TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ḥalamish,Mosheh
TI  - An introduction to the Kabbalah
T2  - SUNY Series in Judaica : Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
SN  - 9781438405551
AV  - BM526 .H3413 1999
U1  - 296.1/6 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Mysticism
KW  - Judaism
KW  - History
KW  - Cabala
KW  - Mysticisme
KW  - Judaïsme
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Kabbale
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Kabbalah & Mysticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-366) and index; Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE -- Content -- Part I: The Kabbalah and its Attainment -- Mysticism and the Kabbalah -- WHAT IS KABBALAH? -- WHAT IS MYSTICISM? -- THE WORLD OF SYMBOLS -- The Kabbalist and His Kabbalah -- THE WAYS OF TRANSMISSION -- THE QUESTION OF RELIABILITY -- Prerequisites -- PHYSIOGNOMY AND CHIROMANCY -- GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS -- INTELLECTUAL LEVEL -- The field of Halakhah -- The realm of community leadership -- Kabbalists -- MORAL PERFECTION; PRIDE AND ANGERLOVE AND UNITY -- AGE -- FIXED TIMES OF STUDY -- PLACE -- Early Preparations -- SOLITUDE -- EQUANIMITY -- SILENCE -- ASCETICISM AND FASTING -- CONFESSIONS -- PURIFICATION -- PERSEVERANCE AND MUCH TOIL -- The Dangers Facing the Mystic -- Techniques of Exploring Mysteries -- PROSTRATION ON THE GRAVES OF THE ZADDIKIM -- Evaluation of the Kabbalah -- THE OBJECTIONS TO THE KABBALAH -- The Origins of the Revelations -- SEEING AND HEARING -- INTELLECTUAL ATTAINMENT -- PERSONAL TRANSMISSION -- REVELATION FROM ELIJAH; SPIRITUAL ILLUMINATIONDREAMS -- THE APPARITION OF THE MAGGID -- JOY AND WEEPING -- THE DISCLOSURE OF SECRETS -- MYSTICAL RAPTURES -- Part II: The Basic Concepts of the Kabbalah -- The Doctrine of the Sefirot -- THE TERM SEFIROT -- THE NAMES OF THE SEFIROT -- DIVISION OF THE SEFIROT INTO GROUPS -- THE HUMAN FIGURE -- THE DIVINE NAMES -- ELEMENTS OF NATURE -- COLORS -- THE POINTS OF THE COMPASS -- BIBLICAL FIGURES -- 'EIYN SOF AND REVELATION -- ONENESS AND MULTIPLICITY -- ESSENCE AND VESSELS -- Good and Evil -- THE DESTINY OF EVIL; The Doctrine of CreationSOME POSITIONS -- THE DOCTRINE OF EMANATION -- THE PURPOSE OF CREATION -- THE DOCTRINE OF SIMSUM -- THE DOCTRINE OF THE SHEMITTOT -- The Torah -- DIVINE SPEECH -- KABBALISTIC READING OF THE TORAH -- THE TORAH AND ITS GIVER -- THE TORAH AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE -- THE CONCEPT OF THE COMMANDMENTS -- THE COMMANDMENTS AND DEVEKUT -- COMMANDMENTS AND TIKKUN -- VARIOUS PROBLEMS -- The Doctrine of the Soul -- THE UNIQUENESS OF THE SOUL -- DIVISIONS OF THE SOUL -- THE PREEXISTENCE OF THE SOUL -- BLEMISHED SOULS; THE SOULS OF NON-JEWSMAN AT HIS DEATH -- THE DOCTRINE OF THE SELEM -- THE DOCTRINE OF THE SOUL IN LURIANIC TEACHING -- The Doctrine of Transmigration -- REASONS FOR THE DOCTRINE OF TRANSMIGRATION -- THE TERM GILGUL -- WHAT CAUSES A PERSON'S SOUL TO TRANSMIGRATE? -- NUMBER OF TRANSMIGRATIONS -- GILGUL -- COMPASSION OR PUNISHMENT? -- TRANSMIGRATION AND THERE SURRECTION OF THE DEAD -- AGAINST GILGUL -- Back Matter -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- Chapter 1. Mysticism and the Kabbalah -- Chapter 2. The Kabbalist and his Acquiring of the Kabbalah
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