The Mystical Experience In Abraham Abulafia

Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438407456

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The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia by Moshe Idel Pdf

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.

Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438407463

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Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah by Moshe Idel Pdf

This book presents important topics regarding the more mystical trend of Kabbalah—the ecstatic Kabbalah. It includes the mystical union, the world of imagination, and concentration as a spiritual technique. The emphasis in the text is on the interaction between the "original" Spanish stage of Kabbalah and Muslim mysticism in the East, mainly in the Galilee. The influence of the Kabbalistic-Sufic synthesis on the later developments of Jewish mysticism is traced, thereby providing a more precise understanding of the history of Kabbalah as an interplay between the theosophical and ecstatic mystical experiences.

Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111881905

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Abraham Abulafia by Moshe Idel Pdf

Author : Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110298291

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Abraham Abulafia--kabbalist and Prophet by Elliot R. Wolfson Pdf

Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0887068316

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Language, Torah, and Hermeneutics in Abraham Abulafia by Moshe Idel Pdf

Abraham Abulafia, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah, exposed a mysticism that includes a deep interest in language as a universe in itself, to be studied as the philosophers study nature, in order to attain higher knowledge than natural science and speculative philosophy. The status of Hebrew as the natural, intellectual, and primordial language is discussed against the background of the medieval speculations regarding this topic. Abulafia proposed an elaborate hermeneutical system, unique in the whole Kabbalistic literature, for both its systematic exposition and the eccentric exegetical devices it describes. Various versions of this sevenfold system occur in several manuscripts that are collected and analyzed here in detail for the first time. Torah was regarded by Abulafia as the most important text, reflecting the constitution of the intellectual world and being identical with the Active intellect and even to God Himself. On the other hand, Torah was interpreted in Abulafia's Kabbalah as an allegory to the psychological processes of the mystic, an approach different from the regular Kabbalistic interpretation of this text as a symbolic corpus reflecting the divine intrasefirotic life.

Author : Robert Sagerman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004194465

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The Serpent Kills Or the Serpent Gives Life by Robert Sagerman Pdf

Representing a careful contextual study of the writings of the influential Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia (1240 – c. 1291), this book demonstrates that an inner dynamic of attraction and revulsion toward Christianity shaped Abulafia’s mystical hermeneutic and meditative practice.

Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300082886

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Messianic Mystics by Moshe Idel Pdf

One of the worl'ds leading scholars of Jewish thought examines the long tradition of Jewish messianism and mystical experience.

Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110598773

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Abraham Abulafia’s Esotericism by Moshe Idel Pdf

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.

Author : Adam Afterman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004328730

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“And They Shall Be One Flesh”: On The Language of Mystical Union in Judaism by Adam Afterman Pdf

In “And They Shall Be One Flesh”: On the Language of Mystical Union in Judaism Adam Afterman offers an extensive study of mystical union and mystical embodiment through the divine name and spirit in Judaism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Abraham Solomon
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Cabala
ISBN : 1257653547

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Meditations on the Divine Name by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shahar Arzy,Moshe Idel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300152371

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Kabbalah by Shahar Arzy,Moshe Idel Pdf

In this original study, Moshe Idel, an eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist Shahar Arzy combine their considerable expertise to explore the mysteries of the Kabbalah from an entirely new perspective: that of the human brain. In lieu of the theological, sociological, and psychoanalytic approaches that have generally dominated the study of ecstatic mystical experiences, the authors endeavor to decode the brain mechanisms underlying these phenomena. Arzy and Idel analyze first-person descriptions to explore the Kabbalistic techniques employed by most prominent Jewish mystics to effect bodily reduplications, dissociations, and other phenomena, and compare them with recent neurological observations and modern-day laboratory experiments. The resultant study offers readers a scientific, more brain-based understanding of how ecstatic Kabbalists achieved their most precious mystical experiences. The study further demonstrates how these Kabbalists have long functioned as pioneering investigators of the human self.

Author : David A. Cooper
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781458785275

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Ecstatic Kabbalah by David A. Cooper Pdf

Kabbalah the secret is out! From Madonna's controversial conversion to the Dalai Lama's acknowledgment and support, this mystical tradition is gaining unprecedented recognition. But how do we put this powerful and esoteric worldview into practice? With The Ecstatic Kabbalah, Rabbi David Cooperauthor of God Is a Verb (100, 000 copies sold, Riverhead, 1958), and a renowned leader of the Jewish meditation movementprovides practical exercises on the path toward mending the soul, the fundamental Jewish experience that brings union with the Divine. With meditation techniques for both beginning and advanced practitioners, The Ecstatic Kabbalah guides listeners into awareness of the presence of light with experiential practices for touching the four worlds of mystical Judaism:

Author : Abraham Abulafia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1388830191

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Life of the World to Come by Abraham Abulafia Pdf

Abraham Abulafia 1240-1291, Hayyei ha-Olam ha-Ba "Life of the World to Come"The Spanish kabbalist Abraham Abulafia (1240- after 1291) advocated a concept of Kabbalah that had little or nothing to do with the well-known schools of thought. He considered Kabbalah neither as a form of gnosis nor as a kind of theosophical theory that concentrates on the Sefirot, the emanation of the Divine Being. Instead he attempted to attain a state of prophetic-mystical ecstasy, based on his conviction that the experience of the prophets was an ecstatic experience and that all true mystics were prophets. This work of his was especially popular and circulated under the titles Hayyei ha-Olam ha-Ba ("Life of the World to Come"), Sefer ha-Shem ("Book of the Divine Name") or Sefer ha-Iggulim ("Book of Circles"); in this manuscript, however, it is called Sefer ha-Shem ha-Meforash ("Book of the Ineffable name"). The manuscript presents ten inscriptions in concentric circles in red and black ink, as well as 128 only in black ink. They contain detailed instructions for mystical meditation. While contemplating these circles, one should recite the 72-lettered name of God, which is arrived at by combining the numerical values of the letters in the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, of the Patriarchs, and the nine letters of the words shivtei yisra'el) ("the tribes of Irasel"). The reader should "enter" each of the triple black and red circles at the point where an "entrance" is designated by means of a small pen stroke (red).

Author : Diana Lobel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791493229

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Between Mysticism and Philosophy by Diana Lobel Pdf

Judah Ha-Levi (1075–1141), a medieval Jewish poet, mystic, and sophisticated critic of the rationalistic tradition in Judaism, is the focus of this ground-breaking study. Diana Lobel examines his influential philosophical dialogue, Sefer ha-Kuzari, written in Arabic and later translated into Hebrew, which broke religious and philosophical convention by infusing Sufi terms for religious experience with a new Jewish theological vision. Intellectually engaging, clear, and accessible, Between Mysticism and Philosophy is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the intertwined worlds of Jewish and Islamic philosophy, religion, and culture.

Author : Abraham Abulafia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1897352344

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Ohr Ha-Sechel - Light of the Intellect by Abraham Abulafia Pdf

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.