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The Orthodoxy of Arrogance

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By: M.B. Moshe

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The Orthodoxy of Arrogance is a fictional account of historical events and the subsequent personal and familial conflicts they can create. The main character, Mordichai Lebenschitz, is a moyl from Dachau, Germany. As the Nazi regime rises, he changes his name to the more German Moritz. He is pompous, self-centered, and oblivious to the world and its proposed effects on him. He is charming, manipulative and self-indulgent. He and his wife Hannah elude the Nazis from 1941-1944 in the city of Dachau. My novel suggests possible scenarios of events in history. It weaves them with personal, familial, and societal conflicts they affect. It borders on the least likely outcomes of historical events. They are often endured by arrogant and self-indulgent attitudes. The Orthodoxy of Arrogance is the story of sheer will. It is a fictional account of one believing in oneself to the point of selfishness. It is the conflict of ego and how it can work to disrupt human emotions.

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השבטים במקרא

By: Moshe Polter

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השבטים במקרא

By: Moshe Polter

What are the roots and deeper meanings of the Tribes of Israel? How did the blessings received by the Tribes from Yaakov Avinu differ from those of Moshe Rabbeinu? What are the unique characteristics of each Tribe? With years of careful research and writing, this book answers all the above questions--and more, giving fascinating insight into the Twelve Tribes of Israel, the Shevatim. Includes many charts, maps, and illustrations to give a clear and in-depth explanation of the Tribes in an easy-to-read format. The author draws from his experience as an esteemed educator, and this extremely readable book will be enjoyed by both adults and young readers.

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Targum Press

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1568713401

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Orthodox Judaism in America

A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook

By: Marc Raphael,Moshe Sherman

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Orthodox Judaism in America

A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook

By: Marc Raphael,Moshe Sherman

The last in a series of three volumes edited by Marc Lee Raphael surveying some of the major rabbinic and lay personalities who have shaped Judaism in America for the past two centuries, this work focuses on Orthodox Judaism. Along with a basic description of the achievements of some of the most notable leaders, a bibliography of their writings and sources for further study is included as well as an essay on Orthodox rabbinic organizations and a survey of American Orthodox periodicals. Of interest to scholars, students, and lay persons alike, this volume will inform readers about the earliest communities of Jews who settled in America as they developed the institutions of Orthodox Jewish life and set a public standard of compliance with Jewish law. These early American Jews followed a Spanish-Dutch version of Sephardic customs and rites. Their synagogues used traditional prayer books, promoted the celebration of Jewish holidays, established mikvahs, acquired Passover provisions, and arranged for cemetery land and burial services. While many of these Sephardic immigrants did not maintain halakha in their daily regimen as did their European counterparts, they set a public standard of compliance with Jewish law, thus honoring Jewish tradition. Further immigration of thousands of Jews from Western and Central Europe in the middle of the 19th century brought a world of traditional piety and extensive Jewish learning to America, exemplified by Rabbi Abraham Rice, who served in Baltimore, and Yissachar Dov (Bernard) Illowy, who served communities from Philadelphia to New Orleans. Such men marked the beginning of a learned and scholarly rabbinate in America. This volume provides valuable biographical insights regarding some of the most notable religious leaders in American Orthodoxy.

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Evolving Halakhah

A Progressive Approach to Traditional Jewish Law

By: Rabbi Dr. Moshe Zemer

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Evolving Halakhah

A Progressive Approach to Traditional Jewish Law

By: Rabbi Dr. Moshe Zemer

An essential reference work for any thinking student of religion. Innovative and provocative, Evolving Halakhah affirms the system of traditional Jewish law, Halakhah, as a developing and moral structure, flexible enough to accommodate the changing realities of each generation. In this accessible analysis of Halakhah, Moshe Zemer issues a clarion call to follow the ancient and modern principles of evolving Halakhah, which demands ethical deeds, the discovery of holiness in the Commandments, a critical approach to the Tradition, and responsibility of the entire Community of Israel. These principles are viewed as the framework in which the other commandments are applied. To Jews who sometimes see no choices but those of fundamentalist rigidity on the one hand, or total rejection of tradition on the other, Zemer argues instead for awareness of the inherent flexibility of the halakhic system. Halakhah, he argues, has had many voices, and has changed to meet every generation’s needs. Equipped with this view, liberal Jews can reclaim their tradition from a conservative rabbinic establishment that all too often—especially in Israel—has seen the voice of strictness as more authentic than the voice of lovingkindness. The product of Zemer’s thirty-five years of work in the Israel Movement of Progressive Judaism, Evolving Halakhah includes chapters on matters ranging from personal status, especially marriage and conversion, through the “political” Halakhah of a response to the intifada. It shows that the traditional framework for understanding the Torah’s commandments can be the living heart of Jewish life for all Jews—including Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative, and Modern Orthodox.

