Download or read book Imrei Shefer Words of Beauty written by Abraham Abulafia and published by . This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words of Beauty is the last known book that Rabbi Abraham Abulafia wrote. It contains nine essays about the knowledge of permutations concerning the holy letters and the divine Names. Along with Life in the World to Come, Light of the Intellect, and the Book of Desire, it is a real handbook teaching how to achieve the prophetic experience.
Download or read book Imrei Shefer Words of Beauty written by Abraham Abulafia and published by Euniversity.Pub. This book was released on 2018 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words of Beauty is the last known book that Rabbi Abraham Abulafia wrote. It contains nine essays about the knowledge of permutations concerning the holy letters and the divine Names. Along with Life in the World to Come (Chaye Olam Ha-Ba), Light of the Intellect (Ohr Ha-Sechel), and the Book of Desire (Sefer Ha-Cheshek), it is a real handbook teaching how to achieve the prophetic experience. The book is written is a very friendly and warm way, in the attempt to impress the reader with the beauties of the Torah and the secrets of Kabbalah. Abulafia brings us hand in hand to learn the distinction between the various types of wisdoms and sages, until we can recognize the true way. Then, he seals the book giving us practical and extended systems of permutation, which can enable us to reach higher levels of consciousness through proper practices
Download or read book Jewish Studies written by Kalman Dubov and published by Kalman Dubov. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish mysticism is quite popular by way of books, lectures, and classes to teach this esoteric subject. The student suddenly confronts a world with a unique language and great masters who use obscure language so that the concepts are confusing amidst the different schools of Kabalistic thought and traditions. Prior to 1700, all such teaching was done from master to student, with intentional obscurities so that the student today faces many challenges in comprehending this discipline. This review, quoting from original sources, is designed to provide a basic and foundational structure from which the student can appreciate both the 'why' of Kabbalism and the 'how' they got there. The premise is that God created our physical universe for a reason, and the revelations on Mount Sinai was deliberate. The Kabbalist understood the hidden from the apparent so that open texts was suddenly imbued with meaning never apparent from the text itself. The book review the major contributors to Kabbalah while reviewing the mystic concepts they contributed. Different schools of thought emerged over time so that different modalities of Kabbalah are present today. These reviews are based on Theoretical Kabbalah, so that intention (Kavanah) during prayer and even during mundane acts throughout the day are imbued with Kabbalistic intention. The book does not review Practical Kabbalah, where incantations, amulets, and similar acts are done to enhance positive energy. I do include the vignette of Rabbi Abraham Abulafia, a major proponent of this form of Kabbalah. In 1760, following the leadership and death of the Baal Shem Tov, the teaching of Kabbalah was opened to the lay public, setting aside the hidden curtain existing previously. Why the sudden change after thousands of years when this discipline was clandestine and not revealed openly? The answer lies with a mystic experience the Baal Shem Tov had with the Messiah who charged him with such open teaching before he would arrive. That charge is the central pivot upon which these teachings turn. The book's sections are divided into separate reviews to enable the student to review them more easily. The first section is on concepts; the second on personalities and the challenges they faced in their lives. It is common for great leaders not to dwell on their challenges in life, so it is especially important for posterity to be aware that their lives were often beset by great difficulties. Two vignettes review persons who were killed because of their beliefs. One was Rabbi Shlomo Molcho, a man who challenged both the reigning pope and secular emperor to accept their proper roles in life. In doing so, he was arrested and burned to death for his beliefs. When offered clemency if he reverted to the Christian faith, he refused, dying a martyr’s death. The other person who died in this horrific manner was a child of twelve years. Ines Esteban, whose family became conversos in Spain’s remote Extremadura. Hailed as a prophetess by the region’s conversos, she was arrested by the Inquisition, tortured and was burned at the stake in August 1500. The story of her leadership in the face of relentless religious persecution and her resolute refusal to become a Christian penitent is remarkable given her youth, her leadership and her individual role – she had no other to support her in this terrible time. She stood alone, without mentor or fellow mystic, though her father and stepmother fully supported her. I find it fitting and proper to dedicate this book to this remarkable young woman. Other Kabbalists through the ages also experienced great personal trials in life. Their collective leadership provides much detail to ponder their roles and teachings. It is hoped the student will have much opportunity to reflect on when studying this subject.
