The Scandal Of Kabbalah
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The Scandal of Kabbalah
Author | : Yaacob Dweck |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2013-12-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691162157 |
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How the Jewish culture war over Kabbalah began The Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition. From its medieval beginnings as an esoteric form of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah spread throughout the early modern world and became a central feature of Jewish life. Scholars have long studied the revolutionary impact of Kabbalah, but, as Yaacob Dweck argues, they have misunderstood the character and timing of opposition to it. Drawing on a range of previously unexamined sources, this book tells the story of the first criticism of Kabbalah, Ari Nohem, written by Leon Modena in Venice in 1639. In this scathing indictment of Venetian Jews who had embraced Kabbalah as an authentic form of ancient esotericism, Modena proved the recent origins of Kabbalah and sought to convince his readers to return to the spiritualized rationalism of Maimonides. The Scandal of Kabbalah examines the hallmarks of Jewish modernity displayed by Modena's attack—a critical analysis of sacred texts, skepticism about religious truths, and self-consciousness about the past—and shows how these qualities and the later history of his polemic challenge conventional understandings of the relationship between Kabbalah and modernity. Dweck argues that Kabbalah was the subject of critical inquiry in the very period it came to dominate Jewish life rather than centuries later as most scholars have thought.
Origins of the Kabbalah
Author | : Gershom Scholem |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2019-02-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780691182988 |
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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.
Kabbalah Secrecy Scandal and the Soul
Author | : Harry Freedman |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-01-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781472950963 |
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This book tells the story of the mystical Jewish system known as Kabbalah, from its earliest origins until the present day. We trace Kabbalah's development, from the second century visionaries who visited the divine realms and brought back tales of their glories and splendours, through the unexpected arrival of a book in Spain that appeared to have lain unconcealed for over a thousand years, and on to the mystical city of Safed where souls could be read and the history of heaven was an open book. Kabbalah's Christian counterpart, Cabala, emerged during the Renaissance, becoming allied to magic, alchemy and the occult sciences. A Kabbalistic heresy tore apart seventeenth century Jewish communities, while closer to our time Aleister Crowley hijacked it to proclaim 'Do What Thou Wilt'. Kabbalah became fashionable in the late 1960s in the wake of the hippy counter-culture and with the approach of the new age, and enjoyed its share of fame, scandal and disrepute as the twenty first century approached. This concise, readable and thoughtful history of Kabbalah tells its story as it has never been told before. It demands no knowledge of Kabbalah, just an interest in asking the questions 'why?' and 'how?'
The Rebellion of the Daughters
Author | : Rachel Manekin |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2020-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691194936 |
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The Origins of the "Daughters' Question" -- Religious Ardor: Michalina Araten and Her Embrace of Catholicism -- Romantic Love: Debora Lewkowicz and Her Flight from the Village -- Intellectual Passion: Anna Kluger and Her Struggle for Higher Education -- Rebellious Daughters and the Literary Imagination: From Jacob Wassermann to S. Y. Agnon -- Bringing the Daughters Back: A New Model of Female Orthodox Jewish Education.
Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah
Author | : Jonathan Garb |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2011-05-15 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780226282077 |
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Theory of shamanism, trance, and modern Kabbalah -- The shamanic process: descent and fiery transformations -- Empowerment through trance -- Shamanic Hasidism -- Hasidic trance -- Trance and the nomian.
Lifting the Veil
Author | : Joseph Michael Levry,Gurunam |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002-03 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1885562020 |
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The Rebbe the Messiah and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference
Author | : David Berger |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2008-03-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781786949899 |
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This book is a history, an indictment, a lament, and an appeal, focusing on the messianic trend in Lubavitch hasidism. It records the shattering of one of Judaism's core beliefs and the remarkable equanimity with which the standard-bearers of Orthodoxy have allowed it to happen. This is a development of striking importance for the history of religions, and it is an earthquake in the history of Judaism. David Berger describes the unfolding of this historic phenomenon and proposes a strategy to contain it.
Divine and Demonic in the Poetic Mythology of the Zohar
Author | : Nathaniel Berman |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2018-09-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004386198 |
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Divine and Demonic in the Poetic Mythology of the Zohar offers a new interpretation of the Kabbalistic “Other Side,” exploring the intimacies and antagonisms of divine and demonic, and showing how the Zoharic literature contributes to thinking about alterity generally.