The first wide-scale presentation of a major Jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah.
This book represents the first wide-scale presentation of a major Jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah. It includes a description of the techniques employed by his master, including the role of music. There is a discussion of the characteristics of his mystical experience and the erotic imagery by which it was expressed. Based on all the extant manuscript material of Abulafia, this book opens the way to a new understanding of Jewish mysticism. It points to the importance of the ecstatic Kabbalah for the later developments in mystical Judaism.
Table of Content
Foreword by Shlomo Pines
Acknowledgments
Journal Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Techniques for Attaining Ecstasy
Chapter 2. Music and Ecstatic Kabbalah
Chapter 3. The Mystical Experience
Chapter 4. Erotic Images for the Ecstatic Experience
Bibliography
Index of Subjects and Proper Names
Index of Titles
About the author
Moshe Idel is Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author of Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid; Language, Torah, and Hermeneutics in Abraham Abulafia; The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia; and Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah, all published by SUNY Press.
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