Reincarnation in Jewish Mysticism and GnosticismEdwin Mellen Press, 2003 - 146 من الصفحات This study demonstrates that the rabbinic belief-system regarding the afterlife and the human soul was the paramount influence on the development of the doctrine of reincarnation that was crystallized in the Sefer ha-Bahir (The Book of Clarity/Illumination) a 12th-century work written in Hebrew and Aramaic. Prior research has noted the great impact Gnosticism had on early Jewish mysticism in general and the Sefer ha-Bahir in particular. The analysis of the talmudic and midrashic sources presents a broad spectrum of ideas concerning the eternity and immortality of the soul, the nature and characteristics of the soul and the notions of the resurrection of the dead and reincarnation. These ideas, brought together in the study as a systematic theology, reveal a fairly developed tradition that was probably known to the author or editor of the Sefer ha-Bahir. |
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... divine appears to be a direct influence of Plato who notes that the origin of the soul is " like itself - invisible , divine , immortal and wise ... " ( Phaedo 81a ) 24 Furthermore , according to Plato's argument , if the soul is ...
... divine appears to be a direct influence of Plato who notes that the origin of the soul is " like itself - invisible , divine , immortal and wise ... " ( Phaedo 81a ) 24 Furthermore , according to Plato's argument , if the soul is ...
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... divine character to theodicy , as demonstrated in the latter passage , enables it to remain pure as long as it is not defiled by moral transgressions.27 After establishing the origins and the divine character of the soul , the Midrash ...
... divine character to theodicy , as demonstrated in the latter passage , enables it to remain pure as long as it is not defiled by moral transgressions.27 After establishing the origins and the divine character of the soul , the Midrash ...
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... divine origin to the human being . The same meaning is attached to the term in the Bahir where the seed arrives from the East . God brings the souls from the East and sows them in the West . Now that the analogy to the human body is ...
... divine origin to the human being . The same meaning is attached to the term in the Bahir where the seed arrives from the East . God brings the souls from the East and sows them in the West . Now that the analogy to the human body is ...
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Abraham Abrams aeons afterlife ancient Babylonian Talmud Bahir Bar Hiyya belief blessed body Book Bahir commentary concept of reincarnation creation dead Death and Afterlife described Deuteronomy discussion doctrine of reincarnation Early Christianity earth Ecclesiastes 1:4 edition emanation eternal Genesis Rabbah Gershom Scholem Gnosis Gnosticism Greek ha-Ganuz heaven heavenly Hebrew Bible Hellenistic Holy human soul Ibid ideas immortality Isaiah Jerusalem Jesus Jewish mysticism Judah Judaism Kabbalah kabbalistic letter Maimonides manuscripts Margaliot medieval Mekhilta Mekhilta de Rabbi Messiah midrashic midrashic literature Mishnah Moses Moshe Idel Nag Hammadi Nahmanides nefesh Nehunya Nehunya ben ha-Kanah neshamah notion origin parable passage philosophical Pleroma process of reincarnation Psalms reincarnation Religion resurrection righteous role Rudolph Saadyah Gaon Sages scholars Sefer ha-Bahir Sefer Yetzirah Shabbat soul's sources spirit symbolism talmudic and midrashic theodicy theory of reincarnation tion Torah Tosefta tradition trans University Press Vilna wicked word written yibbum York Zohar