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Cherub Press is proud to announce
The publication of four
new volumes
Studies in the Zohar, an edition of the Works
of Iyyun
and volumes 29 and 30 of
Kabbalah
–NEW –
Kabbalah 30 (2013), 320 pp.
[English and Hebrew] ISBN 1-933379-33-2
Studies
in English
Daniel Abrams: A
Commentary to the Ten Sefirot from Early Thirteenth-Century Catalonia: Synoptic
Edition, Translation and Detailed Commentary
Ari Ackerman: The
Attribution of Sod Ha-Kaddish to Hasdai Crescas
Elliot R. Wolfson: Nequddat
ha-Reshimu – The Trace of Transcendence and the Transcendence of the Trace:
The Paradox of Ṣimṣum in the RaShaB’s Hemshekh Ayin Beit
Studies
in Hebrew
Daniel Reiser and Ariel
Evan Mayse: The Last Sermon of R. Judah Leib Alter of Gur and the Role of
Yiddish in the Study of Hasidic Sermons
Hadar Feldman-Samet:
Theological Aspects in ‘Letters of the Donme’ – A Sabbatean Source from Rabbi
Judah Levi Tova’s Circle
Ariel Roth: Reshimu – The
Dispute between Lubavitch and Kopost Hasidism
Avishar Har Shefi: The
Affinity of Rabbi Nahman of Breslav with Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai and the Turning
toward Sippurei Ma‘asiyot
Tsippi Kauffman, On the
Portrait of a Saddiq: R. Zusha of Annopol
Avraham Elqayam: Nudity in
Safed in the Sixteenth Century – Between Hasidism and Deviance
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–NEW –
Kabbalah 29 (2013), 320 pp. [English
and Hebrew] ISBN 1-933379-32-4
Studies
in English
Daniel Abrams: The ‘Zohar’
as Palimpsest – Dismantling the Literary Constructs of a Kabbalistic Classic
and the Turn to the Hermeneutics of Textual Archeology
Studies
in Hebrew
Moshe Idel: The Identification
of the Authors of Two Ashkenazi Commentaries to ha-’Ederet ve-ha-’Emunah and
R. Eleazar of Worms’ Theurgic Conceptions of the Divine Glory
Roee Goldschmidt: The
Study of Lurianic Kabbalah in the Circle of the Baal Shem Tov – R. Moses Shoham
of Dolina’s Seraf Peri Es Hayyim
Avraham Elqayam: The King
is Naked – The Symbolic Removal of the Scarf in the Kabbalah of R. Joseph
Gikatilla
Joseph Yahalom: From the
Melody to the Lyric: Hebrew Poetry on Conjunction After the Spanish Expulsion
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New!
The Works of Iyyun: Critical Editions ëúáé äòéåï:
îäãåøåú îãòéåú,
edited by Oded Porat (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism
34; 2013, 280 pp, in Hebrew, ISBN 1-933379-37-5). For the first time in the
history of the study of Jewish Mysticism a complete collection of the treatises
of the Iyyun Literature has been critically edited in a single volume. With a
historical, literary and theoretical introduction, Oded Porat has edited with
critical apparatus all the known works of the early anonymous kabbalists of
thirteenth-century Langedouc-Provence. The mystical speculation of the Iyyun
literature seeks to make the divine attendant within the present through
ever-evolving linguistic creativity, constantly limited by its origin. This
mystical textbook is a basic part of any library of sources and studies of
medieval Jewish mysticism.
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New!
Window to the Stories of the Zohar: Studies in the Exegetical and
Narrative Methods of the Zohar öåäø ìñéôåøé äæåäø: òéåðéí áãøëé äãøåù åäñéôåø áñôø äæåäø
by Michal Oron (Sources and Studies in the Literature of
Jewish Mysticism 33; 2013, 216 pp. in Hebrew, ISBN 1-933379-36-7) This
collection of studies represents the state of the field of research on the
Zohar from a literary perspective, including studies on zoharic parables,
homilies and discrete literary units of the zoharic corpus.
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The Divine Retinue: Variety of Jewish Mysticism ôîìéà ùì
îòìä: øéáåé ôðéä ùì äîéñèé÷ä äéäåãéú , by Michael Schneider (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish
Mysticism 32; 2012, in Hebrew, FORTHCOMING). This is the third book in a
trilogy of studies on Jewish mythical and mystical traditions from the Second
Temple period through the early medieval ages. One of the main purposes of this
study is to show variegation
in early Jewish mysticism that can not be reduced to a few major trends. One of
its cross-cutting themes is the images of multiplicity – like the rainbow and
the multi-faced theophanic angels – as a revelation of the One God. The book
traces mythic and mystical traditions and motifs through sources belonging to a
variety of languages, cultures and religions, mainly Jewish, Christian,
gnostic, Muslim, Zoroastrian and Buddhist.
