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NEW 76 – R. Nathan
ben Sa‘adyah Har’ar: Sha‘arei Sedeq (The Gates of Righteousness) by Moshe Idel (Sources and Studies in the Literature
of Jewish Mysticism 76), 410 pages, ISBN 9781933379524, in English with edition
of Hebrew text. Sha'arei Sedeq, written by
Nathan Har’ar—one of Isaac of Acre’s distinguished teachers—has influenced
Jewish mystical thought. This significant text emerged from the school of
ecstatic Kabbalah, which originated in Sicily and found its primary expression
through Abraham Abulafia’s writings. Its impact spread across multiple regions
and traditions, shaping Kabbalistic developments in Italy, the Byzantine
Empire, and Safed. The text’s influence reached far beyond its original
context, later shaping both eighteenth-century Hasidism and aspects of German
Enlightenment thought.
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NEW 75 – Sefer
ha-Ne‘elam by R. Eleazar of Worms: An Annotated Critical Edition, with an
Introduction by Hillel M. Feuerstein (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish
Mysticism 75), 400 pages, ISBN 9781958455012, in Hebrew. Following a
long career of intensive writing, R. Eleazar of Worms assembled the majority of
his interpretations of the lipograms in scripture into a collection called Sefer
Ha-Ne‘elam. This long and detailed exposition presents a concentrated
collection of homilies containing various cases of lipograms throughout
scripture. As with other similarly conceptualized collections of that period
dedicated to different hermeneutical techniques, Sefer Ha-Ne‘elam is a
systematic work that attempts to organize various writings by their
interpretive methods. R. Eleazar’s systematic compilation of his hermeneutical
writing in Sefer Ha-Ne‘elam is a unique, innovative, and comprehensive
interpretive approach.
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74 – Rabbi
Joseph ben Shalom Ashkenazi’s Commentary on Sefer Yesira: A Critical Edition, by Jonnie Schnytzer (Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 74), 186 pages, ISBN 978-1-933379-10-4,
in Hebrew. Ashkenazi’s
commentary on Sefer Yesira, a masterpiece of Jewish esotericism,
received the rare endorsement of Hayyim Vital in the name of Isaac Luria,
describing the magnum opus as concealed words of truth and Gershom
Scholem claimed it to be one of the most important works in the history of
kabbalah. The far-reaching influence of the work brings to life the erudite
author’s rich intellectual background with a host of multidisciplinary fields
of knowledge deeply intertwined into a distinct kabbalistic trend. This volume,
a critical edition of the work from manuscript, includes the marginalia from
all known surviving manuscripts, including an appendix of the movable graphic
inserts that can be affixed to the pages, following the tradition of the first
printing of the commentary in the Mantua 1562 edition of Sefer Yesira.
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NEW 73 –The Kabbalah of Rabbi Joseph ben Shalom Ashkenazi, by Jonnie Schnytzer (Sources and
Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 73), 324 pages, ISBN
978-1-933379-55-5, in Hebrew The present volume is the first monograph dedicated to
the oeuvre of highly original and influential medieval kabbalist, Rabbi Joseph
ben Shalom Ashkenazi. The study opens the gates to three fundamental aspects:
1. A portrayal of Ashkenazi’s scientific kabbalah 2. A comprehensive analysis
of the theory of reincarnation, Din Bnei Halof 3. The astro-kabbalistic
path to prophecy.
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72 - Isaiah Tishby, The Doctrine of Evil and the
‘Shell’ in Lurianic Kabbalah, Translated
by David Solomon, (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism
72), 222 pages, ISBN 978-1-933379-50-0 IN ENGLISH. The publication of an
English translation of the foundational study of Lurianic Kabbalah by Isaiah
Tishby is a major event for religious studies and all those who wish to gain a
better understanding of Kabbalistic literature. Access to the Lurianic corpus
is extremely limited given the dense and enigmatic style of the various Hebrew
writings that comprise this immense corpus. There are very few programmatic
studies of its central themes and most all of those are available only in
Hebrew, often mirroring the opaque character of its sources. This may be
inevitable for studies written in the language of the primary sources, which
often boast a faithfulness to the original as they claim to preserve the
multiple meanings contained within any expression or passage, but ultimately
circumvent the difficult task of deciding on its contextual meaning. Isaiah
Tishby advanced the study of this corpus with painstaking analysis and
comparisons of all the major texts as he interpreted the main themes regarding
the problem of evil. Even so, his contribution is taken to new heights in the
meticulous translation of David Solomon who rendered both the Lurianic sources
and Tishby’s interpretations into clear prose that provides unfettered access
to what is arguably the most esoteric body of Kabbalistic literature. In this
sense, the English translation before you is not the lesser shadow of the
original Hebrew study, but perhaps a more important exposition of the study of
Lurianic Kabbalah and its presentation of Tishby’s contribution.
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71 - Rabbi Abraham Yakhini: Vavey ha-Ammudim , àáøäí
äéëéðé: ååé äòîåãéí, by Noam Lefler (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish
Mysticism 71), two volumes, 270+232 pages, sold as a set, in HEBREW, 2022, ISBN
978-1-933379-98-2. Rabbi Abraham Yakhini was one of the most acclaimed Lurianic
Kabbalists of the mid-17th century and a prominent figure in the Sabbatean
leadership. In his last book, Vavey ha-Ammudim, Yakhini presented a
sophisticated Lurianic manifesto that explains the death of Sabbatai Sevi and
his support Abraham Miguel Cardozo’s campaign in the struggle over the
leadership of the Sabbatean movement. Vavey ha-Ammudim was written in
1681-1682 due to Cardozo’s proclamation of himself as Messiah ben Joseph and
his prophecy of the last redemption in Constantinople during Passover 1682.
However, Yakhini died in the Autumn of 1682 and did not witness the
falsification of Cardozo’s prophecy, his deportation from the capital city and
his renunciation of his messianic title.
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70 - Moses Cordovero’s Angels: Kabbalah
and Magic, by Yoed Kadary äîìàëéí ùì ø' îùä ÷åøãåáéøå:
áéï ÷áìä òéåðéú ì÷áìä îòùéú, in
Hebrew (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 70; 2022, 420
pages, ISBN 978-1-933379-97-5). This book offers a sustained reading of R. Moses
Cordovero’s writings on magic and practical Kabbalah and analyzes the role of
angels in theory and practice. As a study on subjects that were marginalized in past studies of the works of major Kabbalists, this
monograph advances the field in a reassessing the intellectual profile of this
prolific and influential Kabbalist.
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69 - Physiognomy, Chiromancy and
Guardian Angels in the Esoteric Writings of the German Pietists, by
Irmi Dubrau (in HEBREW), äëøú ôðéí, ñãøé ùøèåèéï åîìàëéí ùåîøéí áëúáé äñåã ùì
çñéãé àùëðæ (Sources and
Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 69; 2022, 236 pages, ISBN
978-1-933379-94-4). This book is a
major contribution to the study of medieval Jewish esotericism and magic with a
focus on Physiognomy, Chiromancy, metoposcopy and various related angelogical
traditions in the writings of the German Pietists. The study of these
traditions finds its place within a rich heritage of Jewish magical and
Kabbalistic traditions throughout the ages.
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68 - The Esoteric Abridgement of
Nahmanides’ Commentary on the Torah: A Critical Edition, by
Yossi Greenfield øîá"ï
ä÷öø: îäãåøä áé÷åøúéú, äúôúçåú äè÷ñè åäôöú ñåã áøàùéú ä÷áìä (Sources
and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 68; 2022, 256 pages, ISBN
978-1-933379-93-7). Nahmanides’ Commentary
on the Torah is one of the most important commentaries ever written
including for the Kabbalists who sought to understand the esoteric passages
presented by Nahmanides ‘By the Way of Truth’ (‘al derekh ha-emet). As early as
thirteenth century an esoteric abridgement of his commentary circulated in
manuscript form and is published here for the first time in a critical edition
with an introductory study positioning this document in the history of esoteric
writing amongst the early Kabbalists.
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67 - Israel and the Archons of the
Nations: War, Purity and Impurity: Three Commentaries on the Ten Sefirot
Attributed to R. Joseph Giqatilla, by Na‘ama Ben-Shachar ðòîä áï-ùçø, éùøàì åùøé
äàåîåú: îìçîä, èäøä åèåîàä - ôéøåùé òùø ñôéøåú äîéåçñéí ìø' éåñó â'÷èéìä (Sources and Studies in the Literature of
Jewish Mysticism 67; 2021, 206 pages, ISBN 978-1-933379-87-6, in Hebrew). This volume amounts to a sustained engagement with the
themes and texts about evil in the theosophical works of the late thirteenth-century
Kabbalist, R. Joseph Giqatilla. The study published for the first time the
three Commentaries on the Ten Sefirot attributed to Giqatilla which
focus on the struggle between Israel and the Archons of the Nations, and the
war that takes place, throughout history, in heaven and earth. The volume
provides critical editions, accompanied by detailed commentary and philological
examinations of these three commentaries as well as other works attributed to
Giqatilla, Sod ha-Qedushah (The Secret of Sanctity) and Sod ha-Nahash
(The Secret of the Serpent).
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66 - The Gate of Intention: R. Isaac ben Shmuel of
Acre and Its Reception, by
Moshe Idel (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism
66; 2020, 234 pages, ISBN 978-1-933379-76-0, in English). This monograph offers
a detailed study of a short, fascinating and enigmatic text which bears the
title Sha‘ar ha-Kavvanah in many manuscripts. It was printed for the
first time by Gershom Scholem and attributed by him to R. Azriel of Gerona.
This volume includes a new edition of the Hebrew text, accompanied by a new
English translation and detailed notes. It further offers a new interpretation
of its context, its affinities to R. Isaac of Acre and other texts, as well as
discussions of the manuscripts that contain this text, and its reverberations
in Kabbalistic literature. The study demonstrates that this anonymous text was
written sometime at the end of the thirteenth century in Spain.
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65 - Kabbalistic Yiddish: Aaron Zeitlin’s Mystical-Messianic
Poetics, by Nathan
Wolski, with a foreword by Yitskhok Niborski (Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 65; 2020, 386 pages, ISBN 978-1-933379-85-2, in
English with bilingual presentation of poems) This study presents annotated
translations and analyses of Aaron Zeitlin’s (1898-1973) “neo-kabbalistic”
Yiddish poems written during the 1920s in Warsaw. Fusing deep zoharic knowledge
with Yiddish avant-garde/modernist poetic form, Zeitlin’s “cosmic poetry”
represents a unique moment both in the history of Kabbalah and in the history
of Yiddish literature. Metatron (a book
length poem), Keter, and Yosef della Reina reveal a deep mythopoetic imagination
writing at the intersection of messianism and mysticism. With a Yiddish
foreword by Yitskhok Niborski.
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63, 64 – The Book of Angels Attributed to Rabbi Judah
the Pious: A Critical Edition and Study of its Editorial Tradition in
Manuscripts by Inbal Gur Ben Yitzhak;ñôø îìàëéí äîéåçñ ìø' éäåãä
äçñéã: îäãåøä îãòéú åòéåï áîñåøú òøéëú ëúáé äéã (Sources and Studies in
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 63, 64); 2020, 457 pages, ISBN 9781933379838 IN HEBREW. TWO VOLUMES,
SOLD ONLY AS A SET.
This
book offers a study of texts attributed to Rabbi Judah the Pious in manuscript
and presents a critical edition to The Book of Angels that is based on Ms.
Vienna 236 (Ms. Shonak 3, copied in the 15th century) with three
other versions from additional manuscript witnesses. The study provides a
review of the research regarding R. Judah and investigates the way R. Judah was
invented as an author. Further, this study deals with the editorial tradition of
the German Pietists. Likewise, the study defends the methodological choice
implemented in this edition of these manuscript texts of the German Pietists.
The first volume contains an historical and philological inquiry. The second
volume contains the critical edition. First, an edition of Ms. Vienna 236 is
presented which is followed by a description and commentary of the text. Then,
an edition of the text copied Ms. Oxford, Opp. 540 (Neubauer 1567) is
presented, followed by a synoptic edition of all the witnesses. Finally, the
study offers a list of manuscript works attributed to R. Judah the Pious. IN
HEBREW
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62 - The Life of a Manuscript: A Copy of R. Isaac
Luria’s Peirush Sifra Detzni‘uta, The Story of Its Production in Safed and Its
Annotation in Italy by R. Menahem Azariah da Fano, study and edition by Avi Kallenbach ñéôåøå ùì ëúá éã èåôñ ùì
ôéøåù ñôøà ãöðéòåúà ìäàø"é ÷åøåúéå åúåìãåúéå îï äòú÷úå áöôú åòã ìäâäúå
áéãé äøî"ò îôàðå áàéèìéä (Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 62); 2020, 314 pages, ISBN978-1-933379-84-5. IN
HEBREW.
This
study is dedicated to a single kabbalistic manuscript from the Benayahu
Collection – a copy of R. Isaac Luria’s Peirush Sifra Detzni‘uta. The
manuscript, copied in Safed at the very end of the sixteenth century, was sent
to Italy where it was meticulously edited and marked up by the prominent
halakhist and kabbalist R. Menahem Azaria da Fano. The study explores the
nature of Fano’s emendations, dissects his interpretative glosses, and
demonstrates the profound textual influence the manuscript exerted on other
copies of the work produced in Italy during the period. Among other thing, it
shows how R. Menahem Azariah da Fano read Luria’s work through an intertextual
lens, using a wide range of kabbalistic works and concepts to inform his
comments and edits. The short study is followed by a full facsimile edition of
the manuscript – with each colored photo of the manuscript facing a full
transcription of both the main text as well as Fano’s corrections and
marginalia. The study represents an important contribution to the history of
reading practices and an example of applying the methodologies of New Philology
to the study and editing of kabbalistic manuscripts.
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- ‘Who is a Beautiful Maiden
without Eyes’ and the Riddle of the Tayʿa: A Chapter in the History of Kabbalah in the Second
Half of the Thirteenth Century, by Oded Porat. "îäå òåìéîúà ùôéøúà åìéú ìä òééðéï" åçéãú äèééòà: ôø÷
áúåìãåú ä÷áìä áîçöéú äùðéä ùì äîàä äé"â, îàú òåãã ôåøú
(Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 61); 2019, 352
pages, ISBN 978-1-933379-81-4, in Hebrew. This study offers a full analysis of
the text of the riddle of the Tay‘a, found at the beginning of Sabba
de-Mishpatim section of the Zohar, followed by an historical discussion of
the role of the writings of R. Yitzhak ha-Cohen and R. Moshe of Burgos as
sources to a specific doctrine found in what appears to be the early sections
of the Zohar. The text is examined through its sources, displaying a range of
inner Jewish traditions from post-biblical literature to the late midrash, that
reveal a specific system of thought presented by the text of the riddle. This
discussion presents myth as created from real zoological features and uses
precise scientific tools, especially taxonomy, to determine the identification
of each part of the riddle. The book then moves to present the writings of
these two kabbalists, their place in the history of Kabbalah and their
contributions to the main features of Zoharic writing, such as the use of
pseudepigraphy and Aramaic, as well as the main interest in the doctrine of
evil, that served as the foundations for Zoharic sections dealing with this
subject. The book does not necessitate a linear reading.
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- The Writings of R. Yitzhak ben Yaʿakov haCohen and R. Moshe (Zinfa) of Burgos, edited by Oded Porat. ëúáé ø' éöç÷ áï éò÷á äëäï
åø' îùä (öéðôà) îáåøâåù, îàú òåãã ôåøú (Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 60; 2019, 328 pages, ISBN 978-1-933379-80-7, in
Hebrew). Full critical editions for the entire known corpus of these two
kabbalists, active by the second half of the thirteenth century, are represented
here. These authors are the main known kabbalists whose interest in the
doctrine of evil fills almost all of their interest in Kabbalah, and are the
sole speakers on this issue in their time, except for R. Todros Abulafia,
before the composition of evil sections in the Zohar. These editions complete
the work of Gershom Scholem in the late 20's and early 30's of the previous
century in collecting and printing their writings, through a comprehensive
collection of Hebrew manuscripts, some were not available to him. Thus, a few
new or undiscussed treatises from these two authors is presented. Aside the
writings that has their clear authorship, this volume presents appendixes to
their writings, who reveal similar writing tendencies and very close affinities
to their original works, thus they too should be regarded as their own. The
historical and textual prefaces to these writings are to be found in the next
volume that discusses the riddle of the Tayʿa.
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59 - Kabbalistic Works by R. Azriel: of Girona, edited by Oded Porat. îçáøåú ø'
òæøéàì: àéù âéøåðä, îàú òåãã ôåøú (Sources and Studies in the Literature
of Jewish Mysticism 59); 2019, 268 pages,
ISBN 978-1-933379-79-1, in Hebrew. This volume presents fully annotated
critical editions of R. Azriel's writings, except for his Commentary on
Aggadot, printed by Tishbi. It contains all his known compositions,
including his daily prayers commentary and his commentaries to Rosh haShannah
prayers, his small commentaries for the Sh'mah Israel and Amen,
the Kadish and Kedusha sayings, as well as his theoretical
treatises of “The way of heresy and the way of faith”, his epistle to Burgos,
his commentary on Sefer Yetzirah and his famous Sha'ar haShoel
(‘The gateway of the inquirer’). These compositions present his unique
enterprise in providing literal commentary on most of the daily and regular
prayers, along with commentaries to the divine Names and theoretical
definitions of the Sefiroth and Ein Sof. Thus, a full scope of
this prime kabbalist's compositions, active in Girona during a few early
decades of the thirteenth century, is presented here, which represents his
unique terms and system of thought. Along with his writing, this volume
provides critical editions of five recensions of Sacrifice secrets, and the
known ‘Gate of Intention of the prime kabbalists’ (Sha'ar haKavvanah
le-Mequbbalim Rishonim), to provide these closeÎby treatises that are not to be included within R.
Azriel's exclusive composition, that did not gained a succeeding development in
later stages of Kabbalah.
