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Author : Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Abraham Abulafia--kabbalist and Prophet written by Elliot R. Wolfson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438407459
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia written by Moshe Idel and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first wide-scale presentation of a major Jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah. It includes a description of the techniques employed by his master, including the role of music. There is a discussion of the characteristics of his mystical experience and the erotic imagery by which it was expressed. Based on all the extant manuscript material of Abulafia, this book opens the way to a new understanding of Jewish mysticism. It points to the importance of the ecstatic Kabbalah for the later developments in mystical Judaism.
Author : Robert J. Sagerman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004194479
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Serpent Kills or the Serpent Gives Life written by Robert J. Sagerman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing a careful contextual study of the writings of the influential Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia (1240 – c. 1291), this book demonstrates that an inner dynamic of attraction and revulsion toward Christianity shaped Abulafia’s mystical hermeneutic and meditative practice.
Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438407467
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah written by Moshe Idel and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents important topics regarding the more mystical trend of Kabbalah—the ecstatic Kabbalah. It includes the mystical union, the world of imagination, and concentration as a spiritual technique. The emphasis in the text is on the interaction between the "original" Spanish stage of Kabbalah and Muslim mysticism in the East, mainly in the Galilee. The influence of the Kabbalistic-Sufic synthesis on the later developments of Jewish mysticism is traced, thereby providing a more precise understanding of the history of Kabbalah as an interplay between the theosophical and ecstatic mystical experiences.
Author : Abraham Abulafia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781388830199
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Life of the World to Come written by Abraham Abulafia and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Abulafia 1240-1291, Hayyei ha-Olam ha-Ba "Life of the World to Come"The Spanish kabbalist Abraham Abulafia (1240- after 1291) advocated a concept of Kabbalah that had little or nothing to do with the well-known schools of thought. He considered Kabbalah neither as a form of gnosis nor as a kind of theosophical theory that concentrates on the Sefirot, the emanation of the Divine Being. Instead he attempted to attain a state of prophetic-mystical ecstasy, based on his conviction that the experience of the prophets was an ecstatic experience and that all true mystics were prophets. This work of his was especially popular and circulated under the titles Hayyei ha-Olam ha-Ba ("Life of the World to Come"), Sefer ha-Shem ("Book of the Divine Name") or Sefer ha-Iggulim ("Book of Circles"); in this manuscript, however, it is called Sefer ha-Shem ha-Meforash ("Book of the Ineffable name"). The manuscript presents ten inscriptions in concentric circles in red and black ink, as well as 128 only in black ink. They contain detailed instructions for mystical meditation. While contemplating these circles, one should recite the 72-lettered name of God, which is arrived at by combining the numerical values of the letters in the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, of the Patriarchs, and the nine letters of the words shivtei yisra'el) ("the tribes of Irasel"). The reader should "enter" each of the triple black and red circles at the point where an "entrance" is designated by means of a small pen stroke (red).
Author : Hylton Antony Michael
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781365373343
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (733 download)
Download or read book The Jewish Prophet Abraham Abulafia and His Gospel written by Hylton Antony Michael and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the founder of prophetic Kabbalah is a fascinating one to say the least. The Spanish contribution to understanding the Bible may have appeared to have peaked with Rabbi Ibn Janach and Rabbi David Hayyuj but in the prophet Rabbi Abraham Abulafia did it not excel even these? They knew grammar, he claimed to prophesy!
Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Abraham Abulafia written by Moshe Idel and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110598779
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Abraham Abulafia’s Esotericism written by Moshe Idel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Abraham Abulafia's esoteric thought in relation to Maimonides, Maimonideans, and Islamic thought in the line of Leo Strauss' theory of the history of philosophy. A survey of Abulafia's sources leads into an analysis of the esoteric meaning on the famous parable of the three rings, considering also the possible connection between this parable, which Abdulafia inserted into a book dedicated to his student, the 13th century rabbi Nathan the wise, and the Lessing's Play "Nathan the Wise." The book also examines Abulafia's universalistic understanding of the nature of the Bible, the Hebrew language, and the people of Israel (or the Sinaic revelation). The universal aspects of Abulafia’s thought have been put in relief against the more widespread Kabbalistic views which are predominantly particularistic. A number of texts have also been identified here for the first time as authored by Abulafia.
Author : David A. Cooper
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458785270
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Ecstatic Kabbalah written by David A. Cooper and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kabbalah the secret is out! From Madonna's controversial conversion to the Dalai Lama's acknowledgment and support, this mystical tradition is gaining unprecedented recognition. But how do we put this powerful and esoteric worldview into practice? With The Ecstatic Kabbalah, Rabbi David Cooperauthor of God Is a Verb (100, 000 copies sold, Riverhead, 1958), and a renowned leader of the Jewish meditation movementprovides practical exercises on the path toward mending the soul, the fundamental Jewish experience that brings union with the Divine. With meditation techniques for both beginning and advanced practitioners, The Ecstatic Kabbalah guides listeners into awareness of the presence of light with experiential practices for touching the four worlds of mystical Judaism:
Author : Harvey J. Hames
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791479188
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Like Angels on Jacob's Ladder written by Harvey J. Hames and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the career of Abraham Abulafia, thirteenth-century founder of the school of ecstatic Kabbalah.
