Sod ha-Shabbat

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438404123
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Sod ha-Shabbat by : Elliot K. Ginsburg

Download or read book Sod ha-Shabbat written by Elliot K. Ginsburg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sabbath has been one of the most significant and beloved institutions of Jewish life since late antiquity. Over a period of several centuries, the classical Kabbalists developed a rich body of ritual and myth that articulated a fresh vision of the Sabbath. The mystical understanding of the Sabbath was assimilated by virtually every Jewish community. This volume is a translation and critical commentary to Sod ha-Shabbat, a treatise on the mystical Sabbath by the influential Spanish-Turkish Kabbalist, R. Meir ibn Gabbai. This important text, the most systematic treatment of the Sabbath in classical Kabbalah, has been inaccessible to the English reader until now. The study includes an Introduction to ibn Gabbai's life and work, accompanied by extensive critical notes that clarify general problems of translation and place the work in its historical context. Broader theoretical issues regarding myth and the ritual process are also discussed.

Sod Ha-Shabbat (the Mystery of the Sabbath)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Book Synopsis Sod Ha-Shabbat (the Mystery of the Sabbath) by : Meir ben Ezekiel ibn Gabbai

Download or read book Sod Ha-Shabbat (the Mystery of the Sabbath) written by Meir ben Ezekiel ibn Gabbai and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to "the Sabbath in the classical Kabbalah, " this important text is a focused, systematic study of the mystical Shabbat prior to the Safed Renaissance.

The Sabbath in the Classical Kabbalah

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438404115
Total Pages : 362 pages
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Book Synopsis The Sabbath in the Classical Kabbalah by : Elliot K. Ginsburg

Download or read book The Sabbath in the Classical Kabbalah written by Elliot K. Ginsburg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critical study of the mystical celebration of Sabbath in the classical period of Kabbalah, from the late twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. The Kabbalists' re-reading of the earlier Jewish tradition has been called a model of "mythopoeic revision," a revision rooted in a world-view that stressed the interrelation of all worlds and levels of being. This is the first work, in any language, to systematically collect and analyze all the major innovations in praxis and theology that classical Kabbalah effected upon the development of the Rabbinic Sabbath, one of the most central areas of Jewish religious practice. The author analyzes the historical development of the Kabbalistic Sabbath, constructs a theoretical framework for the interpretation of its dense myth-ritual structure, and provides a phenomenology of key myths and rituals. It is one of the first Kabbalistic studies to integrate traditional textual-historical scholarship with newer methods employed in the study of religion and symbolic anthropology.

Sod Ha-Shabbat

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Total Pages : 264 pages
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Book Synopsis Sod Ha-Shabbat by : Meir ben Ezekiel ibn Gabbai

Download or read book Sod Ha-Shabbat written by Meir ben Ezekiel ibn Gabbai and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alef, Mem, Tau

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520932315
Total Pages : 346 pages
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Book Synopsis Alef, Mem, Tau by : Elliot Wolfson

Download or read book Alef, Mem, Tau written by Elliot 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: This highly original, provocative, and poetic work explores the nexus of time, truth, and death in the symbolic world of medieval kabbalah. Demonstrating that the historical and theoretical relationship between kabbalah and western philosophy is far more intimate and extensive than any previous scholar has ever suggested, Elliot R. Wolfson draws an extraordinary range of thinkers such as Frederic Jameson, Martin Heidegger, Franz Rosenzweig, William Blake, Julia Kristeva, Friedrich Schelling, and a host of kabbalistic figures into deep conversation with one another. 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. The framework for Wolfson’s examination is the rabbinic teaching that the word emet, "truth," comprises the first, middle, and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet, alef, mem, and tau, which serve, in turn, as semiotic signposts for the three tenses of time—past, present, and future. By heeding the letters of emet we discern the truth of time manifestly concealed in the time of truth, the beginning that cannot begin if it is to be the beginning, the middle that re/marks the place of origin and destiny, and the end that is the figuration of the impossible disclosing the impossibility of figuration, the finitude of death that facilitates the possibility of rebirth. The time of death does not mark the death of time, but time immortal, the moment of truth that bestows on the truth of the moment an endless beginning of a beginningless end, the truth of death encountered incessantly in retracing steps of time yet to be taken—between, before, beyond.

Essential Papers on Kabbalah

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Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814726291
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Book Synopsis Essential Papers on Kabbalah by : Lawrence Fine

Download or read book Essential Papers on Kabbalah written by Lawrence Fine and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on the theosophical/theurgical trend of Kabbalah, 15 essays, reprinted from academic journals and often translated from Hebrew, examine the body of literature that grew up between the 12th and 18th centuries from several approaches. They cover mystical motifs and theological ideas, mystical leadership and personalities, and devotional practices and mystical experience. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Sabbath, Aaron to Zohar

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Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1977246087
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (772 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sabbath, Aaron to Zohar by : Norman McClelland

Download or read book The Sabbath, Aaron to Zohar written by Norman McClelland and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book not only argues for the sanctity of the seventh-day Sabbath. It is this author’s view that Christians have ample justification for observing Sunday as a holy day, but not to claim that it has the same blessed and made holy power to it that the seventh-day Sabbath has. Moreover, it is here pointed out that even the Quran, if read carefully, can support the seventh-day Sabbath.