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58 - ‘Founding of the Circle’: Rudiments of Esse and
Linguistic Creation in ‘The Book of Fountain of Wisdom’ and its Related
Treatises, by Oded Porat. "ú÷åï äîòâì": éñåãåú
ääåéä åäéöéøä äìùåðéú áñôø îòéï äçëîä åáçéáåøéí ä÷øåáéí àìéå, îàú òåãã ôåøú (Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 58); 2019, 584 pages, ISBN 9781933379784. A
Textual analysis and a philological examination, with an historic perspective,
followed by phenomenological, linguistic and ideological perspectives, provides
here the research of ‘The book of fountain of wisdom’, a most unique piece of
early kabbalists in southern France by the early decades of the thirteenth
century. This piece, regarded as a mystical guide or as a Jewish Sutra,
is further examined as one of the prime sources of Iyyun literature, a
corpus of anonymous texts that gains here its scholarly assessment. Further
characterizations of Sefer Ma'ayan haHokhmah's unique binary-circular
phenomenology, where opposites do not collide in each other but remain each on
their own virtues, is applied to construct unique linguistic structures that
allows the source, the stratum of linguistic signs and the stratum of performative
language to work in a coordinated structure and to establish what is termed
here, for the first time in the history of religious studies, as ‘Positive
Theology’. The binary-circular framework serves as an unified explanation for
the phenomenological, textual, historical, linguistic and theological
structures of this book and its relations with Iyyun literature and
other early kabbalists.
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57 - Two Early Translations to Saʿadia Gaon: Book
of Doctrines and Beliefs and his Commentary on Sefer Yetzirah, edited by Oded Porat. ùðé úøâåîéí ÷ãåîéí ìøá ñòãéä âàåï: ôúøåï ñôø äàîåðåú
åçøöÉá äáéðåú åôéøåùå ìñôø éöéøä, îàú òåãã ôåøú
(Sources and Studies in the Literature
of Jewish Mysticism 57); 2019, 408 pages, ISBN 978-1-933379-77-7, in
Hebrew. Two major books by Rav Saʿadia Gaon, originally
written in Arabic, are presented here in their early Hebrew translations. The
translation to Book of Doctrines and Beliefs, the first comprehensive
book of Jewish philosophy, was translated, as it appears in the text, in 988
A.D., 55 years after its completion by Saʿadia. It was mistakenly regarded by scholars as a
“Paraphrase” to Saʿadia's book,
but it is a very accurate translation, though it includes many additions to its
source, that expands and explains Saʿadia's composition. It reveals a most unique stratum
of Hebrew that belongs to the Kalirian school of Hebrew piyyut and
provides some highly creative terms, rich vocabulary and unique linguistic
forms and roots in this extensive piece. It was known in German pietism and in
southern France by early Middle Ages. The second
translation of Saadia's Commentary on Sefer Yetzira, that preceded his
mentioned book by two years, was translated by R. Moshe ben Yosef haDayyan of
Lucena, probably toward the end of the 12th century in Langedouc. It was known
to early kabbalists who developed, among other issues, their theory of the
effect of pronunciation of divine Names in the air, based on Saʿadia's ideas.
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56 - Up In Arms: Images of Knights and the Divine
Chariot in Esoteric Ashkenazi Manuscripts of the Middle Ages, by Sara Offenberg, (Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 56) ISBN 9781933379821, in English, 240 pages, This study is designed to illuminate the reflection of esoteric
ideas in Hebrew illuminated manuscripts from the thirteenth to the fifteenth
century in Ashkenaz (German lands), with a focus on images of knights and
Ezekiel's vision of the divine Chariot. It is divided into three parts
according to manuscript genres: Prayer books, Masoretic Bibles, and a Passover
Haggadah. It provides a comprehensive description of texts and illuminations
concerned with the ideas of the Hekhalot literature and two principal esoteric
traditions in Ashkenaz: the Qalonymus family – Rabbi Judah the Pious (d.
1217)and his student Rabbi Eleazar of Worms, as well as Rabbi Judah's grandson,
Rabbi Eleazar ben Moshe the preacher; and Rabbi Nehemiah ben Shlomo Troestlin,
the Prophet from Erfurt, active in the first third of the thirteenth century.
The book examines the images and the texts together in conjunction with
military history.The novelty of this study is in a holistic reappraisal of the
manner in which we think about illustration in connection with text, the
Christian milieu, and the possible meaning the images had for the patron.
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55 - The Yanuqa of Rav Hamnuna Sava: Analysis and Critical
Edition of the Yanuqa Story (Zohar III, 186a-192a), by Jonatan Benarroch, éðå÷à ãøá äîðåðà ñáà: òéåï
åîäãåøä ñéðåôèéú – ñéôåø 'äéðå÷à ãáì÷'
(æåäø, ç"â, ÷ôå ò"à-÷öá ò"à) (Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 55) in Hebrew, ISBN 9781933379739, 292 pages.
The Yanuqa of Rav Hamnuna Sava: Analysis and Critical Edition of the Yanuqa
Story (Zohar III, 186a-192a), by Jonatan M. Benarroch (Sources and Studies in
the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 55), 2019, 292 pages, ISBN 978-1-933379-73-9
in Hebrew. This monograph offers a literary analysis and a synoptic critical
edition of the Yanuqa story printed in Zohar III, 186a-192a. This study
contains a detailed literary analysis of the poetic and mythopoeic aspects of
the Zoharic Yanuqa story, alongside a critical edition that explores the
evidence and analysis of three editing stages of this Zoharic story. This
monograph contributes to the understanding of the poetic mechanisms that
construct the mythopoeic dimensions of this Zoharic story. This study
specifically explores the means by which the figures of Rav Hamnuna Sava (the
wise old man) and the Yanuqa (the Zoharic wunderkind), are transformed from
being narrative characters to mythical figures, portrayed as mythopoeic
incarnations of God and his Son.
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54 - Gershom Scholem, Parashat ha-Shabtaut, Annotated
and Introduced by Avi Elqayam, âøùí ùìåí, ôøùú äùáúàåú
(Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 54)
2019 in Hebrew, ISBN 978-1-933379-71-5 in Hebrew, 366 pages.
Parashat ha-Shabtaut includes some 45 lectures on the Sabbatean movement, from
its inception to its decline, that Gershom Scholem gave at the Hebrew
University (1954-55). His then-student, Rivka Schatz (1927-1992), published
them as early as that same year, under the title Parashat ha-Shabtaut. Elqayam
has edited, and introduced this book, updating the research in the notes. This
edition makes a highly significant contribution to understanding one of the
principal research enterprises in Jewish Studies of the previous generation.
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53 - Emanation and Philosophy of Language: An Introduction to Joseph ben Abraham Giqatilla, by Federico Dal Bo, (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 53) 452 pages, in English. ISBN, 9781933379708, Rabbi Joseph ben Abraham Giqatilla (1248 – c. 1325) is considered the most representative figure of a stream of Jewish mysticism devoted in particular to the investigation of the mysteries of the divine names. Giqatilla believes that any appellative which Scripture attributes to God represents the very matrix of the universe. The present monograph intends to provide a comprehensive illustration of his thought, his Rabbinical education, and his relationship with other prominent qabbalists in thirteenth-century Spain—Abraham Abulafia and Moshe de Leon. Most of the previous scholarship shares the problematic assumption that there would be a dramatic distinction between an 'early' and 'later' Giqatilla and that this would have reverberated into form, style, and content. On the contrary, the present monograph maintains the fundamental assumption that specific differences between the young and older Giqatilla shall not rule out the possibility of reading his entire speculation in a unitary, evolutionary perspective. Therefore, it argues that here are three periods in Giqatilla's speculation—a 'philosophical' one, a 'theosophical' one, and a 'theological-political' one.
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52 - Transgression
of the Torah and the Rectification of God: The Theosophy of Idra Rabba in the
Zohar and Its Unique Status in Thirteenth-Century Spanish Kabbalah,
by Neta Sobol, äôøú äúåøä åúé÷åï äàì: úé÷åðé äàãøà øáà ùáæåäø åéçåãí
á÷áìú ñôøã áîàä äé"â
(Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 52) in Hebrew, 200
pages, ISBN 9781933379623. Idra Rabba is
one of the most influential literary units of the Zohar. This unit combines a
developed literary plot, with a most daring interpretation to the Torah. The
exegesis of Idra Rabba reveals a unique Theosophy which stands out even when
appreciated in the context of Kabbalistic discourse. This book offers a
detailed analysis of the theosophy of Idra Rabba, with a twofold focus. Based
on vast research of Zoharic manuscripts, this study analyzes the processes of
creation, integration and the process by which this unique theosophy comes into
being. Further, based on detailed analysis of other zoharic literary units as
well as other Kabbalistic writings, this study positions the theosophy and
story of the Idra in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Kabbalah and awards it
its unique and revolutionary status.
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51 - Sefer Hibbur ‘Amudei Sheva ñôø çéáåø òîåãé ùáò by R.
Aaron Zelig ben Moshe, Cracow 1675: A Chapter in the History of Textual
Criticism to the Editio Princeps of the Book of the Zohar, Cremona 1558 - A
Facsimile Edition from the Exemplar of the Collection of N. H. Van Biema of
Amsterdam Held in the National Library of Israel, with an introduction by
Daniel Abrams (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 51),
114 pp., in HEBREW, 2017, ISBN 9781933379616. This work is the most detailed textual
study of the first edition of the Zohar to the Torah. Only three copies of this
book are known to exist and the entire volume is presented here in color
facsimile with an extensive introduction about the history of critical
reactions to the text, order and identity of the literary units which comprise
the Zohar as a printed book.
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50 -Israel Hazan:
Commentary on Psalms, éùøàì
çæï: ôéøåù òì úäìéí, by
Noam Lefler (Sources and Studies
in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 50), 328 pp., in HEBREW, 2016, ISBN
978193337960-9. Rabbi Israel Chazan wrote his Commentary on Psalms between
the death of Sabbatai Sevi and that of Nathan of Gaza. In his commentary he
offers a variety of Sabbatean interpretations to biblical verses and Zoharic
passages just before the time of mass conversions in Salonica and the formation
of underground Sabbatean communities.
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49 - Modern
Kabbalah as an Autonomous Domain of Research: Lecture Delivered
at the Ceremony for the Gershom Scholem Prize for Kabbalah Scholarship at the
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities on the Anniversary of Gershom
Scholem’s Birth December 9, 2014,
by Jonathan Garb ä÷áìä áòú äçãùä ëúçåí îç÷ø
àåèåðåîé: äøöàä ùðéúðä áè÷ñ äòð÷ú äôøñ áç÷ø ä÷áìä òì ùí âøùí ùìåí áà÷ãîéä
äìàåîéú äéùøàìéú ìîãòéí áéåí äåìãúå ùì âøùí ùìåí é"æ áëñìå úùò"ä, îàú
éäåðúï âàøá. (Sources and Studies in
the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 49), 2016, 118 pp. in HEBREW, ISBN 9781933379579. The monograph
seeks to establish the autonomy (though by no means independence) of modern
Kabbalah as an autonomous domain of research. On the intrinsic level, modern
Kabbalistic writings can be shown to reflect a strong awareness of its autonomy
from pre-modern sources and practices. On the extrinsic level, their autonomy
reflects both the new sway of Kabbalah in large areas of Jewish life, including
Halakha, exegesis, liturgy and custom, as well as the constantly accelerating
impact of modernity on the Jewish world and its surroundings. Thus, modern
Kabbalists shall be shown to respond in increasing detail to new technology,
geopolitical shifts and other modern developments.
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48 - R.
Jonathan Eibeschütz, And I Came this Day unto the Fountain, åàáåà äéåí àì äòéï , Critically Edited and
Introduced by Paweł Maciejko, With Additional Studies by Noam Lefler,
Jonatan Benarroch and Shai Alleson Gerberg, 2016 SECOND REVISED EDITION
(Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 48), 2016, 360 pp.,
in Hebrew, ISBN 9781933379593. This book is undoubtedly the most contentious
work of Sabbatian Kabbalah, and arguably even the most contentious theological
work of early modern Ashkenazi Judaism. The book surfaced in Germany around
1725 and generated one of the most heated controversies of Judaism at that time.
Although distributed anonymously, most contemporary observers attributed it to
the rabbinic prodigy, Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschütz of Prague; this
attribution has been confirmed by modern scholarship. The edition brings a
critically edited and annotated text of Va-Avo
established on the basis of manuscripts housed in Oxford and Jerusalem, as well
as several essays interpreting its theological doctrines.
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47 - Bodily Rituals in Jewish Mysticism: The
Intensification of Cultic Hand Gestures by Medieval Kabbalists, by Maurizio
Mottolese (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 47), 360 pages, in ENGLISH,
ISBN 1-933379-58-6). The kabbalistic concern with halakhic precepts, practices
and customs has received greater attention in recent scholarship. The present
book contributes to this turn with an inquiry into the integration of law and
mysticism, rites and myths, experience and speculations in major segments of
the Jewish lore. It also calls for an extensive adoption of tools and grids
that are currently employed in religious studies, under the impact of the
research on ritual forms, language and meaning in anthropology and semiotics.
The focus of the inquiry is the effort of thirteenth- and fourteenth century
kabbalistic circles to re-signify and revive some daily cultic manual gestures,
such as the washing of the hands, the wearing of the phylacteries, and the
upraising of the palms. In fact, their mystical commentaries remolded in detail
the whole interplay of verbal and nonverbal acts—or, linguistic sides, bodily
aspects and inner dimensions—characterizing the traditional liturgical life.
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46 - Commentary to Sefer Yesira Attributed to R.
Saadia Gaon, ôéøåù
ñôø éöéøä äîéåçñ ìñòãéä âàåï, by Na’ama Ben-Shachar, (Sources
and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 46), 464 pages, in HEBREW, ISBN
1-933379-51-0. The Commentary to Sefer
Yesira Attributed to R. Saadia Gaon is one of the most widespread works of its
genre. Nevertheless, it has been printed only partially in traditional
editions. This new volume provides a critical edition with variants, commentary
and an introductory study that places the work in its historical context. This
is the first known work of Jewish mysticism that contains traditions of the
‘special cherub’. It also contains traditions about the creation of a golem.
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45 - Human Self-Perfection: A Re-Assessment of
Kabbalistic Musar-Literature of Sixteenth-Century Safed, by P Patrick B. Koch, (Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 45), 264 pages, in English, 2015, ISBN 978-1-56581-231-4.
In the wake of the Ottoman conquest of Palestine, Jews from all over the Mediterranean area and beyond
settled in the Galilean town of Safed. This
constellation created an atmosphere of spiritual productivity that is arguably
unequalled in the history of Jewish mysticism. The uniqueness of Safed’s
literary output has been subject to numerous studies, particularly in Kabbalah
scholarship. In contrast, the wide range of musar-literature
written during the second half of the sixteenth century remains proportionally
under-represented. Focusing on notions of human self-perfection, this book
examines how the Safedian authors derived numerous strategies of individual
self-improvement from rabbinic, philosophical, Kabbalistic, and earlier musar-writings,
thereby offering to their readers a great variety of transformative practices
that are designed to enable the individual to draw closer to the divine. By emphasizing the mystical-spiritual quality of musar, the present study challenges the
dominant scholarly position, which understands the genre first and foremost as
‘Jewish ethical literature’. The book offers a thorough analysis of the major
topics of Safedian musar, as well as
a cross-cultural reading that compares the Jewish musar-approach with Christian and Islamic traditions of spiritual
guidance. Furthermore, it presents the first comprehensive survey of the
history of academic research on musar, from the beginnings of the Wissenschaft des Judentums to contemporary scholarship.
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44 - A Fifteenth-Century Manuscript of Jewish Magic: MS
New York Public Library, Heb. 190 (Formerly Sassoon 56), Introduction,
Annotated Edition and Facsimile, by Gideon Bohak.
ñôø ëùôéí éäåãé îäîàä äè"å ëúá éã ðéå éåø÷,
äñôøéä äöéáåøéú 190 (ìùòáø ùùåï 56) îáåà, îäãåøä îáåàøú åöéìåí ëúá äéã îàú
âãòåï áåä÷ (Sources and Studies in
the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 44), in HEBREW: Volume 1 328 pages, Study and Edition, Black and White
Printing; Volume 2, 272 pages. ISBN
1-933379-49-9. SOLD AS A TWO VOLUME SET. The Jewish magical tradition was
transmitted from generation to generation both orally and via manuscripts,
which are well attested at least from the tenth to the twentieth centuries.
Many hundreds, and perhaps even thousands, of manuscripts of Jewish magic have
survived, and are available in public and private collections all over the
world. And yet, no attempt has ever been made to penetrate this world in a
systematic manner, or to edit any single manuscript of Jewish magic in its
entirety. Hence the importance of the present edition, of a fifteenth-century
manuscript, copied somewhere in the Arabic-speaking world by a Jewish scribe,
Moses son of Jacob and Marhaba, and containing both Kabbalistic texts and an
endless stream of magical recipes for every imaginable purpose. The edition of
the manuscript is annotated with copious footnotes, is preceded by a detailed
introduction and followed by detailed indices, and is accompanied by a color
facsimile of the entire manuscript.
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43 - Megalleh ‘Amuqot – The Enoch-Metatron Tradition
in the Kabbalah of Nathan Neta Shapira of Kraków (1585-1633) by Agata Paluch, 2014 (Sources
and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 43), 216 pp., in English, ISBN
1-933379-46-4. Nathan Neta ben Shlomo Shapira (1585-1633), the most famous kabbalist
stemming from the Jewish intellectual environment of Poland, has remained one of the
least studied figures in modern scholarship. Shapira is generally acknowledged
as the most important early-modern Ashkenazi kabbalist, whose influence on later
Eastern-European mystical circles is well attested. His major treatise, Megalleh
῾Amuqot, one the most complex
kabbalistic texts ever written, combines variegated strata of older mystical
traditions, to which the author applies diverse, often obscure modes of
interpretation. In considering medieval Ashkenazi mysticism as Shapira’s formative
background, the book focuses on Enoch-Metatron cluster of traditions, which was
as central to Shapira’s thought as it was to his Ashkenazi predecessors. The Enoch-Metatron constellation of motifs serves as a
vehicle for exploring Shapira’s dependence on Ashkenazi imagery and
interpretive methodologies, which he accessed through multiple channels of both
direct and indirect transmission.
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42 - R. Jonathan Eibeschütz, And I Came this Day
unto the Fountain, åàáåà
äéåí àì äòéï, Critically Edited and Introduced by Paweł Maciejko, With
Additional Studies by Noam Lefler, Jonatan Benarroch and Shai Alleson Gerberg,
2014 (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 42), 360 pp., in Hebrew, ISBN
1-933379-45-6. is undoubtedly the most contentious work of Sabbatian
Kabbalah, and arguably even the most contentious theological work of early
modern Ashkenazi Judaism. The book surfaced in Germany around 1725 and
generated one of the most heated controversies of Judaism at that time.
