Format:
1 Online-Ressource (363 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed
ISBN:
9781786949844
Content:
Combining traditional textual analysis with more innovative anthropological approaches, Ginsburg makes an important contribution to the understanding of Jewish spirituality, myth, and ritual
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration and Orthography -- Introduction: Classical Kabbalah, Its History and Symbolic Universe -- Section One: An Historical Outline of Classical Kabbalah -- Origins -- Gerona Kabbalah -- Other Trends in Thirteenth Century Kabbalah -- The Zohar -- Kabbalah from the Fourteenth Century until the Safed Renaissance -- Section Two: The Sefirot and Their Symbolism -- Structural Overview -- The Dynamics of Sefirotic Unfolding: the Sefirot as Stages of Emanation -- The Sefirot as Stages of Mystical Ascent -- Further Thoughts on Sefirotic Symbolism -- Section Three: Reading a Zoharic Text -- Notes to the Introduction -- Chapter One: The Symbolism of the Kabbalistic Sabbath: Motif Studies -- Section One: An Historical Overview -- The Sabbath in Antiquity -- The Rabbinic Sabbath -- The Sabbath of the Medieval Philosophers -- The Distinctive Features of the Kabbalistic Sabbath -- The Sefirotic Sabbath -- Section Two: Motif Studies -- Shabbat as the Source of Cosmic Blessing -- Thematic Overview -- The Sabbath as Sacred Center -- Sabbath Transformations -- Sabbath as Perfected Time -- Divine Transformations: Sabbath as Hieros Gamos -- Rabbinic Pre-Cursors -- Heikhalot Mysticism: The Evidence of Seder Rabba' di-Vre'shit -- Medieval Understandings of the Marital Imagery Prior to the Kabbalah -- The Impact of Sefer ha-Bahir -- Marital Imagery in the Nahmanidean Tradition -- Hieros Gamos in the Zahar -- The Marital Motif after the Zahar -- Transformation of the Person: The Sabbath-Soul -- Pre-Zoharic Developments -- The Sabbath-Soul in the Writings of Moshe de Leon and in the Tiqqunei ha-Zohar /Racaya' Meheimna' -- Imagery Used -- Reception of Neshamah Yeterah as the Existential Beginning of Shabbat
Content:
The Impact of the Sabbath-Soul During Shabbat -- A Cosmos That Is Entirely Shabbat: Some Concluding Thoughts -- Notes to Chapter One -- Chapter Two: Aspects of Meaning in Kabbalistic Ritual: With Special Reference to the Case of Shabbat -- A Programmatic Introduction to Chapters Two Through Four -- A Typology of Kabbalistic Ritual -- Rabbinic and Kabbalistic Ritual: Some Contrasts -- Symbolism and Magic: The Ontological Structure of Kabbalistic Ritual -- The Multiple Consequences of Kabbalistic Ritual -- Ritual As Sacred Drama -- Ritual As Agent of Human Transformation -- Ritual As Theurgic Act -- A Concluding Example -- Notes to Chapter Two -- Chapter Three: Rituals of Preparation -- Projecting the Sabbath into the Spatial Realm: The Case of One's Home and Courtyard -- The Significance of Transforming One's Abode -- The Establishment of Courtyard-Fusions: 'Eruvei Hazerot -- Internalizing Shabbat: The Body As Microcosm -- Nail-Paring -- Bathing and Ablution -- The Rite of Dressing: The Tola'at Ya'aqov's Account -- The Significance of "Dress" in the Zahar and Tiqqunei ha-Zahar /Ra'aya' Meheimna' -- Sabbath-Dress in the Tiqqunei ha-Zahar/Ra'aya' Meheimna' -- Conclusion -- Notes to Chapter Three -- Chapter Four: Rituals of Separation: The Drama of Sabbath's Departure in Zoharic Kabbalah -- The Concluding Prayers: The Need for Apotropaics -- The "Havdalah Over Wine" -- The Havdalah Blessings as Rites of Healing -- The Symbolism of Myrtle -- The Blessing over the Fire -- The Re-Emergence of Sitra' 'Ahra' -- The Changing of the Cosmic Guards: The Empowerment of the Angelic Realm -- Concluding Blessing, Concluding Thoughts -- An Epilogue (from the Zahar) -- Notes to Chapter Four and Epilogue -- Appendix I: Some Further Thoughts on the Transformation of the Person during Shabbat
Content:
Appendix II: Sabbath-Ritual as a Means of Furthering the Divine-Human Nexus: Two Examples from Zoharic Kabbalah -- Notes to Appendix II -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781904113430
Additional Edition:
Print version Ginsburg, Elliot K The Sabbath in the Classical Kabbalah London : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The,c2008 ISBN 9781904113430
Language:
English
