From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic KabbalaIndiana University Press, 09/07/2008 - 368 من الصفحات In From Metaphysics to Midrash, Shaul Magid explores the exegetical tradition of Isaac Luria and his followers within the historical context in 16th-century Safed, a unique community that brought practitioners of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam into close contact with one another. Luria's scripture became a theater in which kabbalists redrew boundaries of difference in areas of ethnicity, gender, and the human relation to the divine. Magid investigates how cultural influences altered scriptural exegesis of Lurianic Kabbala in its philosophical, hermeneutical, and historical perspectives. He suggests that Luria and his followers were far from cloistered. They used their considerable skills to weigh in on important matters of the day, offering, at times, some surprising solutions to perennial theological problems. |
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... demonic , and a non - Israelite prophet who desires , and ultimately succeeds , in returning to Israel . As constructed by the rab- bis and the Zohar , Balaam challenges the exclusivist nature of the cove- nant by ordering Balak to ...
... demonic. This is the basis of Lurianic theodicy. This dark vision of existence is tema pered by the notion that the human being (in Lurianic Kabbala this is largely limited to the male Jew) is created in the “image of God” (zelem elo ...
... demonic. Intermingled with this force of judgment are remnants of divinity that had contracted, now in a weaker state, known in Lurianic nomenclature as reshimu (remnant). The doctrine of zimzum posa its a decentering of God as a ...
... demonic of any life force because the demonic or evil , in Luria's imagination , is only sustained by proximity to some form of divinity . The first stage of return is to the womb of the primordial mother ( represented as the sephirah ...
... demonic influence. Yet in order to construct and rectify the lower parzufim (zeir anpin or impatient one, Jacob, Rachel, and Leah) abba and ima must descend into the space where the demonic has dominion. This idea of “descent for the ...
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1 Genesis | 34 |
2 Exodus | 75 |
3 Leviticus | 111 |
4 Numbers | 143 |
5 Deuteronomy | 196 |
Conclusion | 222 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 321 |
Index | 347 |
back cover | 355 |