Shalom Shar Abi And The Kabbalists Of Beit El

Author : Pinchas Giller
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195328806

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Shalom Shar'abi and the Kabbalists of Beit El by Pinchas Giller Pdf

The Beit El kabbalists, led by their charismatic founder Shalom Shar'abi, have flourished in the Middle East for the last two and half centuries. This work is the first scholarly treatment of Beit El, its history, the underlying theory of its kabbalistic system and the practices and inner life of the kabbalists of Beit El.

Author : Pinchas Giller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199716455

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Shalom Shar'abi and the Kabbalists of Beit El by Pinchas Giller Pdf

The Jerusalem kabbalists of the Beit El Yeshivah are the most influential school of kabbalah in modernity. The school is associated with the writings and personality of a charismatic eighteenth-century Yemenite Rabbi, Shalom Shar'abi, considered by his acolytes to be divinely inspired by the prophet Elijah. Shar'abi initiated what is still the most active school of mysticism in contemporary Middle Eastern Jewry. Today, this meditative tradition is rising in popularity not only in Jerusalem, but throughout the Jewish World. Pinchas Giller examines the characteristic mystical practices of the Beit El School. The dominant practice is that of ritual prayer with mystical "intentions," or kavvanot. The kavvanot themselves are the product of thousands of years of development and incorporate many traditions and bodies of lore. Giller examines the archaeology of the kavvanot literature, the principle aspect of which is the meditation on God's sacred names while reciting prayers, the development of particular rituals, and the innovative mystical and devotional practices of the Beit El kabbalists.

Author : Jonatan Meir
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004321649

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Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem (1896-1948) by Jonatan Meir Pdf

This book endeavors to fill a lacuna in the literature on early twentieth-century kabbalah, namely the lack of a comprehensive account of the traditional kabbalah in Jerusalem from 1896 to 1948.

Author : Pinchas Giller
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441110329

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Kabbalah: A Guide for the Perplexed by Pinchas Giller Pdf

Author : Boʿaz Hus,Marco Pasi,Kocku Von Stuckrad
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004182844

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Kabbalah and Modernity by Boʿaz Hus,Marco Pasi,Kocku Von Stuckrad Pdf

This volume brings together leading representatives of the recent debate about the persistence of kabbalah in the modern world. It breaks new ground for a better understanding of the role of kabbalah in modern religious, intellectual, and political discourse.

Author : Jonathan Garb
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226295947

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Yearnings of the Soul by Jonathan Garb Pdf

In Yearnings of the Soul, Jonathan Garb uncovers a crucial thread in the story of modern Kabbalah and modern mysticism more generally: psychology. Returning psychology to its roots as an attempt to understand the soul, he traces the manifold interactions between psychology and spirituality that have arisen over five centuries of Kabbalistic writing, from sixteenth-century Galilee to twenty-first-century New York. In doing so, he shows just how rich Kabbalah’s psychological tradition is and how much it can offer to the corpus of modern psychological knowledge. Garb follows the gradual disappearance of the soul from modern philosophy while drawing attention to its continued persistence as a topic in literature and popular culture. He pays close attention to James Hillman’s “archetypal psychology,” using it to engage critically with the psychoanalytic tradition and reflect anew on the cultural and political implications of the return of the soul to contemporary psychology. Comparing Kabbalistic thought to adjacent developments in Catholic, Protestant, and other popular expressions of mysticism, Garb ultimately offers a thought-provoking argument for the continued relevance of religion to the study of psychology.

Author : Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798887191409

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Idolatry by Alon Goshen-Gottstein Pdf

Idolatry, or its Hebrew equivalent Avodah Zarah ̧ is a fundamental feature of a Jewish view of other religions. All religions must pass the test of whether they are compliant with a Jewish view of religions as being free from the worship of another God. With the advance in interfaith relations, positions have been affirmed that clear most major contemporary religions from the charge of idolatry. What remains of “idolatry” once it no longer serves as a tool for evaluating other faiths? Does the category continue to have theological appeal? What are its internal uses? A cadre of Jewish scholars and thought leaders explore in this volume what the continuing relevance of “idolatry” is and how it might continue to inform our religious horizons, allowing us to distinguish between good and bad religion, both within Judaism and beyond.

Author : Brian Ogren
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004290310

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Time and Eternity in Jewish Mysticism by Brian Ogren Pdf

Time and Eternity in Jewish Mysticism offers a multivalent picture of a central topic in Jewish mysticism by bringing together diverse academic voices. It offers variant approaches, which have stemmed from intense discussion amongst leading scholars in the field.

Author : Roni Weinstein
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781800857308

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Kabbalah and Jewish Modernity by Roni Weinstein Pdf

Roni Weinstein’s sociological reading of the kabbalistic ideas of the early modern period suggests that they gained acceptance because they met the needs of contemporary Jewish society. Although these ideas were presented as continuing a tradition, their goal was reformation: few aspects of Jewish life were not changed in consequence. This broadly based and innovative study challenges accepted ideas on the origins of Jewish modernity, and also shows how Counter-Reformation Catholicism affected these developments.