Although distributed anonymously, most contemporary observers attributed it to
the rabbinic prodigy, Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschütz of Prague; this
attribution has been confirmed by modern scholarship. The edition brings a
critically edited and annotated text of Va-Avo established on the basis
of manuscripts housed in Oxford and Jerusalem, as well as several essays
interpreting its theological doctrines. :
OUT OF PRINT: see SECOND REVISED EDITION
41
- The Myth of the Edomite Kings in Zoharic Literature: Creation and Revelation
in the Idrot Texts of the Zohar,
by Avishar Har-Shefi àáéùø äø ùôé: 'îìëéï ÷ãîàéï': äáøéàä åääúâìåú áñôøåú
äàéãøåú ùì äæåäø (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 41), 264 pp., in Hebrew, ISBN
1-933379-40-5. The Idrot sections
of the Zohar lie at the heart of the Zoharic corpus. In these texts Rabbi
Shimon bar Yohai and the comrades recount the Account of Creation and reveal
its deep secrets. This study analyzes the various textual versions of these
discussions and focuses on the myth of the Edomite Kings, the myth of the
worlds that were destroyed. By analyzing these texts, the depths of these myths
reveal the character of the Idrot and offer meaningful interpretations.
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40 - Sabbatean
Millenarianism in the Seventeenth Century: A Study of Moshe Abudiente's
Fin de los Dias, Avraham
Elqayam äîñò ì÷õ äéîéï: áùåøú äâàåìä äùáúàéú ìîùåøø îùä áï âãòåï àáÌåãéÆðèÅé (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish
Mysticism 40), 504 pp., in Hebrew, ISBN 1-933379-35-9. Fin de los Dias (The End of
Days) by Moshe Ben Gideon Abudiente (1610-1688) who braved the wrath
of the Portuguese community leadership in the heyday of Sabbatai Sevi, and on a
symbolic date, the tenth of Av, 1666, had this essay printed. The End of
Days is a collection of Sabbatean homilies which Abudiente preached in
Portuguese for the community of Sabbatean Believers, written down
in his beloved Hebrew, then translated to Castilian, the language in which they
were eventually printed. In this essay Abudiente publically proclaims that
Sabbatai Sevi is the one who fulfilled all the messianic predictions of the
Prophets of Israel. Abudiente challenges rabbinical Judaism as well as
Millenary or Sebastianist Christianity, either of which would prefer to confine
him, Abudiente, in the world of a ‘New Jew’ in the Diaspora of Amsterdam or
Hamburg. In this book I call into question the prevalent conception that Kabbalah
had a major role in introducing Sabbatean ideas to the Sephardic Diaspora in
Northern Europe. My thesis is that it was the crisis perpetrated by the return
of New Christians to Judaism which served as the psychological foundation to
their striving to revitalise rabbinical Judaism and broaden its horizons. The
Hebrew edition is critically annotated to facilitate understanding and
accessibility. I have appended the Castilian version of his Fin de los
Dias, as well as one chapter from The End of Days which
has been edited and translated to French, and then translated by Scholem to
Hebrew. Winner of the Shmuel Toledano Prize.
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39 - Vision as a Mirror:
Imagery Techniques in Twentieth Century Jewish Mysticism, by Daniel Reiser äÇîÌÇøÀàÆä ëÌÇîÌÇøÀàÈä:
èëðé÷ú äÇãÄÌîÀéåÌï áîéñèé÷ä äéäåãéú áîàä äòùøéí (Sources and
Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 39), 384 pp., in Hebrew, ISBN 1-933379-44-8). This book
is an attempt to describe the development of imagery techniques, a central type
of mystical experience, in Jewish mysticism. Imagery techniques of late
Hasidism and twentieth -century Jewish mysticism have all the characteristics
of a full screenplay, a long and complicated plot woven together from many
scenes, a kind of a feature film. Research of this development and nature of
the imagery experience is carried out through comparison to similar
developments in philosophy and psychology, especially imagery techniques in
mesmerism and hypnosis. Winner of the Matanel Prize in the category of Jewish Thought.
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38 - From Safed to Kotsk: Studies in Kabbalah and
Hasidism, by Morris M. Faierstein, (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish
Mysticism 38), 246 pp., in English, ISBN
1-933379-43-X. The essays in this volume cover three areas of research
conducted over a period of twenty-five years. The first group of essays is
related to the history of Safed and more particularly, the life and activities
of Rabbi Hayyim Vital. For the most part, they expand upon topics that emerged
from my editions (Hebrew and English Translation) of Rabbi Hayyim Vital’s
mystical diary, Sefer Hezyonot. The essay on the first published account
of a Dibbuk possession is a bridge to the second area, the relation of
Kabbalah and early Modern Yiddish Literature. The larger theme of these few
essays is a beginning attempt to show that kabbalistic themes and concepts were
more widely disseminated and popularized than has been realized. For example,
one essay shows that a Yiddish work aimed at a popular audience published in
1596 already has an extended discussion of the kabbalistic ritual of Tikkun
Hazot. This is not a theoretical discussion; rather the author strongly
encourages his readers, ordinary Jews, to perform this kabbalistic ritual. The
last group of essays is largely concerned with a continuation my earlier work
on Kotsk-Izbica Hasidism and the tensions between Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotsk
and his erstwhile friend and disciple, Rabbi Mordecai Joseph of Izbica. Two
essays discuss aspects of the teachings of the first and last leaders of Habad,
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi and Rabbi Menahem Mendel Schneerson.
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37 - R. Moses de León, Sefer Mishkan ha-Edut, Critically edited, introduced and annotated by Avishai
Bar-Asher, (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 37),
2013, 272 pp., in Hebrew, ISBN 1-933379-42-1. R. Moses de León is
considered to be the central figure responsible for the composition and early
diffusion of the main part of the Zohar. Mishkan ha-Edut the last
full-length book composed by de León to remain in manuscript form and is
published here for the first time in a critical edition, introduced and
annotated with copious notes that explain the text and show the many parallels
to the zoharic texts. This volume is a major contribution to the study of the
Zohar and thirteenth-century Kabbalah and is a must for any scholar or
scholarly library.
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36
- Kabbalistic Manuscripts and Textual Theory: Methodologies of Textual
Scholarship and Editorial Practice in the Study of Jewish Mysticism,
by Daniel Abrams, foreword by David Greetham (Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish 36), 2103, 862 pp., in English, ISBN 1-933379-41-3. Kabbalistic
Manuscripts and Textual Theory uncovers the unstated assumptions and
expectations of scribes and scholars who fashioned editions from manuscripts of
Jewish mystical literature. This study offers a theory of kabbalistic
textuality in which the material book – the printed page no less than
handwritten manuscripts – serves as the site for textual dialogue between
Jewish mystics of different periods and locations. The refashioning of the text
through the process of reading and commenting that takes place on the page – in
the margins and between the lines – blurs the boundaries between the
traditionally defined roles of author, reader, commentator and editor. This
study shows that kabbalists and academic editors reinvented the text in their
own image, as part of a fluid textual process that was nothing short of
transformative. Kabbalistic Manuscripts and Textual Theory was first
published in 2010 and is reissued in this revised edition with a new chapter:
‘Textual Fixity and Textual Fluidity: Kabbalistic Textuality and the
Hypertexualism of Kabbalah Scholarship’.
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35 - Illuminated Piety: Pietistic Texts and Images in
The North French Hebrew Miscellany, by Sara Offenberg, (Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 35); 2013, 232 pp. (with color illustrations),
in English, ISBN 1-933379-39-1. This volume offers an interdisciplinary study
of mystical ideas applied in the texts and images of the North French Hebrew
Illuminated Miscellany copied around 1280. This book offers an inquiry into a
series of full-page illuminated scenes and their relation to piyyut commentary
and the ideas of Hasidei Ashkenaz. At the heart of the book is a study of a
text concerning gematriot, which is a shorter version of Sefer
Gematriot of Rabbi Judah the Pious, and this version is published here for
the first time. In addition to an analysis of mystical traditions, this study
discusses issues of Jewish-Christian polemics that are reflected in the texts
and illuminations. It offers a new understanding of the cultural exchange
between different Jewish communities, and the transmission of knowledge between
Hekhalot literature, Hasidei Ashkenaz, and this north French manuscript.
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34 - The Works of Iyyun: Critical Editions ëúáé äòéåï: îäãåøåú îãòéåú, edited by Oded Porat (Sources
and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 34; 2013, 280 pp, in Hebrew,
ISBN 1-933379-37-5). For the first time in the history of the study of Jewish
Mysticism a complete collection of the treatises of the Iyyun Literature
has been critically edited in a single volume. With a historical, literary and
theoretical introduction, Oded Porat has edited with critical apparatus all the
known works of the early anonymous kabbalists of thirteenth-century
Langedouc-Provence. The mystical speculation of the Iyyun literature seeks to
make the divine attendant within the present through ever-evolving linguistic
creativity, constantly limited by its origin. This mystical textbook is a basic
part of any library of sources and studies of medieval Jewish mysticism.
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33 - Window to the Stories of the Zohar: Studies in
the Exegetical and Narrative Methods of the Zohar öåäø ìñéôåøé äæåäø: òéåðéí áãøëé äãøåù åäñéôåø áñôø
äæåäø
by Michal Oron (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 33;
2013, 216 pp. in Hebrew, ISBN 1-933379-36-7) This collection of studies
represents the state of the field of research on the Zohar from a literary
perspective, including studies on zoharic parables, homilies and discrete
literary units of the zoharic corpus.
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32 - The Rainbow, The
Ladder and the Countenances: The Many Faces of Jewish Mysticism, ä÷ùú, äñåìí åäôðéí: øéáåé ôðéä
ùì äîéñèé÷ä äéäåãéú, by Michael Schneider (Sources
and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 32; 2023, 194 pages, in Hebrew, ISBN 978-1-933379-34-0). This volume is the third of four
monographs composed by Michael Schneider in which he traced traditions from
antiquity through medieval Kabbalah. This volume explores theophany and
apotheosis in three chapters regarding the imagery of the rainbow, Jacob’s
ladder and the many faces of God. The volume offers another contribution to his
research on the high priest, as traditions of the confluence between the divine
Anthropos and human form meet in texts from various periods and area composed in various languages.
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31 - Scattered Traditions of Jewish
Mysticism: Studies in Ancient Jewish Mysticism in Light of Traditions from the
Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha Hellenistic Literature, Christian and Islamic
Sources äîñåøåú äâðåæåú ùì äîéñèé÷ä äéäåãéú: îç÷øé äîéñèé÷ä
äéäåãéú ä÷ãåîä òì ôé òãåéåú ùì ñôøéí çéöåðéí, ñôøåú äìðéñèéú, î÷åøåú ðåöøééí
åîåñìîééí, by Michael Schneider (Sources and Studies in
the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 31; 2012, 336 pages, ISBN 1-933379-26-X, in
Hebrew). This is the
second volume in a trilogy of studies on Jewish mythical and mystical
traditions from the Second Temple through the early medieval ages. The book
includes three extensive studies. The first deals with pseudepigraphic book of
Joseph and Aseneth and explores the topics of ritual, initiation, mystical
transformation and sacred marriage. The second chapter contains a thorough
revision of the scholarly consensus about the pargod as a medium of
mystical vision in Hekhalot literature and in the Apocalyptic. The third
chapter is devoted to the ‘Prince of peace’, the divine-angelic-human messianic
figure that embodies the principle of ‘coincidentia oppositorum’.
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30 - The Appearance of the High Priest – Theophany,
Apotheosis and Binitarian Theology: From Priestly Tradition of the Second
Temple Period through Ancient Jewish Mysticism, by Michael Schneider, îøàä ëäï: úéàåôðéä,
àôåúéàåæä, åúéàåìåâéä áéðàøéú – áéï ääâåú äëäðéú áú÷åôú äáéú äùðé ìáéï äîéñèé÷ä
äéäåãéú ä÷ãåîä (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 30;
2012, 384 pages, ISBN 1-933379-25-1, in Hebrew). This volume is the first of
three volumes in a major scholarly reassessment of mystical traditions in the
Second Temple period, which explores the variety of early religious traditions
across diverse bodies of literature and in various languages. The symbolic,
mythic and mystical features of these traditions, their transmission and
migration histories and their reappearance in some medieval texts is further
investigated. At the heart of this volume is the concept of the encounter and
communion between the high priest and God, which implies an anthropomorphic
theophany (the appearance of the God in human form) and the apotheosis
(deification) of the high priest. This phenomenon is understood in the
framework of a binitarian theology that distinguishes the hidden God from His
visible appearance. These concepts appear as sources for many latter mystical
traditions.
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29 - Ten Psychoanalytic Aphorisms on the Kabbalah
(Lecture Delivered at the Ceremony for the Gershom Scholem Prize for Kabbalah
Scholarship at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities on the Anniversary
of Gershom Scholem’s Birth, December 5, 2010) ãðéàì àáøîñ, òùøä îàîøéí
ôñéëåàðìéèééí òì ä÷áìä, äøöàä ùðéúðä áè÷ñ äòð÷ú äôøñ áç÷ø ä÷áìä òì ùí âøùí ùìåí
áà÷ãîéä äìàåîéú äéùøàìéú ìîãòéí áéåí äåìãúå ùì âøùí ùìåí ë"è áëñìå
úùò"à,
by Daniel Abrams (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 29;
2011, 88 pages, ISBN 1-933379-24-3, bilingual edition: Full English and Hebrew
texts of the introduction, aphorisms, notes and colophon). In a beautiful,
bibliophile edition, issued in a limited run of 300 copies, English and Hebrew
readers will enjoy the presentation of ten aphorisms that offer the inner
structure of the Kabbalah’s psychoanalytic traditions, presented from within
their own discourse and formulated in their terms and concepts. In the
introduction, Scholem’s basic rejection of Freudian psychoanalysis for Kabbalah
research is considered, as is Freud’s grounding of his new discipline in
relation to Greek mythology instead of any turn to Jewish traditions. The ten
aphorisms are annotated with marginalia for source references of passages cited,
whereas further manuscript and textual references are provided in the
footnotes. In presenting the body of traditions of Kabbalah’s psychoanalytic
theory, these aphorisms serve as a critical return to Scholem’s ‘Ten
Unhistorical Aphorisms on the Kabbalah”, and thus can be seen as a signpost for
a new direction in Kabbalah research.
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28 - Devequt: Mystical Intimacy in Medieval Jewish
Thought, àãí
àôèøîï, ãá÷åú: äú÷ùøåú àéðèéîéú áéï àãí ìî÷åí áäâåú äéäåãéú áéîé äáéðééí, by
Adam Afterman (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 28;
2011, 384 pages, ISBN 1-933379-23-5, in Hebrew). This monograph offers a
detailed study of the exegetical and experiential understandings of devequt
in ancient and medieval Jewish thought, from the Hebrew Bible through the works
of Nahmanides. This study explains the connections between the various corpora,
linking the moves made between the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic Literature, and
then from the early medieval philosophic and pietistic sources - including Ibn
Gabirol, Ibn Paquda, Judah Halevi, and Maimonides – to the early kabbalists.
The study is thus both a major contribution to the history of ideas and Jewish
mysticism, and a refreshing new vision of the larger framework of Jewish
tradition and the interface between philosophic and mystical traditions.
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27 - The Dates of Composition of The Zohar and The
Book Bahir: The History of Biblical Vocalization and Accentuation as a Tool for
Dating Kabbalistic Works,
by Jordan S. Penkower, òì æîï çéáåøí ùì ñôø äæåäø åñôø äáäéø: úåìãåú ñéîðé
äðé÷åã åäèòîéí äî÷øàééí ëëìé ìúéàøåê ùì ñôøé ÷áìä, Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 27; 2010, ISBN 1-933379-19-7, 192 pages, in
Hebrew. This volume offers a sustained argument concerning the rise of critical
observations and historical awareness surrounding the appearance, composition
and acceptance of works written in a midrashic style. Such works as The Book
Bahir and The Zohar afforded a great amount of attention to minutiae of the
biblical tradition, especially aspects of vocalization and accents that were
later known to have arisen at a later stage in Jewish history. This volume adds
to the history of the understanding of these books with new insights into their
contexts and the historically placed arguments for appreciation of these works.
This study affords further insights into the attitudes concerning these
kabbalistic books by such important figures as Elijah Levita and Samuel David
Luzzatto, who contributed to Jewish culture in Italy. -- “Written by a fine
scholar of biblical studies and the history of interesting aspects of Hebrew,
this volume will be helpful also for a better understanding of the scholarship
of both the Hebrew language, and the culture of the Jews in the Italian
Renaissance”. – Moshe Idel.
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- Kabbalistic Manuscripts and Textual Theory: Methodologies of Textual
Scholarship and Editorial Practice in the Study of Jewish Mysticism,
by Daniel Abrams, foreword by David Greetham, Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish 26; 2010, 761 pp., hardcover, ISBN 1-933379-18-9, in
English, $49. Kabbalistic Manuscripts and Textual Theory uncovers the unstated
assumptions and expectations of scribes and scholars who fashioned editions
from manuscripts of Jewish mystical literature. This study offers a theory of
kabbalistic textuality in which the material book – the printed page no less
than handwritten manuscripts – serves as the site for textual dialogue between
Jewish mystics of different periods and locations. The refashioning of the text
through the process of reading and commenting that takes place on the page – in
the margins and between the lines – blurs the boundaries between the
traditionally defined roles of author, reader, commentator and editor. This
study shows that kabbalists and academic editors reinvented the text in their
own image, as part of a fluid textual process that was nothing short of
transformative. SEE SECOND REVISED EDITION, 2013
25
- Sefer ha-Shem Attributed to R. Moses de León, ñôø äùí äîéåçñ ìø' îùä ãé ìéàåï, Edited, annotated and
introduced by Michal Oron, (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish
Mysticism 25; 2010, 240 pages, ISBN 1-933379-12-X, in Hebrew). Sefer ha-Shem
is a carefully constructed and highly detailed commentary to the ten sefirot.
