topics relating to meditative literatures, from books by the sect of the dead sea to contemporary philosophy. Many of the articles discuss philosophical and Kabbalistic teachings, like the Rambams torah, neoplatonic philosophy, and the philosophy of Averroes, Rabbi Moshe Cordoveros moral theory and the kabbalah in Yemen. The authors of the book are senior researchers of Jewish philosophy.

The articles in this volume: Labor as a value in the Talmudic and Midrashic literature - M. Ayali The magical and Neoplatonic interpretations of the Kabbalah in the Renaissance - M. Idel "Mishnat Ha-Met" and "Seder rehizah gedolah" attributed to Hillel the elder - M. Benayahu The exile of Israel and the exile of the Shechina in "Or Yakar" of Rabbi Moses Cordovero - B. Sack The Minsk debate - R. Elior The place of Judaism in Jonathan Gottfried Herder's philosophy of history - Z. Levy Judaism, nationalism and humanism in the work of Yehezkel Kaufmann - E. Luz There are summeries in English for all the articles at the end of the volume.

The articles in this volume: The prophecy of King Solomon and Ruah HaKodesh Qohelet Rabbah - M. Hirshman The ethical-religious doctrine of Saadiah Gaon - E. Schweid Is Paris Ms. 767 actually a letter of Asher Ben David - M. Rong-Wiznitzer The theory of Dvekut in the writings of the Sages of Safed in the sixsteenth century - M. Pachter Cordovero and Luria: between realism and nominalism - R. Schatz-Uffenheimer The ultra-orthodox community and the Dead sea sect - Y. Liebes There are summeries in English for all the articles at the end of the volume.

The articles in this volume: Sayings of Jesus and the Midrash - M. Kister History according to the Animal Apocalypse - D. Dimant Shem Tov ibn Tov's commentary of Averroes "Epistle on the possibility of conjunction" - S. Regev The concept of the Torah in the work of Messer David ben Judah Leon - H. T. Rothschild A document from Izmir concerning the history of Sabbateanism - Y. Barnai "Darkei Zedek" attributed to Zechariah Mendel of Yaroslav: its sources and editing - Z. Gries Rav Hayim of Volozhin and Rav Shneur Zalman of Liadi - two interpretations of the Doctrine of Zimzum - T. Ross The hidden relationship: on the church fathers and Judaism - G. G. Stroumsa There are summaries in English for all the articles at the end of the volume.