Symbols Of The Kabbalah

Author : Sanford L. Drob
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781461734154

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Symbols of the Kabbalah by Sanford L. Drob Pdf

Symbols of the Kabbalah: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives provides a philosophical and psychological interpretation of the major symbols of the theosophical Kabbalah. It shows that the Kabbalah, particularly as it is expressed in the school of Isaac Luria, provides a coherent and comprehensive account of the cosmos, and humanity's role within it, that is intellectually, morally, and spiritually significant for contemporary life.

Author : Jeremy Rosen
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0785829806

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Kabbalah Inspirations by Jeremy Rosen Pdf

Originating in the 12th century, Kabbalah is a mystical movement that arose within the Jewish faith and become one of the most beautiful and enigmatic of all the spiritual traditions. This book traces Kabbalah's most profound, thought provoking and imaginative themes, including: creation myths; the tree of life and the ten sefirot; the significance of the Hebrew alphabet; the link with the Garden of Eden and the mind of Adam; and the mystic sexual union which can contribute to cosmic well being. Coverage is also give to the origins of Kabbalah in medieval Provence and Spain, to its greatest texts, especially The Zohar (Book of Radiance), and to Kabbalah's continuing popularity in modern times. Kabbalah Inspirations captures the character of this fascinating system of ideas and practices and opens up its mysteries to a whole new audience—that is, everyone inspired by the profound truths and poetic beautifes of mysticism.

Author : Ellen Frankel,Betsy Patkin Teutsch
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781461631255

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The Encyclopedia of Jewish Symbols by Ellen Frankel,Betsy Patkin Teutsch Pdf

Jewish symbols reflect the interaction of word and image within Jewish culture. Jews have always studied, interpreted, and revered sacred texts; they have also adorned the settings and occasions of sacred acts. Calligraphy and ornamentation have transformed Hebrew letters into art; quotation, interpretation, legend, and wordplay have made ceremonial objects into narrative. This book represents just such a collaboration between art and language. Ellen Frankel and Betsy Platkin Teutsch, writer and artist, have brought their extensive knowledge and talents together to create The Encyclopedia of Jewish Symbols, the first reference guide of its kind, designed for use by educators, artists, rabbis, folklorists, feminists, Jewish and non-Jewish scholars, and lay readers.

Author : Gershom Scholem
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780805210514

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On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism by Gershom Scholem Pdf

In On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism, Gershom Scholem guides the reader through the central themes in the intricate history of the Kabbalah, clarifying the relations between mysticism and established religious authority, the mystics' interpretation of the Torah and their attempts to discover the hidden meaning underlying Scripture, the tension between the philosophical and the mystical concepts of God, and the symbolism employed in mystical religion. With a new foreword by Bernard McGinn

Author : Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438424378

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Circle in the Square by Elliot R. Wolfson Pdf

This book deals with aspects of the gender imaging of God in a variety of medieval kabbalistic sources. It provides the key to understanding the phenomenological structures of mystical experience as well as the thematic correlation of esotericism and eroticism that is central to the kabbalah. The author examines the role of gender utilizing current feminist studies and cultural anthropology. He explores the themes of the feminization of the Torah, the correlation of circumcision and vision of God, the phallocentric understanding of divine creation as a process of inscription mythologized as an act of sexual self-gratification, and the phenomenon of gender-crossing in kabbalistic myth and ritual. Collectively, the studies explore in great depth the androcentric phallocentrism that is characteristic of medieval Jewish mysticism.

Author : Joseph Dan,Ronald C. Kiener
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809127695

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The Early Kabbalah by Joseph Dan,Ronald C. Kiener Pdf

Here are previously unavailable texts, including The Book Bahir and the writings of the Iyyum circle, that were written during the first one hundred years of this movement that was to become the most important current in Jewish mysticism. This movement began in the late 12th century among Rabbinic Judaism in southern Europe.

Author : Sanford L. Drob
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1433103044

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Kabbalah and Postmodernism by Sanford L. Drob Pdf

Kabbalah and Postmodernism: A Dialogue challenges certain long-held philosophical and theological beliefs, including the assumptions that the insights of mystical experience are unavailable to human reason and inexpressible in linguistic terms, that the God of traditional theology either does or does not exist, that «systematic theology» must provide a univocal account of God, man, and the world, that «truth» is «absolute» and not continually subject to radical revision, and that the truth of propositions in philosophy and theology excludes the truth of their opposites and contradictions. Readers of Kabbalah and Postmodernism will be exposed to a comprehensive mode of theological thought that incorporates the very doubts that would otherwise lead one to challenge the possibility of theology and religion, and which both preserves the riches of the Jewish tradition and extends beyond Judaism to a non-dogmatic universal philosophy and ethic.

