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Abraham abulafias most popular book is abraham abulafia. Idel s thesis is that the role of the golem concept in judaism was to confer an exceptional status to the jewish elite by bestowing it with the capability of supernatural powers deriving from a profound knowledge of the hebrew language and its magical and mystical values. Sitre torah by abraham ben samuel abulafia the british library. But in a series ofstudies on kabbalistic subjects to which abulafias thought is pertinent, he is not mentioned at all.
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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. This book contains excerpts of historical texts about abulafia s divine name meditations. Meilicke in the late 1960s and early 1970s a group of jewish poets in california became enthusiastic about the mystical texts of abraham abulafia, a medieval kabbalist. An ecstatic kabbalist, were published by magnes books. Pillars, lines, ladders journal for the study of religions and ideologies, 6, 18winter 2007 p. Nondenominational meditation techniques for ecstasy and kabbalah. He was born in zaragoza, spain in 1240 and is assumed to have died sometime after 1291, following a stay on the small and windswept island of comino, the smallest of the three inhabited islands that make up the maltese archipelago. Lobel visiting scholar lecture moshe idel, the max cooper professor in jewish thought, department of jewish thought at hebrew university, jerusalem, unravels some of the. Mystical experience in abraham abulafia the read free and.
Meaning and history of kabbalah in languedoc, catalonia, castile and italy, abraham abulafia was a kabbalist. Language, torah, and hermeneutics in abraham abulafia suny series in judaica. Thus, hebrew as an ideal language emcompasses all the other languages. Pdf language torah and hermeneutics in abraham abulafia by. Sefer sitre torah book of the secrets of the torah, which abulafia completed in 1280 ce, is essentially a commentary on maimonides philosophical masterwork guide to the perplexed. Mihaela mudure moshe idel, ascension on high in jewish mysticism. There is a discussion of the characteristics of his mystical experience and the erotic imagery by which it was expressed.
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Moshe idels contribution to the study of religion 55 see p. Moshe idel is professor emeritus in the department of jewish philosophy at hebrew university and is a senior fellow at the shalom hartman institute. Idel moshe golem jewish magical and mystical traditions. May 09, 2018 abraham abulafia 12401291 is the most important figure in the prophetic kabbalah, and among the most fascinating kabbalists in our historical record. This parchment manuscript is a 15thcentury ce copy of sefer sitre torah. Meaning and history of kabbalah in languedoc, catalonia, castile and italy, abraham abulafia. Abraham abulafia download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. 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. Abraham abulafia, gan naul1 the book of creation sefer yesira is a unique, isolated work that belongs to no school of thought daphne hadas freedman2 sefer yetzirah book of formation, hereafter sy is the oldest known speculative treatise in hebrew. It points to the importance of the ecstatic kabbalah for the later developments in mystical judaism.
As christian kabbalists would do two centuries later,11 he entertained the dream of reconciling judaism and christianity. Hermeneutics, mysticism, and religion idel, moshe on. The anonymous scribe penned the text in two columns in a tidy semicursive italian. Cewebity peaceful pathways shaye tacker slate 52 nystesolpodcasts podcast. Vadim putzu, mystical techniques, mental processes, and. Sitre torah by abraham ben samuel abulafia the british. 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. A pure parable differs from a pure allegory in two respects.
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