Abraham Abulafia
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The Mystical Experience In Abraham Abulafia
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Author : Moshe Idel
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
The Mystical Experience In Abraham Abulafia written by Moshe Idel and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with History categories.
This book represents the first wide-scale presentation of a major Jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah. It includes a description of the techniques employed by his master, including the role of music. There is a discussion of the characteristics of his mystical experience and the erotic imagery by which it was expressed. Based on all the extant manuscript material of Abulafia, this book opens the way to a new understanding of Jewish mysticism. It points to the importance of the ecstatic Kabbalah for the later developments in mystical Judaism.
The Serpent Kills Or The Serpent Gives Life
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Author : Robert Sagerman
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-01-07
The Serpent Kills Or The Serpent Gives Life written by Robert Sagerman and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-07 with History categories.
Representing a careful contextual study of the writings of the influential Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia (1240 – c. 1291), this book demonstrates that an inner dynamic of attraction and revulsion toward Christianity shaped Abulafia’s mystical hermeneutic and meditative practice.
Like Angels On Jacob S Ladder
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Author : Harvey J. Hames
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Like Angels On Jacob S Ladder written by Harvey J. Hames and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Religion categories.
This book explores the career of Abraham Abulafia (ca. 1240–1291), self-proclaimed Messiah and founder of the school of ecstatic Kabbalah. Active in southern Italy and Sicily where Franciscans had adopted the apocalyptic teachings of Joachim of Fiore, Abulafia believed the end of days was approaching and saw himself as chosen by God to reveal the Divine truth. He appropriated Joachite ideas, fusing them with his own revelations, to create an apocalyptic and messianic scenario that he was certain would attract his Jewish contemporaries and hoped would also convince Christians. From his focus on the centrality of the Tetragrammaton (the four letter ineffable Divine name) to the date of the expected redemption in 1290 and the coming together of Jews and Gentiles in the inclusiveness of the new age, Abulafia's engagement with the apocalyptic teachings of some of his Franciscan contemporaries enriched his own worldview. Though his messianic claims were a result of his revelatory experiences and hermeneutical reading of the Torah, they were, to no small extent, dependent on his historical circumstances and acculturation.
Abraham Abulafia Kabbalist And Prophet
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Author : Elliot R. Wolfson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Abraham Abulafia Kabbalist And Prophet written by Elliot R. Wolfson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Religion categories.
Language Torah And Hermeneutics In Abraham Abulafia
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Author : Moshe Idel
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1989-01-01
Language Torah And Hermeneutics In Abraham Abulafia written by Moshe Idel and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01 with Religion categories.
Abraham Abulafia, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah, exposed a mysticism that includes a deep interest in language as a universe in itself, to be studied as the philosophers study nature, in order to attain higher knowledge than natural science and speculative philosophy. The status of Hebrew as the natural, intellectual, and primordial language is discussed against the background of the medieval speculations regarding this topic. Abulafia proposed an elaborate hermeneutical system, unique in the whole Kabbalistic literature, for both its systematic exposition and the eccentric exegetical devices it describes. Various versions of this sevenfold system occur in several manuscripts that are collected and analyzed here in detail for the first time. Torah was regarded by Abulafia as the most important text, reflecting the constitution of the intellectual world and being identical with the Active intellect and even to God Himself. On the other hand, Torah was interpreted in Abulafia's Kabbalah as an allegory to the psychological processes of the mystic, an approach different from the regular Kabbalistic interpretation of this text as a symbolic corpus reflecting the divine intrasefirotic life.
Abraham Abulafia S Esotericism
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Author : Moshe Idel
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-10-12
Abraham Abulafia S Esotericism written by Moshe Idel and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-12 with History categories.
This book focuses on Abraham Abulafia's esoteric thought in relation to Maimonides, Maimonideans, and Islamic thought in the line of Leo Strauss' theory of the history of philosophy. A survey of Abulafia's sources leads into an analysis of the esoteric meaning on the famous parable of the three rings, considering also the possible connection between this parable, which Abdulafia inserted into a book dedicated to his student, the 13th century rabbi Nathan the wise, and the Lessing's Play "Nathan the Wise." The book also examines Abulafia's universalistic understanding of the nature of the Bible, the Hebrew language, and the people of Israel (or the Sinaic revelation). The universal aspects of Abulafia’s thought have been put in relief against the more widespread Kabbalistic views which are predominantly particularistic. A number of texts have also been identified here for the first time as authored by Abulafia.
