La Llave del Jardin Cerrado - Paperback

by Simja H. Benyosef (Author)

The world is like a kaleidoscope in which every moment something new happens that captures our attention, and it is a challenge to find time to engage with the spiritual world. On the other hand, one who keeps Shabbat has access to a place of bliss and harmony, a place where he can enter into a personal relationship with his Creator, a relationship in which one is aware of the other. It occurred to me to convey the mystery of Shabbat to the reader through a narrative in which the heroine finds herself in a place where she has to focus on the spiritual because there is nothing else. When she returns to her normal life, her yearning and challenge is to find her way back to that state of consciousness she enjoyed during Shabbat, and to learn what she must do to return to it every week. Seeing the reaction of Rabbi Moshe Schatz, a kabbalist, who was a rabbi and a personal friend of my husband, when he read my book, I understood that I had found something valuable that can help many to reach their personal place in the Eden that is prepared for us, to which we can be linked in this life and in the eternal one.

Author Biography

Simcha Benyosef grew up in Spain, and after her marriage continued her studies in the United States, where she received her PhD in Medieval Spanish Literature from Columbia University in New York in 1972. She then moved to Israel and abandoned her academic career to study the inner dimension of the Torah: kabbalah. In Jerusalem she encountered the writings of Chassidic leader Rab Moshe Luria zt'l, which revealed spiritual treasures never suspected. She wrote several books on Rabbi Luria's work with his approval, until he gave his soul to his Creator at the Kotel, Western Wall on the third light of Chanukah in 2009. Simcha lives in Jerusalem and dedicates his time to study and transmit the development of the spiritual consciousness that emerges from the mysteries of the Torah.