Comprising well over a thousand pages of densely written Aramaic, the compilation of texts known as the Zohar represents the collective wisdom of various strands of Jewish mysticism, or kabbalah, up to the thirteenth century. This massive work continues to provide the foundation of much Jewish mystical thought and practice to the present day. In this book, Pinchas Giller examines certaing sections of the Zohar and the ways in which the central doctrines of classical kabbalah took shape around them.
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"In Reading the Zohar, Giller (University of Judaism, CA), has succeeded in producing a work that will engage nonacademic readers while still making a substantial contribution to the scholarly study of Jewish mysticism."--Choice
"Pinchas Giller...has an exquisite mastery of both primary and secondary materials in the study of Kabbalah in general, and Zohar in particular....As Reading the Zohar unfolds, the centuries of ideological accretions are slowly separated out, and the reader comes to understand how Jewish mystical ideas developed over time and what implications those concepts had inside Jewish intellectual life. Yet, for all his mastery of academic texts, Giller writes plainly and clearly."--The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
"Pinchas Giller...has an exquisite mastery of both primary and secondary materials in the study of Kabbalah in general, and Zohar in particular....As Reading the Zohar unfolds, the centuries of ideological accretions are slowly separated out, and the reader comes to understand how Jewish mystical ideas developed over time and what implications those concepts had inside Jewish intellectual life. Yet, for all his mastery of academic texts, Giller writes plainly and clearly."--The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
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Pinchas Giller is at University of Judaism.
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first tiqqun, second tiqqun, called mazal, avir kadmon, sefirotic structure, hardened spark, divine physiognomy, thirteen middot, divine anthropos, divine superstructure, safed kabbalists, sefirotic tree, bar mizvah, spice offering, primordial ether, lower sefirot, divine withdrawal, thirteen attributes, divine effluence, hidden consciousness, kabbalistic writings, great white head, primordial point, ten sefirot, later strata Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Idra Zuta, Idra Rabbah, Attika Kadisha, Ein Sof, Isaac Luria, Rabbi Yeiva, Zeir Anpin, Adam Kadmon, Attik Yomin, Hayyim Vital, Lurianic Kabbalah, Moshe Cordovero, Arikh Anpin, Moshe de Leon, Holy Blessed One, Sefer Yezirah, Yeiva Sabba, Garden of Eden, Rabbi Shim'on, Song of Songs, Hamnuna Sabba, Ra'aya Meheimna, Western Wall, King Solomon, Meir Poppers New!
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- Studies in the Zohar (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) by Yehuda Liebes on 21 pages
- Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism by Gershom Scholem on 15 pages
- Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism by Elliot R. Wolfson on 8 pages
- Origins of the Kabbalah by Gershom Gerhard Scholem on 7 pages
- A History of the Jews in Christian Spain, Vol. 2 by Yitzhak Baer on 4 pages
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