Abraham Abulafia
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Author : Moshe Idel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Abraham Abulafia written by Moshe Idel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Religion categories.
Life Of The World To Come
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Author : Abraham Abulafia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-02-26
Life Of The World To Come written by Abraham Abulafia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-26 with categories.
Abraham Abulafia 1240-1291, Hayyei ha-Olam ha-Ba "Life of the World to Come"The Spanish kabbalist Abraham Abulafia (1240- after 1291) advocated a concept of Kabbalah that had little or nothing to do with the well-known schools of thought. He considered Kabbalah neither as a form of gnosis nor as a kind of theosophical theory that concentrates on the Sefirot, the emanation of the Divine Being. Instead he attempted to attain a state of prophetic-mystical ecstasy, based on his conviction that the experience of the prophets was an ecstatic experience and that all true mystics were prophets. This work of his was especially popular and circulated under the titles Hayyei ha-Olam ha-Ba ("Life of the World to Come"), Sefer ha-Shem ("Book of the Divine Name") or Sefer ha-Iggulim ("Book of Circles"); in this manuscript, however, it is called Sefer ha-Shem ha-Meforash ("Book of the Ineffable name"). The manuscript presents ten inscriptions in concentric circles in red and black ink, as well as 128 only in black ink. They contain detailed instructions for mystical meditation. While contemplating these circles, one should recite the 72-lettered name of God, which is arrived at by combining the numerical values of the letters in the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, of the Patriarchs, and the nine letters of the words shivtei yisra'el) ("the tribes of Irasel"). The reader should "enter" each of the triple black and red circles at the point where an "entrance" is designated by means of a small pen stroke (red).
The Jewish Prophet Abraham Abulafia And His Gospel
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Author : Hylton Antony Michael
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-09-03
The Jewish Prophet Abraham Abulafia And His Gospel written by Hylton Antony Michael and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-03 with Religion categories.
The story of the founder of prophetic Kabbalah is a fascinating one to say the least. The Spanish contribution to understanding the Bible may have appeared to have peaked with Rabbi Ibn Janach and Rabbi David Hayyuj but in the prophet Rabbi Abraham Abulafia did it not excel even these? They knew grammar, he claimed to prophesy!
Light Of The Intellect
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Author : Abraham Abulafia
language : en
Publisher: Blurb
Release Date : 2018-01-17
Light Of The Intellect written by Abraham Abulafia and has been published by Blurb this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-17 with Religion categories.
Manuscript facsimile of Abraham Abulafia's Kabbalah meditation manual 'Light of the Intellect' (composed in 1285 in Messina, Sicily) VAT. EBR. 597 133 ff. (ff. 130v-133v blank). Parchment. 134 91 (74 52) mm. Quaternions., mid-late 15th century. Italian semi-cursive script. ספר אור השכל Or ha-Sekhel, kabbalistic work about the mysteries of the tetragrammaton by Abraham Abulafia. First edition Jerusalem 1999. On f. 3v, one of three parchment leaves added to the manuscript, another hand added the title and a poem beginning הנשמות מענג ספר קרא. On f. 130v another poem beginning אור השכל חלקי עינות. On f. 133v another hand added שמירת הדרך, a prayer for wayfarers. On f. 3r a note in a late Italian hand about the author. On f. 113r a full page portrait of a man facing a pair of candles and holding a book in which the letters aleph and yod are inscribed. The man is dressed in a white robe and is wearing a prayer shawl with blue fringes (zizzit) and phylacteries (tefillin). The inscription above the picture reads (in translation): "Be prepared for thy G-d, Israel." Apparently, the portrait illustrates the text on the facing page that includes instructions for meditation: "Wrap thyself in white garments cover thyself with thy prayer shawl and crown thy head with phylacteries and face the east." A quote from Abulafia's Sefer Hayye Olam ha-Ba provides an even more precise commentary to this illumination: "Be prepared for thy G-d, Israel. Cover thyself with thy prayer shawl and put phylacteries on thy head and hands let all thy garments be white. Kindle many lights then take ink, pen and a table to thy hand now begin to combine a few letters" (G. Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, New York 1954, p. 136). The original manuscript is on ff. 4-133. Ff. 1-3 were added later. Censor (f. 130v): Camillo Jaghel, 1611.