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1580236545

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The Kabbalah of Forgiveness LARGE PRINT

By: Henry Abramson,Moshe Cordovero

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The Kabbalah of Forgiveness LARGE PRINT

By: Henry Abramson,Moshe Cordovero

LARGE PRINT EDITION. The Kabbalah of Forgiveness is a new translation of the first chapter of Rabbi Moshe Cordovero's classic work Date Palm of Devorah (Tomer Devorah) with a modern commentary by Dr. Henry Abramson. Emerging from the 16th-century Safed Circle, a group of kabbalists working in northern Israel, Date Palm of Devorah earned a rare place in the history of Jewish ethical literature, primarily based on the glorious introductory chapter that discusses the Thirteen Levels of Mercy and how these Divine attributes can be applied in daily life. Steeped in metaphysics and mysticism, Date Palm of Devorah brings the loftiest, most esoteric concepts of Judaism and translates them to the everyday realities of human interaction.

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0359804047

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Eretz Yisrael in the Parashah

Essays on the Centrality of the Land of Israel in the Torah : Plus Commentary on Nearly Every Reference to the Holy Land in the Torah

By: Moshe D. Lichtman

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Eretz Yisrael in the Parashah

Essays on the Centrality of the Land of Israel in the Torah : Plus Commentary on Nearly Every Reference to the Holy Land in the Torah

By: Moshe D. Lichtman

The author analyzes ever reference to the Land of Israel in the 54 Torah portions read on Shabbat and the Jewish Holidays. He shows how living in the Holy Land is a fulfillment of the deep yearnings of millennia of Jews who come to Israel to perform all of God's commandments, especially those that depend on the Land.

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Devora Publishing

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193268770X

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Doctors' Errors and Mistakes of Medicine

Must Health Care Deteriorate?

By: Moshe Wolman,Ruth Manor

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Doctors' Errors and Mistakes of Medicine

Must Health Care Deteriorate?

By: Moshe Wolman,Ruth Manor

During the last decades, healthcare in the various industrialized countries has been deteriorating steadily. The enormous progress of medicine in the same period could only partly compensate for the loss. This book describes the deterioration of healthcare that increases continually. It analyses its causes and outlines the measures that might prevent or at least slow the change. The deterioration of healthcare, variable in different fields, progressing at different paces in the various industrialized countries, is produced mainly by two types of causes. Minor ones, resulting from lack of knowledge, or by inadequate equipment or procedures, can be corrected by relatively simple means, such as education and technical or procedural improvements. The major causes for the deterioration involve general policy whose effects are the steady decrease in monitoring health care and the change of healthcare into profit-seeking service. The data collected and its analysis is based on over 300 articles in major medical and nursing journals. It has three parts: part 1 deals with individual doctors' errors, part 2 with errors of the medical establishment, and part 3 is devoted to more theoretical a

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IOS Press

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1586034030

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Samson Raphael Hirsch's Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation

By: Moshe Y. Miller

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Samson Raphael Hirsch's Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation

By: Moshe Y. Miller

In Samson Raphael Hirsch's Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation Moshe Miller argues that nineteenth-century German Jews of all persuasions actively sought acceptance within German society and aspired to achieve full emancipation from the many legal strictures on their status as citizens and residents. But, where non-Orthodox Jews sought a large measure of cultural assimilation, Orthodox Jews were content with more delimited acculturation. However, they were no less enthusiastic about achieving emancipation and acceptance in German society. There was one issue, though, which was seen by non-Jewish critics of emancipation as a barrier to granting civic rights to Jews: namely, the alleged tribalism of the Jewish ethic and the supposedly Orthodox notion of Jews as "the Chosen People." These charges could not go unanswered, and in the writings of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888), a leading thinker of the Orthodox camp, they did not. Hirsch stressed the universalism of the Jewish ethic and the humanistic concern for the welfare of all mankind, which he believed was one of the core teachings of Judaism. His colleagues in the German Orthodox rabbinate largely concurred with Hirsch's assessment. This account places Hirsch's views in their historical context and provides a detailed account of his attitude toward non-Jews and the Christianity practiced by the vast majority of nineteenth-century Europeans"--

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University of Alabama Press

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0817361294

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The Fifth Commandment

Honoring Parents : Laws, Insights, Stories and Ideas

By: Moshe Lieber

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The Fifth Commandment

Honoring Parents : Laws, Insights, Stories and Ideas

By: Moshe Lieber

Honoring Parents laws, insights, stories and ideas. May parents insist that their children pray with them? May a daughter attend an Israeli seminary if her parents object? May a surgeon operate on his parents? How binding are parental instructions left in a last will? When is disobedience permitted? Mandatory? Most people follow their instincts and emotions in trying to fulfill a mitzvah that, in reality, is replete with halachic detail. This book provides it. It deals with realistic questions, and handles them authoritatively and sensitively. Includes many previously unpublished rulings of HaGaon Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv shlita.