Scattered Traditions of
Jewish Mysticism: Studies in Ancient Jewish Mysticism in Light of Traditions
from the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha Hellenistic Literature, Christian and
Islamic Sources äîñåøåú äâðåæåú ùì äîéñèé÷ä äéäåãéú: îç÷øé äîéñèé÷ä äéäåãéú ä÷ãåîä òì
ôé òãåéåú ùì ñôøéí çéöåðéí, ñôøåú äìðéñèéú, î÷åøåú ðåöøééí åîåñìîééí, by
Michael Schneider
(Sources
and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 31; 2012, 336 pages, ISBN
1-933379-26-X, in Hebrew). This is the second volume in a trilogy of
studies on Jewish mythical and mystical traditions from the Second Temple
through the early medieval ages. The book includes three extensive studies. The
first deals with pseudepigraphic book of Joseph and Aseneth and explores the
topics of ritual, initiation, mystical transformation and sacred marriage. The
second chapter contains a thorough revision of the scholarly consensus about
the pargod as a medium of mystical vision in Hekhalot literature and in
the Apocalyptic. The third chapter is devoted to the ‘Prince of peace’, the
divine-angelic-human messianic figure that embodies the principle of
‘coincidentia oppositorum’.
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The Appearance of the
High Priest – Theophany, Apotheosis and Binitarian Theology: From Priestly
Tradition of the Second Temple Period through Ancient Jewish Mysticism, by Michael Schneider, îøàä ëäï:
úéàåôðéä, àôåúéàåæä, åúéàåìåâéä áéðàøéú – áéï ääâåú äëäðéú áú÷åôú äáéú äùðé
ìáéï äîéñèé÷ä äéäåãéú ä÷ãåîä (Sources and
Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 30; 2012, 384 pages, ISBN
1-933379-25-1, in Hebrew). This volume is the first of three volumes in a major
scholarly reassessment of mystical traditions in the Second Temple period,
which explores the variety of early religious traditions across diverse bodies
of literature and in various languages. The symbolic, mythic and mystical
features of these traditions, their transmission and migration histories and
their reappearance in some medieval texts is further investigated. At the heart
of this volume is the concept of the encounter and communion between the high
priest and God, which implies an anthropomorphic theophany (the appearance of
the God in human form) and the apotheosis (deification) of the high priest.
This phenomenon is understood in the framework of a binitarian theology that
distinguishes the hidden God from His visible appearance. These concepts appear
as sources for many latter mystical traditions.
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Ten Psychoanalytic
Aphorisms on the Kabbalah (Lecture Delivered at the Ceremony for the Gershom
Scholem Prize for Kabbalah Scholarship at the Israel Academy of Sciences and
Humanities on the Anniversary of Gershom Scholem’s Birth, December 5, 2010) ãðéàì
àáøîñ, òùøä îàîøéí ôñéëåàðìéèééí òì ä÷áìä, äøöàä ùðéúðä áè÷ñ äòð÷ú äôøñ áç÷ø
ä÷áìä òì ùí âøùí ùìåí áà÷ãîéä äìàåîéú äéùøàìéú ìîãòéí áéåí äåìãúå ùì âøùí ùìåí
ë"è áëñìå úùò"à, by Daniel Abrams
(Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 29; 2011, 88 pages,
ISBN 1-933379-24-3, bilingual edition: Full English and Hebrew texts of the
introduction, aphorisms, notes and colophon). In a beautiful, bibliophile
edition, issued in a limited run of 300 copies, English and Hebrew readers will
enjoy the presentation of ten aphorisms that offer the inner structure of the
Kabbalah’s psychoanalytic traditions, presented from within their own discourse
and formulated in their terms and concepts. In the introduction, Scholem’s
basic rejection of Freudian psychoanalysis for Kabbalah research is considered,
as is Freud’s grounding of his new discipline in relation to Greek mythology
instead of any turn to Jewish traditions. The ten aphorisms are annotated with
marginalia for source references of passages cited, whereas further manuscript
and textual references are provided in the footnotes. In presenting the body of
traditions of Kabbalah’s psychoanalytic theory, these aphorisms serve as a
critical return to Scholem’s ‘Ten Unhistorical Aphorisms on the Kabbalah”, and
thus can be seen as a signpost for a new direction in Kabbalah research.
