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Over the past generation, scholars have devoted increasing attention to the diverse forms that Jewish mysticism has taken both in the past and today: what was once called “nonsense” by Jewish scholars has generated important research and attention both within the academy and beyond, as demonstrated by the popular fascination with figures such as Madonna and Demi Moore and the growing interest in spirituality. In Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah, leading experts introduce the history of this scholarship as well as the most recent insights and debates that currently animate the field in a way that is accessible to a broad audience. From mystical outpourings in ancient Palestine to the Kabbalah Centre, and from attitudes towards gender to mystical contributions to Jewish messianic movements, this volume explores the various expressions of Jewish mysticism from antiquity to the present day in an engaging style appropriate for students and non-specialists alike.

Cabala --- Mysticism --- Judaism --- History. --- 296*41 --- 296*4 --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- 296*41 Kabbala --- Kabbala --- 296*4 Joodse mystiek --- Joodse mystiek --- History --- Judaism&delete&

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Habad --- Cabala --- Mysticism --- Kabbale --- Mysticisme --- Doctrines --- Influence --- Judaism --- History --- Judaïsme --- Histoire --- 141.33 --- 296*3 --- 296*3 Apocriefen --- Apocriefen --- 141.33 Filosofische mystiek --- Filosofische mystiek --- Chabad --- Lubavitch-Chabad --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Hasidism --- Cabbala --- Jews --- Kábala --- Kabalah --- Kabbala --- Kabbalah --- Qabalah --- Jewish literature --- Magic --- Judaism&delete& --- Doctrines. --- Hasidim

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Abraham Abulafia (1240 – c. 1291) founded an enormously influential branch of Jewish mysticism, referred to as the prophetic or ecstatic kabbalah. This book, from several perspectives, explores the impact of Christianity upon Abulafia. His copious writings evince an intense fascination with Christian themes, yet Abulafia’s frequent diatribes against Jesus and Christianity reveal him to be deeply conflicted in his relationship to his southern European religious neighbors. This book undertakes a careful study of Abulafia’s writings, suggesting that the recognition of an inner dynamic of attraction and revulsion toward the forbidden other provides a crucial key to understanding Abulafia’s mystical hermeneutic and his meditative practice. It also demonstrates that Abulafia's uneasy relationship to Christianity shaped the very core of his mystical doctrine.

Cabala. --- Christianity and other religions --- Judaism --- Brotherhood Week --- Cabbala --- Jews --- Kábala --- Kabalah --- Kabbala --- Kabbalah --- Qabalah --- Jewish literature --- Magic --- Mysticism --- Judaism. --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Cabala --- Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, --- 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 --- Religion. --- Cabala and Christianity. --- Kabbale --- Kabbale et christianisme --- Judaïsme --- Christianisme --- History --- Christianity --- Histoire

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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