Kabbalah (19 page)

41, 43, 44, 45–49, 55, 72,

Sefer ha-Razim (The Book

89; in Christian kabbalah,

of Secrets), 14

64; Lilith and, 50, 51; Ma—

Sefer Yezira (The Book of

donna and, 104, 110; Vir—

Creation), 12, 15–18, 38,

gin Mary as, 48–49, 110

66; golem and, 105–106,

shevirah
(destruction), 73, 107;
sefirot
(divine pow-75–77, 81, 82

ers), 15, 16–17, 21, 25, 42

Shiur Komah (The Measure-

sefirot
(divine powers), 36, ment of the Height), 15,

41–45, 57, 89; as anthro—

19, 43

pomorphic text, 15, 43;

Shneersohn, Menachem

binah
(fountain), 43, 52; in Mendel, 100–101

Christian kabbalah, 64;
ein
Shulhan Arukh
(The Laid
sof
(infinity) and, 39–40, Table), 72

43;
hesed
(love and mercy), Simon (Jewish scholar), 63

43, 44, 45;
hokhmah
(wis-Solomon, king of Israel, 4

dom), 43, 44;
keter
(divine Soloveitchik, Dov Baer, 108– will), 40, 43, 44, 82; in

109

Lurianic kabbalah, 70, 74,

Song of Songs, 15, 43

76; numbers and, 17, 19,

soul, 33, 45, 81, 82

29, 45; in Sefer Yezira, 15,

Spanish kabbalists, 3, 20, 27;

16–17, 21, 25, 42; struc—

exile of, 34–35, 86; Girona

ture of, 81–82;
tiferet
school, 5, 20, 25, 27, 48;

(sixth
sefirah
), 43, 45, 46; Moses de Leon, 5, 26, 29,

Zohar and, 29, 43, 55, 82

30, 32, 52.
See also
Zohar
semikhah
(ordination), 71

(de Leon)

sermons, 31–32, 33, 38–39

spiritual intentions
(kavanot),
Shaaey Ora
(The Gates of 38, 57

Light), xii, 29

spirituality, 8, 24, 95; com—

Shalom Ashkenazi, Joseph

mandments and, 53–59;

ben, 34

rationalistic philosophy

Shavuot holiday, 80

and, 53–54;
shefa
(divine
shefa
(divine flow), 40, 46, flow) and, 54–56

54–56, 58

Sufi literature, 10

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I N D E X

taamey mitzvot
(reasons of traditionalists, 37–38

commandments), 53–54

transmission, 2, 4; oral, 2

Talmud, x, 5, 6, 27, 89;

Treatise on the Emanations on
Babylonian, 106; creation

the Left
(ha-Cohen), 50, 52

story in, 11, 16; golem in,

tree, of divine world, 21–22

106; Hassidic threat to,

truth, 9, 108; divine, 2–3, 4,

95; on prophecy, 86; sages

10, 29

of, 2, 13; Zohar and, 29

talmudic literature, 1–2, 46

ultraorthodoxy, 72, 77, 81,

tanaim
(Mishnah sages), 20, 93

37

university campuses, 69

tehiru
(emptiness), 74, 75–76

utterances
(ma’amarot),
42

temple in Jerusalem, 33, 46,

74

vessels
(kelim),
74; breaking tetragrammaton (YHVH), 44

of, 57, 58, 75–76, 78

theurgy, 56, 57–58

Virgin Mary, 48–49, 110

tiferet
(sixth
sefirah),
43, 45, visionary experience, 38, 39

46

Vision of Ezekiel
(More), 65

tikkun
(redemption), 77–81, Vital, Hayyim, 73, 79, 80,

82; Sabbatian messianism

81, 82

and, 86, 88, 89; spiritual—

von Rosenroth, Christian

ization and, 57–58, 59.
See
Knorr, 66

also
redemption Tikuney Zohar (Emenda—

Western culture, 110.
See also
tions of Zohar), 31

European culture

Tishby, Isaiah, 30, 31, 39, 73,

Williams, Michael, 23

75

Wisdom of the Zohar
(Tishby), Torah, 2, 32, 59, 73, 77;

30, 31

messianism and, 90, 91,

92.
See also
command-Yehuda Ashlag, Rav, 31

ments

yesod
(ninth
sefirah),
44, 45,
torah de-azilut
, 19, 39–40, 41, 82

43, 44–45, 90

YHVH (tetragrammaton), 44

tradition, 39, 41, 68; Jewish,

Yohai, Eleazar bar, 31

2, 41, 67, 68, 77; secret, 3–

Yohai, Shimeon bar, 31, 32,

4

63, 71

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I N D E X

yordey ha-merkavah
(descend-Zohar (de Leon), x, 26, 29– ers to the chariot), 14–15

34, 39, 40, 63; authorship

of, 29–30; Christian

zaddik
(Hasidic leader), 96– kabbalah and, 63; com—

99, 102

mandments in, 54, 57;

zahzahot
(source of light), 40

commentary on, 72, 108,

Zalman, Shemur, 100

110; Latin translation of,

Zevi, Shabbatai, 79, 84, 85–86,

66; Lurianism and, 5, 73,

87; conversion to Islam,

80; realm of evil in, 52–53;

88–89, 90; reincarnations

sefirot
(divine powers) in, of, 91, 92.
See also
Sabbatian 29, 43, 55, 82; sermons in,

messianism

31–32, 33;
shekhinah
(femi-zimzum
(constriction), 73– nine power) in, 45, 48.
See
75, 81, 82

also
bar Yohai, Shimeon Zioni, Menahem, 34

Zohar Hadash (The New

Zionism, 98

Zohar), 31

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