In elaboration of this, i will first discuss the episode of abulafias visit to the pope. State university of new york press, 1988 dlc 87001869 ocolc15107496. Idel, moshe the renascence of abraham abulafia in the last generation idel, moshe abraham abulafia and the prophetic kabbalah idel, moshe the mystical experience in abraham abulafia scholem, gershom abraham abulafia and the doctrine of prophetic kabbalism, ch. Wolfson abraham abulafia was a revolutionary mystic, but he was also a devoted follower of maimonides, the philosopher and rationalist par excellence. Idel moshe the mystical experience in abraham abulafia free ebook download as pdf file. Abraham abulafias path of the divine names wolfson, elliot r. An ecstatic kabbalist, were published by magnes books. Abulafia was unique amongst jewish mystics in providing precise instructions for. The mystical experience in abraham abulafia download pdf. Career dissatisfied with the contentions of the rationalists, he turned to cabala in the hope of cultivating prophetic powers and attaining communion with god. After i watched this i realized i edited out the part that says i was using the tetragramaton, yhwh, as the root word for the exercise. In case you missed my previous articles about abraham abulafia, titled abulafia kabbalah. Moshe idel, hebrew university of jerusalem, jewish thought department, emeritus.
Nov 09, 2010 one of scholems students, moshe idel, has contributed a major scholarly effort, publishing a number of books that focus on abulafias life and his practices. Through meditating on and deconstructing names into their letters, one could then engage in the process of reunifying reality into the primordial name of god, the tetragrammaton. Hermeneutics, theosophy and theurgy hames, harvey j. It includes a description of the techniques employed by his master, including the role of music. This ecstatic mystical approach was a phenomenon that strongly impacted on the jewish world of the thirteenth century. Idel, moshe mystical experience in abraham abulafia suny. This book contains excerpts of historical texts about abulafias divine name meditations. Book details, the mystical experience in abraham abulafia. Books by abraham abulafia author of abraham abulafia. Scholar moshe idel has attempted to locate the abulafian technique of recitation of names as an ecstatic exercise in the history of jewish mysticism, beginning with the. In it is bullied and the lives in paris, wakes the unity of the twelve up.
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Part i the mystical experience in abraham abulafia introduction 1. The first widescale presentation of a major jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic kabbalah. Mysticism is the practice of religious ecstasies religious experiences during alternate states of consciousness, together with whatever ideologies, ethics, rites, myths, legends, and magic may be related to them. See also moshe idel, abraham abulafia, gershom scholem and rabbi david co hen the nazirite on prophecy, in. Abraham abulafia books list of books by author abraham. Abraham abulafia, the founder of the ecstatic kabbalah, exposed a mysticism that includes a deep interest in language as a universe in itself, to be studied as the philosophers study nature, in order to attain higher knowledge. A kabbalist son of god on jesus and christianity by moshe idel abraham abulafia. Abulafia, kabbalah is not primarily a form of gnosis or. Exploring the interplay of jewish messianism and mysticism from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries, a leading scholar of jewish thought provides new perspectives in this controversial book. Moshe idel calls attention to a very different type of kabbalah, represented, among others, by the thirteenthcentury mystic abraham abulafia. Was abraham abulafia the th century equivalent of oliver sacks.
Mystical techniques, mental processes, and states of. Amidst the rich panoply of jewish kabbalah, abraham abulafia resonates the most with modern. Based on all the extant manuscript material of abulafia, this book opens the way to a new understanding of jewish mysticism. Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content. Idel, moshe, 1947the mystical experience in abraham abulafia. In this original study, moshe idel, an eminent scholar of jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist shahar arzy combine their considerable expertise to explore the mysteries of the kabbalah from an entirely new perspective. Abulafia s writings were also used by christian kabbalists of the renaissance. Abulafia wrote poems, treatises on grammar, and books, including his influential handbooks that teach one how to achieve the prophetic experience abulafias term for mystical experience. The mystical experience in abraham abulafia book, 1988. Cewebity peaceful pathways shaye tacker slate 52 nystesolpodcasts podcast environment. Scholem and chaim wirszubskii, moshe idel and elliot wolfson.
Appendix b provides information about the main mystical figure in this book, abraham abulafia. From what we know of his biography based on his own accounts, and those of outside sources he lived a very unusual life for a kabbalist. He was born in zaragoza, spain in 1240 and is assumed to have died sometime after 1291, following a stay on the small and windswept island of comino, the smallest of the three inhabited islands that make up the maltese archipelago. A new book on kabbalah argues that early jewish mystics might just have been the.
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