Download or read book Eliezer Eilburg written by Joseph Davis and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Enlightenment, before Spinoza had rejected traditional beliefs about the Bible, came the humanistic skeptics of the Renaissance. Alongside oft-cited Christian thinkers, Eliezer Eilburg now takes his rightful place. Comparable in view to Christopher Marlowe or Noel Journet, Eilburg perhaps uniquely represents the possibilities of Jewish skepticism in his day. Eliezer Eilburg: The Ten Questions and Memoir of a Renaissance Jewish Skeptic makes available for the first time a bilingual edition of two key works by the Jewish rationalist skeptic, kabbalist, and memoirist, Eliezer Eilburg. The Ten Questions-addressed to the Maharal of Prague and two of his colleagues-is one of the most radical statements of Jewish skepticism authored during the sixteenth century. Published here in its entirety, this text is especially remarkable for its critical approach to the Bible, foreshadowing later intellectual trends. Although many of his opinions were considered heretical by Jewish authorities, Eilburg argued that his doubts were innocent, and that there was room within Judaism for his skepticism. He presented himself as a penitent whose eyes had been opened through the study of medicine and philosophy and who had merited angelic visions and kabbalistic dreams. The second text, Eilburg's experimental memoir, is one of the very first modern Jewish efforts at autobiography. Put together from many smaller pieces, this patchwork of brag and bile is a unique document of sixteenth-century Jewish life. It is a testimony, if not to the "emergence of the individual" in this period, then at least to the emergence of new Jewish ways of imagining and writing about the self. Eilburg was an enigmatic man, a unique and as yet mostly unstudied Jewish thinker. Though his works are directed to audiences of Jews, and argue for the improvement of Judaism, this volume will appeal to historians and scholars of intellectual traditions both in and outside of Jewish studies. /Interview with Joseph Davis- Ten Questions of Eliezer Eilburg
Download or read book Jewish Mysticism written by Marvin A. Sweeney and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of how the divine presence is understood and interacts within the world have been around since the time of the biblical prophets. The Jewish mystical tradition conceives God as active, just, powerful, and present while allowing for divine limitation so as to understand the relationship between G-d and the Jewish people in their history. Jewish Mysticism surveys Jewish visionary and mystical experience from biblical and ancient Near Eastern times through the modern period and the emergence of modern Hasidism. Marvin Sweeney provides a comprehensive treatment of one of the most dynamic fields of Jewish studies in the twenty-first century, providing an accessible overview of texts and interpretative issues. Sweeney begins with the biblical period, which most treatments of Jewish mysticism avoid, and includes chapters on the ancient Near East, the Pentateuch, the Former Prophets and Psalms, the Latter Prophets, Jewish Apocalyptic, the Heikhalot Literature, the Sefer Yetzirah and early Kabbalistic Literature, the Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah and the Shabbetean Movement, and the Hasidic Movement. Placing Jewish apocalyptic literature into the larger development of ancient Jewish visionary and mystical experience, Sweeney fills gaps left by the important but outdated work of others in the field. Ideal for the scholar, student, or general reader, Jewish Mysticism provides readers with a fresh understanding of the particular challenges, problems, needs, and perspectives of Judaism throughout its history.
Download or read book The Crucifixion Book 1 written by David Birnbaum and published by David Birnbaum. This book was released on 2010 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Desert Encampments written by Alexander Hool and published by Mosaica Press. This book was released on 2021-06-27 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened to the Jewish people in the forty years of wanderings, between the giving of the Torah and their entry into the Holy Land? Where did they go, and what was the purpose of these destinations? The Torah goes into very great detail about the travels and events that took place during these years, but the time, place, and specifics of many of the events have remained hidden between the profound words of the verses, leaving us with a blurred picture and understanding of this crucial period in Biblical and Jewish history. In yet another fascinating and eye-opening study, bestselling author Rabbi Alexander Hool, fortified with detailed mapping and satellite imagery, combines a meticulous study of the text with a plethora of detail, gleaned from diverse Rabbinic sources — in a fresh and exciting attempt to unlock the subtle and cryptic Scripture, and fathom the events, the journeys, and the significance of the desert encampments.
