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Introduction Introduction
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Shekhinah, Kavod, and Created Light in Rabbinic Texts Shekhinah, Kavod, and Created Light in Rabbinic Texts
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Sa’adiah Gaon Sa’adiah Gaon
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Judah Halevi Judah Halevi
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Maimonides on Kavod in the Guide of the Perplexed Maimonides on Kavod in the Guide of the Perplexed
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Maimonides on Shekhinah in the Guide of the Perplexed Maimonides on Shekhinah in the Guide of the Perplexed
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Maimonides on Created Light in the Guide of the Perplexed Maimonides on Created Light in the Guide of the Perplexed
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Shekhinah and Kavod in the Mishneh torah and Commentary on the Mishnah Shekhinah and Kavod in the Mishneh torah and Commentary on the Mishnah
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Six Kavod, Shekhinah, and Created Light
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Published:September 2006
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Abstract
This chapter describes the concepts of kavod, shekhinah, and created light. The term kavod occurs about a dozen times in the Torah in some sense or other of perceptible divine presence. Rabbinic literature tends to prefer the term shekhinah for what is apparently the same phenomenon. Heikhalot literature seems to place greater emphasis on kavod than on shekhinah, while later kabbalah does just the opposite, making shekhinah one of the sefirot — the ten hypostasized attributes or emanations by means of which the Infinite enters into relationship with the finite. Medieval Jewish philosophers such as Sa'adiah and Judah Halevi added a third term, ‘created light’, and took all three as synonyms. All of these literatures seem to agree on one thing: the terms kavod, shekhinah, and created light all denote something in the ‘real world’. The terms are not simply metaphors or descriptions of the internal state of an individual undergoing a religious experience. However, it is precisely in such a fashion that Maimonides understood the terms. Maimonides' ‘non-ontological’ view of the terms kavod, shekhinah, and created light is part and parcel of his campaign against proto-kabbalistic elements in Judaism.
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