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Devequt: Mystical
Intimacy in Medieval Jewish Thought, àãí àôèøîï,
ãá÷åú: äú÷ùøåú àéðèéîéú áéï àãí ìî÷åí áäâåú äéäåãéú áéîé äáéðééí, by
Adam Afterman (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 28;
2011, 384 pages, ISBN 1-933379-23-5, in Hebrew). This monograph offers a
detailed study of the exegetical and experiential understandings of devequt
in ancient and medieval Jewish thought, from the Hebrew Bible through the works
of Nahmanides. This study explains the connections between the various corpora,
linking the moves made between the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic Literature, and
then from the early medieval philosophic and pietistic sources - including Ibn
Gabirol, Ibn Paquda, Judah Halevi, and Maimonides – to the early kabbalists.
The study is thus both a major contribution to the history of ideas and Jewish
mysticism, and a refreshing new vision of the larger framework of Jewish
tradition and the interface between philosophic and mystical traditions.
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The Dates of Composition
of The Zohar and The Book Bahir: The History of Biblical Vocalization and
Accentuation as a Tool for Dating Kabbalistic Works, by Jordan S. Penkower,
òì
æîï çéáåøí ùì ñôø äæåäø åñôø äáäéø: úåìãåú ñéîðé äðé÷åã åäèòîéí äî÷øàééí ëëìé
ìúéàøåê ùì ñôøé ÷áìä, Sources and Studies in
the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 27; 2010, ISBN 1-933379-19-7, 192 pages, in
Hebrew. This volume offers a sustained argument concerning the rise of critical
observations and historical awareness surrounding the appearance, composition
and acceptance of works written in a midrashic style. Such works as The Book
Bahir and The Zohar afforded a great amount of attention to minutiae of the
biblical tradition, especially aspects of vocalization and accents that were
later known to have arisen at a later stage in Jewish history. This volume adds
to the history of the understanding of these books with new insights into their
contexts and the historically placed arguments for appreciation of these works.
This study affords further insights into the attitudes concerning these
kabbalistic books by such important figures as Elijah Levita and Samuel David
Luzzatto, who contributed to Jewish culture in
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Kabbalistic Manuscripts and Textual Theory: Methodologies of Textual
Scholarship and Editorial Practice in the Study of Jewish Mysticism, by Daniel Abrams,
foreword by David Greetham, Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish 26;
2010, 761 pp., hardcover, ISBN 1-933379-18-9, in English, $49. Kabbalistic Manuscripts
and Textual Theory uncovers the unstated assumptions and expectations of
scribes and scholars who fashioned editions from manuscripts of Jewish mystical
literature. This study offers a theory of kabbalistic textuality in which the
material book – the printed page no less than handwritten manuscripts – serves
as the site for textual dialogue between Jewish mystics of different periods
and locations. The refashioning of the text through the process of reading and
commenting that takes place on the page – in the margins and between the lines
– blurs the boundaries between the traditionally defined roles of author,
reader, commentator and editor. This study shows that kabbalists and academic
editors reinvented the text in their own image, as part of a fluid textual
process that was nothing short of transformative.
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Sefer ha-Shem Attributed to R. Moses de León, ñôø äùí
äîéåçñ ìø' îùä ãé ìéàåï, Edited, annotated and
introduced by Michal Oron, (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish
Mysticism 25; 2010, 240 pages, ISBN 1-933379-12-X, in Hebrew). Sefer ha-Shem
is a carefully constructed and highly detailed commentary to the ten sefirot.
It rivals, if not surpasses, Gikatilla’s Sha‘arei Orah in its clarity
and function as an introduction and guide to Theosophic Kabbalah. This
beautiful edition serves as a primer to Spanish Kabbalah and serves as a major
guide for the beginning and advanced student of kabbalistic texts in the
original Hebrew, with an introductory study, copious notes and a full index of
central terms and names of the sefirot.
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Automatic Writing in
Zoharic Literature and Modernism, ùí äëåúá åëúéáä
àåèåîèéú áñôøåú äæåäø åáîåãøðéæí,
by Amos Goldreich (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism
24; 2010, 408 pages, ISBN 1-933379-17-0, in Hebrew). This richly detailed monograph
explores the phenomenon of mystical and magical techniques which induce a
different state of consciousness that leads to literary production. The impetus
of the study is the suggestion, offered in the celebrated testimony of R. Isaac
of
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Concealed and Revealed: ‘Ein Sof’ in Theosophic Kabbalah,áðñúø
åáðâìä: òéåðéí áúåìãåú ä'àéï ñåó' á÷áìä äúéàåñåôéú , by Sandra Valabregue-Perry (Sources and
Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 23; 2010, 312 pages, ISBN
1-933379-16-2, in Hebrew). This volume offers a detailed analysis of the
traditions and conceptualization of the Ein Sof in Theosophic Kabbalah,
from the first kabbalists in Provence and Gerona (including R. Isaac the Blind
and R. Azriel of Gerona) and on through R. Isaac of Acre and the Zoharic literature.
