...This chapter probes Rabbi Moses David Valle's kabbalistic-messianic works, which makes a unique contribution to the literature of Jewish mysticism by its dated personal notes. It alludes the nature and general significance of the 'diary entries' as a sort of mystical and messianic journal...

... into the emerging corpus of Jewish culture, all welded by a far more potent current of mysticism than had ever pervaded the Jewish world previously. Ferrara Jerusalem kehilla Jewish community organization of Ottoman empire the and the Jews Rossi Azariah de’ c 1511–c 1578 Italian Jewish humanist Spain Usque...

... mysticism and the works of Heidegger. It suggests that the distinctiveness of Valente's achievement rest on his capability to refract and distill a certain Heideggerian tradition whose most powerful exponent in world literature is Celan himself. Celan Paul “Generation of the 1950s” Heidegger Martin...

... belief in the poetic and political power of magic, mysticism and the mythic gave Hughes the spirit confidence he needed to push through personal tragedy and global despair. Hughes's sensitivity to Yeats's work and workings is the result of a lifelong engagement with the poetry and the mythological...

... and metaphors of household tasks such as cleaning, cooking, and bed-making. The first section of the Middle English version deals with the preparation of the heart to receive God. This chapter examines the themes of food and cooking, with reference to meat and mysticism, in De doctrina cordis...

... of the monumental scholarly efforts of Gershom Scholem, beginning in the 1920s, that the field of Jewish mysticism began to attain a respectable place within Jewish scholarly circles. Ultimately, the sparse attention given Judah Loew in nineteenth-century Jewish scholarship yielded two reactions. Those who...

...This chapter suggests that we are all mystics nowadays but we need not be contentiously so. It queries the mystic vision, asking if it is conceivable that just this, allegedly the greatest prize of all, is denied to the vast majority of mankind. The chapter suggests is that it is not so denied...

..., Arthur Conan Doyle, and H. Rider Haggard, whose tales of living mummies, immortal sorcerers, and Egyptian mysticism bear strong resemblances to Universal's movie. In addition, the book discusses how The Mummy drew upon a contemporary vogue for all things ancient Egyptian: the tomb...

... Terrell Carroll F Dilling Elizabeth Freedman Jonathan Freewoman Harvey W H Henderson Archie Leese Arnold Rothschilds Sieburth Richard Eliot T S Pound Dorothy Scratton Bride Verona Neoplatonism metaphysics women mysticism value sex octopus When Cantos 28–30 were first published in 1930...

... Royal Academy Kreisel Georg Conradi Peter J Dunbar Scot Hick John Ramanathan Suguna Novels Theology Christianity Buddhism Spirituality Mysticism Faith Everything I have ever written has been concerned with holiness. ¹ ‘Good art which we love can seem holy and attending to it can...

... 51 Stoicism mysticism manual: ‘Of work, an action, a skill, etc.: of or relating to the hand or hands; done or performed with the hands; involving physical rather than mental exertion’. Oxford English Dictionary Travail manuel. Pourquoi n’y a-t-il jamais eu un...

... for an unorthodox view of spirituality in which, despite their apparent contradiction, the mystical and the material are deeply interrelated. This material mysticism is demonstrated in the sacred charge of everyday objects, mystical consciousness (one interpretation of ‘moments of being’) emerging out of mundane...

...This is a book on the philosophy and legal views of Moses Maimonides (1138–1204) and the historical context in which he worked. The philosophical section examines Maimonides’ ethical doctrine; his paradoxical life-style; his Guide of the Perplexed; his attitude to mysticism; his...

...This chapter examines the role of language in Jewish mysticism, explaining the concept of mystical language. In mystical thought, the basic assumption for understanding reality is that the upper and lower worlds are joined and related. The hidden world is implied in the revealed world and is seen...

.... Ultimately, the chapter provides a careful analysis of Jewish mysticism and Jewish messianism. It analyzes new dimensions of mystical significance that Safed provided to Sephardi history. Alkabetz Solomon c 1505–c 1576 Azulai Abraham expulsions of Jews Zarco Judah Christians Dieulosal Isaac Halley’s...

...This chapter addresses the extent to which mysticism and kabbalah influenced halakhic study and practice. The group of German mystics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries known as ‘the German saints’ produced two moralistic works in which there is a blend of mysticism and law. These works came...

...Mitchell’s early fiction writing is analysed as a modern take on Arabian Fantasy mixing realism and mysticism and forging a strong spirit of place from memories of his army service in the middle east, particularly his principal posting in post-war Cairo. Mitchell’s story-cycles appear stylistically...

... to the twentieth centuries. This history is briefly explored through four sections. Along with several other essays that deal with central and east European Jewish themes, the volume contains articles on Sephardi Jewry, Jewish philosophy, and mysticism. It begins and ends with appreciations of Yosef Hayim...

... a comprehensive, systematic study, which focuses critically on both the findings of previous research and the methodological premisses on which that research relied. Unlike scholars whose attention to the beginnings of hasidism arose out of a general interest in Jewish mysticism, Rosman came to the subject from...

...This chapter highlights Jewish mysticism. It talks about Rabbi Yitshak Horowitz, also known as Reb Yitshak Masmid who is a leading exponent of mystical theology in the Habad vein. Reb Yitshak Masmid seemed to be a typical ascetic whose head reached to the heavens. He ate very little but drank...