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    Meir ben Ezekiel ibn Gabbai (Hebrew: מאיר בן יחזקאל אבן גבאי) was a Kabbalist born in Spain toward the end of 1480. While the details of his life are...
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  • instances of the same word. Some books, such the Tolaat Yaakov of Meir ben Ezekiel ibn Gabbai, divide Pardes into Peshat, Remez, Din (law), and Sod. According...
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  • Kabbala Denudata, Sulzbach, 1677). Primary texts of Kabbalah Meir ben Ezekiel ibn Gabbai Wikisource has original text related to this article: he:פרדס_רמונים...
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    Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved March 21, 2024. Meir ben Ezekiel ibn Gabbai, Sod ha-Shabbat: The Mystery of the Sabbath, SUNY, 1988 p.88...
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  • (Avodat HaKodesh) - The Holy Service; a Kabbalistic work by Rabbi Meir ben Ezekiel ibn Gabbai ערוך השולחן, עה״ש (Aruch HaShulchan) - The Setting of the Table;...
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    Jacob Emden (redirect from Jacob ben Zebi)
    was afterward turned against Emden by some calumny. His relations with Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen, the chief rabbi of the German community, were positive...
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  • is also an enactment made by Isaac Luria, Rabbi Moshe ben Machir and Meir ben Ezekiel ibn Gabbai. The Shulchan Aruch has also left an indelible mark upon...
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    1939) wrote that the claim of ben Yochai's authorship was "untenable" but that Moses de León had compiled earlier material. Meir Mazuz (alive) accepts Emden's...
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    Yesod HaAvodah of Alexander Süsskind of Grodno in the name of David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra: "This was because Aḥiyya had his mind and thoughts connected...
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    2014-03-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Book of Ezekiel 1:4-26 Book of Isaiah 6:1–3 Klein, Eliahu, ed. (2005). Kabbalah of Creation:...
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    scholars, including Rashi, the Ramban, Chaim Vital, Isaac Abarbanel, Abraham Ibn Ezra, Rabbeinu Bachya, Rabbi Yaakov Culi (author of Me'am Lo'ez), the Vilna...
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  • Talmudic and Gaonic times, rabbinic mysticism focused around exegesis of Ezekiel's vision of the divine Chariot-Throne, and meditative introspective ascent...
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  • traced back to the biblical era, with prophetic figures such as Elijah and Ezekiel experiencing divine visions and encounters. This tradition continued into...
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    mysticism as using meditative methods, built around the biblical vision of Ezekiel and the creation in Genesis. According to Michael D. Swartz: "the texts...
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  • diaspora city or district would form a standing committee, presided over by a gabbai, to supervise collections and to remit funds semiannually to the managers...
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  • "Shuv" come from the Biblical description of the angels in the vision of Ezekiel (1:4-26), when he beheld the Divine chariot (Merkavah). These angels "ran...
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  • fasting, purification, and meditation on a text. Based on comments by Abraham ibn Ezra and others, scholar Moshe Idel has identified this text with Exodus...
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    Divine view, yet real from its own perspective. Around the 1230s, Rabbi Meir ben Simon of Narbonne wrote an epistle (included in his Milḥemet Mitzvah) against...
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  • Kabbalah and Chassidut: Olam Ha'Atzilut". 27 January 2014. Isaiah chapter 6 Ezekiel chapter 1 Prophecy versus Divine Spirit in Judaism, from chabad.org "This...
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  • their social role, there are mystical passages in the prophetic books; eg. Ezekiel 1 became the basis of Merkabah mysticism. The Talmud says that there were...
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