Author : Edward Hoffman
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0834822474

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The Kabbalah Reader by Edward Hoffman Pdf

This comprehensive and accessible entrée into the world of Kabbalah covers 1,600 years of Jewish mystical thought and features a variety of thinkers—from the renowned to the obscure—unavailable in any other volume. It’s a fresh take on an ancient tradition compiled by Edward Hoffman, a psychologist and respected scholar of Judaism, who reveals how this supposedly esoteric material is relevant to a host of contemporary concerns, such as ethics, emotional health, intuition and creativity, meditation, social relations and leadership, and higher states of consciousness. Contributors include: Moses Chaim Luzzatto, Moses Cordovero, Abraham Abulafia, Maimonides, Nachmanides, The Maharal, Nachman of Breslov, The Baal Shem Tov, The Gaon of Vilna, The Netziv, The Ben Ish Chai, Yehudah Ashlag, Kalonymus Shapira, Baba Sali, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, Adin Steinsaltz, Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi, Jonathan Sacks, and many others, along with excerpts from the Sefer Yetzirah, Sefer HaBahir, and Sefer HaZohar.

Author : Shaul Magid
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253008091

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American Post-Judaism by Shaul Magid Pdf

How do American Jews identify as both Jewish and American? American Post-Judaism argues that Zionism and the Holocaust, two anchors of contemporary American Jewish identity, will no longer be centers of identity formation for future generations of American Jews. Shaul Magid articulates a new, post-ethnic American Jewishness. He discusses pragmatism and spirituality, monotheism and post-monotheism, Jesus, Jewish law, sainthood and self-realization, and the meaning of the Holocaust for those who have never known survivors. Magid presents Jewish Renewal as a movement that takes this radical cultural transition seriously in its strivings for a new era in Jewish thought and practice.

Author : Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110688023

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Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis by Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel Pdf

The experience of birth has functioned through the ages as a vital metaphor foundational to all fields of art, philosophy, religion and literature. This book highlights the significance of birth in Jewish culture, as a challenge to existential philosophy and the centrality of death in Western culture. Similarities between Kabbalistic and midrashic perceptions of birth and its current place in cultural and psychoanalytic discourse are discussed.

Author : Hartley Lachter
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813573892

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Kabbalistic Revolution by Hartley Lachter Pdf

The set of Jewish mystical teachings known as Kabbalah are often imagined as timeless texts, teachings that have been passed down through the millennia. Yet, as this groundbreaking new study shows, Kabbalah flourished in a specific time and place, emerging in response to the social prejudices that Jews faced. Hartley Lachter, a scholar of religion studies, transports us to medieval Spain, a place where anti-Semitic propaganda was on the rise and Jewish political power was on the wane. Kabbalistic Revolution proposes that, given this context, Kabbalah must be understood as a radically empowering political discourse. While the era’s Christian preachers claimed that Jews were blind to the true meaning of scripture and had been abandoned by God, the Kabbalists countered with a doctrine that granted Jews a uniquely privileged relationship with God. Lachter demonstrates how Kabbalah envisioned this increasingly marginalized group at the center of the universe, their mystical practices serving to maintain the harmony of the divine world. For students of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalistic Revolution provides a new approach to the development of medieval Kabbalah. Yet the book’s central questions should appeal to anyone with an interest in the relationships between religious discourses, political struggles, and ethnic pride.

Author : Shaul Magid
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781644690918

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Piety and Rebellion by Shaul Magid Pdf

Piety and Rebellion examines the span of the Hasidic textual tradition from its earliest phases to the 20th century. The essays collected in this volume focus on the tension between Hasidic fidelity to tradition and its rebellious attempt to push the devotional life beyond the borders of conventional religious practice. Many of the essays exhibit a comparative perspective deployed to better articulate the innovative spirit, and traditional challenges, Hasidism presents to the traditional Jewish world. Piety and Rebellion is an attempt to present Hasidism as one case whereby maximalist religion can yield a rebellious challenge to conventional conceptions of religious thought and practice.

Author : Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253042583

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Heidegger and Kabbalah by Elliot R. Wolfson Pdf

While many scholars have noted Martin Heidegger's indebtedness to Christian mystical sources, as well as his affinity with Taoism and Buddhism, Elliot R. Wolfson expands connections between Heidegger's thought and kabbalistic material. By arguing that the Jewish esoteric tradition impacted Heidegger, Wolfson presents an alternative way of understanding the history of Western philosophy. Wolfson's comparison between Heidegger and kabbalah sheds light on key concepts such as hermeneutics, temporality, language, and being and nothingness, while yielding surprising reflections on their common philosophical ground. Given Heidegger's involvement with National Socialism and his use of antisemitic language, these innovative readings are all the more remarkable for their juxtaposition of incongruent fields of discourse. Wolfson's entanglement with Heidegger and kabbalah not only enhances understandings of both but, more profoundly, serves as an ethical corrective to their respective ethnocentrism and essentialism. Wolfson masterfully illustrates the redemptive capacity of thought to illuminate common ground in seemingly disparate philosophical traditions.