The study further explores central problems discussed by the kabbalists,
including the relationship between Ein Sof and Keter, concepts of
infinity, negative theology, questions of ontology and the role of divine
emanation.
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Lurianic Kabbalah: Collected Studies by Gershom Scholem, ÷áìú
äàø"é: àåñó îàîøéí îàú âøùí ùìåí,
edited by Daniel Abrams (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish
Mysticism 22; 2008, 440 pages, ISBN 1-933379-09-X, in Hebrew). This volume (all
in Hebrew) celebrates the groundbreaking work of Gershom Scholem on
Kabbalistic literary and mystical activity from the end of the fifteenth
century, just prior to the Expulsion from
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Analogy in Midrash and Kabbalah: Interpretive Projections of the Sanctuary
and Ritual, by Maurizio Mottolese
(Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 21; 2007, 398 pages,
ISBN 1-933379-07-3, in English). Found in most religious cultures, analogical
discourse plays a decisive role in Judaism. This book offers a close inquiry
into the peculiar features, the various forms and the broader developments of
analogy within Jewish literature, focusing especially on late-antique and
medieval contexts. Not surprisingly, Jewish authors always produced analogical
maps of reality by means of an analogical interpretation of the Bible, seen as
disclosing manifold, and often secret, correspondences. This study of analogy
is thus based on a renewed exploration of midrashic and mystical hermeneutics.
The thematic focus investigates interpretive projections of the ancient
sanctuary and its worship, highlighting the tendency of Jewish exegetes to
analogize (and thus double in heaven) sacred places and cultic practices.
Exploring analogical exegesis is then also an opportunity, as well as a means,
for offering a refreshing perspective on the mythical-ritual imagery of the
Rabbis and the medieval kabbalists.
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Mystical Interactions: Sociology,
Jewish Mysticism and Education, by Philip Wexler. (Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 20, 2007, 197 pages ISBN 1-933379-06-5, in
English). Mystical Interactions represents a dialogue and interaction between
Sociology and Jewish Mysticism. It juxtaposes ‘classical’ sociology, depth
social psychology and contemporary theories of social movements to conceptual
social aspects from the Jewish mystical tradition. By interweaving sociology
and Jewish mysticism, Wexler offers a new theory of a religious sociology of
everyday social life, of the elementary forms of mystical sociality. Sociology
does not ‘explain’ Jewish mysticism. On the contrary, Jewish mysticism becomes
a resource for understanding social interaction differently. What emerges is a
Jewish, mystical social interpretation of society, religion and education.
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The Secret of Unity: Unifications in the Kabbalistic and Hasidic Thought of
R. Hayyim ben Solomon Tyrer of Czernowitz, áñåã
äéçåã: äéçåãéí áäâåúå ä÷áìéú-çñéãéú ùì ø' çééí áï ùìîä èéøø îèùøðåáéõ, by Ron Wacks, (Sources and
Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 19; 2006, 320 pages, ISBN
1-93379-04-09, in Hebrew). This book is a study of the
thought of R. Hayyim ben
Solomon Tyrer of Czernowitz (1760?-1817?), one of the most prominent rabbis of
eastern
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Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah: The Masculine and Feminine in Lurianic
Kabbalah,
ôñéëåàðìéæä
å÷áìä: ìúäìéëé æéååâ äæëøé åäð÷áé á÷áìú äàø"é,
by Devorah Bat-David Gamlieli (Sources and Studies in
the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 18; 2006, 408 pages, ISBN 1-933379-03-0, in
Hebrew). This study examines the reasons for the negative connotation
attributed to the female aspect of the Godhead, identified in various Jewish
traditions with ’ani, understood as the ego in psychological terms. This
study draws on three disciplines: Lurianic Kabbalah, Maimonidean
philosophy, and Freudian psychoanalysis: Psychology of the Self and
Object-Relations Theory. This interdisciplinary approach offers a new interpretive
model for understanding Lurianic texts and their exegesis of the Hebrew Bible.
A reading of Lurianic symbolism through psychoanalytical terminology provides
for a deeper understanding of kabbalistic symbolism.
