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A parallel between the first verse of the biblical genesis, the poem “The Secret Rose Garden” and the Sephirotic Tree of Kabbalah

Diacronia, 2022
This article proposes a study on the border between comparative literature and the hermeneutics of symbols. Although the traditional literature of the Middle East offers many possibilities, the context of the analysis will focus mainly on a parallel ...
A. Cojocaru
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Moshe Cordovero’s Kabbalah and its reception in Europe at the end of the 17th century

Philosophy Journal, 2022
Moshe ben Ya’akov Cordovero (1522–1570) was one of the most influential Kabbalists of the 16th century living in Safed in Northern Galilee (Ottoman Empire).
K. Burmistrov
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The Rise of the Holy Spirit in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah

Harvard Theological Review, 2022
This article examines the development and transformation of the holy spirit within Jewish mysticism. It begins with a brief analysis of primary trends concerning the holy spirit in biblical, rabbinic, and medieval Jewish texts that served as crucial ...
Adam Afterman
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The Transitioning of Jewish Biomedical Law: Rhetorical and Practical Shifts in Halakhic Discourse on Sex-Change Surgery [PDF]

, 2016
This article examines discourse dynamics in Jewish law on sex-change surgery (SCS) and, in general, transitioning between genders. Orthodox medical ethics has moved beyond the abstract condemnation of SCS to the design of practical rules for transsexuals
Hillel Gray
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What do the Angels Say? Alterity and the Ascents of Emanuel Swedenborg and the Baal Shem Tov

Open Theology, 2018
This paper examines the history of boundary crossing and boundary preservation between Jews and Christians in the eighteenth century via an unorthodox path.
Esterson Rebecca
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Venise et Safed : un lien kabbalistique du messianisme européen au XVIe siècle

Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 2000
Après une longue introduction lors de laquelle sont repérés et explicités les liens épistémologiques fondamentaux existant, dans la kabbalah, entre étude, évolution spirituelle de l’homme et du monde, et messianité, l’article met en lumière l’influence ...
Yona Dureau
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Reasoning without consensus: grassroots experiments in radical inclusion in Israel/Palestine Raisonner sans consensus : expériences locales d'inclusion radicale en Israël et en Palestine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1079-1097, December 2025.
Liberal public reason seeks to provide a neutral platform for political engagement. Yet, its conditions, notably the rules of engagement and the demand for consensus, effectively exclude many populations with non‐liberal subjectivities from public participation.
Erica Weiss
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Kabbalistic Metaphors in Modeling the Environments of Life

Corpus Mundi
The article explores the role of mystical metaphors in the ways of constructing modern living environments. This research perspective is conditioned by the relevance of the problem of alienation in the urban environment, as well as the need to overcome ...
Elena A. Korol
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Review of Gafni [PDF]

Integral Review, 2014
On Spiritual Books and their Readers: A Review of Radical Kabbalah by Marc Gafni ...
Zachary Stein
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ATMOSFEAR: Horror of nature and the nature of horror in Algernon Blackwood

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 6, Page 553-577, December 2025.
Abstract The impact that the stories of Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951) have had on the literature of the uncanny can hardly be overestimated. However, there is almost no research on Blackwood's life and work. Against the background of a presentation of themes and motifs of Blackwood's narrative œuvre, this article develops a characteristic of his ...
Dominic Angeloch
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