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Kabbalah Practices / Practical Kabbalah
Aries, 2019Abstract Kabbalistic trees—ilanot, in Hebrew—are not merely arboreal diagrams illustrating the sefirot and other symbols associated with them. By the fifteenth century, the term ilan (singular) referred to a genre of kabbalistic creativity that fused this schema with a specific medium: an ilan was a diagram of the sefirot inscribed on a parchment ...
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Pomegranate, 2007
In the early twentieth century, certain elements of the Kabbalah were transformed by being given new interpretations and uses in the context of what I term the “programmatic syncretism” of modern, fin de siècle occultism. In so doing I will focus specifically on one text by Aleister Crowley, which I consider the full-blown example of the phenomenon in ...
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In the early twentieth century, certain elements of the Kabbalah were transformed by being given new interpretations and uses in the context of what I term the “programmatic syncretism” of modern, fin de siècle occultism. In so doing I will focus specifically on one text by Aleister Crowley, which I consider the full-blown example of the phenomenon in ...
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2018
Kabbalah is the body of Jewish mystical writings which became important at the end of the twelfth century in Provence and has been taken up with varying degrees of enthusiasm in an attempt to explore the esoteric side of Judaism. There are two main forms of Kabbalah: one which concentrates on gaining knowledge of God through study of his name, and a ...
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Kabbalah is the body of Jewish mystical writings which became important at the end of the twelfth century in Provence and has been taken up with varying degrees of enthusiasm in an attempt to explore the esoteric side of Judaism. There are two main forms of Kabbalah: one which concentrates on gaining knowledge of God through study of his name, and a ...
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2019
Though the academic study of Kabbalah began in the late 19th century, the definitive contributions of Gershom Scholem, beginning in the 1920s, truly set the field into motion. His studies modeled a text-driven history of ideas approach to rabbinic Judaism’s esoteric sciences, chronicling their appearance in the Middle Ages, and their manifold ...
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Though the academic study of Kabbalah began in the late 19th century, the definitive contributions of Gershom Scholem, beginning in the 1920s, truly set the field into motion. His studies modeled a text-driven history of ideas approach to rabbinic Judaism’s esoteric sciences, chronicling their appearance in the Middle Ages, and their manifold ...
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2020
Abstract The book offers a study of the genealogy of the concept of “Jewish mysticism.” It examines the major developments in the academic study of Jewish mysticism and its impact on modern Kabbalistic movements in the contexts of Jewish nationalism and New Age spirituality.
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Abstract The book offers a study of the genealogy of the concept of “Jewish mysticism.” It examines the major developments in the academic study of Jewish mysticism and its impact on modern Kabbalistic movements in the contexts of Jewish nationalism and New Age spirituality.
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