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Kabbalah, Renaissance
The term Kabbalah commonly refers to a complex of mystical and esoteric doctrines in the Jewish tradition. However, Kabbalah is a multifaceted...
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Dialogue on Kabbalah by Samuel David Luzzatto
This is the first complete translation of Vikuaḥ 'al Ḥokhmat ha-Kabbalah, a literary-philosophical dialogue composed by the great Italian Jewish...
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Semiotic Function of Kabbalah Mystical Experience in the Interpretation of Historical Situations
These notes are the attempt to provide a semiotic interpretation of the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah in the whole course of Jewish history...
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Remaking a Kabbalist: Manuscript and Print Cultures in Early Modern Italy
The dissemination of Safedian Kabbalah in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy represents a critical turning point in the history of...
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“A Remarkable Resemblance:” Comparative Mysticism and the Study of Sufism and Kabbalah
Since the early nineteenth century, Western theologians and scholars have discussed the historical connections between Kabbalah and Sufism, compared...
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Protecting the Image: Was Rav Hayyim of Volozhin’s Portrayal of the Vilna Gaon an Altered Image?
Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720–1797), known as the Vilna Gaon (the Gra), became an icon of Torah learning, saintliness, and devotion to Torah...
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The Fluidity of Being: The Kabbalah
This chapter explores new ways to respond to the quest for the absolute, a quest anchored in the heart of man, and which in the West so often takes...
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A Sage of the Golden Age of Safed: Rabbi Moses Najara
Many studies have been devoted to the prominent scholars who lived in Safed, such as R. Joseph Karo and R. Isaac Luria, but these figures were...
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How to Make a Magician: Kabbalah, Psychotherapy, and the Mechanics of Syncretism in Colette Aboulker-Muscat’s Waking Dreamwork
Colette Aboulker-Muscat (1909–2003) was a pioneer of kabbalistic dreamwork, founding a school at the heart of its contemporary practice. She...
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The Sacred Lifeworld of a Lubavitch Group
This is an account of worship and a whole way of life for a Jewish Lubavitch Chabad group, part of the Hasidic movement, who became participants in...
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Kabbalah, Renaissance
The term Kabbalah commonly refers to a complex of mystical and esoteric doctrines in the Jewish tradition. However, Kabbalah is a multifaceted...
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Reuchlin, Johannes
Johannes Reuchlin, German humanist, diplomat, and Hebraist, is one of the fathers of German humanism; he was also a pioneering figure of Jewish...
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Alemanno, Yohanan ben Isaac
Yohanan Alemanno was an early Jewish Renaissance thinker engaging in multiple disciplines such as philosophy and kabbalah and affected by varied...
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Ineffability and Silence in Judaism and Jewish Mysticism
Ori Z. Soltes explores the meaning of the name of YHVH, showing that all the terms used as names for God ultimately reflect the human struggle to...
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Kara, Avigdor
Avigdor ben Yitzhak Kara (?–1439, Prague) was an important rabbi, mystic, poet, and philosopher in Prague during the last decades of the fourteenth...
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Shalem, Menahem
Menahem ben Jacob Shalem, also known as Menahem Agler (and sometimes referred to, incorrectly, as “Menahem Kara”) was an important Jewish...
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Mühlhausen, Yomtov Lippmann
Yomtov Lippmann ben Shlomo Mühlhausen (?–1421) was an influential rabbi in Central and Eastern Europe. He authored a polemical treatise against...