Nonfiction. The Kabbalah is the major work of Jewish mystical learning; it maps the mystical universe of Judaism. Afterman, a distinguished poet and Harvard-trained lawyer, explains the Kabbalah with clarity and a keen sense of advocacy. The book enables the general reader to gain insight into the inner life of the Jewish mystical tradition. The emphasis throughout is upon experience and the impact of the ideas and processes of Kabbalah upon modern consciousness. The book concerns itself with the movement from ordinary consciousness toward knowledge of the infinite, the process of rectification by which the eternal is revealed in everyday reality, and exploration of male and female modes of being