It rivals, if not surpasses, Gikatilla’s Sha‘arei Orah in its clarity
and function as an introduction and guide to Theosophic Kabbalah. This
beautiful edition serves as a primer to Spanish Kabbalah and serves as a major
guide for the beginning and advanced student of kabbalistic texts in the
original Hebrew, with an introductory study, copious notes and a full index of
central terms and names of the sefirot.
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24 - Automatic Writing in Zoharic Literature and
Modernism, ùí äëåúá åëúéáä àåèåîèéú áñôøåú äæåäø åáîåãøðéæí, by
Amos Goldreich (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 24;
2010, 408 pages, ISBN 1-933379-17-0, in Hebrew). This richly detailed monograph
explores the phenomenon of mystical and magical techniques which induce a
different state of consciousness that leads to literary production. The impetus
of the study is the suggestion, offered in the celebrated testimony of R. Isaac
of Acre, that R. Moses de León was able to write the Zohar using shem
ha-kotev, a magical application of the divine name. It has been
demonstrated that the later stratum of the Zohar, that is Tiqqunei ha-Zohar,
was actually written using this technique. All scholarly treatments of the
topic, including new evidence from manuscript sources and a history of related
phenomena amongst kabbalists, and on through the development of similar
techniques in modernism, such as automatic writing experiments in early
twentieth-century English occultism and French surrealism, are all discussed at
length in this monumental study.
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23- Concealed and Revealed: ‘Ein Sof’ in
Theosophic Kabbalah,áðñúø åáðâìä: òéåðéí áúåìãåú ä'àéï ñåó' á÷áìä
äúéàåñåôéú , by Sandra Valabregue-Perry (Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 23; 2010, 312 pages, ISBN 1-933379-16-2, in
Hebrew). This volume offers a detailed analysis of the traditions and
conceptualization of the Ein Sof in Theosophic Kabbalah, from the first
kabbalists in Provence and Gerona (including R. Isaac the Blind and R. Azriel
of Gerona) and on through R. Isaac of Acre and the Zoharic literature.
The study further explores central problems discussed by the kabbalists,
including the relationship between Ein Sof and Keter, concepts of
infinity, negative theology, questions of ontology and the role of divine
emanation.
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22-
Lurianic Kabbalah: Collected Studies by Gershom Scholem, ÷áìú äàø"é: àåñó îàîøéí îàú âøùí ùìåí,
edited by Daniel Abrams (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish
Mysticism 22; 2008, 440 pages, ISBN 1-933379-09-X, in Hebrew). This volume (all
in Hebrew) celebrates the groundbreaking work of Gershom Scholem on
Kabbalistic literary and mystical activity from the end of the fifteenth
century, just prior to the Expulsion from Spain and until the rise of
Sabbateanism. At the heart of this collection are all of Gershom Scholem’s
detailed studies on R. Isaac Luria, his teachers, students and the works that
emerged from Safed, including numerous texts which he introduced and explained.
All sixteen studies are reproduced here, re-typeset, along with a Hebrew
translation of the chapter on Isaac Luria and his School, from his Major
Trends in Jewish Mysticism - all updated with Scholem’s post-publication
hand notes from his personal library and annotated with full bibliographic
references, manuscript identifications and followed by a complete bibliography
in all languages of all studies about Kabbalah from the periods treated in this
volume. The volume is introduced with a typology of the various methods and
scholarship that emerged from Scholem’s foundational work. This volume is an
essential research tool for the serious study of Jewish mysticism.
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- Analogy in Midrash and Kabbalah: Interpretive Projections of the Sanctuary
and Ritual, by Maurizio
Mottolese (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 21; 2007,
398 pages, ISBN 1-933379-07-3, in English). Found in most religious cultures,
analogical discourse plays a decisive role in Judaism. This book offers a close
inquiry into the peculiar features, the various forms and the broader
developments of analogy within Jewish literature, focusing especially on
late-antique and medieval contexts. Not surprisingly, Jewish authors always
produced analogical maps of reality by means of an analogical interpretation of
the Bible, seen as disclosing manifold, and often secret, correspondences. This
study of analogy is thus based on a renewed exploration of midrashic and
mystical hermeneutics. The thematic focus investigates interpretive projections
of the ancient sanctuary and its worship, highlighting the tendency of Jewish
exegetes to analogize (and thus double in heaven) sacred places and cultic
practices. Exploring analogical exegesis is then also an opportunity, as well
as a means, for offering a refreshing perspective on the mythical-ritual
imagery of the Rabbis and the medieval kabbalists.
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20 - Mystical Interactions: Sociology, Jewish
Mysticism and Education, by Philip
Wexler. (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 20, 2007,
197 pages ISBN 1-933379-06-5, in English). Mystical Interactions represents a
dialogue and interaction between Sociology and Jewish Mysticism. It juxtaposes
‘classical’ sociology, depth social psychology and contemporary theories of
social movements to conceptual social aspects from the Jewish mystical
tradition. By interweaving sociology and Jewish mysticism, Wexler offers a new
theory of a religious sociology of everyday social life, of the elementary
forms of mystical sociality. Sociology does not ‘explain’ Jewish mysticism. On
the contrary, Jewish mysticism becomes a resource for understanding social
interaction differently. What emerges is a Jewish, mystical social
interpretation of society, religion and education.
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19- The Secret of Unity: Unifications in the Kabbalistic and
Hasidic Thought of R. Hayyim ben Solomon Tyrer of Czernowitz, áñåã äéçåã: äéçåãéí áäâåúå ä÷áìéú-çñéãéú ùì ø' çééí áï
ùìîä èéøø îèùøðåáéõ, by Ron Wacks, (Sources and Studies in the Literature of
Jewish Mysticism 19; 2006, 320 pages, ISBN 1-93379-04-09, in Hebrew). This book is a
study of the thought of R. Hayyim ben Solomon Tyrer of Czernowitz (1760?-1817?), one of
the most prominent rabbis of eastern Galicia and the adjoining regions in the
late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He gained renown primarily
during the eighteen-year period in which he served as rabbi in Czernowitz, in
Bukovina. His works include: Sidduro shel Shabbat, Sha‘ar ha-Tefillah,
Be’er Mayyim Hayyim; Eres Hayyim, and Teshuvah be-‘Inyan
’Amirat Le-Shem Yihud. The study is divided as follows: (1) The Life and
Works of R. Hayyim; (2) Unifications in Kabbalah and Hasidism; (3) Models of
Unifications in the Thought of R. Hayyim; (4) The Modes of Incorporation of the
Models in Various Realms.
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Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah: The Masculine and Feminine in Lurianic Kabbalah, ôñéëåàðìéæä å÷áìä: ìúäìéëé æéååâ äæëøé åäð÷áé á÷áìú
äàø"é,
by Devorah Bat-David Gamlieli (Sources and
Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 18; 2006, 408 pages, ISBN 1-933379-03-0, in Hebrew). This study examines the
reasons for the negative connotation attributed to the female aspect of the
Godhead, identified in various Jewish traditions with ’ani, understood
as the ego in psychological terms. This study draws on three disciplines:
Lurianic Kabbalah, Maimonidean philosophy, and Freudian psychoanalysis:
Psychology of the Self and Object-Relations Theory. This interdisciplinary
approach offers a new interpretive model for understanding Lurianic texts and
their exegesis of the Hebrew Bible. A reading of Lurianic symbolism through
psychoanalytical terminology provides for a deeper understanding of kabbalistic
symbolism.
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The Interpretation of Secrets and the Secret of Interpretation: Midrashic and
Hermeneutic Strategies in Sabba de-Mishpatim of the Zohar,ôøùðåú äñåã åñåã äôøùðåú: îâîåú îãøùéåú åäøîðåéèéåú
á'ñáà ãîùôèéí' ùáæåäø , by Oded Yisraeli (Sources and
Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 17; 2005, 304 pages, ISBN 1-933379-00-6, in Hebrew) Sabba
de-Mishpatim is a distinct literary unit of Zoharic literature which
interprets Exodus, chapters 21-24. The composition tells of a wonderful
encounter between Rabbi Hiyyah and Rabbi Yossi, and an eccentric old man (the Sabba),
whom they originally mistook for an ignoramus. The exegesis delivered by the Sabba
to the friends examines esoteric matters concerning the laws of the spirit and reincarnation,
reward and punishment, and principles of exegesis. This section of the Zohar
is most famous for the parable of the maiden in the tower. This volume is the
first full-length study of Sabba de-Mishpatim, exploring its
hermeneutics and the revival of the midrashic form in Zoharic literature.
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- Enchanted Chains: Techniques and Rituals in Jewish Mysticism, by Moshe Idel,
with a foreword by Harold Bloom (Sources and
Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 16; 2005, 258 pages, ISBN 0-9747505-4-9, in English) Enchanted Chains brings together some conceptual approaches that were
developed in Idel’s earlier studies such as Kabbalah: New Perspectives,
particularly the contributions of analyzing techniques and rituals for a better
understanding of Jewish mysticism, as well as of certain aspects of mystical
literature in some of the major religions. Here, the author has taken a further
step, attempting to highlight the existence of affinities between techniques,
theologies and the nature of experience related to them. He describes the
specific understanding of Jewish mystics of the well-known theme of the Great
Chain of Being, as part of their magico-theurgical worldviews, which differed
from the more static Platonic picture dominant in the West, and described by
Arthur Lovejoy in his famous monograph.
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Sex of the Soul: The Vicissitudes of Sexual Difference in Kabbalah, by Charles Mopsik,
Edited with a foreword by Daniel Abrams, (Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 15; 2005, 212 pages, ISBN 0-9747505-9-x, in English). The present volume
is the first collection of studies by Charles Mopsik (1956-2003) to be
published in English. It contains the contents of two separate volumes
published in French, with an additional study which was published elsewhere.
These seven studies focus on the function and character of sex and gender in
Jewish Mysticism: (1) The Primeval Couple and the Primordial One in the
Religions of the World; (2) The Masculine Woman; (3) Creation and Procreation:
Beyond the Bounds of the Body – From the Hebrew Bible to Medieval Jewish
Mysticism; (4) Genesis 1: 26-27: The Image of God, Man and Wife, and the Status
of Women in the writings of the Early Kabbalists; (5) Genesis 2:24: ‘They
Become One Flesh’: Several Interpretations by Medieval Jewish Mystics; (6)
Union and Unity in the Kabbalah: The Proclamation of the Divine Unity and the
Male/Female Couple; (7) The Secret of the Marriage of David and Batsheva.
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14 - Joseph b. Abraham Ibn
Waqar: Principles of the Qabbalah, edited
from Hebrew and Arabic Manuscripts, by P. B. Fenton, ñôø ùøùé ä÷áìä (Sources
and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 14, 2004, 200 pages, ISBN
0-9747505-6-5, in Hebrew). Rabbi Joseph ben Abraham Ibn Waqār flourished
in
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13 - The Intention of Prayers
in Early Ecstatic Kabbalah: A Study and Critical Edition of an Anonymous
Commentary to the Prayers, critically
edited and introduced by Adam Afterman, ëååðú äîáøê ìî÷åí äîòùä (Sources
and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 13; 2004, 320 pages, ISBN
0-9747505-3-0, in Hebrew). This Commentary to the Prayers was written around
1270 in
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12- Words of the Righteous
(Divrei Saddiqim): An Anti-Hasidic Satire by Joseph Perl and Isaac Baer
Levinsohn, critically edited and
introduced by Jonatan Meir, ãáøé öãé÷éí (Sources
and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 12, 2004, 180 pages, ISBN
0-9747505-7-3 in Hebrew). The most famous anti-Hasidic satire in the nineteenth
century is Joseph Perl’s Megale Temirin. This text was published
anonymously in
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11- The Commentaries to
Ezekiel’s Chariot of R. Eleazar of Worms and R. Jacob ben Jacob ha-Kohen, edited and introduced by Asi Farber-Ginat and Daniel
Abrams,ôéøåùé äîøëáä ìø'
àìòæø îååøîñ åìø' éò÷á áï éò÷á äëäï (Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism 11, 2004, 184 pages; ISBN 0-9640972-8-1, in
Hebrew). These two commentaries
form the only known kabbalistic reworking of a surviving German pietist text
and are of great importance for the understanding of the emergence of Kabbalah
in the thirteenth century.
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10 - Roots of Faith and
Devequt: Studies in the History of Kabbalistic Ideas, by Mordechai Pachter, (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish
Mysticism 10; 2004, 342 pages, ISBN 0-9747505-5-7, in English). This book
presents - in English - four studies by Mordechai Pachter on central ideas in
kabbalistic thought: (1) The Root of Faith is the Root of Heresy; (2) Circles
and Straightness; (3) Smallness and Greatness; (4) Devequt in Sixteenth
Century Safed. The first study describes the most supreme point of deity
revealing itself out of the depths of Ein-Sof (the Infinite), the
point defined as faith. The second chapter goes on to the two modes of
revelation and operation of all the Divine sefirot, the modes of circles
and straightness; and the third chapter treats the Sefirot, namely the
two lower configurations, ze‘ir ‘anpin (the Short Countenance)
and nuqva (the Female), who are the Lurianic equivalents of the sefirot
Tiferet and Malkhut, in their two states of development and
growth: the state of qatnut (smallness) and the state of gadlut
(greatness); the final chapter discusses the lowest point of the Divine world,
the point at which man and God meet in communion, i.e. devequt.
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9 - The Mystical Meaning of
Lekhah Dodi and Kabbalat Shabbat, by Reuven Kimelman. ÷áìú ùáú åìëä ãåãé. Solomon
Alkabetz composed Lekhah Dodi in Safed in the mid-sixteenth century.
This book discloses the poem’s kabbalistic meaning and its function within the
Sabbath evening service. It explains how the ceremony for the welcoming
of the Sabbath developed in Safed as a wedding and coronation ceremony in which
the Sabbath was personified as bride and queen. The song merges erotic,
mystical, and historical images into a kabbalistic vision of redemption. It
urges one to join the divine Lover in greeting the weekly Sabbath to get to
experience the cosmic Sabbath. (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish
Mysticism 9; 2003, 286 pp., ISBN 0-9705369-7-6, in Hebrew). Domestic orders
only.
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8 - Vision and Speech:
Models of Revelatory Experience in Jewish Mysticism, by Haviva Pedaya, äîøàä åäãéáåø. This Hebrew monograph is a
programmatic attempt to describe central types of mystical experience of
revelation in Jewish sources from the Hebrew Bible through the medieval
Kabbalah. The book investigates visionary and aural aspects of prophetic and
ecstatic experiences. Close textual readings are offered to these mystical
testimonies in which the mystic becomes vocal and recounts praises of the
Divine. The nature of the linguistic imagery is explored with a sensitivity to
its relationship to myths and metaphors which account for introverted and
extroverted types of mysticism. An overriding typology is thus provided for
ecstatic mysticism in Judaism. (Sources and Studies in the Literature
of Jewish Mysticism 8; 2002, 286 pp., ISBN 0-9640972-9-X, in Hebrew)
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7 - Abraham Abulafia -
Kabbalist and Prophet: Hermeneutics, Theosophy and Theurgy, by Elliot R. Wolfson. This book reexamines the main features of Abulafia’s
mystical thought and practice in light of his embracing of paradox as the main
vehicle for expressing truth. It has been commonplace in modern scholarship to
distinguish sharply between two kinds of kabbalah, the theosophic and the
ecstatic. The studies that have been assembled in this volume illustrate a
somewhat more fluid and elastic exposition of Abulafia’s prophetic kabbalah in
relation to the theosophic kabbalah of his generation. (Sources and Studies in
the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 7; 2000, 247 pp., ISBN 0-9640972-7-3, in
English) OUT OF PRINT
6 - Sefer Gematriot of R.
Judah the Pious: Facsimile Edition of a Unique Manuscript, introduced by Daniel Abrams and Israel Ta-Shema. ñôø âéîèøéàåú. Sefer
Gematriot is a collection of German
pietist traditions, preserved in a unique manuscript copied at the end of the
thirteenth century. The work records the various traditions in the name of R.
Judah the Pious, author of Sefer Hasidim, and head of the esoteric
circle of the pietists. (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish
Mysticism 6; 1998, 166 pp., ISBN 0-9640972-6-5, in Hebrew)
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4 and 5 - R. Moses De Leon’s
Commentary to Ezekiel’s Chariot, ôéøåù äîøëáä ìø' îùä ãé
ìéàåï and R. Joseph
Gikatilla’s Commentary to Ezekiel’s Chariot ôéøåù äîøëáä ìø'
éåñó â'÷èéìä , critically edited and
introduced by Asi Farber-Ginat. These
works are of great importance for the study of this major genre of Kabbalistic
literature, including the Zohar. These works enrich our understanding of
thirteenth-century sefirotic symbolism, as well as the Kabbalistic doctrines of
mystical vision, angelology, and evil. (Sources and Studies in the Literature
of Jewish Mysticism, vols. 4 and 5; 1998, 98 pp., ISBN 0-9640972-2-2; 116 pp.,
ISBN 0-9640972-1-4, in Hebrew)
Gikatilla: http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9780964097216 $72
De Leon: http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9780964097223 $72
3 - R. Moses de Leon’s Sefer
Sheqel ha-Qodesh, critically
edited and introduced by Charles Mopsik with an introduction by Moshe Idel, ñôø ù÷ì ä÷ãù. This
book provides some of the earliest testimony regarding the appearance of the Zohar
in the late thirteenth century, and forms a unique test-case for understanding
the redactional process behind the canonical work of medieval Jewish mystics.
(Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 3; 1996, 187 pp.
ISBN 0-9640972-4-9)
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2 - R. Asher ben David: His
Complete Works and Studies in his Kabbalistic Thought, Including the Commentaries to the Account of Creation by
the Kabbalists of Provence and Gerona, by Daniel Abrams. ø' àùø áï ãåã: ëì ëúáéå
åòéåðéí á÷áìúå. R. Asher ben David, was the grandson of R. Abraham ben
David (Rabad) and the nephew of R. Isaac the Blind. His Book of
Unity, included in this volume, is one of the first Kabbalistic works
written. (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 2; 1996,
378 pp., ISBN 0-9640972-3-0, in Hebrew).
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1 - The Book Bahir: An Edition
Based on the Earliest Manuscripts, by Daniel Abrams with an introduction by Moshe
Idel. ñôø äáäéø.
