Sod Ha Shabbat

Author : Elliot K. Ginsburg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438404127

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Sod ha-Shabbat by Elliot K. Ginsburg Pdf

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.

Author : Elliot K. Ginsburg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438404110

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The Sabbath in the Classical Kabbalah by Elliot K. Ginsburg Pdf

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.

Author : Elliot Wolfson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520932319

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Alef, Mem, Tau by Elliot Wolfson Pdf

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.

Author : Richard Fiedler
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780990357704

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Sod Ha'ibur by Richard Fiedler Pdf

The Hebrew Calendar, the date and rationale of it's true origin. Myths surrounding it. the Babylonian Science upon which it is based. Purpose of the Dehiyyah Molad Zaqen and Lo ADU Rosh. The conflict between Rabban Gamliel and R' Yehoshua and it's aftermath, What the Old Moon had to do with this. Why the New Moon is seldom seen on Rosh HaShanah and never seen without the Rabbinical Postponements. And most surprisingly what it has to say about Seder Olam.

Author : Lawrence Fine
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814726297

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Essential Papers on Kabbalah by Lawrence Fine Pdf

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

Author : Norman McClelland
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781977246080

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The Sabbath, Aaron to Zohar by Norman McClelland Pdf

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.

Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441137319

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Saturn's Jews by Moshe Idel Pdf

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.

Author : Arthur Green
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827612136

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The Heart of the Matter by Arthur Green Pdf

"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.

Author : Maurizio Mottolese
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004499003

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

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Reform Judaism
ISBN : UOM:39015025345268

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Journal of Reform Judaism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Samuel Michael Segal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Sabbath
ISBN : UCBK:B000967703

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The Sabbath Book by Samuel Michael Segal Pdf

Author : Francine Klagsbrun
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Sabbath (Jewish law)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111992512

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The Fourth Commandment by Francine Klagsbrun Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015057949227

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Critical Review of Books in Religion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Judaism
ISBN : UCAL:B4434697

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The Journal of Jewish Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015034199102

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The Secret of the Torah by Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra Pdf

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.