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Book Synopsis Ohr Ha-Sechel - Light of the Intellect by : Abraham Abulafia
Download or read book Ohr Ha-Sechel - Light of the Intellect written by Abraham Abulafia and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst the rich panoply of Jewish Kabbalah, Abraham Abulafia (1240-c.1291) resonates the most with modern, philosophically minded seekers of direct mystical experience.In this Jewish handbook for meditation, Abulafia creatively combines ideas from Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed (Moreh Nevuchim), the ancient Book of Creation (Sefer Yetzira) and Eleazar of Worms' Book of the Name (Sefer Ha-Shem) into an integrated method of concentrating on the Divine Name that opens the path to fulfilling the soul's deepest spiritual longings. Intense practice of Abulafia's methods of meditation propels the attentive soul into a state of awakened receptivity where the active divine influence can reach down to meet and illuminate the human intellect.
Book Synopsis Ohr Ha-Sechel - Light of the Intellect by : Abraham Abulafia
Download or read book Ohr Ha-Sechel - Light of the Intellect written by Abraham Abulafia and published by Euniversity.Pub. This book was released on 2018 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst the rich panoply of Jewish Kabbalah, Abraham Abulafia (1240-c.1291) resonates the most with modern, philosophically minded seekers of direct mystical experience. In this Jewish handbook for meditation, Abulafia creatively combines ideas from Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed (Moreh Nevuchim), the ancient Book of Creation (Sefer Yetzira) and Eleazar of Worms' Book of the Name (Sefer Ha-Shem) into an integrated method of concentrating on the Divine Name that opens the path to fulfilling the soul's deepest spiritual longings. Intense practice of Abulafia's methods of meditation propels the attentive soul into a state of awakened receptivity where the active divine influence can reach down to meet and illuminate the human intellect
Book Synopsis Light of the Intellect by : Abraham Abulafia
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.
Book Synopsis Imrei Shefer - Words of Beauty by : Abraham Abulafia
Download or read book Imrei Shefer - Words of Beauty written by Abraham Abulafia and published by Euniversity.Pub. This book was released on 2018 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words of Beauty is the last known book that Rabbi Abraham Abulafia wrote. It contains nine essays about the knowledge of permutations concerning the holy letters and the divine Names. Along with Life in the World to Come (Chaye Olam Ha-Ba), Light of the Intellect (Ohr Ha-Sechel), and the Book of Desire (Sefer Ha-Cheshek), it is a real handbook teaching how to achieve the prophetic experience. The book is written is a very friendly and warm way, in the attempt to impress the reader with the beauties of the Torah and the secrets of Kabbalah. Abulafia brings us hand in hand to learn the distinction between the various types of wisdoms and sages, until we can recognize the true way. Then, he seals the book giving us practical and extended systems of permutation, which can enable us to reach higher levels of consciousness through proper practices
Book Synopsis The Jewish God Question by : Andrew Pessin
Download or read book The Jewish God Question written by Andrew Pessin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shares what a diverse array of Jewish thinkers have said about the interrelated questions of God, the Book, the Jewish people, and the Land of Israel. Accessible chapters present fascinating insights from ancient times to today, from Philo to Judith Plaskow. An intriguing and provocative book for readers wrestling with big questions.
Book Synopsis Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality by : Zohar Hadromi-Allouche
Download or read book Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality written by Zohar Hadromi-Allouche and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality: Mind the Gap offers an interdisciplinary thinking on “the marginal” within society. Using the framework of Victor Turner’s earlier notions of liminality, the book both challenges Turner’s symbolic anthropology, and celebrates its continued influence across disciplines, and under new theoretical constraints. Liminality in its simplest forms provides language for meaningful approaches to articulate transition and change. It also represents complex social theories beyond Turner’s classical symbolic approach. While demonstrating the enduring relevance of Turner’s language for expressing transition, this volume keeps an eye toward the validity of critiques against him. It thus theorizes with Turner’s work while updating, even abandoning, some of his primary ideas, when applying it to contemporary social issues. A central focus of this volume is marginality. Turner recognized that marginals, like liminars, are betwixt and between; however, they lack assurance that their ambiguity will be resolved. This volume explores the dialogic relationship of space and agency, to recognize marginal groups and people, and inquire, without a harmonious resolution, what happens to the marginals? Have race, class, gender, and sexual orientation become the space for thinking about reintegration and communitas? Each chapter examines how marginal groups, or liminal spaces and ideas, destabilize, shape, and affect the dominant culture.
Book Synopsis Abraham Abulafia’s Esotericism by : Moshe Idel
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.
Book Synopsis The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia by : Moshe Idel
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.
