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How and why a person comes to be possessed by a dybbuk-the possession of a living body by the soul of a deceased person-and what consequences ensue from such possession, form the subject of this book. Though possession by a dybbuk has traditionally been understood as punishment for a terrible sin, it can also be seen as a mechanism used by desperate individuals-often women-who had no other means of escape from the demands and expectations of an all-encompassing patriarchal social order. Dybbuks and Jewish Women examines these and other as

Dybbuk. --- Jewish women --- Mysticism --- Jews --- Social conditions. --- Judaism.

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This book is concerned with the exceptional history and unprecedented thought of Jacob Frank (1726-1791), a Messianic antinomistic Jewish-Moslem-Christian leader, active in the second half of the 18th Century in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Othman empire, Moravia and Germany. Frank grew up in the Dönme circles in Salonika (Dönme was the Turkish name of the Moslem-Jews who were followers of the messianic leader Sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676), who was forced to become a Moslem. His followers decided to convert to Islam in 1683 in order to live separate Jewish messianic life). Frank defined himself in his mythical autobiography, known as The Words of the Lord as a chosen messianic Leader and as an anarchist visionary who decided to cross every border and to destroy every book, law and order. His anarchistic behavior as well as his broad social influence caused a persistent rabbinic persecution and excommunication that brought Jacob Frank and his thousands followers to undertake a mess conversion to Christianity in 1759-1760.

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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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A masterly investigation of the Jewish mystical phenomenon, from antiquity to the twentieth century, contextualized in the spiritual and historical circumstances in which it evolved.

Mysticism --- Judaism. --- 296*4 --- -Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- 296*4 Joodse mystiek --- Joodse mystiek --- Judaism --- -Joodse mystiek --- Mysticism - Judaism. --- -Judaism

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Hasidism, Medieval --- Judaism --- Cabala --- Mysticism --- Hassidisme médiéval --- Judaïsme --- Kabbale --- Mysticisme --- Congresses --- History --- Congrès --- Histoire --- 296*4 --- -Hasidism, Medieval --- -Judaism --- -Mysticism --- -Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Jews --- Religions --- Semites --- Cabbala --- Kábala --- Kabalah --- Kabbala --- Kabbalah --- Qabalah --- Jewish literature --- Magic --- Joodse mystiek --- -Congresses --- Religion --- -Joodse mystiek --- 296*4 Joodse mystiek --- -296*4 Joodse mystiek --- Dark night of the soul --- Hassidisme médiéval --- Judaïsme --- Congrès --- History&delete& --- Judaism&delete& --- Hasidism, Medieval - Congresses --- Judaism - Germany - Congresses --- Cabala - History - Congresses --- Mysticism - Judaism - Congresses --- Congresses.