Supplemented by studies in the history of the book’s redaction and reception;
the printing history and scholarly treatments of the work; listings of
manuscript witnesses; annotated listings of commentaries to the Bahir;
kabbalistic works which quote and comment on the Bahir; and unknown
passages found in other works. (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish
Mysticism 1; 1994, 375 pp., ISBN 0-9640972-0-6, in Hebrew) Out of Print.
Bibliography of the Writings
of Professor Moshe Idel: A Special Volume Issued on the Occasion of his
Fiftieth Birthday. The
bibliography provides annotated listings of all of Idel’s published works,
including articles published in journals and collected studies volumes, book
reviews, encyclopedia entries, introductions to books, critical editions and
manuscript facsimiles, full-length monographs, and volumes which were published
and distributed in limited copies within Israeli universities. (66 pp.,
1997, ISBN 0-9640972-5-7, in Hebrew).
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Gerrit
Bos: Neologisms and Other Difficult Terms in the Sefer ha-Zohar: Novel
Interpretations IV
Moshe Idel: R. Isaac ben Shmuel of Acre and His
Relationship to Prophetic Kabbalah and its Consequences in Scholarship
Oz Dahuky: The Homily R. Hayyim Vital Gave to R.
Shlomo Sagis: A Reassessment based on the Identification Offered by R. Menahem
di Lonzano
Ronen Hezi: The Vessels and the Shells in R. Joseph
Ibn Tabul's Sefer ha-Derushim
Uriel Gellman: Reciting 'Pitum ha-Qetoret' to
Halt a Plague: The Evolution of a Ritual
Jonatan Meir: The Adventures of R. Samuel Horowitz and
his Journey to Uman
Daniel Abrams: ‘There Never Was an Alternative Way’ –
Masculine Domination and the Feminization of the Moon in the Talmudic Parable
and a Thirteenth-Century Kabbalistic Commentary on the Blessing of the
Moon
Gerrit Bos: Neologisms and Other Difficult Terms in
the Sefer ha-Zohar: Novel Interpretations III
Oded Porat: The Formula ‘a=a+a’ in the Kabbalistic
Book of the Fountain of Wisdom and in Kashmir Śaivism – The Twofold
Non-Dual Mystical Experience as a Linguistic World-View
Eugene D. Matanky: Identifying Solomon Alqabeṣ’s and Moses Cordovero’s
Autographs – A Preliminary Catalog of Safedian
Kabbalistic Manuscripts
Jonatan Meir: An Unpublished Manuscript in Defense of
Bratslav Hasidism
Yossi Greenfield: Was R. Ezra of Gerona a Teacher of
Nahmanides in Kabbalah?
Elliot R. Wolfson: Phallomorphic Underpinning of Abraham
Miguel Cardoso’s Messianic Theosophy: Analysis and Edition of Derush
ha-Yesod
Daniel Abrams: The Book Bahir before it was the
Book Bahir: A Commentary on ‘Esoteric Legends’ from the Beginning of the
Thirteenth Century
Daniel Abrams: A Kabbalistic Tradition on Metatron
from My Brother, the Pietist: Toward a Transmission History of Miscellanea from
Catalonia
Gerrit Bos: Neologisms and Other Difficult Terms in
the Sefer ha-Zohar: Novel Interpretations II
Jean Baumgarten: Pratiques pénitentielles et
messianisme sabbatéen Les Tikune Teshuve Erets Tsvi (Cracovie,
1666)
Barak Hoffman: Did Rabbi Gedalya Halevi Write Derush
ha-Melakhim that is Attributed to Him?
Liran Haim Lavi Breslaw: When I Saw, I, the Copyist -
Findings from the Manuscript Witnesses Edition of Sefer ha-Gevul
Alexandra Mandelbaum Kupeev: The Figure of Feige as a
Tzadeket and as the Mother of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
Studies in English
Elliot R. Wolfson: Phenomenology, Theosophic
Topography and the Structures of Being - Unveiling the Seventh of Scholem’s Ten
Unhistorical Aphorisms on the Kabbalah
Daniel Abrams: Metatron as Logos - The First Created
Light of the Intellect
in Jacob
ha-Kohen’s Book of Illumination
Gerrit Bos: Interpretations to Neologisms in the Sefer
ha-Zohar
Nathan Wolski: The
Mystical-Liturgical Limits of Yiddish: A Yiddish Chapter in Kabbalistic
Kavvanot
Morris M. Faierstein: An Unknown Yiddish Version of Sefer
Gan Eden, Hanau, 1620
Studies in Hebrew
Daniel Abrams: Textual Criticism of Sefer Yesira
in the Scribal Notations of Scribes and Kabbalists 203
Avi Kallenbach: In the Margins of the Printed Zohar:
Marginalia as Evidence for the Evolution of Kabbalah Study in Italy
Tzvi Luboshitz: There is Absolutely no Despair in the
World? The Prayer of the Messiah from within the Shells by Moses David
Valle
Studies in English
Daniel Abrams: Textual Variance in the Book Bahir:
Alternative Versions in Marginal Glosses and Across Multiple Witnesses — A
High-Resolution Inquiry to a Brief Passage
Daniel Abrams: Magical Metatron — Adjurations to
Confirm the Identity of a Thief
Studies in Hebrew
Hillel Feuerstein: Commentary on the Passover Haggada
from the Circle of Sefer ha-Temuna — Study and Edition
Liran Haim Lavi Breslaw: The Formation of a Work: The
Kabbalist-Scribe as Co-Author: The Manuscript Witnesses to Sefer ha-Gevul
Studies in English
Daniel Abrams: Dismantling the
Author and His Work – Toward a Genealogy of the Texts
which Comprise R. Ezra of Gerona’s ‘Secret of the Tree of Knowledge’
Daniel
Abrams: The Secret of Illicit Relations —
An Unknown Secret by Jacob ben Jacob ha-Kohen (Text, Translation and
Commentary)
Jonatan Meir: Hasidic Tales in Eighteenth-Century Tripoli
Studies in Hebrew
Shlomo Zucker: A Letter Sent from Safed by R. David Ibn Zimra to
Isaac Luria in Egypt
Avishai Bar-Asher: The Punctiform Deity:
Theological Debates among the Masters of Niqqud in the Works of R.
Joseph Gikatilla’s ‘Disciples’
Tzahi Weiss: David Kimchi in Isaac the Blind’s Letter: One More
Comment on Isaac the Blind’s Letter to Nahmanides and Jonah Gerondi
Chen Mandel-Edrei and Yehudah Dov Ber Zirkind:
Charting a Literary History of Hasidic Aesthetics: R. Mordechai Landau’s Lost
Collection of Stories and its Transformation into the Writing of History and
Sermons
Roee Goldschmidt: Sevi Elimelekh of Dynow’s Reasons for the
Commandments: Derekh Piqudekha — Kabbalah, Halakhah, Pilpul and Talmudic
Erudition
Studies
in English
Daniel Abrams: A Woman’s Intention of Thought
to Metatron: The Secret of ‘When She Brings Forth Seed [First]’ (Text,
Translation and Commentary)
Daniel Abrams: The Textual Transformations of
Two Passages about Metatron in the Manuscript Assemblages Compiled, Composed
and Revised by Menahem Azariah da Fano
Morris M. Faierstein: Sod ha–Neshamah,
Basel 1609 — A Yiddish Paraphrase of Moshe de León’s Nefesh
ha–Hakhamah, Basel 1608
Samuel Glauber-Zimra: Writings on
Spiritualism from the Archive of R. Eliyahu Mordekhai Halevy Wolkowsky
Studies
in Hebrew
Jonathan Shnytzer: On the Secrets of the
Sabbatical and Jubilee Years
Liran Haim Lavi Breslaw: The Zohar of R.
David ben Yehuda he-Hasid
Raphael Shuchat: Did R. Hayyim Vital Consider
Isaac Luria’s Teachings to be Parabolic? An Inquiry into the Claim of Elijah,
the Gaon of Vilna, and Different Perspectives on the Meaning of the Term kifshuto
and she-lo-kifshutu
Hillel Feuerstein: Textual Fixity and Textual
Fluidity in the Genre of Kabbalistic Secrets: A Study on the Textual
History of the Secret of the Great Sabbath by Moses de
León
Studies
in English
Eugene D. Matanky: Illustration,
Dissemination, and Production — Diagrams in Moses Cordovero’s Pardes Rimonim
Studies
in Hebrew
Daniel Abrams: The Notebooks of the Early
Kabbalists – Revisions of the Literary Records from Barcelona according to Late
Manuscript Witnesses
Daniel Abrams: The Esoteric Transcription of
Secrets: A Chapter in the History of Kabbalistic Scribal Practices
Avishai Bar-Asher: From the Vaults of Thebes:
Moses de León’s Pseudepigraphic Writings on the Letters, Vowel Signs,
Theonyms, and Magical Practices and the Origin of Zoharic Fiction
Jonatan Meir: Late Sabbateanism — Unknown
Lectures by Gershom Scholem from 1960-1961
Studies in English
Wolfson Elliot R.: Malkhut
Ein Sof and Simsum – Gender Construction in the
Kabbalistic Speculation of Jonathan Eibeschütz with Special Reference
to Wa-Avo ha-Yom el ha-Ayin
Abrams Daniel: Divine
Multiplicity – The Presentation of Differing Sefirotic Diagrams in Kabbalistic
Manuscripts
Ben-Shachar Na'ama: The Author of 'Sefer
ha-Qelippot' (The Book of Shells)
Studies in Hebrew
Meir Jonatan: An Unknown Letter from Nathan
of Gaza to the Communities of Poland, 1665
Sachs-Shmueli Leore, Felix
Iris, and Kara-Ivanov Kaniel Ruth: R. Joseph Angelet's Twenty-Four
Secrets (Introduction, Study and Edition)
Studies in English
Wolski Nathan, “'Soydes
elyoynim dos men nit darf far etlekhem aroys redn': Three Early Yiddish
Versions of the Idra Rabba from the Zohar
Sierka Anna: Kanfei Yona
in Seventeenth-Century Ashkenaz
Studies in Hebrew
Idel Moshe: A Fragment from
an Unknown Work of R. Isaac of Acre
Pinto Idan: A Small
Kabbalistic Compilation from the Thirteenth Century and its Traces in the
Writings of R. Bahya ben Asher
Har-Shefi Avishar: The Son
and the Servant: An Inquiry into the Image of Metatron in the Literature of the
Tiqqunim
Hillel Moshe: The History
and Sources of Kanfei Yona – On the Identification of the Manuscript
Sources
Studies in English
Abrams Daniel: The
Beginning that Arose in the Middle – On the Late Emergence of the Title Passage
of The Book of the Zohar
Wolski Nathan: The Revealed
within the Concealed - The Yiddish Preface to the Yiddish Zohar (Nakhles
Tsvi, 1711)
Schnytzer Jonnie: The Primordial
Union of the First & Tenth Sefirot
Papo Eliezer: Ottoman
Bosnia as a Case Study of the Sephardic: Tradition of Reading Zohar as
Musar
Koren Israel:
'Clarifications of Truth' in Mordechai Joseph of Izbica's Mei ha-Shiloah
Studies in Hebrew
Luboshitz Tzvi: Prolegomena
to Mishnat Hasidim
Reiser Daniel: Book Review:
Philip Wexler, Eli Rubin and Michael Wexler, Social Vision, The Lubavitcher
Rebbe's Transformative Paradigm for The World (New York: The Crossroad
Publishing Company, 2019)
Studies in English
Abrams Daniel: Three
Kabbalistic Secrets Circumcision, Impurity and the Foreskin — Edition,
Translation, Commentary
Wolski Nathan: Melancholy
and Mysticism - Three Early Yiddish Essays by Hillel Zeitlin
Meir Jonatan: Hagiography
in Context: Shivhei haBesht and the Formation of the Hasidic Movement
Amshalem Jeffrey G.: The
Image(s) of Israel Baal Shem Tov in Koretser and Bershider Literature: A
Reception History of the Besht
Moseson Elly: From Private
Letter to Communal Document: On the Multiple Versions of the Letter of the
Besht
Studies in Hebrew
Schweig Yossi, Introduction
to the History of Kabbalah: Unknown Lectures by Isaiah Tishby
Riccardo Sh. Di Segni: New
Documents on the Death of Rabbi Raphael Immanuel Hai Ricchi according to Ms.
Rome, Collegio Rabbinico Italiano 123
Studies in English
Wolfson
Elliot: Malkhut de-Ein Sof and the Temporalization of Space Simsum in
the Teaching of Solomon ben Hayyim Eliashiv
Abrams Daniel: Kabbalistic
Aphorisms and Other Short Literary Forms in Jewish Esotericism
Abrams Daniel: Prolegomenon
to a New Edition of the Book Bahir - Editorial Practice in the
Presentation of Ms. Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 209: An Essay on
Method
Studies in Hebrew
Baumgarten Eliezer: Yishaq
Hariri and Lurianic Kabbalah in Kurdistan
Safrai Uri: R. Haim Vital's
Sermon from Jerusalem on the Coming of the Messiah
Gurfinkel Eli: 'Gates of
Mercy': A Philosophical and Kabbalistic Commentary on Maimonides' Thirteen
Principles of Faith
Goldschmidt Roee: From
Byzantium to Eastern Europe: The Textual Versions of Sefer ha-Temuna and
Their Circulation in Manuscript and Print
Studies in English
Wolfson Elliot R.:
Discerning Difference through Comparison of the Same Isaac Hutner's
Transmission of Esoteric Wisdom
Sachs-Shmueli Leore: 'The
Secret of Incest' — Ms. Cambridge, Cambridge University Library Dd. 4.2.2
Solomon David: 'The Spirit
of Translation' — Excerpts from the Correspondence of Jean de Pauly
Studies in Hebrew
Mayer Yakov Z.: A
Commentary on Idra Rabba from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century: Study and
Edition
Feuerstein Hillel: The Lame
Fire of Hephaestus and the Sparks of the Blacksmith in Idra Zuta
Pinto Idan: A History of
the Copying of the Prayer before Copulation
Schnytzer Jonnie:
Metempsychosis, Metensomatosis and Metamorphosis: On Rabbi Joseph ben Shalom
Ashkenazi's Systematic Theory of Reincarnation
Goldschmidt Roee: Talmudic
Study Methods and Kabbalistic Literary Creativity in Eastern-European
Kabbalah
Schneider Michael:
Otherwordly Journeys — Dangerous Places and the Safety Chord
Studies in English
Wolfson Elliot R.:
Suffering Time: Maharal's Influence on Hasidic Perspectives on Temporality
Abrams Daniel: From
Manuscript to Print: The Production of a Standardized Text of Sefer ha-Zohar
in Mantua (1558-1560)
Maximiliano Manrique David:
The Personification of the Angel of Death in a Castilian Version of the Dance
of Death (Ms. Parma, Palatina 2666)
Freedman Daphne Hadas: The
Book of Creation
Studies in Hebrew
Afterman Adam: On Mystical
Union in the Zohar
Bar-Asher Avishai: Remnants
of Early Translations and Commentaries to the ‘Zohar’ from the Land of Israel:
The Value of Old Manuscripts for the Text, Editings, Translations and
Interpretations of the ‘Book of the Zohar’
Pinto Idan: 'The Secret of
the Day of Atonement' — Study and Edition
Kabbalah 43 (2019), 320 pp. ISBN 9781933379722 $144
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Studies in English
Wolfson Elliot R.: Judah
ben Solomon Canpanton's Leqah Tov: Annotated Edition and Introduction
Studies in Hebrew
Meir Jonatan: Hasidism:
Unknown Lectures by Gershom Scholem from 1945
Garb Jonathan: A Study of Tal
Orot by R. Yaakov Meir Spielmann
Baumgarten Eliezer: The
Paths of Faith (Netivot ha-Emmuna) by Rabbi Yichye Harazi
Gur Ben Yithzak Inbal: The
Construction of R. Judah the Pious as Author — A New Perspective on the
Writings of the German Pietists according to a Study of Ms. Vienna 236
Kabbalah 42 (2018), 320 pp. ISBN 9781933379692 $144
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Studies in English
Mottolese Maurizio: Between
Somatics and Semiotics — The Lulav Ritual Gesture and its Kabbalistic
Re-signification
Abrams Daniel: 'When Moses
Ascended into Heaven' — Hekhalot Themes and Ashkenazi Interpolations in a
Mystical Ascent Text (Edition, Translation and Commentary)
Kallenbach Avi: Two
Versions of a Passage from Tiqqune Zohar in Manuscript Anthologies – A
Case-Study Concerning the Composition, Transmission and Formation of the
Zoharic Corpus Prior to Print
Studies in Hebrew
Idel Moshe: On the Genre of
Commentaries on the Forty-Two Letter Divine Name and its Later History
Weiss Tzahi: 'The Worship
of Metatron' – A Synoptic Edition
Lev El Noam: On the
Editions of R. Menahem Azariah of Fano's Sefer Pelah ha-Rimmon
Harari Yuval: Magical
Paratexts: Ms. London, The British Library Or. 12362 (Es ha-Da'at) as a
Test Case
Luboshitz Tzvi: An Early
Version of the Simsum Debate in Immanuel Hay Ricchi's Yosher Levav
Kabbalah 41 (2018), 320 pp. ISBN 9781933379685 $144
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Studies in English
de Molière
Maximilian: Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter's Recension of the Zohar
Studies in Hebrew
Idel Moshe: R. Nehemia ben
Shlomo the Prophet's Commentary on Eleazar ha-Qalir's Hymn 'And the Beasts who
are found at the four Corners of the Throne'
Abrams Daniel: Textual
Fluidity of the Zohar after its Printing — A Test Case for the
Understanding of the Interface between Manuscript and Print (A High-Resolution
Inquiry into the Marginal Glosses of R. Natan Shapira ha-Yerushalmi to Sefer
Zohar Hadash, Venice 1658 from the Exemplar of the Oppenheim Collection in
the Bodleian Library)
Vick Amiel: Midrash
ha-Zohar — On the Traces of the Early Editing of the 'Book of the
Zohar'
Kallenbach Avi: A Reworking
of R. Moses of Burgos' Treatise on the Left Emanation – The Interpolation of
Kabbalistic Documents in Later Manuscript Witnesses and Prints
Ben-Shachar Na'ama and
Weiss Tzahi: The Order of Emanation Regarding 'The Unity of Our God and Our
Torah for Our People' — A Commentary on the Ten Sefirot from the ‘Circle of Sefer
ha-Temunah’
Safrai Uri: An Unknown
Correspondence Between R. David ibn Zimrah and the Kabbalists of Safed
Kabbalah 40 (2018), 292 pp. ISBN 9781933379678 $144
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Studies in English
Wiese Christian and Kohler
George: The Roads Not Taken – Preface by the Guest Editors
Schulte Christoph: From
Luria to Wissenschaft – How the Lurianic Kabbalah Entered the Academy
Morlok Elke: Blurred Lines:
Methodology and Kabbalistic Ideas Within the Berlin Haskalah
Fenton Paul: Adolphe
Franck’s Contribution to the Historicocritical Study of the Kabbalah
Chajes J.
H.: Romanticising Rashbi: Moses Kunitz’s Ben Yohai
Kohler George Y.: Heinrich
Graetz and the Kabbalah
Chajes Julie: Seth Pancoast
and the Kabbalah: Medical Pluralism and the Reception of Physics in
Late-Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Hanegraaff Wouter J.:
Mysteries of Sex in the House of the Hidden Light: Arthur Edward Waite and the
Kabbalah
Burmistrov Konstantin:
‘Ancient Wisdom Under a Cloud of Suspicion’: Differing Conceptions of Kabbalah
in Russian Thought in the Late-Nineteenth to Early-Twentieth Centuries
Necker Gerold: Ernst
Müller’s Encounter with Jewish Mysticism and Gershom Scholem
Wiese
Christian: Interreligious Dynamics in Leo Baeck’s Interpretation of
Prophecy and Jewish Mysticism
Huss Boaz: ‘The Quest
Universal’: Moses Gaster’s Interest in Kabbalah and Western Esotericism
Campanini Saverio: Den
Quatsch lesen - Gershom Scholem’s Kabbalistic Library in 1923
Kabbalah 39 (2107), 320 pp. ISBN 9781933379661 $144
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Studies in English
Idel Moshe: Early Hasidism
and Altaic Tribes – Between Europe and Asia
Giller Pinchas: The
Forty-Two-Letter Divine Name in the Later Strata of the Zohar
Studies in Hebrew
Bar Asher Avishai: The
Earliest Citation from Sefer ha-Zohar and from Whence Had
the Book of Zohar Received its Name
Benarroch Jonatan: An
Edition of Early Versions of Idra Zuta and An Unknown Hebrew
Translation from Ms. Vatican 226, Copied in 1311
Meir Jonatan: The Lost
Yiddish Editions of Shivhei Ha-Besht (1815-1817)
Shasha Omri: Circumcision
and Protecting the Covenant in the Story of Kfar Tarsha
Kabbalah 38 (2017), 320 pp. ISBN 9781933379654 $144
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Studies in English
Wolski Nathan: Aaron
Zeitlin’s Yosef della Reina – A Modern Sabbatean Tragedy
Studies in Hebrew
Abrams Daniel: Gershom
Scholem’s Lexicon to the Zohar: A Personal Research Tool
Margolin
Ron and Hoffmann Noam: A Kabbalist in the Histadrut: Rabbi Yehuda Zvi
Brandwein, Disciple of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Ashlag
Sachs-Shmueli Leore: The
Reception of Traditions of Two Channels of the Divine Masculine in the Kabbalah
of R. Moses Cordovero
Ben-Shachar
Na‘ama and Weiss Tzahi: An Anonymous Geronese Kabbalistic Commentary
on the Ten Sefirot
Gries Zeev: Joy in
Hasidism
Chwat Ezra: The
Identification of an Unknown Kabbalistic Work in Ms. Vatican Ebr. 202
Safrai Uri: The Kavvanot Homilies
of R. Moses Jonah
Meir Jonatan: The Legend of
the Journey of the Baal Shem Tov to the Land of Israel: New Documents from the
Bratslav Archives
Yamamoto Shinichi: The
Doctrine of World Cycles and Messianism in the Writings of Nathan of Gaza
Kabbalah 37 (2017), 320 pp. ISBN 9781933379647 $144
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Studies in English
Bar-Asher Siegal Elitzur
A.: Can the Grammar of Babylonian Aramaic Be Used in Evaluating the Language of
the Zohar, and If So, How?
Faierstein Morris M.: The
Possession of Rabbi Hayyim Vital by Jesus of Nazareth
Mayse Ariel Evan:
Double-Take – Textual Artifacts and the Memory of Hasidic Teachings
Studies in Hebrew
Baumgarten Eliezer:
Homilies on the Kaballistic Ilan by Yosef Ibn‑Sur
Lorberbaum
Menachem and Michaelis Omer: ‘Then Came Sabbatai Sevi’: Sabbatean
Discourse in the Beshtian Circle
Margolin Ron: The
Directives of Rabbi Ashlag in the Matter of the Dissemination of Kabbalah in
English in the United States
Reiser
Daniel: Scholarship of Hasidism in Yiddish: An Annotated Bibliography
Shiloh Elchanan: The State
of the World before the Appearance of the People of Israel – Between R. Moses
Hayyim Luzzato and R. Yishaq Isaac Haver
Shuchat
Raphael: Simsum Taken Literally – An Investigation into the Thinking
of Emanuel Hai Ricci and R. Solomon Eliasov
Kabbalah 36 (2017), 320 pp. ISBN 9781933379630 $144
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Studies in English
Abrams Daniel: R. Joseph
Gikatilla’s ‘Secret of the Cherubs’
Studies in Hebrew
Asulin Shifra: Between
Cyclicality and Progression – The Messianic Biography as a Personal Narrative
in R. Hayyim Vital’s Sefer Hezyonot
Bregman Dvora: The
Mysterious Echo
Gur Ben Itzhak Inbal: The
Doctrine of Parallel Worlds and the Tripartite Structure of the Soul
in Sefer Hokhmat ha-Nefesh – A New Perspective on the Unique
Traditions of R. Eleazar of Worms
Kauffman Tsippi: R.
Nahman’s Besht – The Construction of the Father‑Figure
Knohl Israel: From the
Birth of the Bible to the Beginning of the Kabbalah
Meroz Ronit: Cosmology in
the Short Version of Sefer Yesira
Gurfinkel Eli: The
Kabbalistic Structure of the Writings of the Maharal of Prague
Sadik Shalom: Utilization
of Kabbalah Literature in the Polemics of the Apostates against Judaism
Kabbalah 35 (2016), 320 pp. ISBN 9781933379562 $144
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Studies in English
Abrams Daniel: Divine
Jealousy – Kabbalistic Traditions of Triangulation
Wolfson Elliot R.:
Anonymity and the Kabbalistic Ethos – A Fourteenth-Century Supercommentary on
the Commentary on the Sefirot
Papo Eliezer: ‘Meliselda’
and its Symbolism for Sabbatai Sevi, His Inner Circle and His Later
Followers
Wolski Nathan: Radical
Allegoresis and Neoplatonic Myth – in Midrash ha-Ne‘elam
Studies in Hebrew
Safrai Uri: ‘What is Absent
in One is Revealed in the Other: The Concept of Completeness in the Writings of
R. Naftali Hertz Treves
Barnai Jacob: ‘Sabbateanism
after the Death of Sabbatai Sevi’ – Gershom Scholem’s Lectures from the Hebrew
University, 1960-1961 from the Notebooks of Zalman Shazar
Sachs-Shmueli Leore, ‘I
Arouse the Shekhinah’: A Psychoanalytic Study of Anxiety and Desire of the
Kabbalah in Relation to the Object of Taboo’
Elqayam Avi: Photography on
Gravestones: Iconography and Messianism in Sabbatean Cemeteries in
Istanbul
Bar-Asher Avishai: Sefer
ha-Nequdah, the Short Sefer ha-Yihud and Fragments from Sefer Or
Zaru‘a and Sefer Toledot Adam
Kabbalah 34 (2016), 320 pp. ISBN 9781933379548 $144
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Studies in English
Abrams Daniel: Metatron,
the Lesser Lord, the Angel Called Elohim – A Kabbalistic Treatise
from Thirteenth-Century Castile: Text, Translation and Commentary
Wolski Nathan: Moses de
León and Midrash ha-Ne‘elam – On the Beginnings of the Zohar
Studies in Hebrew
Reiser Daniel and Mayse
Ariel Evan – ‘For Many Years He Said This’: A Forgotten Manuscript of
the Sefat Emet
Elqayam Avi: Liberating
Nudity in Sabbateanism – Between the Messiah and His Prophet
Pely Hagai: The
Conception of Halakhah in the Writings of the Author of Tiqqunei Zohar –
A Reappraisal
Zev Harvey Warren: What Did
the Rymanover Really Say about the Aleph of Anokhi?"
Abrams Daniel: The Earliest
Manuscript of the Zohar – Ms. Vatican 202, Circa 1300: A Quote
in Aramaic in the Name of R. Shimon bar Yohai in the ‘The Secret of Leverite
Marriage’ and the Various Copyings of Zoharic Texts in the Manuscript
Kabbalah 33 (2015), 320 pp. ISBN 9781933379487 $144
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Mayse Ariel Evan and Reiser
Daniel: Sefer Sefat Emet, Yiddish Manuscripts and the Oral Homilies of R.
Yehudah Aryeh Leib of Ger
Wolski Nathan: An
Unpublished Conclusion to the Zohar’s ‘Halls of Holiness’ in Heikhalot Pequdei
Magid Shaul: Allegory
Unbound: Rav Kook, Rabbi Akiva, Song of Songs, and the Rabbinic (Anti)
Hero
Studies in Hebrew
Abrams Daniel: Gershom
Scholem as a Hebrew Poet
Ben-Shachar Naama: R.
Avigdor’s Commentary to the Forty-Letter Divine Name and Its Relation to the
Commentaries of R. Nehemiah the Prophet
Mayer Yakov Z.: The
Introduction to the Zohar: Text, Structure and Editing
Sachs-Shmueli Leore: The
Image of the Prophetess Miriam as a Feminine Model in Zoharic Literature
Seroussi Edwin and Beeri
Tova: Rabbi Israel Najara in Ashkenaz
Kauffman Tsippi: Typology
of the Tsaddik in the Teachings of R. Abraham the Prophet
Meir Jonatan: Haskalah and
Esotericism in Galicia: The Unpublished Writings of Elyaqim Hamilzahgi
Garb Jonathan: [Book
Review]: Daniel Reiser, Vision as a Mirror – Imagery Techniques in
Twentieth Century Jewish Mysticism, Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 2014
[Hebrew]
Abrams Daniel Abrams:
Divine Yearning for Shekhinah: ‘The Secret of the Exodus from Egypt’ – R.
Moses de León’s Questions and Answers from Unpublished Manuscripts and
their Zoharic Parallels
Idel Moshe: East
European Hasidism: The Emergence of a Spiritual Movement
Studies in Hebrew
Elqayam Avi: Caves, Nudity
and Death – On the Initiation of R. Shimon Bar Yohai as a Son of Heaven
Yahalom Joseph: Shi‘ur
Qomah in a Misidentified Qalirian Poem for Pentacost
Sofer Gal: The Hebrew
Manuscripts of Mafte’ah Shelomoh and an Inquiry into the Magic
of the Sabbateans
Ben-Shachar Naama: R.
Avigdor Katz, R. Nehemiah the Prophet and Special Cherub Circle
Sachs-Shmueli Leore: R.
Joseph of Hamadan’s Commentary to the Ten Sefirot
Kabbalah 31 (2014), 320 pp. ISBN 1-933379-38-3 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379388
Studies in English
Abrams Daniel:
Nineteenth-Century Precedents of Textual Scholarship of Kabbalistic Literature
— Elyaqim Milzahagi’s Zoharei Raviah: Ms. Jerusalem NLI 4° 121
Amshalem Jeffrey G.: Why Do
You Not Tell Stories in My Praise Also? The Image of Dov Ber, the Maggid of
Mezritsh, in the Earliest Hasidic Tales
Studies in Hebrew
Gam Hacohen Moran: Gershom
Scholem’s Lectures from ‘Ohel Shem’, 1934
Elqayam Avi: Sabbatean
Hymns and Poetry – A Critical Study of Gershom Scholem’s Unpublished Manuscript
Notes
Lorberbaum Menachem:
‘Attain the Attribute of ‘Ayyin: The Mystical Religiosity
of Maggid Devarav Le-Ya‘aqov
Schwartz Dov: Traits of the
Hesychast Polemics in Fourteenth-Century Jewish Byzantine Thought
Yisraeli Oded: A Kabbalist
Despite Himself: R. Judah ben Yaqar –A Historical Figure and His Image
Meir Jonatan: The Eclectic
Kabbalah of R. Shimon Horowitz (A Critical Note on the Term ‘The Lithuanian
Kabbalah’)
Kabbalah 30 (2013), 320 pp. ISBN 1-933379-33-2 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379333
Abrams Daniel: A Commentary
to the Ten Sefirot from Early Thirteenth-Century Catalonia: Synoptic Edition,
Translation and Detailed Commentary
Ackerman Ari: The
Attribution of Sod Ha-Kaddish to Hasdai Crescas
Wolfson Elliot R.: Nequddat
ha-Reshimu – The Trace of Transcendence and the Transcendence of the
Trace: The Paradox of Simsum in the RaShaB’s Hemshekh
Ayin Beit
Studies in Hebrew
Reiser Daniel and Mayse
Ariel Evan: The Last Sermon of R. Judah Leib Alter of Gur and the Role of
Yiddish in the Study of Hasidic Sermons
Feldman-Samet Hadar: Theological
Aspects in ‘Letters of the Donme’ – A Sabbatean Source from Rabbi Judah Levi
Tova’s Circle
Roth
Ariel: Reshimu – The Dispute between Lubavitch and Kopost
Hasidism
Har Shefi Avishar: The
Affinity of Rabbi Nahman of Breslav with Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai and the Turning
toward Sippurei Ma‘asiyot
Kauffman Tsippi, On the
Portrait of a Saddiq: R. Zusha of Annopol
Elqayam Avraham: Nudity in
Safed in the Sixteenth Century – Between Hasidism and Deviance
Kabbalah 29 (2013), 320 pp. ISBN 1-933379-32-4 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379326
Studies in English
Abrams Daniel: The
‘Zohar’ as Palimpsest – Dismantling the Literary Constructs of a
Kabbalistic Classic and the Turn to the Hermeneutics of Textual
Archaeology
Studies in Hebrew
Idel Moshe: The
Identification of the Authors of Two Ashkenazi Commentaries to ha-’Ederet
ve-ha-’Emunah and R. Eleazar of Worms’ Theurgic Conceptions of the Divine
Glory
Goldschmidt Roee: The Study
of Lurianic Kabbalah in the Circle of the Baal Shem Tov – R. Moses Shoham of
Dolina’s Seraf Peri Es Hayyim
Elqayam Avraham: The King
is Naked – The Symbolic Removal of the Scarf in the Kabbalah of R. Joseph
Gikatilla
Yahalom Joseph: From the
Melody to the Lyric: Hebrew Poetry on Conjunction After the Spanish
Expulsion
Kabbalah 28 (2012), 320 pp. ISBN 1-933379-28-6 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379319
Studies in English
Abrams Daniel: ‘The Becoming
of the Hasidic Book’ – An Unpublished Article by Joseph Weiss: Study, Edition
and English Translation
Meir Jonatan: Marketing
Demons – Joseph Perl, Israel Baal Shem Tov and the History of One Amulet
Idel Moshe: Solomon Maimon
and Kabbalah
Studies in Hebrew
Abrams Daniel: Gershom
Scholem and the Book Bahir
Bohak Gideon: Gershom
Scholem and Jewish Magic
Bar-On Shraga: The Yom
Kippur Lots – Rationalism, Manticism and Mysticism
Sachs-Shmueli Leore: Seder
Gan Eden – Critical Edition and Study (with annotations by Gershom
Scholem)
Elqayam Avraham: Nudity in
the Sanctus Sanctorum: Philo and Plotinus on Nudity, Esthetics and
Sanctity
Kabbalah 27 (2012), 320 pp. ISBN 1-933379-29-4
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379296
Editors’ Introduction: The
Popularization of the Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Society
Abrams
Daniel: Metatron and Jesus – The Longue Durée of Rabbinic and
Kabbalistic Traditions: An Eighteenth-Century Manual of Christian Proselytizing
in German and Yiddish
Baumgarten Jean: Des
traductions de textes kabbalistiques dans la littérature yiddish
ancienne
Deutsch Nathaniel: From
Novgorod to New York: S. Z. Setzer and the Yiddish Roots of the Kabbalah in
America
Faierstein Morris M.: The
Brantshpigl (1596) and the Popularization of Kabbalah
Fishbane Eitan P.:
Perceptions of Greatness: Constructions of the Holy Man in Shivhei ha-’Ari
Idel Moshe: Emanuel
Stein: An Unknown Kabbalist – A Preliminary Presentation
Magid Shaul: The
Metaphysics of Malkhut: Malkhut as Eyn Sof in the Writings
of Ya’akov Koppel of Mezritch
Wolfson Elliot R.: Paul
Philip Levertoff and the Popularization of Kabbalah as a Missionizing Tactic
Kabbalah 26 (2011), 320 pp. ISBN
1-933379-28-6 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379289
Studies in English
Abrams Daniel: Kabbalistic
Paratext
Wolfson Elliot
R.: Revealing and Re/veiling – Menahem Mendel Schneerson’s Messianic
Secret
Wexler
Philip: Gershom Scholem’s Mysticism and Society – Critique,
Alternative, Text
Riemer Nathanael: The
Mystery of Adam, David, Messiah – Reincarnations of the Messianic Soul in ‘Beer
Sheva’ (Seven Wells) by R. Beer Perlhefter
Offenberg
Sara: Crossing over from Earth to Heaven – The Image of the Ark and the
Merkavah in the North French Hebrew Miscellany
Studies in Hebrew
Idel Moshe: The
Commenatries of R. Nehemiah bar Shlomo to the Piyyut ‘Ha-Ohez be-Yad Middat
Mishpat’
Harshefi Avishar: How
Different Is This Time from the Idra – The Idra Zuta:
Structure and Meaning
Weiss Tzahi: Soft and Hard:
More Comments on the Syrian Context of Sefer Yesira
Pely Hagai: Kabbalah in R.
