ISBN:
0804738254
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0804748268
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 480 pages
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illustrations
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23 cm
Year of publication:
2003
Series Statement:
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
DDC:
296.8/33/092
Keywords:
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon / 1534-1572
;
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon / 1534-1572 / Disciples
;
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon 〈1534-1572〉
;
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon 〈1534-1572〉 - Disciples
;
Lurya, Yitsḥaḳ ben Shelomoh
;
Kabbala
;
Judaïsme - Israël - Safed - Histoire
;
Kabbale - Histoire
;
Mysticisme - Judaïsme
;
Geschichte
;
Judentum
;
Cabala History
;
Judaism History
;
Mysticism Judaism
;
Judentum
;
Mystik
;
Judentum
;
Mystik
;
Kabbala
;
Lurya, Yitsḥaḳ ben Shelomoh 1534-1572
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction: embodying the study of Lurianic Kabbalah -- chapter 1. Rabbinical scholar, spice dealer, contemplative ascetic -- chapter 2. Lamenting the exile, striving for redemption -- chapter 3. Saintliness, heavenly communication, and the divinatory arts -- chapter 4. Lurianic myth -- chapter 5. Physician of the soul -- chapter 6. Tiqqun: healing the cosmos through the performance of mitsvot -- chapter 7. Tiqqun: healing the cosmos through contemplative prayer -- chapter 8. Communing with the "very special dead" -- chapter 9. Metempsychosis, mystical fellowship, and Messianic redemption
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [445]-468) and index
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Contributor biographical information
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Publisher description
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0710/2002154139-b.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0710/2002154139-d.html
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