Saturn's Jews

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441137319
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Book Synopsis Saturn's Jews by : Moshe Idel

Download or read book Saturn's Jews written by Moshe Idel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the phenomenon of Saturnism, namely the belief that the planet Saturn, the seventh known planet in ancient astrology, was appointed upon the Jews, who celebrated the Sabbath, the seventh day of the Jewish week. Moshe Idel details how the anonymous, late 14th century Sefer Ha-Peliyah was to have disturbing consequences in the Jewish world three centuries later, interweaving luminaries with the cultural, historical, religious, and philosophical concepts of their day, and demonstrating how cultural agents were inadvertently instrumental in the mid-17th-century mass-movement Sabbateanism that led to the conviction that Sabbatai Tzevi was the Messiah. Exploring how the tragic misperception of the Jewish Sabbath by the non-Jewish world led to a linkage of Jews with sorcery in 14th and 15th-century Europe, associating their holy day with the witches' 'Sabbat' gathering, Idel brings this wide-ranging study into the present day with an analysis of 20th-century scholarship and thought influenced by Saturnism, particularly lingering themes related to melancholy in the works of Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin.

Sod Ha'ibur

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0990357708
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Sod Ha'ibur written by Richard Fiedler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-02-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets of the Hebrew CalendarRethinking the Conflict between Rabban Gamliel and Rabb Yehoshua

The Heart of the Matter

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0827612133
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

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Book Synopsis The Heart of the Matter by : Arthur Green

Download or read book The Heart of the Matter written by Arthur Green and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Judaism, like all the great religions, has a strand within it that sees inward devotion as an opening of the human heart to God's presence. This voice is not always easy to hear in a tradition where so much attention is devoted to the how rather than the why of religious living. The devotional claim, certainly a key part of Judaism's biblical heritage, has reasserted itself in the teachings of individual mystics and in the emergence of religious movements over the long course of Jewish history. This volume represents Rabbi Arthur Green's own quest for such a Judaism, both as a scholar and as a contemporary seeker. This collection of essays brings together Green's scholarly writings, centered on the history of early Hasidism, and his highly personal approach to a rebirth of Jewish spirituality in our own day. In choosing to present them in this way, he asserts a claim that they are all of a piece. They represent one man's attempt to wade through history and text, language and symbol, an array of voices both past and present, while always focusing on the essential question "What does it mean to be a religious human being, and what does Judaism teach us about it?" This, the author considers to be the heart of the matter." -- Publisher's description.

Tree of Souls

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199879796
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis Tree of Souls by : Howard Schwartz

Download or read book Tree of Souls written by Howard Schwartz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first anthology of Jewish mythology in English, Tree of Souls reveals a mythical tradition as rich and as fascinating as any in the world. Drawing from the Bible, the Pseudepigrapha, the Talmud and Midrash, the kabbalistic literature, medieval folklore, Hasidic texts, and oral lore collected in the modern era, Schwartz has gathered together nearly 700 of the key Jewish myths. The myths themselves are marvelous. We read of Adams diamond and the Land of Eretz (where it is always dark), the fall of Lucifer and the quarrel of the sun and the moon, the Treasury of Souls and the Divine Chariot. We discover new tales about the great figures of the Hebrew Bible, from Adam to Moses; stories about God's Bride, the Shekhinah, and the evil temptress, Lilith; plus many tales about angels and demons, spirits and vampires, giant beasts and the Golem. Equally important, Schwartz provides a wealth of additional information. For each myth, he includes extensive commentary, revealing the source of the myth and explaining how it relates to other Jewish myths as well as to world literature (for instance, comparing Eves release of evil into the world with Pandoras). For ease of use, Schwartz divides the volume into ten books, Myths of God, Myths of Creation, Myths of Heaven, Myths of Hell, Myths of the Holy Word, Myths of the Holy Time, Myths of the Holy People, Myths of the Holy Land, Myths of Exile, and Myths of the Messiah.

Cultic and Further Orders: Semiotics of a Kabbalistic Culture

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004499008
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Cultic and Further Orders: Semiotics of a Kabbalistic Culture by : Maurizio Mottolese

Download or read book Cultic and Further Orders: Semiotics of a Kabbalistic Culture written by Maurizio Mottolese and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an unusual investigation of kabbalistic commentaries on prayer and ritual from the viewpoint of cultural semiotics, this book attempts to illuminate the features of a lasting Jewish tradition, showing in particular the relevance of ordering structures in Sephardi Kabbalah.

Journal of Reform Judaism

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Journal of Reform Judaism written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sabbath Book

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
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Book Synopsis The Sabbath Book by : Samuel Michael Segal

Download or read book The Sabbath Book written by Samuel Michael Segal and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fourth Commandment

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Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Book Synopsis The Fourth Commandment by : Francine Klagsbrun

Download or read book The Fourth Commandment written by Francine Klagsbrun and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth commandments is rich in history and commentary, investigating the symbolic importance of candlelighting. this is a book for the contemporary seeker, at all levels of religious Knowdledge.

The Secret of the Torah

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Secret of the Torah by : Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra

Download or read book The Secret of the Torah written by Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ibn Ezra addresses the importance of the knowledge of grammar, stating that one cannot fully understand the text of the Torah without it. He also discusses the study of the Bible and the Talmud, arguing that one cannot properly comprehend the Talmud if one does not know the sciences, for there are many passages in the Pentateuch and the Talmud that are either incomprehensible or given to misinterpretation by one who has no prior knowledge of the sciences.

Critical Review of Books in Religion

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Critical Review of Books in Religion written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: