The Privileged Divine Feminine In Kabbalah

Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110599805
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Privileged Divine Feminine in Kabbalah written by Moshe Idel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the complex topic of the preeminent status of the divine feminine power, to be referred also as Female, within the theosophical structures of many important Kabbalists, Sabbatean believers, and Hasidic masters. This privileged status is part of a much broader vision of the Female as stemming from a very high root within the divine world, then She was emanated and constitutes the tenth, lower divine power, and even in this lower state She is sometime conceived of governing this world and as equal to the divine Male. Finally, She is conceived of as returning to Her original place in special moments, the days of Sabbath, the Jewish Holidays or in the eschatological era. Her special dignity is sometime related to Her being the telos of creation, and as the first entity that emerged in the divine thought, which has been later on generated. In some cases, an uroboric theosophy links the Female Malkhut, directly to the first divine power, Keter. The author points to the possible impact of some of the Kabbalistic discussions on conceptualizations of the feminine in the Renaissance period.

Author : Rabbi Leah Novick
Publisher : Quest Books
ISBN 13 : 0835631168
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Wings of Shekhinah written by Rabbi Leah Novick and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One effect of rising interest in the Kabbalah is a renewed focus on the Shekhinah, Judaism's divine feminine principle. Written with warmth and clarity, On the Wings of Shekhinah interweaves historical views of this concept with thoughtful quotes and guided meditations. Rabbi Leah Novick offers healing strategies for both Jews and non-Jews disaffected by rigid gender roles. Awareness of the Shekhinah’s energy within and around us helps bring hope to a planet afflicted by war, violence, and environmental abuse — this book shows how to find and use that energy.

Author : Ron H. Feldman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780895949165
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah written by Ron H. Feldman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamentals of Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah addresses both the historical sources and evolving tradition of kabbalah. Topics covered include shamanic healing, the divine feminine, amulets, sacred sex, dimensions of the soul, kabbalistic time, numerology, the kabbalistic Tree-of-Life, the Hebrew alphabet, and the role of sacred texts and Torah. --From publisher's description.

Author : Sarah Schneider
Publisher : Sarah (Susan) Schneider
ISBN 13 : 9780765761484
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kabbalistic Writings on the Nature of Masculine & Feminine written by Sarah Schneider and published by Sarah (Susan) Schneider. This book was released on 2001 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book not only publicizes Jewish texts that are indisputably authoritative, but also enables people who do not have the skills or resources to access this experience on their own to directly encounter kabbalistic source material. Its luminous wisdom is sure to inspire a respect and affection for the Torah and its traditions. In Kabbalistic Writings on the Nature of Masculine and Feminine, the texts speak for themselves. Their authoritative voices are the soul and might of this work. As proof texts they verify statements made in their name, and as holy texts they transform all who take them to heart.

Author : Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004462198
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Feminine Messiah written by Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Feminine Messiah, Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel explores the theosophical revolution that is reflected by the identification of the figure of King David and the image of the divine presence, the Shekhina, in medieval kabbalistic literature.

Author : Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004449345
Total Pages : 799 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suffering Time: Philosophical, Kabbalistic, and Ḥasidic Reflections on Temporality written by Elliot R. Wolfson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one theory of time is pursued in the essays of this volume, but a major theme that threads them together is Wolfson’s signature idea of the timeswerve as a linear circularity or a circular linearity, expressions that are meant to avoid the conventional split between the two temporal modalities of the line and the circle.

Author : Peter Schäfer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691187738
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mirror of His Beauty written by Peter Schäfer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully realized study, Peter Schäfer investigates the origins of a female manifestation of God in Jewish mysticism. The search itself is a fascinating exploration of the idea of a feminine divinity. And Schäfer's surprising but persuasive conclusions yield deeper understanding of the complex but frequently intimate relationship between Christianity and Judaism--and of the development of religious concepts more generally. Toward the end of the twelfth century, a small book titled the Bahir (Light) appeared in Provence. The first document of Judaism's emerging kabbalistic movement, it introduced a completely new view of God, one that included a divine potency that was essentially female. This female divinity was portrayed both as a mediator between Jews and God and as part of the Godhead itself. Examining Judaic history from the biblical Wisdom tradition to the Middle Ages, Schäfer finds some precedents for the Kabbalah's feminine divinity. But he cannot account for her forceful appearance in twelfth-century southern France without reference to the immediate Christian environment, particularly the flourishing veneration of the Virgin Mary. Indeed, twelfth-century Jews and Christians were simultaneously rediscovering the feminine as an aspect of the Godhead after having abandoned it in favor of either an abstract, disembodied God or an exclusively male one. In proposing that the medieval cult of Mary--rather than eastern Gnosticism--is the appropriate framework for understanding the feminine elements in Jewish mysticism, Mirror of His Beauty represents a sea change in Kabbalah and Jewish-Christian cultural studies. It shifts our attention from the Byzantine East to the Latin Christian West. And in contrast to histories that treat the development of Judaism and Christianity in isolation, it leads us to a fuller understanding of Jews and Christians living in proximity, aware of each other.

Author : Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110688026
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis written by Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of birth has functioned through the ages as a vital metaphor foundational to all fields of art, philosophy, religion and literature. This book highlights the significance of birth in Jewish culture, as a challenge to existential philosophy and the centrality of death in Western culture. Similarities between Kabbalistic and midrashic perceptions of birth and its current place in cultural and psychoanalytic discourse are discussed.

Author : Perle Besserman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250083117
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Kabbalah for Women written by Perle Besserman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The red bracelet: it graces the wrists of numerous celebrities - from Madonna to Britney Spears - who have converted to the spiritual practice of Kabbalah. But what is Kabbalah and how can women apply it to their own lives? In A New Kabbalah for Women, bestselling author and teacher of Jewish mysticism and meditation, Perle Besserman, shares a feminine approach to spirituality. Since the time of Moses, Jewish mysticism has been barred to women, and Shekhinah, the feminine side of God, has been forced underground. Now, many women are adapting traditional mystical practices in radical new ways. Besserman is at the forefront of this revolution. In this book she traces the history of female-centered worship and tells the story of searching for her own path to truth. Combining practices from the Kabbalah with meditation, Besserman walks readers through step-by-step rituals to find their own personal connection with the divine.

Author : Maurizio Mottolese
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004499008
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultic and Further Orders: Semiotics of a Kabbalistic Culture written by Maurizio Mottolese and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an unusual investigation of kabbalistic commentaries on prayer and ritual from the viewpoint of cultural semiotics, this book attempts to illuminate the features of a lasting Jewish tradition, showing in particular the relevance of ordering structures in Sephardi Kabbalah.