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The Interpretation of Secrets and the Secret of Interpretation: Midrashic
and Hermeneutic Strategies in Sabba de-Mishpatim of the Zohar,ôøùðåú
äñåã åñåã äôøùðåú: îâîåú îãøùéåú åäøîðåéèéåú á'ñáà ãîùôèéí' ùáæåäø , by Oded Yisraeli (Sources and
Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism
17; 2005, 304 pages, ISBN 1-933379-00-6, in Hebrew) Sabba de-Mishpatim
is a distinct literary unit of Zoharic literature which interprets Exodus,
chapters 21-24. The composition tells of a wonderful encounter between Rabbi
Hiyyah and Rabbi Yossi, and an eccentric old man (the Sabba), whom they
originally mistook for an ignoramus. The exegesis delivered by the Sabba
to the friends examines esoteric matters concerning the laws
of the spirit and reincarnation, reward and punishment, and principles of
exegesis. This section of the Zohar is most famous for the parable of
the maiden in the tower. This volume is the first full-length study of Sabba
de-Mishpatim, exploring its hermeneutics and the revival of the midrashic
form in Zoharic literature.
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Enchanted Chains: Techniques and Rituals in Jewish Mysticism, by Moshe Idel, with a
foreword by Harold Bloom (Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 16; 2005, 258 pages, ISBN 0-9747505-4-9, in
English) Enchanted Chains
brings together some conceptual approaches that were developed in Idel’s
earlier studies such as Kabbalah: New Perspectives, particularly the
contributions of analyzing techniques and rituals for a better understanding of
Jewish mysticism, as well as of certain aspects of mystical literature in some
of the major religions. Here, the author has taken a further step, attempting
to highlight the existence of affinities between techniques, theologies and the
nature of experience related to them. He describes the specific understanding
of Jewish mystics of the well-known theme of the Great Chain of Being, as part
of their magico-theurgical worldviews, which differed from the more static
Platonic picture dominant in the West, and described by Arthur Lovejoy in his
famous monograph.
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Sex of the Soul: The Vicissitudes of Sexual Difference in Kabbalah, by Charles Mopsik, Edited with a foreword by Daniel
Abrams, (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 15;
2005, 212 pages, ISBN
0-9747505-9-x, in English). The
present volume is the first collection of studies by Charles Mopsik (1956-2003)
to be published in English. It contains the contents of two separate volumes
published in French, with an additional study which was published elsewhere.
These seven studies focus on the function and character of sex and gender in
Jewish Mysticism: (1) The Primeval Couple and the Primordial One in the
Religions of the World; (2) The Masculine Woman; (3) Creation and Procreation:
Beyond the Bounds of the Body – From the Hebrew Bible to Medieval Jewish
Mysticism; (4) Genesis 1: 26-27: The Image of God, Man and Wife, and the Status
of Women in the writings of the Early Kabbalists; (5) Genesis 2:24: ‘They
Become One Flesh’: Several Interpretations by Medieval Jewish Mystics; (6) Union
and Unity in the Kabbalah: The Proclamation of the Divine Unity and the
Male/Female Couple; (7) The Secret of the Marriage of David and Batsheva.
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Roots of Faith and Devequt: Studies in the History of
Kabbalistic Ideas, by Mordechai Pachter, (Sources and
Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 10; 2004, 342 pages, ISBN
0-9747505-5-7, in English). This book presents - in English - four studies by
Mordechai Pachter on central ideas in kabbalistic thought: (1) The Root of
Faith is the Root of Heresy; (2) Circles and Straightness; (3) Smallness and
Greatness; (4) Devequt in Sixteenth Century Safed. The first study
describes the most supreme point of deity revealing itself out of the depths of
Ein-Sof (the Infinite), the point defined as faith. The second
chapter goes on to the two modes of revelation and operation of all the Divine sefirot,
the modes of circles and straightness; and the third chapter treats the Sefirot,
namely the two lower configurations, ze‘ir ‘anpin (the Short Countenance) and nuqva
(the Female), who are the Lurianic equivalents of the sefirot Tiferet
and Malkhut, in their two states of development and growth: the state of
qatnut (smallness) and the state of gadlut
(greatness); the final chapter discusses the lowest point of the Divine world,
the point at which man and God meet in communion, i.e. devequt.
