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Mysticism --- Sufism. --- Judaism --- Islam --- Jewish-Arab relations --- Judaism. --- Islam. --- Relations --- Derekh Avraham Order.

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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.

History --- Judaism --- Salvation. --- Ecstasy (Judaism) --- Cabala --- Brotherhood Week --- Salvation --- Religion --- Mysticism --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Relations --- Christianity. --- History. --- Joachim, --- Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, --- Fiore, Gioacchino da, --- Fiore, Joachim von, --- Gioacchino, --- Gioachino, --- Joachimus, --- Pseudo-Joachim, --- Aboulafia, Abraham, --- Abraham ben Samuel Abu-lʹ-afyah, --- Abu-lʹ-afyah, Abraham ben Samuel, --- Abulafia, Abraham, --- Abulʼafya, Avraham, --- Abulʼafya, Avraham ben Shemuʼel, --- Abulʼafyah, Avraham, --- Avraham, --- אבולעפיא, אברהם --- אבולעפיא, אברהם בן שמואל --- אבולעפיא, אברהם בן שמואל, --- אבולעפיה, אברהם --- אבולעפיה, אברהם, --- אבולעפיה, אברהם בן שמואל --- אבולעפיה, אברהם בן שמואל, --- אבולעפיה, אברהם. כהן, רפאל --- Kabbale --- Extase --- Salut --- Judaïsme --- Histoire --- Christianisme --- Aspect religieux --- Histoire des doctrines

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An exploration of Rav Kook's formative years in Eastern Europe, 1865-1904.

Jewish philosophy. --- Rabbis --- Religious Zionism --- Philosophy. --- Avraham Yitzhaq Ha-Cohen Kook. --- Chief Rabbinate. --- Kabbalah. --- Modern Jewish history and thought. --- Rav Kook. --- Religious Zionism.

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This sweeping survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one of the world's foremost Kabbalah scholars. The first to focus attention on a specific center of Kabbalah, Moshe Idel charts the ways that Kabbalistic thought and literature developed in Italy and how its unique geographical situation facilitated the arrival of both Spanish and Byzantine Kabbalah.Idel analyzes the work of three major Kabbalists-Abraham Abulafia, Menahem Recanati, and Yohanan Alemanno-who represent diverse schools of thought: the ecstatic, the theosophical-theurgical, and the astromagical. Directing special attention to the interactions and tensions among these forms of Jewish Kabbalah and the nascent Christian Kabbalah, Idel brings to light the rich history of Kabbalah in Italy and the powerful influence of this important center on the emergence of Christian Kabbalah and European occultism in general.

Cabala --- Mysticism --- Cabbala --- Jews --- Kábala --- Kabalah --- Kabbala --- Kabbalah --- Qabalah --- Jewish literature --- Magic --- History. --- Judaism --- Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, --- Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, --- Menaḥem, --- Reḳanaṭi, Menaḥem, --- רקאנטי, מנחם --- רקנאטי, מנחם בן בנימן, --- רקנאטי, מנחם, --- רקנטי, מנחם --- רקנטי, מנחם בן בנימין, --- ריקאנאטי, מנחם, --- ריקאנתי, מנחם --- ריקאנטי, מנחם בן בנימין, --- מנחם רקנט --- מנחם, --- Aboulafia, Abraham, --- Abraham ben Samuel Abu-lʹ-afyah, --- Abu-lʹ-afyah, Abraham ben Samuel, --- Abulafia, Abraham, --- Abulʼafya, Avraham, --- Abulʼafya, Avraham ben Shemuʼel, --- Abulʼafyah, Avraham, --- Avraham, --- אבולעפיא, אברהם --- אבולעפיא, אברהם בן שמואל --- אבולעפיא, אברהם בן שמואל, --- אבולעפיה, אברהם --- אבולעפיה, אברהם, --- אבולעפיה, אברהם בן שמואל --- אבולעפיה, אברהם בן שמואל, --- אבולעפיה, אברהם. כהן, רפאל --- Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin --- Reḳanaṭi, Menaḥem

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Continuing his contribution to medieval Jewish intellectual history, Haym Soloveitchik focuses here on the radical pietist movement of Hasidei Ashkenaz and its main literary work, 'Sefer Hasidim', and on the writings and personality of the Provençal commentator Ravad of Posquières. In both areas Soloveitchik challenges mainstream views to provide a new understanding of medieval Jewish thought. Some of the essays are revised and updated versions of work previously published and some are entirely new, but in all of them Soloveitchik challenges reigning views to provide a new understanding of medieval Jewish thought.

Jews --- History --- Intellectual life. --- Judah ben Samuel, --- angle of deflection --- Avraham ben David of Posquières --- German Pietists --- German Pietism --- Ḥasidei Ashkenaz --- Ḥokhmat ha-nefesh --- Jews of Provence --- medieval Ashkenaz --- Ravad/Rabad --- Sefer Ḥasidim