Joseph Karo’s Halakhic System – A Chapter in the Development of a Castilian
Halakhic Ruling through the Sixteenth Century
Schwartz Dov: The Soul and
the Diety – The Preaching of R. Joseph Isaac Schneerson
Ross Niham: Tiqqun
Hasot of the Rabbi of Sasev – Symbolic Ritual and its Literary
Reception
Kabbalah 25 (2011), 320 pp. ISBN 1-933379-27-8 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379272
Studies in English
Abrams Daniel: ‘Text’ in a
Zoharic Parable: A Chapter in the History of Kabbalistic Textuality
Idel
Moshe: Ascensions, Gender and Pillars in Safedian Kabbalah
Paluch Agata: The Ashkenazi
Profile of Kabbalah: Aspects of the Megalleh ‘Amuqot ReNaV Ofanim ‘al
Va-’Ethanan by Nathan Neta Shapira of Kraków
Freedman Daphne: Astral and
other Neologisms in the Zohar
Studies in Hebrew
Garb Jonathan: The
Authentic Kabbalistic Writings of R. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto
Porat Oded: ‘A Peace
without Interruption’: Renewed Speculation in Sefer Brit ha-Menuha
Bar Asher Avishai: Penance
and Fasting in the Writings of Rabbi Moses de León and the Zoharic
Polemic with Contemporary Christian Monasticism
Kabbalah 24 (2011), 304 pages, ISBN 1-933379-22-7 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379227
Studies in English
Idel Moshe: Mystical
Redemption and Messianism in R. Israel Ba‘al Shem Tov’s Teachings
Flatto Sharon: Believing
the Censor? A Response to ‘Deists, Sabbatians, and Kabbalists in Prague: A
Censored Sermon of R. Ezekiel Landau, 1770’
Studies in Hebrew
Liebes Yehuda: A
Mystical Midrash Halakhah Attributed to Shimon ben Shetah
Meir Jonatan: On the
History of Kabbalah in America: The Unpublished Manuscripts of Levi I.
Krakovsky
Dubrau Irmi: Iconographic
Images of Lovers in Illuminated Ashkenazi Mahzorim: Toward an Interpretive
Reading of Medieval German Esotericism
Fischheimer Matanya:
‘Anyone Who Looks at the Brass Serpent Shall Survive’ – A New Inquiry into the
Thought of Nehemiah Hayon
Horen Roee: Judaism as
Viewed through the Prism of Faith in the Righteous – A Study of the Works of R.
Nathan of Nemirov
Kabbalah 23 (2010), 304 pages, ISBN 1-933379-21-9 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379210
Studies in English
Idel Moshe: Mircea Eliade
and the Zohar: Moving Sands
Hecker Joel: The Face of
Shame: The Sight and Site of Rebuke (Zohar 3:45b-47a)
Wolski Nathan: Metatron and
the Mysteries of the Night in Midrash ha-Ne’elam: Jacob
ha-Kohen’s Sefer ha-Orah and the Transformation of a Motif in
the Early Writings of Moses de León (Zohar Hadash, Lekh Lekha,
MhN 25c-26a)
Matt Daniel: What’s His
Name?
Fishbane Eitan:
Representation and the Boundaries of Realism: Reading the Fantastic in Zoharic
Fiction
Studies in Hebrew
Benarroch Yonatan: On the
Anatomy of the Evil Inclination in the Zohar
Yisraeli Oded: The War with
Amaleq in the Zohar: Human and Divine Need
Roi Biti: The Legs of
the Shekhinah as a Founding Image of an Ethos: An Inquiry into the
Story of the Man on Crutches in Tiqqunei ha‑Zohar
Carmeli Merav: The
Myth of the Birthing Hind and the Serpent in Parshat Beshalah in
the Zohar
Kara-Ivanov Kaniel Ruth:
The Messianic and Feminine Secret of the Zoharic Tiqla: Incestous
Relations of the Daughters of Lot in Parshat Va-Yera in
the Zohar
Kabbalah 22 (2010), 304 pages, ISBN 1-933379-20-0 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379203
Studies in English
Abrams Daniel: Oedipal
Anxiety in the Fraternal Rivalry between Jacob and Esau: A Psycho-Sexual
Reading of an Anti-Christian Polemic in a Zoharic Passage
Wolfson Elliot R.: Undoing
Time and the Syntax of the Dream Interlude: A Phenomenological Reading of Zohar 1:199a-200a
Green Arthur: Hillel
Zeitlin and Neo-Hasidic Readings of the Zohar
Giller Pinchas: The
Fire-Lights
Studies in Hebrew
Oron Michal: Midrash
ha-Ne‘elam – Old and New
Hellner-Eshed Melila: The
Zealot of the Covenant and the Ecstatic Elijah and Habakkuk in the Zohar:
On the Masculine and Feminine in the Human Psyche
Asulin Shifra: The Flaw and
its Correction: Impurity, The Moon and the Shekhinah – A Broad
Inquiry into Zohar 3:79 (Aharei Mot)
Meroz Ronit: The Writing of
the Zoharic Sitrei Tora – R. Ya‘aqov Shatz and His
Co-writers
Sobol Neta: ‘No Angel
Performs Two Missions’ – On One Dramatic Moment in Idra Rabba
Kabbalah 21 (2010), 384 pages, 1-933379-15-4 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379159
Studies in English
Abrams Daniel: The Virgin
Mary as the Moon that Lacks the Sun – A Zoharic Polemic Against the Veneration
of Mary
Idel Moshe: Torah
Hadashah – Messiah and the New Torah in Jewish Mysticism and Modern
Scholarship
Faierstein Morris: Two
Radical Teachings in the Mei Ha-Shiloah and Their Sources
Studies in Hebrew
Liebes Yehuda: The Pool,
the Daughter and the Male in the Book Bahir
Schneider Michael: The
Angelomorophic Son of God, Yehoel and the Prince of Peace
Kara-Ivanov Kaniel Ruth:
Eve, the Gazelle and the Serpent: Narratives of Creation and Redemption, Myth
and Gender
Abrams Daniel: The
Reception and Editing of Kabbalistic Works by Students of Jewish Esotericism in
Ashkenaz After the Appearance of the Kabbalah (Collectanea of Early Works in a
Leipzig Manuscript Copied in 1429)
Sadik Shalom: Is ‘R.
Abner’ R. Abner of Burgos?
Kahana Maoz and Silber
Michael K.: Deists, Sabbateans and Kabbalists in Prague: A Censored Sermon of
R. Ezekiel Landau, 1770
Kabbalah 20 (2009), 268 pages, ISBN 1-933379-14-6 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379142
Abrams Daniel:
Phenomenology of Jewish Mysticism – Moshe Idel’s Methodology in
Perspective
Wolski Nathan: The Secret
of Yiddish – Zoharic Composition in the Poetry of Aaron Zeitlin
Idel Moshe: The Image of
Man Above the Sefirot – R. David ben Yehuda he-Hasid’s Theosophy of
Ten Supernal Saahot and Its Reverberations
Studies in Hebrew
Idel Moshe: ‘Your Word
Stands Firm in Heaven’ – An Inquiry into the Early Traditions of R. Israel Baal
Shem Tov and Their Reverberations in Hasidism
Schneider Michael: The Myth
of the Satan in the Book Bahir
Meir Jonatan: New
Discoveries Concerning R. Judah Leib Ashlag
Kabbalah 19 (2009), 336 pages ISBN 1-933379-13-8 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379135
Studies in English
Abrams Daniel: The
Invention of the Zohar as a Book – On the Assumptions and Expectations
of the Kabbalists and Modern Scholars
Wolfson Elliot R.: The
Anonymous Chapters of the Elderly Master of Secrets – New Evidence for the
Early Activity of the Zoharic Circle
Abrams Daniel: The Cultural
Reception of the Zohar – An Unknown Lecture by Gershom Scholem
from 1940 (Study, Edition and English Translation)
Studies in Hebrew
Liebes Yehuda: The Account
of the Chariot and the Account of Creation as Mystical Teachings in Philo of
Alexandria
Kabbalah 18 (2008), 320 pages, ISBN 1-933379-11-1 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379111
Studies in English
Idel Moshe: ’Adonay
Sefatay Tiftah – Models of Understanding Prayer in Early Hasidism
Gries Zeev: The Printing of
Kabbalistic Literature in the Twentieth Century
Wolfson Elliot
R.: Kenotic Overflow and Temporal Transcendence – Angelic Embodiment and
the Alterity of Time in Abraham Abulafia
Studies in Hebrew
Idel Moshe: Kabbalah in
Byzantium: A Preliminary Inquiry
Meir Jonatan: Mikhael Levi
Rodkinson – Between Hasidism and Haskalah
Baumgarten Eliezer: R.
Menahem Mendel of Shklov’s ‘The Depiction of the Letters’
Kabbalah: 17 (2008), 336 pp., ISBN 1‑933379-08-1 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379081
Studies in English
Idel Moshe: A Unique Manuscript
of an Untitled Treatise of Abraham Abulafia in Biblioteca Laurentiana
Medicea
Abrams Daniel: Hypostatic
Wisdom and Imitatio Dei – Kabbalistic Traditions of Attaining Wisdom
Brill Alan: Maharal as an
Early Modern Thinker
Faierstein Morris M.: Kotsk
– Izbica Dispute: Theological or Personal?
Book Reviews in English
Magid Shaul: Mor Altshuler,
The Messianic Secret of Hasidism, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2006
Mark Zvi: Jonathan Garb, The
Chosen Will Become Herds: Studies in Twentieth Century Kabbalah, Jerusalem:
Carmel, 2005 [Hebrew]
Studies in Hebrew
Liebes Yehuda: The Prophecy
of the Sabbatean, R. Heshel Zoref of Vilna in the Writings of R. Menahem Mendel
of Shklov, the Student of R. Elijah, the Gaon of Vilna and the Founder of the
Ashkenazi Yishuv in Jerusalem
Weiss Tzahi: Three
Traditions of the Creation of the World from Letters
Yahalom Shalem: Kabbalah
(as Received Tradition) and Innovation in the Writings of Nahmanides and
Related Scholarship: The Cases of the Joints of the Sinews and the ‘Killer
Wife’
Wacks Ron: The Technique of
Guided Imagination in the Thought of R. Kalonymos Kalman Shapira of
Piaseczno
Gries Zeev: Apostates and
Maskilim as Censors in the Nineteenth Century
Abelman Asael: Collectanea
of Esoterica – A Fantasy Narrative by Hillel Zeitlin on the Future and the
Redemption of the Jews
Dahan Alon: The Last
Redeemer without a Successor: Did R. Menahem Mendel Schneerson Choose Not to
Appoint an Heir for Messianic Reasons
Kula Amit: Rabbi Hayyim
Benvenisti’s Sabbateanism – A New Inquiry
Book Reviews in Hebrew
Meir Efraim: Abraham
Heschel’s The Sabbath and its Hebrew Translation
Kabbalah 16 (2007), 360 pp. ISBN 1-933379-05-7 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379050
Studies in English
Abrams Daniel: The
Condensation of the Symbol ‘Shekhinah’ in the Manuscripts of the Book
Bahir
Wolski Nathan and Carmeli
Merav: Those Who Know Have Wings – Celestial Journeys with the Masters of the
Academy
Gilead Amihud: Spinoza, the
Turks, and Sabbatai Sevi: A Case Of Philosophical Prejudice
Studies in Hebrew
Abelman Asael: In the
Thicket of Belief and Denial: The Spiritual Path of Hillel Zeitlin at the
Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Meir Jonatan: The
Revealed and the Revealed within the Concealed: On the Opposition to the
‘Followers’ of Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag and the Dissemination of Esoteric
Literature
Kauffman Tsippi: Corporeal
Worship in the Writings of R. Jacob Isaac, the Seer from Lublin
Zadoff Noam: The
Debate between Baruch Kurzweil and Gershom Scholem on the Research of
Sabbateanism
Kabbalah 15 (2006),
368 pp. ISBN 1-933379-02-2
$144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379029
Studies in English
Abrams Daniel: ‘A Light of
Her Own’ – Minor Kabbalistic Traditions on the Ontology of the Divine
Feminine
Magid Shaul: Ethics
Disentangled from the Law – Incarnation, the Universal, and Hasidic Ethics
Idel Moshe: The Myth of the
Androgyne in Leone Ebreo’s Dialoghi d’Amore and its Cultural
Implications
Wolfson Elliot R.: New
Jerusalem Glowing – Songs and Poems of Leonard Cohen in a Kabbalistic Key
Book Review in English
Wexler Philip: Kabbalists
and Sociologists [Joel Hecker, Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating
and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah, Detroit: Wayne State University Press,
2005]
Studies in Hebrew
Greis Zeev: Jewish
Homiletical Literature: Between Written and Oral Traditions
Zadoff Noam and Meir
Jonathan: The Empty Space, Sabbateanism and its Melodies – Joseph Weiss’
Reading of Liqqutei Moharan §64
Cherlow Semadar: Did Rav
Harlap Attempt to Establish a Mystical Circle to Hasten the Redemption
Ross Nicham: An Ideological
Dispute about a Hasidic Parable
Segal Abraham: The
Relation between Lurianic Kabbalah and Hasidism in the Thought of R. Yishaq
Isaac of Qomarno
Lavi Tony: The World of
Emanation: Its Dissemination, Structure and Aims in the Works of R. Yehuda Leib
Halevi Ashlag
Kabbalah 14 (2006), 384 pp. ISBN 1-933379-01-4 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379012
Studies in English
Elqayam Avraham: Sabbatean
Cookery: Food, Memory and Feminine Identity in Modern Turkey
Idel Moshe: From Italy to
Ashkenaz and Back: On the Circulation of Jewish Mystical Traditions
Maciejko Pawel: A
Jewish-Christian Sect with a Sabbatian Background Revisited
Daigin Uri:
Magical-Theurgical Language Theories: of the Russian Symbolists
Studies in Hebrew
Idel Moshe: The
Commentaries of Nehemiah ben Shlomo to the Forty-Two Letter Divine Name
Sorotzkin David: The
Theology of the Different (Ha-Nivdal): The Maharal of Prague and the Emergence
of Early Modern Jewish Orthodox Thought
Penkower Jordan: The Dating
of Sections on Biblical Accentuation from Sefer ha-Bahir
Garb Jonathan: On the
Kabbalists of Prague
Kabbalah 13
(2005), 336pp. ISBN 0-9747505-8-1 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9780974750583
Studies in English
Wolfson Elliot: Language,
Secrecy, and the Mysteries of Law: Theurgy and the Christian Kabbalah of
Johannes Reuchlin
Idel Moshe: On European
Cultural Renaissances and Jewish Mysticism
Garb Jonathan: Gender and
Power in Kabbalah: A Theoretical Investigation
Book Reviews in English
Bali Rifat N.: What Is
Efendi Telling Us?
Bessemer Paul F.: Recent
Turkish Works on the Dönmes
Studies in Hebrew
Meir Jonathan: Lights
and Vessels: A New Inquiry into the ‘Circle’ of Rav Kook and the Editors of His
Works
Afterman Adam: Ma‘aseh
Merkava in Rabbinic Literature: Prayer and Envisioning the Chariot
Penkower Jordan S.: The
Form of the Zarqa and the Dating of the Zohar
Goodman Michah:
The Shekhinah and Mars: Similar Enemies – On the Hidden Dynamic of
History in the Thought of Nahmanides
Book Reviews in Hebrew
Bohak Gideon: Dov
Schwartz, Amulets, Properties and Rationalism in Medieval Jewish
Thought, Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press 2004
Bar-Ilan Meir: R.
Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Yesod Mora, ed. Y. Cohen and A. Simon, Ramat Gan:
Bar-Ilan University Press 2002
Kabbalah 12
(2004), 352 pp. ISBN 0-9747505-2-2 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9780974750521
Studies in English
Wexler Philip: A Secular
Alchemy of Social Science: The Denial of Jewish Messianism in Freud and
Durkheim
Mark Zvi: Madness,
Melancholy and Suicide in Early Hasidism
Zabolotnaya Natasha-Esther:
Cosmology and Color Symbolism in R. Eleazar of Worms
Studies in Hebrew
Idel Moshe: The
Kabbalistic Interpretation of the Secret of ‘Arayyot in Early
Kabbalah
Abrams Daniel:
The Zohar as a Book: On the Assumptions and Expectations of the
Kabbalists and Modern Scholarship
Gamlieli Deborah: Stages of
‘Becoming’ in the Creation: Parallelism with Philosophical and Psychological
Terminology
Wozner Shai A.: A
Kabbalistic Homily on the Birth of Moses in a Woman’s Image
Rubin Tzivia: Rabbi
Moses îayyim Luzzato’s Theurgic Commentary to the Beginning of
the Idra Rabba
Book Reviews in Hebrew
Hotam Yotam: Modernity,
Gnostic Heresy and Zionism: [A Review of:] Hans, Jonas, Erinnerungen. Insel Verlag, Hg. von
Christian Wiese. Nach Gespräche mit Rachel Salamander. Leipzig 2003
Kabbalah 11
(2004), 400 pp. ISBN 0-9747505-1-4 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9780974750514
Studies in English
Bloom Harold: Gershom
Scholem as Poet
Idel Moshe: Kabbalah,
Hieroglyphicity and Hieroglyp
Glazer Aubrey L.:
Rebirthing Redemption: Hermeneutics of gilgul from Beit
Lehem Yehudah into Haviva Pedaya’s Poetry
Studies in Hebrew
Barel Esther: Between
Philosophy and Kabbalah: R. Barkhiel Job Kauffman’s Lev Adam
Eydar Deror: ‘Alone on the
Highway within the Orchards’: A Literary-Kabbalistic Study of the Poems ‘One’
and ‘The Dead Moon’ by Yosef Zvi Rimon
Bar-Yosef Hamutal: An
Introduction to Mysticism in Modern Hebrew Literature
Kabbalah 10 (2004),
360 pp. ISBN 0-9747505-0-6
$144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9780974750507
Studies in English
Abrams Daniel: Some
Phenomenological Considerations on the Account of Creation in Jewish Mystical
Literature
Sela Shlomo: Abraham Ibn
Ezra’s Appropriation of Saturn
Huss Boaz: Demonology and
Magic in the Writings of R. Menahem Ziyyoni
Tourov Igor: Hasidism and
Christianity of the Eastern Territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth:
Possible of Contacts and Mutual Influences
Book Reviews in English
Morlok Elke: [Review
of:] Gerold Necker, Das Buch des Lebens ñôø äçééí Edition, Übersetzung und Studien, Tübingen:
Mohr Siebeck, 2001
Studies in Hebrew
Meir Jonathan: Hillel
Zeitlin’s Zohar: The History of a Translation and Commentary Project
Fenton Paul: Traces of the
Muslim Mystical Martyr al-Hallāj in Arab-Jewish Literature
Schuchat Raphael:
Lithuanian Kabbalah as an Independent Trend of Kabbalistic Literature
Sack Beracha: On Moses
Zacut’s Contribution to Tuv ha-Ares
Kosman Admiel: The Extended
‘Hand’ and the Pilgrim ‘Foot’: On Individual, Authentic Sacrifice and ‘Seeing
God’s Face’ in an Ancient Story from Palestine and in a Late Hasidic Story
Lavi Tony: The Idea of
Creation, the Construction and Reconstruction of Creation in the Thought of R.
