1. Your Word Is Fire: The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer. Co-edited with Barry W. Holtz. New York: Paulist Press, 1977.
1a. __________, second revised edition. New York: Schocken Books, 1987.
1b. __________, third edition. Woodstock VT: Jewish Lights, 1993.
1c. __________, Dutch translation. Den Haag: East-West Publications, 2003.
1d. __________, Revised and expanded edition. With Ariel E. Mayse. Nashville: Jewish Lights, 2017.
2. Tormented Master: A Life of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav. University AL: University of Alabama Press, 1980.
2a. __________, second edition (paperback). Schocken Books, 1991.
2b. __________, reprint. Woodstock VT: Jewish Lights, 1992.
2c. __________, Ba’al ha-Yissurim. Hebrew translation. Tel Aviv: ‘Am ‘Oved, 1981.
2d. __________, reprint, 1996.
2e. __________, La Sagesse Dansant de Rabbi Nahman. French translation. Paris: Albin Michel, 2000.
2f. __________, Russian translation, 2007.
2g. __________, New Hebrew edition with updated footnotes. Yedi’ot books, Forthcoming 2020.
3. Upright Practices and The Light of the Eyes, Homilies on Genesis, by R. Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl. Edited and translated. New York: Paulist Press (Classics of Western Spirituality), 1982.
3a. __________, reprint, 1998.
4. Jewish Spirituality (historical essays). 2 v. Edited. New York: Crossroad Books (World Spirituality Series), 1986-87.
5. Devotion and Commandment: The Faith of Abraham in the Hasidic Imagination. Hebrew Union College, Efroymson Lectures of 1986. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1989.
6. Seek My Face, Speak My Name: A Contemporary Jewish Theology. Northvale NJ: Jason Aronson, 1992.
6a. __________, Baqqeshu Fanai, Qire’u Vi-Shemi: Emunato shel Mehapes. Hebrew translation. Tel Aviv: ëAm ëOved Press, 1997.
6b. __________, revised second edition, published as Seek My Face: A Jewish Mystical Theology. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2003.
6c. __________, Dutch translation, 2006.
7. Keter: The Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
8. The Language of Truth: Teachings from the Sefat Emet by Rabbi Judah Leib Alter of Ger. Selection, Translation, and Contemporary Response. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1998.
9. These Are the Words: A Vocabulary of Jewish Spiritual Life. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 1999.
9a. __________. Dutch translation. Amsterdam, 2001.
9b. __________. Italian translation. Firenze, 2002.
9c. __________. Nine entries reprinted in The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook, ed. S. M. Matlins. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2001.
9d. __________. Hebrew version (re-written), Eleh ha-Devarim, Leksikon le-Ruhaniyyut Yehudit. Yedi’ot (Yahadut kan ve-‘akhshav), 2008.
9e. __________. Portuguese translation, 2015.
9f. __________. Russian translation.
9g. Revised second edition.
10. EHYEH: A Kabbalah for Tomorrow. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2002.
10a. _______. Revised edition, 2015.
10b. ________, Spanish translation, 2016.
11. Ha-Shekhinah, ha-Betulah ha-Kedoshah, ve-Shir ha-Shirim (“Shekhinah, the Virgin Mary, and the Song of Songs”). Jerusalem: Yeri’ot, 2004. (Translation; see Articles I:28)
12. A Guide to the Zohar. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.
13. Radical Judaism: Re-thinking God and Tradition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
___________. Hebrew edition (re-written), Yahadut Radikalit. Bayit (Yedi’ot), 2016.
14. Hasidic Spirituality for a New Era: The Religious Writings of Hillel Zeitlin. New York: Paulist Press (Classics of Western Spirituality, 2012.
15. Speaking Torah: Hasidic Teachings from Around the Maggid’s Table. 2 v. Jewish Lights, 2013.
16. Judaism’s Ten Best Ideas: A Brief Guide for Seekers. Woodstock VT: Jewish Lights, 2014.
17. The Heart of the Matter: Studies in Jewish Mysticism and Theology. Forthcoming from Jewish Publication Society, 2014.
18. Arthur Green in Library of Living Jewish Philosophers. With an introduction by Ariel Evan Mayse. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
19. A New Hasidism: Roots and Branches. 2v. Co-edited with Ariel E. Mayse. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2019.
20. The Light of the Eyes, by R. Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl. Translation, Annotation, and Introduction. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2021.
21. Be-Ron Yahad: Essay in Honor of Nehemia Polen. Co-edited wirth Ariel E. Mayse. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019.
22. Judaism for the World: Reflections on God, Life, and Love. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.
Winner, National Jewish Book Award, 2020.
23. Defender of the Faithful: The Life and Thought of R. Levi Yitsḥa k of Berdychiv. Brandeis University Press, Forthcoming 2022.