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  • Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Univ. Press  (2)
  • New Haven [u.a.] : Yale University Press
  • Mysticism Judaism
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  • 1
    ISBN: 0300152361 , 9780300152364
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 206 S. , Ill.
    Year of publication: 2015
    DDC: 296.712
    RVK:
    Keywords: Cabala Psychology ; Cognitive neuroscience ; Mysticism Judaism ; Psychological aspects ; Cabala Psychology ; Cognitive neuroscience ; Mysticism Judaism ; Psychological aspects ; Kabbala ; Kognitionswissenschaft ; Mystische Erfahrung ; Kabbala ; Neurologie
    Abstract: "In this original study, Moshe Idel, an eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist Shahar Arzy combine their considerable expertise to explore the mysteries of the Kabbalah from an entirely new perspective: that of the human brain. In lieu of the theological, sociological, and psychoanalytic approaches that have generally dominated the study of ecstatic mystical experiences, the authors endeavor to decode the brain mechanisms underlying these phenomena. Arzy and Idel analyze first-person descriptions to explore the Kabbalistic techniques employed by most prominent Jewish mystics to effect bodily reduplications, dissociations, and other phenomena, and compare them with recent neurological observations and modern-day laboratory experiments. The resultant study offers readers a scientific, more brain-based understanding of how ecstatic Kabbalists achieved their most precious mystical experiences. The study further demonstrates how these Kabbalists have long functioned as pioneering investigators of the human self"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9780804791304
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 271 p
    Year of publication: 2015
    Series Statement: Encountering traditions
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Magid, Shaʾul, 1958 - Hasidism incarnate
    DDC: 296.8/332
    RVK:
    RVK:
    Keywords: Hasidism Doctrines ; Incarnation ; Mysticism Judaism ; History ; Judaism Relations ; Christianity ; Judaism History Modern period, 1750- ; Chassidismus ; Judentum
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : incarnation and incarnational thinking -- Divinization and incarnational thinking in Hasidism: an overview -- Charisma speaking: uniqueness, incarnation, and sacred language (lashon ha-kodesh) in Nahman of Bratslav's self-fashioning -- Jewish ethics through a Hasidic lens: incarnation, the law, and the universal -- Malkhut as kenosis: malkhut and the zaddik in Yaʻakov Koppel Lifshitz of Mezritch's Shaʻarei Gan Eden -- "Brother where art thou?": reflections on Jesus in Martin Buber and the Hasidic master R. Shmuel Bornstein of Sochaczev -- Liberal Judaism, Christianity, and the specter of Hasidism.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 3
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    Book
    Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Univ. Press
    ISBN: 0804748268 , 0804738254
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 480 S. , Ill.
    Edition: Orig.-print.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    DDC: 296.833092
    Keywords: Luria ; Luria Disciples ; Cabala History ; Mysticism Judaism ; Judaism History ; Lurya, Yitsḥaḳ ben Shelomoh 1534-1572 ; Kabbala ; Geschichte 1554-1572 ; Israel ; Judentum ; Mystik ; Geschichte 1530-1590 ; Chassidismus ; Spiritualität ; Geschichte
    Note: Literaturverz. S. [445] - 468
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