Author : Daniel Chanan Matt
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809123878

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Zohar, the Book of Enlightenment by Daniel Chanan Matt Pdf

This is the first translation with commentary of selections from The Zohar, the major text of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. This work was written in 13th-century Spain by Moses de Leon, a Spanish scholar.

Author : Gershom Scholem
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691182988

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Origins of the Kabbalah by Gershom Scholem Pdf

With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider audience for the first time. A crucial work in the oeuvre of Gershom Scholem, this book details the beginnings of the Kabbalah in twelfth- and thirteenth-century southern France and Spain, showing its rich tradition of repeated attempts to achieve and portray direct experiences of God. The Origins of the Kabbalah is a contribution not only to the history of Jewish medieval mysticism, but also to the study of medieval mysticism in general. Now with a new foreword by David Biale, this book remains essential reading for students of the history of religion.

Author : Sanford L. Drob
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000787429

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Kabbalistic Visions by Sanford L. Drob Pdf

In 1944, C. G. Jung experienced a series of visions which he later described as "the most tremendous things I have ever experienced." Central to these visions was the "mystic marriage as it appears in the Kabbalistic tradition", and Jung’s experience of himself as "Rabbi Simon ben Jochai," the presumed author of the sacred Kabbalistic text, the Zohar. Kabbalistic Visions explores Jung’s 1944 Kabbalistic visions, the impact of Jewish mysticism on Jungian psychology, Jung’s archetypal interpretation of Kabbalistic symbolism, and his claim late in life that a Hasidic rabbi, the Maggid of Mezhirech, anticipated his entire psychology. This book places Jung’s encounter with the Kabbalah in the context of the earlier visions and meditations of his Red Book, his abiding interests in Gnosticism and alchemy, and what many regard to be his Anti-Semitism and flirtation with National Socialism. Kabbalistic Visions is the first full-length study of Jung and Jewish mysticism in any language and the first book to present a comprehensive Jungian/archetypal interpretation of Kabbalistic symbolism.

Author : LYNNE. RADOMSKY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0852663064

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REDEEMING THE FEMININE by LYNNE. RADOMSKY Pdf

Author : Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520246195

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Alef, Mem, Tau by Elliot R. Wolfson Pdf

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."

Author : Leonora Leet
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0892817135

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Renewing the Covenant by Leonora Leet Pdf

A guide to how meditations and principles from the Kabbalah can be used to profoundly renew spiritual practice. Renewing the Covenant discusses the importance of dream interpretation in ancient Jerusalem and how it is the key to the achievement of one's personal and spirtual goals.

Author : Gershom Scholem
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780805210811

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On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead by Gershom Scholem Pdf

In clear and easy-to-understand prose, the pioneer of the modern study of Jewish mysticism explains the basic concepts of the Kabbalah. "A major contribution to our understanding of the Kabbalah." —Arthur Green, Professor of Jewish Thought, Brandeis University In the Zohar and other writings of the Kabbalah, Jewish mystics developed concepts and symbols to help them penetrate secrets of the cosmos that cannot be understood through reason or intellect. These ideas about God, human beings, and creation continue to fascinate and influence spiritual seekers of all persuasions today. For anyone seeking to taste the mysteries of the Kabbalah, this is an essential book that explains the mystical "form of the imageless God"; good and evil; the Tsaddik or righteous soul; the Shekhinah, the feminine aspect of God; gilgul, the transmigration of souls; and tselem, the concept of the astral body.

Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300046995

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Kabbalah by Moshe Idel Pdf

In this prizewinning new interpretation of Jewish mysticism, Moshe Idel emphasizes the need for a comparative and phenomenological approach to Kabbalah and its position in the history of religion. Idel provides fresh insights into the origins of Jewish mysticism, the relation between mystical and historical experience, and the impact of Jewish mysticism on western civilization. "Idel's book is studded with major insights, and innovative approaches to the entire history of Judaism, and mastery of it will be essential for all serious students of Jewish thought."--Arthur Green, New York Times Book Review "Moshe Idel's original, scholarly, and stimulating study of Kabbalah contains the promise of a masterwork."--Elie Wiesel "Moshe Idel's book can help the nonspecialized reader to reconsider the whole of Kabbalistic tradition in comparison with many aspects of contemporary thought."--Umberto Eco "There can be no dispute about the importance and originality of Idel's work. Offering a wealth of complementary insights to Gershom Scholem and his school, it will command a great deal of attention and serious discussion."--Alexander Altmann