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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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The Journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
This article examines the intersection of medicine, as both knowledge and practice, and theology in the context of the Zoharic literature, the acme of medieval Kabbalah.
Assaf Tamari
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This article examines the intersection of medicine, as both knowledge and practice, and theology in the context of the Zoharic literature, the acme of medieval Kabbalah.
Assaf Tamari
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Harvard Theological Review, 2021
This article discusses Maimonides’s rationale for the incest taboo and traces its reception in Christian and kabbalistic traditions in the thirteenth century.
Leore Sachs-Shmueli
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This article discusses Maimonides’s rationale for the incest taboo and traces its reception in Christian and kabbalistic traditions in the thirteenth century.
Leore Sachs-Shmueli
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Analele Universităţii din Craiova seria Istorie
The first evidence of Kabbalistic activity in the Romanian lands dates back to the 16th century. It started with the connection between Rabbi Joseph Caro (1488-1575) and the Wallachian Jews of Bucharest, followed by reports on the Kabbalistic schools run
Waldman Felicia
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The first evidence of Kabbalistic activity in the Romanian lands dates back to the 16th century. It started with the connection between Rabbi Joseph Caro (1488-1575) and the Wallachian Jews of Bucharest, followed by reports on the Kabbalistic schools run
Waldman Felicia
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Isaac the Blind's Letter and the History of Early Kabbalah
The Jewish quarterly review, 2021:No document is more central to the scholarly historiography of kabbalah's "origins" than a unique letter written by R. Isaac the Blind. Since its discovery, scholars have made it the foundation for an elaborate narrative about the transmission of ...
Avishai Bar-Asher
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Analele Universităţii "Dunărea de Jos" din Galaţi. Fascicula XXIV Lexic comun / lexic specializat
Humans have tried since ancient times to rival divinity in creation. Like God, the initiates used one of the primordial elements of life, the Earth, in order to create humanoid-looking beings. Their attempt to reach the Creator's perfection was doomed to
C. Negoita
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Humans have tried since ancient times to rival divinity in creation. Like God, the initiates used one of the primordial elements of life, the Earth, in order to create humanoid-looking beings. Their attempt to reach the Creator's perfection was doomed to
C. Negoita
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The Doctrine of Exile in Kabbalah
The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora, 2021Exile (galut)—and the attempt to end it—is one of primary aims and motifs of Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah. Kabbalists have conceived of exile as the existential state of man (the divine soul trapped in the body), the predicament and mission of the ...
S. Flatto
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The Jewish quarterly review
:This article presents a first attempt to classify and present a group of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Hasidic texts as belonging to a specific literary genre: rationales for the commandments. In this category we include Sefer Toldot Ya‘akov Yosef,
Leore Sachs-Shmueli, Roee Goldschmidt
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:This article presents a first attempt to classify and present a group of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Hasidic texts as belonging to a specific literary genre: rationales for the commandments. In this category we include Sefer Toldot Ya‘akov Yosef,
Leore Sachs-Shmueli, Roee Goldschmidt
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Decoding the Language of the Zohar: Lexicons to Kabbalah in Early Modernity
AJS Review, 2021This article examines various attempts in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries that sought to repackage and reorganize kabbalistic knowledge through the compilation of lexicons to one of the most sacred texts in the Jewish mystical canon, the ...
Andrea Gondos
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AJS Review
:Focusing mostly on texts from Castile and the corpus of Abraham Abulafia, previous studies have explored how representations of Jesus, Mary, Rome, Christians, Christianity, and Christendom function in the esoteric symbolism of Kabbalah, its ontology of ...
Jeremy Phillip Brown
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:Focusing mostly on texts from Castile and the corpus of Abraham Abulafia, previous studies have explored how representations of Jesus, Mary, Rome, Christians, Christianity, and Christendom function in the esoteric symbolism of Kabbalah, its ontology of ...
Jeremy Phillip Brown
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