The Shi’ur Qomah (Hebrew: שיעור קומה) or Dimensions of the Body is a midrashic text that is part of the hekhalot literature. It purports to record, in...
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Visions of Ezekiel" Massekhet Hekhalot "The Tractate of the Palaces" Shi'ur Qomah "Divine Dimensions" Sefer HaRazim "Book of the Mysteries" The Sword of...
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Genizah with the text of Shi'ur Qomah appears with an annotation, possibly by Maimonides, cursing believers of Shi'ur Qomah (Hebrew: ארור המאמינו) and...
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and moral". However, other traditional Jewish texts, for example, the Shi'ur Qomah of the Heichalot literature, describe the measurements of limbs and body...
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climax of their ascent. This work, preserved in various forms, is called Shi'ur Qomah ("Measurement of the Body"), and is rooted in a mystical exegesis of...
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which six of the seven palaces of God are described, Hekhalot Zutarti, Shi'ur Qomah and sixth-century 3 Enoch, as well as hundreds of small documents, many...
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non-Jewish belief. Maimonides rejected many texts of Heichalot, particularly Shi'ur Qomah whose anthropomorphic vision of God he considered heretical. In the 13th...
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Name] is in him". Metatron also appears in the Pseudepigrapha including Shi'ur Qomah, and most prominently in the Hebrew Merkabah Book of Enoch, also called...
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(The Lesser Palaces) Merkavah Rabbah (The Great Chariot) Later texts: Shi'ur Qomah (Divine Dimensions) Mystical speculations of the Geonim Influence of...
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Harvard Theological Review 55.3 (1962): 187–206. Cohen, Martin Samuel. Shi'ur Qomah: Texts and Recensions (Tübingen : J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1985...
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314 et seq. R. E. J. xxii. 202. Kaufmann in "Z. D. M. G." xlix. 73. Shi'ur Qomah Ta'am Zeqenim, Nos. 54–57. Teshubot ha-Ge'onim, ed. Lyck, No. 99. See...
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al-Ghazali's "Maqaṣid al-Falasifah" "Iggeret 'Al-Shi'ur Qomah," a mystical letter on the "Shi'ur Qomah," attributed to Rabbi Ishmael a commentary on the...
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Dialogi contra Iudaeos Petrus attacked the mystical tradition called Shi’ur Qomah. He showed how science of his day clearly contradicted the Talmudic claim...
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Fifteenth Century Yemen," and "A Philosophical-Mystical Interpretation of a Shi'ur Qomah Text." Blumenthal, David R. The Commentary of R. Hoter Ben Shelomo to...
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the Sun" Jordan River Banks, Kombo (co-prod) 3:22 5. "Starship Planet (Shi'ur Qomah)" Ciph Barker 2:58 6. "Creation of a Super God" Black Marvel 3:30 7....
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esoteric work from associated literature describing a cosmic Anthropos, Shi'ur Qomah, was interpreted allegorically by subsequent Kabbalists in their meditation...
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discrepancies frequent in haggadic and hekhalot literature such as the Shi'ur Qomah, which, indeed, he often uses in his attacks against the Rabbanites....
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in the Muhtawi. In the fourteenth chapter the author criticizes the Shi'ur Qomah, and refutes the theory of Benjamin ben Moses Nahawandi, who, holding...
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