Judah Leib ha-Levi Ashlag
Book Reviews in Hebrew
Bar-Ilan Meir: [Review
of:] R. Abraham Ibn Ezra, Yesod Mora ve-Sod ha-Torah, ed. J. Cohen
and U. Simon, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press 2002
Meir Efraim: [Review of
Hebrew edition of:] Abraham Joshua Heschel: God in Search of Man:
A Philosophy of Judaism
Kabbalah 9
(2003), 396 pp. ISBN 0-9705369-9-2 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9780970536990
Studies in English
Elqayam Avraham: History
of Madness in Sabbateanism
Şişman Cengiz: A
Jewish Messiah from Tartaria in 1671: A New Source on the Lives of Sabbatean
Prophets, Sabbatai Raphael and/or Shilo Sabbatai
Bali Rifat N.: Another
Enemy: The Dönme or Crypto-Jews
Bessemer Paul F.: Who is a
Crypto-Jew? A Historical Survey of the Sabbataean Debate in Turkey
Baer Marc D.: Messiah King
or Rebel? Jewish and Ottoman Reactions to Sabbatai Tzevi’s Arrival in
Istanbul
Maciejko Paweł: The
Literary Character and Doctrine of Jacob Frank’s The Words of the
Lord
Book Reviews in English
Saban Giacomo: [Review of:]
Michele Blumenthal and Michel Grossman, SAZANIKOS - Les Derniers
Dönmes
Saban Giacomo: [Review of:]
Abraham Galanté, Sabetay Sevi ve Sabetaycıların
Gelenekleri (Sabbatai Sevi and Sabbetaist Traditions), Zvi-Geyik
Yayınları, Istanbul, first and second editions August 2000
Studies in Hebrew
Liebes Yehuda: The
Letter Saddi and the Attitude of the Vilna Gaon and his Circle Toward
Sabbateanism
Avayou Shlomo: The
Sabbatean Adventure
Bali Rifat N.: Memiors and
Interviews of Sabbateans
Ettinger Shmuel (edited by
Jacob Barnai): The Emden-Eibeschuetz Controversy in the Light of Jewish
Historiography
Kabbalah 8
(2003), 368 pp. ISBN 0-9705369-8-4 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781565921979
Studies in English
Idel Moshe: On Prophecy and
Magic in Sabbateanism
Halperin David J.: Abraham
Miguel Cardozo and the Woman On the Moon
Lenowitz Harris: Leaving
Turkey: The Dönme Comes to Poland
Studies in Hebrew
Yosha Nissim: Lurianic
Kabbalah as Metaphor in the Homilies of Abraham Miguel Cardozo
Lattes Yaakov: Sabbatean
Entries in the Register of the Jewish Community in Rome
Telenberg Aharon: The
Sabbatean Theology in Judah Levi Tova’s Commentary to Genesis 1
Avayou Shlomo and Elqayam
Avraham: A Critical Edition of Mirat Bereshit Tova
Telenberg Aharon, Avayou
Shlomo and Elqayam Avraham: A Translation of Mirat Bereshit Tova from
Ladino to Hebrew
Kabbalah 7 (2002) ISBN0-9705369-6-8
$144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9780970536969
Studies in English
Wexler Philip: Social
Psychology, the Hasidic Ethos and the Spirit of the New Age
Hansel David: The Origin in
the Thought Of Rabbi Yehuda Halevy Ashlag – simsum of God or simsum of
The World?
Shapiro Marc: A Note on
Practical Kabbalah in Early 20th Century Jerusalem
Bar-Levav Avriel: Death and
the (Blurred) Boundaries of Magic: Strategies of Coexistence
Book Reviews in English
Morlok Elke: Andreas
Kilcher, Die Sprachtheorie der Kabbala als ästhetisches Paradigma.
Die Konstruktion einer ästhetischen Kabbala seit der Frühen Neuzeit,
Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 1998
Daigen Uri: A. F. Losev, Владимир Соловьёв и его время, Москва 2000 [Vladimir Solovyov and
His Time, Moscow 2000]
New Books and Books
Received
Studies in Hebrew
Holzman Gitit: Seclusion,
Knowledge and Conjunction in the Thought of R. Moshe Narboni
Mark Tzvi: Silence and
Melody in Empty Space in the Thought of R. Nahman of Bratslav
Manor Dan: R. Moses bar
Maimon (Elbaz): Kabbalistic Exegesis and its Sources
Elqayam Avraham:
Başım tacı Şabbetai: A Sabbatean Hymn from the
Kapancılar Community
Huss Boaz, Holy Place, Holy
Time, Holy Book: The Influence of the Zohar on Pilgrimage Rituals to
Meron and the Lag Be-Omer Festival
Halbertal Moshe: Esoteric
Doctrine of the Hidden Miracle – The Layers of Being in the Teaching of
Nahmanides
Koren Yisrael:
Internalization of Hasidic Dogma in the Thought of Martin Buber in light of the
Controversy of his Interpretation to Hasidism
Meroz Ronit: A Passage
Attributed to the Book Bahir
Book Reviews in Hebrew
Meir Ephraim: ‘The First
Hebrew Monograph on A. J. Heschel’: Review of: A. Even-Chen, A Voice
from the Darkness: Abraham Joshua Heschel: Phenomenology and Mysticism, Tel
Aviv: ‘Am Oved and The Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies, 1999
[Hebrew]
Bar Ilan Meir: ‘Astrology
and Biblical Exegesis’ – Review of: Shlomo Sela, Astrology and Biblical
Exegesis in Abraham Ibn Ezra's Thought, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University
Press, 1999 [Hebrew]
Bar Ilan Meir:
‘Astrology and Magic in the Middle Ages’ – Review of: Dov Schwartz, Astral
Magic in Medieval Jewish Thought, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press,
1999 [Hebrew]
Kabbalah 6 (2001) ISBN 0-9705369-5-X $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9780970536952
Studies in English and French
Schmelowszky Agoston: A la
recherche d’un discours perdu: Les antecedents du debat sur Origene
Garb Yoni: Kinds of Power:
Rabbinic Texts and the Kabbalah
Kaplan Lawrence: Adam,
Enoch, and Metatron Revisited: A Critical Analysis of Moshe Idel’s Method of
Reconstruction
Bohak Gideon: Remains
of Greek Words and Magical Formulae in Hekhalot Literature
Kanarfogel Ephraim:
Mysticism and Asceticism in Italian Rabbinic Literature of the Thirteenth
Century
Shapira Dan: Anuš and
‘Uthra: Notes on Aramaic-Iranian Linguistic Interaction and Mystical
Traditions
Idel Moshe: Adam and Enoch
According to St. Ephrem the Syrian
Book Reviews in English
Bohak Gideon: Review of:
Rebecca Macy Lesses, Ritual Practices to Gain Power: Angels, Incantations,
and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism, (Harvard Theological Studies 44),
Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press, 1998
New Books and Books
Received
Studies in Hebrew
Wolfson Elliot: Gender and
Heresy in the Study of Kabbalah
Abrams Daniel: Chapters
from an Emotional and Sexual Biography of God: Reflections on God’s Attributes
in the Bible, Midrash and Kabbalah
Schneider Michael: Enoch, a
Mystical Cobbler and Islamic Tradition
Kabbalah 5 (2000) ISBN 0-9705369-4-1 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9780970536945
Studies in English
Bar-Levav Avriel: Games of
Death in Jewish Books for the Sick and Dying in the Early Modern Period
Abrams Daniel: The
Dimensions of the Creator – Contradiction or Paradox? Corruptions and
Accretions to the Manuscript Witnesses ý
Wolfsoný Elliot R.: ýMegillat ’Emet
we-’Emunah: ýContemplative Visualization and Mystical Unknowing
Shapira Dan: àéï îæì ìéùøàì: Celestial Race, The Jews
Kilcher Andreas B.:
Scientia cabalistica as Scientia universalis: Encyclopedism and Kabbalism in
the 16th and 17th Centuries
Huss Boaz: NiSAN ý–ý The Wife of the Infinite:
The Mystical Hermeneutics of Rabbi Isaac of Acre
Torchinový, Evgeny A.:ý ýThe Doctrine of the Origin
of Evilý in Lurianic and Sabbatean Kabbalah and in the ý‘Awakening of Faith’ in ýMahāyānaý Buddhism
Review Essays and Book
Reviews in English
Green Arthur: Reply to Alon
Goshen-Gottstein [Review of A. Green, Keter: The Crown of God in Early
Jewish Mysticism, Princeton, 1997, published in Kabbalah 4
(1999)]
Saban Giacomo: Ilgaz Zorlu,
Evet, ben Selanikliyim – Turkiye Sabetayciligi - Makaleler (Yes,
I am a Salonician – Turkish Sabbateanism – Articles), Belge
Uluslararası Yayincilik – İstanbul 1998
Chajes J. H.: J. Z.
Werblowsky: R. Yoseph Karo: Ba‘al Halakha u-Mequbal.
Translated by Yair Zoren. Third (Hebrew) edition, Jerusalem: Magnes Press,
1996
Laura Heidi: Hanna
Liss, El’azar ben Yehuda von Worms: Hilkhot ha-Kavod. Die Lehrsätze von der
Herlichkeit Gottes, [Text and Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism, 12]
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1997
New Books and Books
Received
Studies in Hebrew
Harari Yuval: Love Charms
in Early Jewish Magic
Idel Moshe: Enoch – The
Mystical Cobbler
Lorberbaum Yair:
Nahmanides’ Kabbalah on the Creation of Man in the Image of God
Helner-Eshed Melila: If You
Awaken and Arouse Love: The Language of Awakening in the Zohar
Ta-Shema Israel: Additional
Inquiries into the Problem of Ashkenazi Sources to the Zohar
Even-Chen Alexander:
Mysticism and Prophecy in the Writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel
Koren Yisrael: Martin
Buber-From Ecstasy to the Mysticism of Life
Review Essays and Book
Reviews in Hebrew
Gries Zeev: Between the
Surgeons’ Blade of the Historian and the Brush of the Researcher of Literature
[Review Essay of: Moshe Rosman, Founder of Hasidism – A Quest for the
Historical Ba‘al Shem Tov, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of
California Press, 1996]
Meir Efraim: Edward K.
Kaplan, Holiness in Words – Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Poetics of Piety,
Albany: SUNY Press, 1996; E. K. Kaplan and S. H. Dresner, Abraham Joshua
Heschel – Prophetic Witness, New Haven and London: Yale University, 1998
Kabbalah 4 (1999) ISBN 0-9705369-3-3 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9780970536938
Studies in English
Burmistrov
Konstantin and Endel Maria: Kabbalah in Russian Masonry: Some
Preliminary Observations
Saban Giacomo: Sabbatean
Genealogical Trees
Harari David: Was the
Author of Cabala del Cavallo Pegaseo a Kabbalist?
New Books and Books
Received
Studies in Hebrew
Huss Boaz: A Sage is
Preferable to a Prophet: R. Simeon bar Yohai and Moses in the Zohar
Fenton Paul: R. Joseph Ibn
Waqar’s Sefer Shoreshei ha-Qabbalah: A Kabbalistic Lexicon
Garb Yoni: The Kabbalah of
Rabbi Joseph Ibn Sayyah as a Source for the Understanding of Safedian
Kabbalah
Pachter Mordechai: ‘The
Root of Faith is the Root of Heresy’ in the Teaching of R. Azriel of
Gerona
Koren Israel: Mystical and
Prophetic Elements in the Works of Fredreich Weinreb
Schwartz Dov: From Theurgy
to Magic: The Crystallization of the Magical-Talismanic Interpretation of the
Sacrifices in the School of Nahmanides and his Interpreters
Book Reviews in Hebrew
Kasher Rimmon: Ann
Jeffers, Magic and Divination in Ancient Palestine and Syria,
Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East 8, Leiden ý– New York ý– Köln: E.J. Brill,
1996
Bar Ilan Meir: Michael
D. Swartz, Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish
Mysticism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996
Goshen-Gottstein
Alon: Arthur Green, Keter: The Crown of God in Early Jewish
Mysticism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997
Kabbalah 3 (1998) ISBN 0-9705369-2-5 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9780970536921
Studies in English
Wolfson Elliot:
Constructions of the Shekhinah in the Messianic Theosophy of Abraham
Cardoso, With an Annotated Edition of Derush ha-Shekhinah
Idel Moshe: On Mobility,
Individuals and Groups: Prolegomenon for a Sociological Approach to
Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah
Review Essays and Book
Reviews
Mopsik Charles: Moïse
de León, le Sheqel ha-Qodesh et la redaction du Zohar:
Une réponse a Yehuda Liebes (Kabbalah 2 [1997], pp. 271-285)
Abrams Daniel: ‘Jewish
Gnosticism’, Review of: Nathaniel Deutsch, The Gnostic Imaginationý –ý Gnosticism, Mandaeism
and Merkabah Mysticism, Leiden-New York-Köln: E. J. Brill,
1995
Cavarocchi Arbib Marina:
Dalla parte del lettore: interrogativi e problemi in calce a Charles
Mopsik, Cabale et cabalistes, Paris: Bayard, 1997
New Books and Books
Received
Studies in Hebrew
Knohl Israel: ‘The Friend
of the King’: The Messiah of the Qumran Sect
Ta-Shema Israel: More on
the Ashkenazi Origins to the Zohar
Shohat Raphael: The Vilna
Gaon’s Commentary to Mishnat Hasidim: The Mashal and
the Nimshal in Lurainic Works
Schneider Michael: ‘Joseph
and Osnat’ and Early Jewish Mysticism
Elqayam Avraham: Sabbatai
Sevi’s Manuscript Copy of the Zohar
Kabbalah 2 (1997) ISBN 0-9705369-1-7 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9780970536914
Studies in English and French
Idel Moshe: Orienting,
Orientalizing or Disorienting the Study of Kabbalah: ‘An Almost Absolutely
Unique’ Case of Occidentalism
Langermann Y. Tzvi: A New
Redaction of Sefer Yesira
Baumgarten Jean: Textes
mystiques en langue yiddish (XVIIe-XIXe siècles): Les traductions
des Shivh’ei Hayyim Vital et Shivh’ei ha-Ari
Elqayam Avraham and Hary
Benjamin: A Judeo-Arabic Sabbatian Apocalyptic Hymn
Saban Giacomo: A Mid-XIXth
Century Description of the Sabbatai Sevi Episode
Kallus Menahem: The
Relation of the Ba’al Shem Tov to the Practice of
Lurianic Kavvanot in Light of his Comments on the Siddur
Rashkov
Mopsik Charles: Un
manuscrit inconnu du Sefer Tashak de R. Joseph de Hamadan suivi d’un
fragment inédit
Lehnardt Andreas:
Pseudepigrapha as Antecedents of Kabbalah: A Selected Bibliography
Book Reviews
Lederman Yochanan: Allison
P. Coudert, Leibniz and the Kabbalah, Dordrecht-Boston-London:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995, XVII + 218 pp., ISBN 0-7923-3114-1
Richler Benjamin: The CD
ROM Collection of the Hebrew Manuscripts of the Library of the Jewish Community
of Mantua: ‘Fondo Ebraico’ Mantova
New Books and Books
Received
Studies in Hebrew
Liebes Yehuda: Review
Essay, Charles Mopsik, Moses de Leon’s Sefer Sheqel Ha-Qodesh, with
an introduction by Moshe Idel, Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 1996
Hellner-Eshed Melila: ‘A
River Issues Forth From Eden’: The Language of Mystical Invocation in
the Zohar
Daniel Abrams: Traces of
the Lost Commentary to the Book of Creation by R. Jacob ben Jacob ha-Kohen: An
Edition of a Commentary to the Book of Creation Based on the Earliest
Kabbalistic Manuscripts
Sack Beracha: The Garments
of Adam: A Lost Work of Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz
Kabbalah 1 (1996) ISBN 0-9705369-0-9 $144
http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9780970536907
Studies in English
Abrams Daniel: Critical and
Post-Critical Textual Scholarship of Jewish Mystical Literature: Notes on the
History and Development of Modern Editing Techniques
Ackerman Ari: A Magical
Fragment of David Ibn Bilia’s Me’or Enayim
Studies in Hebrew
Elqayam Avraham: The
Rebirth of the Messiah
Huss Boaz: A Dictionary of
Foreign Words in the Zohar
Schwartz Dov: Worship of
God or Worship of the Stars: The Polemics of R. Abraham Al-Tabib and R. Solomon
Franco
Manuscript Notes and Book
Reviews
Langermann Y. Tzvi: Ms. New
York, JTSA Mic 2497
Abrams Daniel: [Review
of:] Le Secret du mariage de David et Bethsabée / ñåã øàåéä äéúä áú
ùáò ìãåã îùùú éîé áøàùéú,
Texte hébreu introduction, traduction et notes de Charles Mopsik,
Combas: Éditions de l’Éclat 1994
Abrams Daniel: [Review
of:] Shirat ha-Roke'ah: The Poems of Rabbi Eleazar Ben Yehudah of Worms,
Critical Edition with Commentary by Isaac Meiseles, Jerusalem 1993
Chajes J. H.: [Review of:]
Gedalyah Nigal, Dibbuk Stories in Jewish Literature, Second
edition, Jerusalem: Reuven Mass Ltd., 1994
Guetta Alessandro: [Review
of:]: Elijah Benamozegh ý–ý Israel and Humanity, translated, edited with
an introduction by Maxwell Luria - Preface and Appendix: ‘Kabbalah in Elijah
Benamozegh’s Thought’ by Moshe Idel, New York and Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1994
(Reviewed in Italian).