The Enneagram and Kabbalah: Reading Your Soul

by Howard A. Addison

Book Overview

Live more harmoniously with yourself and others and discover your own spiritual gateway to God. Together Kabbalah and the personality types of the Enneagram enhance understanding of our deepest... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580230016
• ISBN13: 9781580230018
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Gentle and Honest Approach

This is my favorite book on the enneagram and definitely the best written by an author speaking out of his religious tradition. Addison does a remarkale job writing from a pastoral model, that is he comes from a place of Hearing, a place of hesed. Compassion, but more. I had great difficulty with the enneagram and resisted it as my introdcution to it was harsh. This is the book for introduction to the enneagram; and the Kabbalah adds depth to its meaning.I particulary love how Addison employs characters from scripture to illustrate certain types. Kudos to Addison for hearing and speaking truth in the spirit of chesed. Please forgive any misunderstanding of terms . . . I speak fom a Christian orientation.

An Original and Ambitious Take on the Enneagram

A good book for enneagram enthusiasts, and also a good way to get a taste of Jewish mysticism. The author writes responsibly and carefully and offers some real insights. Of course, one has to accept the correlations he makes between the enneatypes and the points on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life -- but he does argue from a place of scholarship. This reader wishes that he could have been a little more careful to reiterate the meaning of certain phonetic Hebrew terms that he uses freely throughout the book. But, overall, an impressive and worthwhile addition to enneagram literature and a good primer on Kabbalah.

excellent reference for adepts, perfect for beginners.

this is one of my favorite books on the enneagram. as a long time student of the enneagram i continue my discussion on the topic through an online discussion group. so many of the topics we discuss are very clearly laid out, and organized in this book, making it an excellent reference resourse. the rabbi has combined a very complete over view with fresh archtypes from the kabbalah for expansion of the characterizations of type. this is also one of my favorite books to get for friends that i am introducing to the enneagram, because it is so comprehensive and easy to understand.