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The Commentaries to Ezekiel’s Chariot of R. Eleazar of
Worms and R. Jacob ben Jacob ha-Kohen, edited and
introduced by Asi Farber-Ginat and Daniel Abrams,ôéøåùé äîøëáä
ìø' àìòæø îååøîñ åìø' éò÷á
áï éò÷á äëäï (Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 11, 2004, 184 pages; ISBN 0-9640972-8-1, in
Hebrew). These two
commentaries form the only known kabbalistic reworking of a surviving German
pietist text and are of great importance for the understanding of the emergence
of Kabbalah in the thirteenth century.
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Words of the Righteous (Divrei Saddiqim): An
Anti-Hasidic Satire by Joseph Perl and Isaac Baer Levinsohn,
critically edited and introduced by Jonatan Meir, ãáøé öãé÷éí (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish
Mysticism 12, 2004, 180 pages, ISBN 0-9747505-7-3 in Hebrew). The most famous
anti-Hasidic satire in the nineteenth century is Joseph Perl’s Megale Temirin. This text was published
anonymously in
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The Intention of Prayers in Early Ecstatic Kabbalah: A
Study and Critical Edition of an Anonymous Commentary to the Prayers, critically
edited and introduced by Adam Afterman, ëååðú äîáøê ìî÷åí
äîòùä (Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 13; 2004, 320 pages, ISBN 0-9747505-3-0, in
Hebrew). This Commentary to the Prayers was written around 1270 in
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Joseph b. Abraham Ibn Waqar: Principles of the Qabbalah, edited
from Hebrew and Arabic Manuscripts, by P. B. Fenton, ñôø ùøùé
ä÷áìä (Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 14, 2004, 200 pages, ISBN 0-9747505-6-5, in Hebrew).
Rabbi Joseph ben Abraham Ibn Waqār flourished in
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The Mystical Meaning of Lekhah Dodi and Kabbalat Shabbat,
by Reuven Kimelman. ÷áìú
ùáú åìëä ãåãé. Solomon Alkabetz
composed Lekhah Dodi in Safed in the mid-sixteenth century. This book
discloses the poem’s kabbalistic meaning and its function within the Sabbath
evening service. It explains how the ceremony for the welcoming of the
Sabbath developed in Safed as a wedding and coronation ceremony in which the
Sabbath was personified as bride and queen. The song merges erotic, mystical,
and historical images into a kabbalistic vision of redemption. It urges one to
join the divine Lover in greeting the weekly Sabbath to get to experience the
cosmic Sabbath. (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 9;
2003, 286 pp., ISBN 0-9705369-7-6, in Hebrew). Domestic orders only.
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Vision and Speech: Models of Revelatory Experience in
Jewish Mysticism, by Haviva Pedaya, äîøàä
åäãéáåø. This Hebrew monograph is a
programmatic attempt to describe central types of mystical experience of
revelation in Jewish sources from the Hebrew Bible through the medieval
Kabbalah. The book investigates visionary and aural aspects of prophetic and
ecstatic experiences. Close textual readings are offered to these mystical
testimonies in which the mystic becomes vocal and recounts praises of the
Divine. The nature of the linguistic imagery is explored with a sensitivity to
its relationship to myths and metaphors which account for introverted and
extroverted types of mysticism. An overriding typology is thus provided for
ecstatic mysticism in Judaism. (Sources and Studies in the Literature
of Jewish Mysticism 8; 2002, 286 pp., ISBN 0-9640972-9-X, in Hebrew)
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Abraham Abulafia - Kabbalist and Prophet: Hermeneutics,
Theosophy and Theurgy, by Elliot R. Wolfson. This book reexamines
the main features of Abulafia’s mystical thought and practice in light of his
embracing of paradox as the main vehicle for expressing truth. It has been
commonplace in modern scholarship to distinguish sharply between two kinds of
kabbalah, the theosophic and the ecstatic. The studies that have been assembled
in this volume illustrate a somewhat more fluid and elastic exposition of
Abulafia’s prophetic kabbalah in relation to the theosophic kabbalah of his
generation. (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 7; 2000,
247 pp., ISBN 0-9640972-7-3, in English)
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Sefer Gematriot of R.
Judah the Pious: Facsimile Edition of a Unique Manuscript, introduced by
Daniel Abrams and
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R. Moses De Leon’s Commentary to Ezekiel’s Chariot, ôéøåù
äîøëáä ìø' îùä ãé ìéàåï and R.