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1578191912

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ספר כזית השלם

By: Yisroel Pinchos Bodner,Yosef Sayagh,Moshe Bodner

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ספר כזית השלם

By: Yisroel Pinchos Bodner,Yosef Sayagh,Moshe Bodner

Actual-size full-color photos of a k'zayis for over 175 foods enable the reader to easily and accurately determine if he has eaten enough food to make a bracha achrona. Also includes phots and illustrations for shiur of matzah and maror on Pesach, and many other halachos related to shiur k'zayis.

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1583304894

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Bukharin in Retrospect

By: Theodor Bergmann,Moshe Lewin

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Bukharin in Retrospect

By: Theodor Bergmann,Moshe Lewin

This volume is the product of an international conference held in the autumn of 1988, around the time Nikolai Bukharin was officially rehabilitated - a benchmark in the history of glasnost and the process of legitimating perestroika. Conference participants from 19 countries, including the USSR and China, took occasion to reconsider the record and legacy of Bukharin as revolutionary, economist and political theorist. They offer a many-sided but critical re-examination of Bolshevism's "internal alternative" to Stalin and Stalinism.

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Routledge

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131549003X

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Pesaḥ

By: Shimon Finkelman,Moshe Lieber

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Pesaḥ

By: Shimon Finkelman,Moshe Lieber

The meaning and purpose of Pesach; a fascinating collection of ideas and anecdotes on the Festival of our Freedom and laws of the Festival.

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0899064477

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Source Control

A Guide to the Management of Surgical Infections

By: Moshe Schein,John C. Marshall

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Source Control

A Guide to the Management of Surgical Infections

By: Moshe Schein,John C. Marshall

Source control is the key to the management of surgical infections. Surgical decision making is based on the marriage of evidence from clinical studies, inferences from biology, and the elusive component of surgical experience; this book combines these three elements. We have recruited an international group of authors who are acknowledged leaders in the field of surgical infectious diseases. We have challenged them to integrate evidence with experience and an understanding of biology so as to create overviews that will help the clinician who must make the difficult decisions. And we have kept them honest by asking a second group of equally eminent commentators to provide supporting or alternative views - in essence, to recreate the kind of dialogue that takes place between clinicians discussing a difficult problem. This is THE manual for the authoritative management of surgical infections!

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Springer Science & Business Media

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364255914X

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People of the Book

Canon, Meaning, and Authority

By: Moshe Halbertal

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People of the Book

Canon, Meaning, and Authority

By: Moshe Halbertal

Halbertal provides a panoramic survey of Jewish attitudes toward Scripture, provocatively organized around problems of normative and formative authority, with an emphasis on the changing status and functions of Mishnah, Talmud, and Kabbalah.

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Harvard University Press

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0674038142

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Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature

By: Moshe Blidstein

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Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature

By: Moshe Blidstein

Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature investigates the meaning of purity, purification, defilement, and disgust for Christian writers, readers, and listeners from the first to third centuries. Anthropological and sociological works over the past decades have demonstrated how purity and defilement rituals, practices, and discourses harness the power of a raw emotion in order to shape and manipulate cultural structures. Moshe Blidstein builds on such theories to explain how early Christian writers drew on ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions on purity and defilement, using them to create new types of community, form Christian identity, and articulate the relationship between body, sin, and ritual. Blidstein discusses early Christian purity issues under several headings: dietary law, death defilement, purity of the heart, defilement of outsiders, and purity of the community. Analysis of the motivations shaping the development of each area of discourse reveals two major considerations: polemical and substantive. Thus, Christian writing on dietary law and death defilement is essentially polemical, constructing Christian identity by marking the purity practices and beliefs of others as false. Concerning the subjects of baptism, eucharist, and penance, however, the discourse turns inwards and becomes more substantive, seeking to create and maintain theories of ritual and human nature coherent with the theological principles of the new religion.

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Oxford University Press

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0192509772

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Judaism: Religion of Reason

By: Rabbi Moshe Ben-Chaim

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Judaism: Religion of Reason

By: Rabbi Moshe Ben-Chaim

Jewish life has become tainted by man-made religions, mysticism and pop-kabballah. Based on the Sages' writings and 10 years in the making, Rabbi Moshe Ben-Chaim debunks these false notions, presenting an intelligent analysis of Torah to reveal beautiful insights. Judaism is the only religion based on proof and reason, not blind faith and superstitions. Intelligence is the only key that unlocks God's wisdom. Readers will quickly distinguish authentic Judaism from popular notions, preferring Torah's brilliance over simplistic belief.

