Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism

Daniel Reiser

Published by De Gruyter 2018

Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism

Daniel Reiser

Volume 101 in the series Studia Judaica

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110535884

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Co-publication with Magnes Press

This book analyzes and describes the development and aspects of imagery techniques, a primary mode of mystical experience, in twentieth century Jewish mysticism. These techniques, in contrast to linguistic techniques in medieval Kabbalah and in contrast to early Hasidism, have all the characteristics of a full screenplay, a long and complicated plot woven together from many scenes, a kind of a feature film. Research on this development and nature of the imagery experience is carried out through comparison to similar developments in philosophy and psychology and　is fruitfully contextualized within broader trends of western and eastern mysticism.

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Daniel Reiser, Zefat Academic College, Zefat and Shalem College, Jerusalem, Israel.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Translator’s Note Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Section I: Imaginative Models
Chapter One Models of Imagination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Section II: Parameters for Mystical Praxis
Chapter Two Empowerment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter Three Prophecy, Ecstasy, and Mysticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Section III: Imagery Techniques
Chapter Four Imagination as an Empowering Factor in R. Kalonymous Kalman Shapira’s Thought Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Chapter Five Imagination as a Prophetic Factor: The Yearning for Prophecy in the Twentieth Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Chapter Six A War of Imaginations: Imagery Techniques in R. Menaḥem Ekstein’s Teachings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
Chapter Seven War of the “Senses:” Imagination in the Musar Movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
Section IV: Adventures of Ideas: West and East
Introduction: Similar Thought Patterns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Chapter Eight “My Heart is in the East and I am at the Ends of the West”: Imagery Techniques in Light of the West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	348
Chapter Nine “A Voice Calls from the East:” Imagery Techniques in Light of the East Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	396
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	406
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	408
Index of Persons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	442

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Original publisher: Cherub-Press
Audience: All those interested in Jewish Studies, Hasidism, Mysticism, Hypnosis and Mesmerism, Modern Judaism, Kabbalah, Phenomenology
Pages
- Front matter: 15
- Main content: 445
Keywords: Imagery techniques; 20th Century Hasidism; Lithuanian Musar movement; Shapira; Kalonymous Kalman

eBook

Published: July 9, 2018
ISBN: 9783110535884

Hardcover

Published: July 9, 2018
ISBN: 9783110533941

Paperback

Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110710496