 BiographyDeborah Masel In the Cleft of the Rock Author and commentator on Jewish mysticism |
Deborah
Masel, born in 1957, is an author and teacher with a special interest
in Jewish mysticism. She lives in Melbourne where she lectures
regularly for Jewish and interfaith groups and organisations, and
writes on aspects of Jewish mystical tradition for various
publications. She has been a regular contributor to the Faith column in
The Sunday Age and has been a book reviewer for The Age.
She is the author (under her previous name, Deborah Miller) of The Company of Words and The Maisonettes and she edited Sacred Fire: Torah from the Years of Fury 1939-1942, the English version of a mystical hassidic text discovered in the rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto after the War. For the past six years she has conducted regular classes on the weekly Torah portions and their numerous interpretations, ancient, medieval and modern. In the Cleft of the Rock; Writings on the Five Books of Moses is her most recent work. The effusive meditations in In the Cleft of the Rock are distilled versions of her learning.
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She is the author (under her previous name, Deborah Miller) of The Company of Words and The Maisonettes and she edited Sacred Fire: Torah from the Years of Fury 1939-1942, the English version of a mystical hassidic text discovered in the rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto after the War. For the past six years she has conducted regular classes on the weekly Torah portions and their numerous interpretations, ancient, medieval and modern. In the Cleft of the Rock; Writings on the Five Books of Moses is her most recent work. The effusive meditations in In the Cleft of the Rock are distilled versions of her learning.
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