Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Kabbalah in America; Ancient Lore in the New World
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2020) 358-376
Keywords:
Berg, Yehudah
;
Sex Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Cabala
;
Cabala
Abstract:
Sexuality is at the center of the kabbalistic cosmos, structuring interactions between the sefirot human and divine. Thus medieval kabbalists innovated rituals of sacred sexuality to act on that cosmos. This essay first describes these earlier rituals, and then examines their changing functions in two 21st Century American self-help books, The Kabbalah Book of Sex and Other Mysteries of the Universe by Yehuda Berg, and The Kosher Sutra: Eight Sacred Secrets for Reigniting Desire and Restoring Passion for Life, by Shmuley Boteach. These American Jewish writers adapt older models to engage American discourses of individualism, capitalism, gender, and pleasure.
DOI:
10.1163/9789004428140_021
URL:
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