Download or read book How To Predict And Foresee The Future Psychics and Lightworkers Who Can Predict Your Future written by Maximillien De Lafayette and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by Times Square Press, New York, and the American Federation of Certified Psychics and Mediums. How To Predict And Foresee The Future. Psychics and Lightworkers Who Can Predict Your Future. Their names and esoteric techniques. The author placed a strong emphasis on Illuminated Masters' Techniques to Predict and See the Future.
Download or read book V1 Scientific and Esoteric Encyclopedia of UFOs Aliens and Extraterrestrial Gods written by Maximillien De Lafayette and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I: A. Thousands upon thousands of entries and encyclopedic articles on all facets and aspects of ufology.) Everything you wanted to know about UFOs, USOs, aliens, extraterrestrials, governments' joint programs with aliens, abductions, alien encounters, presence of aliens races on Earth, and future of humanity according to the aliens' matrix. Published by Times Square Press, New York, Berlin. www.timesquarepress.com
Download or read book Great Jewish Families written by Darryl Lyman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles more than eighty great Jewish families, including the Sassoons, Rothschilds and Singers, by presenting a biographical overview of the entire family and focussing on each notable family member, chronicling that individual's rise to prominence.
Download or read book Hebrewspeak written by Joseph Lowin and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Hebrew language and presents the notion that there are two ways to look at the Jewish National thought process: by speaking the language ans by speaking about the language.
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Download or read book written by Avrohom Chaim Feuer and published by Mesorah Publications, Limited. This book was released on 1985 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tehillim/Psalm/ A new translation with a commentary anthologized from Talmudic, Midrashic and Rabbinic sources.
Download or read book Torah Perspectives written by Mordekhai Gifṭer and published by Mesorah Publications, Limited. This book was released on 1986 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artscroll Mesorah Series." An eminent Rosh Yeshivah expounds on such timely and timeless topics as education, the Holocaust, and the Jews role in creation.
Download or read book Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah written by Moshe Idel and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents important topics regarding the more mystical trend of Kabbalah—the ecstatic Kabbalah. It includes the mystical union, the world of imagination, and concentration as a spiritual technique. The emphasis in the text is on the interaction between the "original" Spanish stage of Kabbalah and Muslim mysticism in the East, mainly in the Galilee. The influence of the Kabbalistic-Sufic synthesis on the later developments of Jewish mysticism is traced, thereby providing a more precise understanding of the history of Kabbalah as an interplay between the theosophical and ecstatic mystical experiences.
Download or read book Like Angels on Jacob s Ladder written by Harvey J. Hames and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the career of Abraham Abulafia (ca. 1240–1291), self-proclaimed Messiah and founder of the school of ecstatic Kabbalah. Active in southern Italy and Sicily where Franciscans had adopted the apocalyptic teachings of Joachim of Fiore, Abulafia believed the end of days was approaching and saw himself as chosen by God to reveal the Divine truth. He appropriated Joachite ideas, fusing them with his own revelations, to create an apocalyptic and messianic scenario that he was certain would attract his Jewish contemporaries and hoped would also convince Christians. From his focus on the centrality of the Tetragrammaton (the four letter ineffable Divine name) to the date of the expected redemption in 1290 and the coming together of Jews and Gentiles in the inclusiveness of the new age, Abulafia's engagement with the apocalyptic teachings of some of his Franciscan contemporaries enriched his own worldview. Though his messianic claims were a result of his revelatory experiences and hermeneutical reading of the Torah, they were, to no small extent, dependent on his historical circumstances and acculturation.
