"This book is an exceptionally fresh and significant contribution. It is an important corrective to the tendency to sublimate social history to the history of ideas."
~Marc Michael Epstein, Vassar College
"Lachter's work is a compelling and important study of the manner in which Kabbalah responded to political and cultural pressures in Castile at a time of striking proliferation of kabbalistic literature."
~Jonathan Dauber, professor of Jewish mysticism, Yeshiva University
"A worthwhile and edifying contribution to contemporary scholarship on medieval Jewish mysticism."
~H-Judaic
"Lachter succeeds admirably in moving scholarship forward."
~AJS Review