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0578089483

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Evolving Halakhah

A Progressive Approach to Traditional Jewish Law

By: Rabbi Dr. Moshe Zemer

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A Progressive Approach to Traditional Jewish Law

By: Rabbi Dr. Moshe Zemer

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Hasidism

A New History

By: David Biale,David Assaf,Benjamin Brown,Uriel Gellman,Samuel Heilman,Moshe Rosman,Gadi Sagiv,Marcin Wodziński

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Hasidism

A New History

By: David Biale,David Assaf,Benjamin Brown,Uriel Gellman,Samuel Heilman,Moshe Rosman,Gadi Sagiv,Marcin Wodziński

A must-read book for understanding this vibrant and influential modern Jewish movement Hasidism originated in southeastern Poland, in mystical circles centered on the figure of Israel Ba’al Shem Tov, but it was only after his death in 1760 that a movement began to spread. Today, Hasidism is witnessing a remarkable renaissance around the world. This book provides the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. Written by an international team of scholars, its unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history demonstrates that, far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, Hasidism is a product of modernity that forged its identity as a radical alternative to the secular world.

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Princeton University Press

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0691202443

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America and the Holy Land

By: Moshe Davis

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America and the Holy Land

By: Moshe Davis

The continuing relationship between America and the Holy Land has implications for American and Jewish history which extend beyond the historical narrative and interpretation. The devotion of Americans of all faiths to the Holy Land extends into the spiritual realm, and the Holy Land, in turn, penetrates American homes, patterns of faith, and education. In this book Davis illuminates the interconnection of Americans and the Holy Land in historical perspective, and delineates unique elements inherent in this relationship: the role of Zion in American spiritual history, in the Christian faith, in Jewish tradition and communal life, and the impress of Biblical place names on the map of America as well as American settlements and institutions in the State of Israel. The book concludes with an annotated select bibliography of primary sources on America and the Holy Land.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313020841

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9780313020841

Oriental Neighbors

Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine

By: Abigail Jacobson,Moshe Naor

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Oriental Neighbors

Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine

By: Abigail Jacobson,Moshe Naor

Focusing on Oriental Jews and their relations with their Arab neighbors in Mandatory Palestine, this book analyzes the meaning of the hybrid Arab-Jewish identity that existed among Oriental Jews, and discusses their unique role as political, social, and cultural mediators between Jews and Arabs. Integrating Mandatory Palestine and its inhabitants into the contemporary Semitic-Levantine surroundings, Oriental Neighbors illuminates broad areas of cooperation and coexistence, which coincided with conflict and friction, between Oriental and Sephardi Jews and their Arab neighbors. The book brings the Oriental Jewish community to the fore, examines its role in the Zionist nation-building process, and studies its diverse and complex links with the Arab community in Palestine.

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Brandeis University Press

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1512600075

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Disna's Abramsons & Descendants

Six Generations (1867-2012)

By: Moshe Iofis

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Disna's Abramsons & Descendants

Six Generations (1867-2012)

By: Moshe Iofis

In the book Disnas Abramsons And Descendants is presented a family history of six generations (1867-2012), The author recalls his memoirs about the life in Disna with ancestors born in Russia at the time of the tsar Alexander II and continues the story of the next fi ve generations including his great-grandchildren born in the United States of America during the presidency of Barack Obama. Descendants residing in Germany, Netherlands, Israel and the U.S.A. contributed their stories to this book.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1477150536

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Kabbalah and Eros

By: Moshe Idel

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Kabbalah and Eros

By: Moshe Idel

In this book, the world's foremost scholar of Kabbalah explores the understanding of erotic love in Jewish mystical thought. Encompassing Jewish mystical literatures from those of late antiquity to works of Polish Hasidism, Moshe Idel highlights the diversity of Kabbalistic views on eros and distinguishes between the major forms of eroticism. The author traces the main developments of a religious formula that reflects the union between a masculine divine attribute and a feminine divine attribute, and he asks why such an "erotic formula" was incorporated into the Jewish prayer book. Idel shows how Kabbalistic literature was influenced not only by rabbinic literature but also by Greek thought that helped introduce a wider understanding of eros. Addressing topics ranging from cosmic eros and androgyneity to the affinity between C. J. Jung and Kabbalah to feminist thought, Idel's deeply learned study will be of consuming interest to scholars of religion, Judaism, and feminism.

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030010832X

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