SIGNED BY AUTHOR - Mordechai Pachter, Professor Emeritus in the department of Jewish history at Haifa University. RARE book on various aspects of Kabbalistic thought, written by Prof. Mordechai Pachter, lecturer in Department of Jewish Thought in the University of Haifa. The book comprises four studies: 1) The Root of Faith is the Root of Heresy; 2) Circles and Straightness; 3) Smallness and Greatness; 4) Devequt in Sixteenth Century Safed; and contains preface, bibliography and index. 245x170mm. 341 pages. Blue cloth Hardcover with dust-jacket. Jacket slightly dirty. Jacket spine upper edge dirty. Jacket corners and spine edges wrinkled. Cover corners slightly bumped. Spine edges bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare collection of studies in the history of Jewish mystical thought is otherwise in very good condition.