Joseph Gikatilla’s Commentary to Ezekiel’s Chariot ôéøåù äîøëáä ìø'
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critically edited and introduced by Asi Farber-Ginat. These works
are of great importance for the study of this major genre of Kabbalistic
literature, including the Zohar. These works enrich our understanding of
thirteenth-century sefirotic symbolism, as well as the Kabbalistic doctrines of
mystical vision, angelology, and evil. (Sources and Studies in the Literature
of Jewish Mysticism, vols. 4 and 5; 1998, 98 pp., ISBN 0-9640972-2-2; 116 pp.,
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R. Moses de Leon’s Sefer Sheqel ha-Qodesh, critically
edited and introduced by Charles Mopsik with an introduction by Moshe Idel, ñôø
ù÷ì ä÷ãù. This book provides some of the
earliest testimony regarding the appearance of the Zohar in the late thirteenth
century, and forms a unique test-case for understanding the redactional process
behind the canonical work of medieval Jewish mystics. (Sources and Studies in
the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 3; 1996, 187 pp. ISBN 0-9640972-4-9)
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R. Asher ben David: His Complete Works and Studies in his
Kabbalistic Thought, Including the Commentaries to the Account of Creation by
the Kabbalists of Provence and Gerona, by Daniel Abrams. ø'
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R. Asher ben David, was the grandson of R. Abraham ben David (Rabad)
and the nephew of R. Isaac the Blind. His Book of Unity, included in
this volume, is one of the first Kabbalistic works written. (Sources and
Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 2; 1996, 378 pp., ISBN
0-9640972-3-0, in Hebrew).
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The Book Bahir: An Edition Based on the Earliest
Manuscripts, by Daniel Abrams with an introduction by Moshe
Idel. ñôø äáäéø. Supplemented by studies in the history of the book’s redaction
and reception; the printing history and scholarly treatments of the work;
listings of manuscript witnesses; annotated listings of commentaries to the Bahir;
kabbalistic works which quote and comment on the Bahir; and unknown
passages found in other works. (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish
Mysticism 1; 1994, 375 pp., ISBN 0-9640972-0-6, in Hebrew) Out of Print.
Bibliography of the Writings of Professor Moshe Idel: A
Special Volume Issued on the Occasion of his Fiftieth Birthday. The
bibliography provides annotated listings of all of Idel’s published works,
including articles published in journals and collected studies volumes, book
reviews, encyclopedia entries, introductions to books, critical editions and
manuscript facsimiles, full-length monographs, and volumes which were published
and distributed in limited copies within Israeli universities. (66 pp.,
1997, ISBN 0-9640972-5-7, in Hebrew).
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(Editorial Board: Klaus Herrmann, Moshe Idel, Yehuda Liebes, Bernard
McGinn, Charles Mopsik (1956-2003), Elliot Wolfson). Kabbalah is a
multi-language collection of articles, studies, text editions, and book
reviews. Kabbalah covers the whole spectrum of Jewish mysticism, from
antiquity to the present. Kabbalah is an invaluable resource for every
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Kabbalah 28 (2012), 320 pp. [English
and Hebrew] ISBN 1-933379-31-6
Studies
in English
Daniel Abrams: ‘The
Becoming of the Hasidic Book’ – An Unpublished Article by Joseph Weiss: Study,
Edition and English Translation
Jonatan Meir: Marketing
Demons – Joseph Perl, Israel Baal Shem Tov and the History of One Amulet
Moshe Idel: Solomon Maimon
and Kabbalah
Studies
in Hebrew
Daniel Abrams: Gershom
Scholem and the Book Bahir
Gideon Bohak: Gershom
Scholem and Jewish Magic
Shraga Bar-On: The Yom
Kippur Lots – Rationalism, Manticism and Mysticism
Leore Sachs Shmueli: Seder
Gan Eden – Critical Edition and Study (with annotations by Gershom Scholem)
Avraham Elqayam: Nudity in
the Sancta Sanctorum: Philo and Plotinus on Nudity, Esthetics and
Sanctity
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KABBALAH Volume 27 (2012), 320 pages ISBN 1-933379-29-4
[All in English, with one article in French]
