A masterful achievement. Uncover the many secrets of the mysterious and complex Sefer ha-Bahir! Sefer ha-Bahir has been the subject of scrutiny and debate for hundreds of years. Ambiguity about its dating and authorship have consumed Jewish scholarship's greatest minds over countless ages.
Born in the Ancient Near East's cultural cauldron, Sefer ha-Bahir was not written in ancient times, although many ideas found in its pages hail from them. According to scholars, this fragmented document - scattered to the winds and then reassembled - would appear to us today to be one of Kabbalah's foundational documents.
It's in Bahir that we first read of the sefirot. But the sefirot of Bahir are not the sefirot of later Kabbalah, not even of Sefer Yetzirah. These sefirot are seen through a completely different lens, a lens which ascribes to them seven voices and three sayings and a pivotal role in the Creation narrative of Genesis. In this book, you'll learn the fascinating story of Bahir, including: How Sefer ha-Bahir was first published and how it was written over the course of many ages The structure of the modern form of the Bahir and who's responsible for it What the ten utterances are The concept of God's concealment, as explained in the text, and what "hester panim" means How the Hebrew language is an active agent of Creation Who the Masoretes are and how vowels and cantillations added new meaning to this adqab all consonant language Who Adam Kadmon is and why he and Adam, Bad Boy of Creation, are and are not the same "guy" What the seven voices concern the sefirot and the theophany at Mt.
Horeb How the ten commandments figure into the Kabbalistic model of Creation What the mitzvot mean in Judaism and their functional purpose in tikkun How the Tetragrammaton came to be the highest name of God and how it's not really a name at all The connection between glory and wisdom Who Gershom Scholem and Aryeh Kaplan were and how their contributions to understanding Sefer ha-Bahir catapulted it into the public consciousness of this Modern era What Neo-Platonism concerns Sefer ha-Bahir What Shekhinah is and what it has to do with the "Victory of Victories" - the healing of Creation Get this book for an exciting and in-depth discussion of Sefer ha-Bahir, its place in the canon of Kabbalah, and the unique way it tells the story of how Creation was accomplished and humanity's role as God's partner in healing it.
Click the "add to cart" button to get your copy of this book! Here are previously unavailable texts, including The Book Bahir and the writings of the Iyyum circle, that were written during the first one hundred years of this movement that was to become the most important current in Jewish mysticism. This movement began in the late 12th century among Rabbinic Judaism in southern Europe. David Stern shows how the parable or mashal--the most distinctive type of narrative in midrash--was composed, how its symbolism works, and how it serves to convey the ideological convictions of the rabbis.
He describes its relation to similar tales in other literatures, including the parables of Jesus in the New Testament and kabbalistic parables. Through its innovative approach to midrash, this study reaches beyond its particular subject, and will appeal to all readers interested in narrative and religion.
The Bahir contains commentaries explaining the mystical significance of Biblical verses; the mystical significance of the shapes of the Hebrew letters; the mystical significance of the cantillation signs and vowel points on the letters; the mystical significance of statements in the Sefer Yetzirah "Book of Creation" ; and the use of sacred names in magic.
The paragraphs refer to each other in segments and are broken into five sections in the Aryeh Kaplan translation.
These sections are loosely grouped together but they do more or less stay within the underlying themes given by their title. This book unlocks the Jewish theology of YHWH in three central stages of Jewish thought: the Hebrew bible, rabbinic literature, and medieval philosophy and mysticism. Through this investigation, the book shows how Jews interpreted God's name in attempt to map the human-God relation, and to determine the measure of possibility for believers to realize a divine presence in their midst, through language.
For many centuries, Kabbalists have continued to dive into the Kabbalah's teachings about who God truly is and what we owe God as humans. Unfortunately, some assume that Kabbalah is something only a few initiates can get to know, hut that's not the case. Kabbalah offers two kind of secrets. The secrets not in the public awareness, which, as soon as they are revealed, are seen for the illusions thay are so that all the mysteries they once held are gone.
Then there are the actual secrets right there for you to see yourself. When the latter secrets are mined for more truth, all you find is more depth and profundity. These secrets become richer and richer, and they light up the world. These are the actual secrets of Kabbalah - they aren't so secret, after all. Click the "add to cart" button to learn how to follow the way of Kabbalah. The author delves into the issues of the messianic elements of the Zohar, the way it was written, and its relationship to Christianity, Gnosticism, and Talmudic literature.
This book demonstrates the complexity of Jewish mysticism in the history of religions. The author provides a morphology of the deep structures of thought that emerge from the basic texts of Jewish mysticism.
Combining the most sophisticated philological and phenomenological methods, he explores fundamental issues. The God of ancient Israel--universally referred to in the masculine today--was understood by its earliest worshipers to be a dual-gendered, male-female deity. So argues Mark Sameth in The Name. Needless to say, this is no small claim. Half the people on the planet are followers of one of the three Abrahamic religions--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--each of which has roots in the ancient cult that worshiped this deity.
The author's evidence, however, is compelling and his case meticulously constructed. Some thought the lost pronunciation was "Jehovah" or "Yahweh. What are the implications for us today if "he" was not God?
