{"schema_version":"bf_book_companion_v1","release_id":"20261010T034321Z-reviewed-full-unique-works","book":{"amazon_purchase_url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0684843250?tag=bookfrontie00-20","asin":"0684843250","authors":["Herbert Weiner"],"book_id":"9780684843254","canonical_url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/nine-and-a-half-mystics-9780684843254","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780684843254.jpg?v=6048177e6212384c","description":"From Simon & Schuster, Nine and a Half Mystics is Herbert Weiner's exploration of the Kabbalah today. This revised edition of a modern classic includes a new foreword by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel and an afterword by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, editor of The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition , as well as a coda by the author in which he explores the many paths being traveled today in the search for the treasures of the Kabbalah.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780684843254","publication_date":"19970701","publisher":"Touchstone","slug":"nine-and-a-half-mystics","subtitle":"The Kabbala Today","title":"Nine and a Half Mystics"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"REL040060","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Kabbalah & Jewish Mysticism","score":0.8183,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"REL040070","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Orthodox Judaism","score":0.7918,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"REL040040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Jewish Scriptures","score":0.784,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"REL040060","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Kabbalah & Jewish Mysticism","score":0.8183,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"REL040070","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Orthodox Judaism","score":0.7918,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"REL040040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Jewish Scriptures","score":0.784,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"REL000000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Religion & Spirituality","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"REL040000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Judaism","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"REL040060","confidence_band":"high","label":"Kabbalah & Jewish Mysticism","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Kabbalah & Jewish Mysticism","score":0.8183,"slug":"kabbalah-jewish-mysticism"},{"label":"Orthodox Judaism","score":0.7918,"slug":"orthodox-judaism"},{"label":"Jewish Scriptures","score":0.784,"slug":"jewish-scriptures"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in contemporary explorations of Kabbalah"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Daniel M. Horwitz"],"book_id":"9780827612563","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780827612563.jpg?v=706d29cacbdb3c58","score":0.7654,"title":"A Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism Reader","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780827612563"},{"authors":["Ron Feldman"],"book_id":"9781580910491","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781580910491.jpg?v=3f7f1f6aa74929cd","score":0.759,"title":"Fundamentals of Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781580910491"},{"authors":["Daniel C. Matt"],"book_id":"9780062511638","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780062511638.jpg?v=8beefa447927fb2e","score":0.7589,"title":"The Essential Kabbalah","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780062511638"},{"authors":["Alan Unterman"],"book_id":"9780140437997","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780140437997.jpg?v=84619c6c5fe297c4","score":0.756,"title":"The Kabbalistic Tradition","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780140437997"},{"authors":["Gabriella Samuel"],"book_id":"9781585425600","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781585425600.jpg?v=901891fcd4441080","score":0.7365,"title":"Kabbalah Handbook","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781585425600"},{"authors":["Gershom Scholem"],"book_id":"9780805210422","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780805210422.jpg?v=7008cce2bd653c43","score":0.7292,"title":"Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780805210422"},{"authors":["Gershom Scholem"],"book_id":"9780805210514","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780805210514.jpg?v=1227a0fdfd173ba4","score":0.7289,"title":"On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780805210514"},{"authors":["Perle Besserman"],"book_id":"9781570622151","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781570622151.jpg?v=7a812fb26bc52cd3","score":0.7248,"title":"The Shambhala Guide to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781570622151"}],"topics":[{"evidence_refs":["keyword:jewish history"],"label":"History","score":0.4536,"slug":"history"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:religious books"],"label":"Religious","score":0.0436,"slug":"religious"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:being jewish"],"label":"Jewish","score":0.0371,"slug":"jewish"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:jewish studies"],"label":"Studies","score":0.0285,"slug":"studies"}],"what_you_get":["Themes: Kabbalah, Contemporary spiritual seeking.","Themes: History, Religious, Jewish.","Reading lane: Kabbalah & Jewish Mysticism and Orthodox Judaism."]},"llm_signals":{"confidence":0.82,"pacing":"unknown","reader_fit":["Readers interested in contemporary explorations of Kabbalah"],"themes":["Kabbalah","Contemporary spiritual seeking"],"tropes":[]},"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":true,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":20,"goodreads_ratings_count":67,"goodreads_reviews_count":12,"quality_score":0.8715}}