Mystical techniques, mental processes, and states of consciousness. Editions for the mystical experience in abraham abulafia. The work is well structured, consisting of a brief introduction on abulafias life and works and four chapters of varying lengths. The pearl, the son and the servants, in abraham abulafia s parable idel, moshe. Pdf mystic experience the download read online free. Read the fulltext online edition of the mystical experience in abraham abulafia 1988. Currently, he is professor of kabbalah in the department of jewish thought at the hebrew university. This book contains excerpts of historical texts about abulafia s divine name meditations. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want.
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Abraham abulafia s path of the divine names wolfson, elliot r. Idel charts the ways that kabbalistic thought and literature developed in italy and how its unique geographical situation facilitated the arrival of both spanish and byzantine kabbalah. Abraham abulafia describes the experience of seeing a human form many times in his writings. Mosheidel themystical experience inabraham abulafia. The mystical experience in abraham abulafia download. As the dialog between the mystic and the form proceeds, the reader understands that the form is the image of the mystic himself. The mystical experience in abraham abulafia ebook, 1988. It points to the importance of the ecstatic kabbalah for the later developments in mystical judaism. Download the mysticheartofjudaism ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub.
State university of new york press, 1988 dlc 87001869 ocolc15107496. 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. Editions of the mystical experience in abraham abulafia by. Ebook mystical experience in abraham abulafia the as pdf. Abraham ben samuel abulafia was the founder of the school of prophetic kabbalah. Interesting but you should read moshe idel s the mystical experience in abraham abulafia dec 15, 1987 to get a better understanding of his methods.
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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. In abraham abulafia moshe idel s language, torah, and hermeneutics in abraham abulafia is based on several chapters from the authors dissertation on abulafia which were not included in the previously published volume, the mystical experience in abraham abulafia 1987. Document, government publication, state or province government publication, internet. Amidst the rich panoply of jewish kabbalah, abraham abulafia resonates the most with modern, philosophically minded seekers of direct mystical experience. The mystical experience in abraham abulafia moshe idel. Abulafia creatively combined maimonides guide of the perplexed and the ancient sefer yesira into.
The mystical experience in abraham abulafia represents the first widescale presentation of a major jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic kabbalah. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read mystical experience in abraham abulafia, the. Language, torah, and hermeneutics in abraham abulafia by moshe idel book resume. Publication date 20 usage attributionnoncommercialno derivative works 3. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. This book focuses on abraham abulafias esoteric thought in relation to maimonides, maimonideans, and islamic thought in the line of leo strauss theory of the. As christian kabbalists would do two centuries later,11 he entertained the dream of reconciling judaism and christianity. View cart the contemporary astrologers handbook has been added to your cart. New perspectives yale university press, new haven and london, 1988. Hermeneutics, mysticism, and religion moshe idel on. Idel, moshe the mystical experience in abraham abulafia. Scholar moshe idel has attempted to locate the abulafian technique of recitation of names as an ecstatic exercise in the history of jewish mysticism. The mystical experience in abraham abulafia moshe idel mysterious places jennifer westwood a cherokee feast of days joyce sequichie hifler.
While the material translated in the first volume focused on. There is a discussion of the characteristics of his mystical experience and the erotic imagery by which it was expressed. The first widescale presentation of a major jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic kabbalah. Jewish mystical leaders and leadership in the th century idel, moshe ostow. Idel s thesis is that the role of the golem concept in judaism was to confer an exceptional status to the jewish elite by bestowing it with the capability of supernatural powers deriving from a profound knowledge of the hebrew. Mystical experience and religious doctrine book summary. Mystical experience in abraham abulafia moshe idel home. Moshe idels the mystical experience in abraham abulafia is, in many ways, an extraordinary achievement, generous in scope and prodigious in its erudition. Topics include among others category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology. The mystical experience in abraham abulafia suny press. However, initially it is not clear who this form is. Click download or read online button to mystical experience inabraham abulafia the book pdf for free now.
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