Kabbalah on the Margins: Transformations of Kabbalah in Ashkenazi
Societies
Proceedings and Additional Studies from the Conference
Held on February 2, 2010
At the Center for Jewish Studies, University of
California at Santa Cruz
320 pages, ALL in English and French, ISBN
1-933379-29-4
with guest editors, Nathaniel Deutsch and Jean
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Studies
in English
Editors’ Introduction: The Popularization of the Kabbalah in Ashkenazi
Society
Daniel Abrams: Metatron and Jesus – The Longue Durée of Rabbinic
and Kabbalistic Traditions: An Eighteenth-Century Manual of Christian Proselytizing
in German and Yiddish
Jean
Baumgarten: Des traductions de textes
kabbalistiques dans la littérature yiddish ancienne
Nathaniel
Deutsch: From Novgorod to New York:
S. Z. Setzer and the Yiddish Roots of the Kabbalah in America
Morris
M. Faierstein: The Brantshpigl (1596)
and the Popularization of Kabbalah
Eitan
P. Fishbane: Perceptions of Greatness: Constructions of the Holy Man in Shivḥei ha-’Ari
Moshe
Idel: Emanuel Stein: An
Unknown Kabbalist – A Preliminary Presentation
Shaul
Magid: The Metaphysics of Malkhut: Malkhut as Eyn Sof in the
Writings of Ya’akov Koppel of Mezritch
Elliot
R. Wolfson: Paul Philip Levertoff and the Popularization of Kabbalah
as a Missionizing Tactic
Kabbalah 26 (2012)
Volume 26 (2012), 320
pages [English and Hebrew]; ISBN 1-933379-28-6
Studies
in English
Daniel Abrams: Kabbalistic Paratext
Elliot
R. Wolfson: Revealing and Re/veiling
– Menahem Mendel Schneerson’s Messianic Secret
Philip Wexler: Gershom Scholem’s Mysticism and
Society – Critique, Alternative, Text
Nathanael Riemer: The Mystery of Adam, David,
Messiah – Reincarnations of the Messianic Soul in ‘Beer Sheva’ (Seven Wells) by
R. Beer Perlhefter
Sara Offenberg: Crossing over from Earth to
Heaven – The Image of the Ark and the Merkavah in the North French Hebrew
Miscellany
Studies
in Hebrew
Moshe
Idel: The Commentaries of R. Nehemiah
bar Shlomo to the Piyyut ‘Ha-Ohez be-Yad Middat Mishpat’
Avishar
Harshefi: How Different Is This Time
from the Idra – The Idra Zuta: Structure and Meaning
Tzahi
Weiss: Soft and Hard: More Comments
on the Syrian Context of Sefer Yesira
Hagai
Pely: Kabbalah in R. Joseph Karo’s
Halakhic System – A Chapter in the Development of a Castilian Halakhic Ruling
through the Sixteenth Century
Dov
Schwartz: The Soul and the Deity –
The Preaching of R. Joseph Isaac Schneerson
Niham
Ross: Tiqqun Hasot of the
Rabbi of Sasev – Symbolic Ritual and its Literary Reception
Kabbalah 25 (2011)
Volume 25 (2011), 320 pp. [English and Hebrew] ISBN
1-933379-27-8
Studies in English
Daniel Abrams: ‘Text’ in a Zoharic Parable: A Chapter in
the History of Kabbalistic Textuality
Moshe Idel: Ascensions,
Gender and Pillars in Safedian Kabbalah
Agata Paluch: The
Ashkenazi Profile of Kabbalah: Aspects of the Megalleh ‘Amuqot ReNaV Ofanim
‘al Va-’Ethanan by Nathan Neta
Shapira of Kraków
Daphne Freedman: Astral and other Neologisms in the Zohar
Studies in Hebrew
Jonathan Garb: The
Authentic Kabbalistic Writings of R. Moses Hayyim
Luzzatto
Oded Porat:
‘A Peace without Interruption’: Renewed
Speculation in Sefer Brit ha-Menuha
Avishai Bar Asher: Penance and Fasting in the Writings of Rabbi Moses de León and
the Zoharic Polemic with Contemporary Christian Monasticism
Kabbalah 24 (2011)
Volume 24 (2011) 304 pages [English and Hebrew] ISBN
1-933379-22-7
Studies in English
Moshe Idel:
Mystical Redemption and Messianism in R. Israel Ba‘al Shem Tov’s Teachings
Sharon Flatto:
Believing the Censor? A Response to ‘Deists, Sabbatians, and Kabbalists in
Prague: A Censored Sermon of R. Ezekiel Landau, 1770’
Studies in Hebrew
Yehuda Liebes:
A Mystical Midrash Halakhah Attributed to Shimon ben Shetah
Jonatan Meir:
On the History of Kabbalah in America: The Unpublished Manuscripts of Levi I.
Krakovsky
Irmi Dubrau:
Iconographic Images of Lovers in Illuminated Ashkenazi Mahzorim: Toward an
Interpretive Reading of Medieval German Esotericism
Matanya Fischheimer: ‘Anyone Who Looks at the Brass Serpent Shall Survive’ – A New Inquiry
into the Thought of Nehemiah Hayon
Roee Horen:
Judaism as Viewed through the Prism of Faith in the Righteous – A Study of the
Works of R. Nathan of Nemirov
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