This exploration of the radical, yet ancient, idea that everything and everyone is God will transform how you understand your life and the nature of religion itself. While God is conventionally viewed as an entity separate from us, there are some Jews—Kabbalists, Hasidim, and their modern-day heirs—who assert that God is not separate from us at all. In this nondual view, everyone and everything manifests God. For centuries a closely guarded secret of Kabbalah, nondual Judaism is a radical reorientation of religious life that is increasingly influencing mainstream Judaism today.
Writer and scholar Jay Michaelson presents a wide-ranging and compelling explanation of nondual Judaism: what it is, its traditional and contemporary sources, its historical roots and philosophical significance, how it compares to nondual Buddhism and Hinduism, and how it is lived in practice.
He explains what this mystical nondual view means in our daily ego-centered lives, for our communities, and for the future of Judaism.
The Zohar Hebrew lit. It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the Torah the five books of Moses and scriptural interpretations as well as material on mysticism, mythical cosmogony, and mystical psychology.
The Zohar contains discussions of the nature of God, the origin and structure of the universe, the nature of souls, redemption, the relationship of Ego to Darkness and "true self" to "The Light of God", and the relationship between the "universal energy" and man.
Its scriptural exegesis can be considered an esoteric form of the Rabbinic literature known as Midrash, which elaborates on the Torah. The Zohar is mostly written in what has been described as a cryptic, obscure style of Aramaic. Aramaic, the day-to-day language of Israel in the Second Temple period BCE - 70 CE , was the original language of large sections of the biblical books of Daniel and Ezra, and is the main language of the Talmud.
This accords with the traditional claim by adherents that Kabbalah is the concealed part of the Oral Torah. Jewish esotericism is the oldest and most influential continuous occult tradition in the West. Presenting lore that can spiritually enrich your life, this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia is devoted to the esoteric in Judaism—the miraculous and the mysterious. In this second edition, Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis has added over thirty new entries and significantly expanded over one hundred other entries, incorporating more knowledge and passages from primary sources.
This comprehensive treasury of Jewish teachings, drawn from sources spanning Jewish scripture, the Talmud, the Midrash, the Kabbalah, and other esoteric branches of Judaism, is exhaustively researched yet easy to use.
It includes over one thousand alphabetical entries, from Aaron to Zohar Chadesh, with extensive cross-references to related topics and new illustrations throughout. Drawn from the well of a great spiritual tradition, the secret wisdom within these pages will enlighten and empower you. Die Namenstraditionen auf fol. So wirkt auch die Traumbitte in fol. Die im Sefer Razi el ha- Mal akh, fol. Leicht, Astrologumena Judaica.
Zur Redaktionsgeschichte des »Sefer Razi el ha-Mal akh« 9 An dieser Stelle soll versucht werden, die Redaktionsgeschichte des Sefer Razi el ha-Mal akh zumindest in ihren wesentlichen Stadien zu rekonstru- ieren. Vor allem sind hier Untersuchungen zu den Mikroformen der Makroform D zu nennen. Herrmann als Texttyp C klassifiziert. Dabei wird besonders fokussiert, ob und inwieweit die Texte den Makroformen aus dem Sefer Razi el entsprechen. Die Reihenfolge der Handschriften orientiert sich, soweit 26 So stellen z.
Herrmann, Massekhet Hekhalot. Herrmann, Text und Fiktion. Ms London, British Library, Or. Es folgt: Sefer Yesira mit Kommentar. Herrmann, Jewish Mysticism in the Geonic Period. Herrmann, M. Veltri, Leiden , S. Eine Edition dieses Textes wird von Herrmann vorbereitet.
Vorangeht: tucim imyj rps. Auf Mss London und Moskau bzw. Tishri September datiert. Wie in der Parallelhandschrift Ramat Gan s. Das Kolophon ist auf datiert. A Description and Introduction, Cambridge , S. Ab fol. Gentile; C. Der Text ist nur auf fol. Ms Uppsala, University Library, hebr.
Das Kolophon der ashkenazischen Handschrift ist auf das Jahr datiert. Lediglich die bei- den Wochenbettamulette, die sich im Erstdruck auf den fol. Allony; E. Zur Redaktionsgeschichte des »Sefer Razi el ha-Mal akh« 17 fol. Segre Amar vormals Sassoon , S. Die Makroform X ist aber innerhalb der Redaktionsgeschichte des Sefer Razi el nicht weiter tradiert worden. Harari, Harba de-Moshe hebr.
Mss Cambridge, Ramat Gan und Amsterdam. Tiqqune ha-Zohar, fol. Ms Uppsala bzw. Es stellt sich die Frage, warum im Zuge redaktioneller Bearbeitung nicht zugleich die teilweise chaotische Zusammenstellung innerhalb der einzelnen Makroformen beseitigt wurde. In die gleiche Richtung weisen auch die kabbalistischen Texte Makroformen C und X , die ebenfalls spanischer Herkunft sind. In Spanien, am Hofe Alfons X. Cooperman, Cambridge Mass.
A Celebration of the Library of Narcissus Marsh — , hrsg. Coudert, S. Hutton, R. Popkin und G. Wei- ner, Dordrecht , S. Einige Motive und Formulierungen erinnern allerdings an deren Traditionsgeschichte.
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