Download or read book Hachibur - Book One written by Warren Cyr and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study in Jewish Concepts and Beliefs. Book of Terms and Definitions. THE COMPILATION (R) RegisteredSTUDY IN JEWISH CONCEPTS AND BELIEFS. THE COMBINING AND JOINING OF HEBREW TERMS THAT IN ESSENCE SYMBOLIZE THE CONCEPT OF PRAYER, JOINING US WITH G-DAUTHOR: WARREN J CYR (aharon ben yosef), THE "aby"EDITOR: DANIEL J CYRPROGRAMMER: SAUL SCHON/SCHOU - i.e. PAUL ANDERSON
Book Synopsis Light of the Intellect by : Abraham Abulafia
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
Book Synopsis Get Ha-Shemot - Divorce of the Names by : Abraham Abulafia
Download or read book Get Ha-Shemot - Divorce of the Names written by Abraham Abulafia and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get Ha-Shemot is Abulafia's attempt to describe the general ideology and cosmology that underlie the fundamental principle of Kabbalah - that names and letters are the essential, active, and creative elements of reality. He meant it as a rule of thumb for the masters of the names to know the truth behind the names they use, because no name can properly be used without such knowledge. In this work, which was written from the start for general distribution, Abulafia outlines the cosmic stage on which his entire Kabbalah is set, and explains its general purpose - the perfection of the mind by way of the intellect. This makes Get Ha-Shemot an indispensable introduction to his entire Kabbalah. Abulafia explains that Kabbalah is the part of Torah that must remain concealed from the public, and only received by word of mouth from a worthy teacher to a worthy student. However, to set some guidelines about the form of Kabbalah, Abulafia presents us here with what he takes to be the first and fundamental principles of all of Kabbalah. This masterpiece of Kabbalah is a very lucid and actual introduction to Kabbalah both for beginners and advanced students.
Book Synopsis Sheva Netivot Ha-Torah by : Abraham Abulafia
Download or read book Sheva Netivot Ha-Torah written by Abraham Abulafia and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the primacy of Kabbalah over every other branch of knowledge. It classifies seven levels of understanding of the Torah, showing what they are and how to reach them.
Book Synopsis HaShem Is One by : Rabbi Yosef Gikatilla
Download or read book HaShem Is One written by Rabbi Yosef Gikatilla and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the English language for the first time, HaShem is One is a translation and adaptation of the wondrous book Ginat Egoz, by the spiritual giant Rabbeinu Yosef Gikatilla. An easy read, it is an indispensable book for anyone who wants to know who the God of Israel truly is. This book will shed light and illuminate His absolute, preexistent, Intrinsic Being and promises to bring about a profound paradigm shift in one's understanding of God and His relationship to his world. An absolute must read for anyone who truly and honestly desires closeness to God.
Book Synopsis The 13 Principles of Faith by : Moses Maimonides
Download or read book The 13 Principles of Faith written by Moses Maimonides and published by KOL MENACHEM. This book was released on 2009 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rambam (Maimonides, 1135-1204) is revered as one of the greatest Jewish scholars who ever lived. Among his vast contributions to Jewish scholarship is a series of thirteen core beliefs of Judaism. The brevity of this credo belies the depth of the ideas it represents.Now, Kol Menachem presents an extensive work of scholarship that will elucidate these principles for all those interested in the heart of Jewish belief. Organized into a sequence of user-friendly lessons, this series takes the reader on a journey through more than 150 traditional sources that influenced these beliefs through the ages. Added to this is the Toras Menachem commentary on the Principles, culled from the Lubavitcher Rebbe's extensive lectures and writings....
Book Synopsis Sefer Ha-ot - The Book of the Sign by : Avrāhām Abûlʿafiyā
Download or read book Sefer Ha-ot - The Book of the Sign written by Avrāhām Abûlʿafiyā and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the rare autobiographic books in Kabbalah. Abulafia relates his experiences and visions, some of which are really frightening. Most notable are his encounters with angels.
Book Synopsis The Knowledge of HaShem by : Rabbi Amiram Markel
Download or read book The Knowledge of HaShem written by Rabbi Amiram Markel and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an excellent introduction to the entire system of Kabbalah, in a way of comprehension and understanding. Part one explains the Kabbalistic System of the Chaining Down of the Worlds - known as the Seder Hishtalshelut. This knowledge is the foundation of all Kabbalistic thought, and gives great insight into the nature of our existence, and into HaShem. The second part is an introduction to the Kabbalistic method of contemplation and meditation, known as Hitbonenut. Part three explains how the various levels of one's soul become revealed through Hitbonenut meditation.
Book Synopsis Origin(s) of Design in Nature by : Liz Swan
Download or read book Origin(s) of Design in Nature written by Liz Swan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origin(s) of Design in Nature is a collection of over 40 articles from prominent researchers in the life, physical, and social sciences, medicine, and the philosophy of science that all address the philosophical and scientific question of how design emerged in the natural world. The volume offers a large variety of perspectives on the design debate including progressive accounts from artificial life, embryology, complexity, cosmology, theology and the philosophy of biology. This book is volume 23 of the series, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. www.springer.com/series/5775