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Wolfson, Elliot R.

Venturing beyond : law and morality in Kabbalistic mysticism / Elliot R. Wolfson. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - 1 online resource (389 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-364) and indexes.

Ontology, alterity, and the anthropological other -- Othering the other : eschatological effacing of ontic boundaries -- Beyond good and evil : hypernomian transmorality and delimiting the limit -- Suffering, humility, and transgressive piety.

Are mysticism and morality compatible or at odds with one another? Venturing Beyond - Law and Morality in Kabbalistic Mysticism is an investigation of the relationship of the mystical and moral as it is expressed in the particular tradition of Jewish mysticism known as the Kabbalah. - ;Are mysticism and morality compatible or at odds with one another? If mystical experience embraces a form of non-dual consciousness, then in such a state of mind, the regulative dichotomy so basic to ethical discretion would seemingly be transcended and the very foundation for ethical decisions undermined. Ventu.


English.

ISBN: 9781435623446 1435623444 9780199277797 0199277796 019153515X 9780191535154 1280905891 9781280905896 9786610905898 6610905894

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cabala--History.
Mysticism--Judaism.
Ethics.
Ethics
Kabbale--Histoire.
Mysticisme--Judaïsme.
Morale.
ethics (philosophy)
RELIGION--Judaism--Kabbalah & Mysticism.
Cabala
Ethics
Mysticism--Judaism

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
History

LC Class. No.: BM526 / .W653 2006eb

Dewey Class. No.: 296.1/6