Author : Avraham Abulafia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781897352335
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Chaye Ha-Olam Ha-Ba - Life in the World to Come written by Avraham Abulafia and published by . This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaye Ha-Olam Ha-Ba is Abraham Abulafia's masterpiece, and a primer on prophetic Kabbalah. Prophetic Kabbalah is a special flavor of Jewish mysticism that owes its name to the Abulafian School. It is different from every other type of Kabbalah, because it does not talk about Sefirot, divine emanations, worlds, etc., but concerns itself with the inner transformation of the self and the direct experience of God. Through the aid of the Hebrew letters and various meditation techniques, the apprentice is led into higher states of consciousness, in order to know his God that created him. Enlightenment is the outcome of those techniques, which open the gates of a new world - the World to Come, or the Next World - to the sincere seeker. The system in Chaye revolves specifically around the 72 Names of God, which are the Expanded Name YHVH. It requires much concentration, because it is not easy, but it is one of the most astonishing techniques. Abulafia describes it as "scientific," because touching certain "divine frequencies" something is going to surely happen. Maybe it will not happen at once, but nevertheless the holy mechanism will begin its motion, and sooner or later this has to lead somewhere. "And when you prepare yourself to speak with your Creator, and ask to be informed of His Decrees, be mindful to clear your thought of all the clutter of the world. And wrap yourself with a prayer shawl, and wear Tefillin on your head and your hand if you can, so that you will be in awe and fear of the Shekinah, which is there with you at that time. And clean yourself and your clothes; and if you can, be sure that your clothes are all white, for all this is very conducive to the intention of love and awe. And if it takes place at night, light many candles until you can see well. Then, take ink, a quill, and a board in your hands. And let them stand as witnesses before you that you are coming to make worship to YHV"H your God with joy and a good heart. And begin with a Permutation of a few letters with the many; and invert them and revolve them quickly, until your heart warms up with their revolutions. And pay attention to their motions and what you produce with their revolutions. And when you feel within you that your heart has heated up with the Permutations, and that with them you came to understand new things that you had not received by Kabbalah from another person and had not come to know through your intellectual contemplation, then now you are ready to receive the Influx." (Chaye Ha-Olam Ha-Ba)
Author : Abraham Abulafia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781388510244
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Light of the Intellect written by Abraham Abulafia and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manuscript facsimile of Abraham Abulafia's treatise on Kabbalah meditation
Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887068324
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Language, Torah, and Hermeneutics in Abraham Abulafia written by Moshe Idel and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1988-12-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Abulafia, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah, exposed a mysticism that includes a deep interest in language as a universe in itself, to be studied as the philosophers study nature, in order to attain higher knowledge than natural science and speculative philosophy. The status of Hebrew as the natural, intellectual, and primordial language is discussed against the background of the medieval speculations regarding this topic.
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Publisher : Abraham Solomon
ISBN 13 : 9781257653546
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Meditations on the Divine Name written by and published by Abraham Solomon. This book was released on 2011 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aryeh Kaplan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1568213816
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (682 download)
Download or read book Meditation and Kabbalah written by Aryeh Kaplan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditative methods of Kabbalah. A lucid presentation of the meditative methods, mantras, mandalas and other devices used, as well as a penetrating interpretation of their significance in the light of contemporary meditative research.
Author : Abraham Abulafia
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9781389217838
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Light of the Intellect written by Abraham Abulafia and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manuscript facsimile of Abraham Abulafia's Kabbalah meditation manual 'Light of the Intellect' (composed in 1285 in Messina, Sicily) VAT. EBR. 597 133 ff. (ff. 130v-133v blank). Parchment. 134 91 (74 52) mm. Quaternions., mid-late 15th century. Italian semi-cursive script. ספר אור השכל Or ha-Sekhel, kabbalistic work about the mysteries of the tetragrammaton by Abraham Abulafia. First edition Jerusalem 1999. On f. 3v, one of three parchment leaves added to the manuscript, another hand added the title and a poem beginning הנשמות מענג ספר קרא. On f. 130v another poem beginning אור השכל חלקי עינות. On f. 133v another hand added שמירת הדרך, a prayer for wayfarers. On f. 3r a note in a late Italian hand about the author. On f. 113r a full page portrait of a man facing a pair of candles and holding a book in which the letters aleph and yod are inscribed. The man is dressed in a white robe and is wearing a prayer shawl with blue fringes (zizzit) and phylacteries (tefillin). The inscription above the picture reads (in translation): "Be prepared for thy G-d, Israel." Apparently, the portrait illustrates the text on the facing page that includes instructions for meditation: "Wrap thyself in white garments cover thyself with thy prayer shawl and crown thy head with phylacteries and face the east." A quote from Abulafia's Sefer Hayye Olam ha-Ba provides an even more precise commentary to this illumination: "Be prepared for thy G-d, Israel. Cover thyself with thy prayer shawl and put phylacteries on thy head and hands let all thy garments be white. Kindle many lights then take ink, pen and a table to thy hand now begin to combine a few letters" (G. Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, New York 1954, p. 136). The original manuscript is on ff. 4-133. Ff. 1-3 were added later. Censor (f. 130v): Camillo Jaghel, 1611.
Author : Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520246195
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Alef, Mem, Tau written by Elliot R. Wolfson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-04-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alef, Mem, Tau also discusses Islamic mysticism and Buddhist thought in relation to the Jewish esoteric tradition as it opens the possibility of a temporal triumph of temporality and the conquering of time through time."
