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    Moshe Idel (Hebrew: משה אידל; born January 19, 1947) is a Romanian-born Israeli historian and philosopher of Jewish mysticism. He is Emeritus Max Cooper...
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  • Idel may refer to: Moshe Idel, historian and philosopher of Jewish mysticism (born 1947) Atil or Itil, the ancient capital of Khazaria Itil (river), also...
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  • ancient source texts for the Zohar. In Kabbalah: New Perspectives (1990), Moshe Idel reassessed this, seeing implicit continuity between options in ancient...
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    Targum. It is considered the ultimate source of the Kabbalah according to Moshe Idel. Synagogal Judaism was called a "triplet brother" of Rabbinic Judaism...
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    Maimonides (redirect from Moshe ben Maimon)
    doctrines in oppositional response to Maimonidean rationalism. See e.g. Moshe Idel, Kabbalah: New Perspectives The first comprehensive systemiser of Kabbalah...
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    related but more shunned, involves the magical aims of Practical Kabbalah. Moshe Idel, for example, writes that these 3 basic models can be discerned operating...
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  • usually involves withdrawal from community. In more recent academia, Moshe Idel has challenged Scholem's historical influence in Lurianism, seeing it...
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  • College of Judaica Press. p. 18. Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic, Moshe Idel, SUNY Press 1995, pp. 72–74. The term magic, used here to denote divine...
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    is a metaphor for the most abstract and sublime aspect of the divine. Moshe Idel refers to this light as the "hidden light," embodying the concept of potentiality...
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    from either “name” (Heb. שם, shem) or “heavens” (Heb. שמים, shamaym). Moshe Idel proposed that Samyaza is the one who “gazes at heavens” or “gazes from...
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    Gershom Scholem and Moshe Idel have contributed significantly to the understanding of Binah within Jewish mysticism. Moshe Idel's analyses offer a comprehensive...
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    Daniel C Matt, translator The Zohar; Arthur Green A Guide to the Zohar; Moshe Idel Kabbalah and Eros. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Zohar. Wikiquote...
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  • Sepher ha-Mashiv. The practitioners of this tradition were described by Moshe Idel as "interested in demonology and the use of coercive incantations to summon...
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    Studies in the History of Jewish Thought (ed. by Warren Zev Harvey and Moshe Idel (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1997))) Stuckrad, Kocku von. "Jewish and Christian...
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    contemporary scholarship of Jewish mysticism has largely rejected this idea. Moshe Idel instead has posited a historical continuity of development from early...
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  • Tomorrow, Jewish Lights Publishing, 2003. Kabbalah: New Perspectives, Moshe Idel, Yale University Press, 1988. Sirach iii. 22; compare Talmud Hagigah,...
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    Mysticism Idel, Moshe "The Renascence of Abraham Abulafia in the Last Generation" Idel, Moshe "Abraham Abulafia and the Prophetic Kabbalah" Idel, Moshe "The...
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    https://doi.org/10.1163/105369909X12506863090512 Heschel, The Prophets, 468 Moshe Idel, preface to Prophetic Inspiration after the Prophets, p. ix-x Gillman...
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    Consciousness" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09. Moshe Idel (1990). Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial...
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  • modern-day research on Kabbalah; see the works of Gershom Scholem and Moshe Idel for more information. There is a striking affinity between the symbolism...
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    University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-01751-8. Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic, Moshe Idel, SUNY Press 1995, pp. 72–74. The term magic, used here to denote divine...
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    Kabbalist’s views of language and interpretation. One reason for this, as Moshe Idel and others have observed, is that there is an important affinity between...
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  • ISBN 978-0-8032-8946-8. Introduction by G. Lloyd Jones, Introduction to this edition by Moshe Idel. Renaissance Latin Scholasticism Smith (1911). Hanegraaff (2010), p. 108...
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  • on a text. Based on comments by Abraham ibn Ezra and others, scholar Moshe Idel has identified this text with Exodus 14:19-21, each verse of which contains...
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  • among certain mystical Jewish traditions. A leading scholar of Kabbalah, Moshe Idel ascribes this doctrine to the kabbalistic system of Moses ben Jacob Cordovero...
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    Crișan [ro] Ștefan Dănilă [ro] Emanoil Dumitrescu Florin Gheorghiță [ro] Moshe Idel Irving Layton Gabriela Mihalschi Mariana Simionescu Valentin Ursache Ioan...
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  • family Marcel Janco (1895–1984), visual artist, architect and art theorist Moshe Idel (b.1947), historian and philosopher of Jewish mysticism Yisrael Katz (b...
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  • ISBN 978-0271017518. Dawes (2013). Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic, Moshe Idel, SUNY Press 1995, pp. 72–74. The term magic, used here to denote divine...
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    Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. See also Hebrew University Professor Moshe Idel's book, Saturn Jews, and Shlomo Sela's article Saturn and the Jews (University...
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    handed down today are identical to the book which the Talmud references. Moshe Idel, Gershom Scholem, Joseph Dan, and others have raised the natural question...
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