Jewish Mysticism

The Soul
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The Soul

Zohar 1-82b II Zohar 1-90a-b Zohar 3-135a Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, TQT”W Tefillot, § 515, p. 419 Zohar Hadash, 38b-c. Ma‘arekhet ha-’Elohut, ch. 10, 144a Sefer Hasidim, § 1514, pp. 369-370 Eleazar of Worms, Hokhmat ha-Nefesh, ch. 48, p. 80 Sefer ha-Temunah (Lemberg, 1892), 25a Moses de Leon, Sefer ha-Mishqal, p. 130. Zohar 1-89a Zohar 1-130b […]

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The Sefirot
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The Sefirot

From the fourteenth-century kabbalist, Joseph ben Shalom Ashkenazi, Sefer Yesirah (Jerusalem, 1962), 27a. MS JTSA Mic. 1727, fols. 18a-b Joseph ben Hayyim, MS Paris, BN 843, fol. 37a. See also MS J TSA Mic. 1885, fols. 74b-75a Anonymous commentary on the sefirot, written in all probability in Castile in the latter part of the thirteenth […]

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The Name of God
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The Name of God

Joseph Gikatilla, Sha‘are ’Orah, 1-205-206 Ibn Tabul, Derush Hefsi Eleazar of Worms, Sefer ha-Shem, MS London, British Museum 7 37, fol. 213a MS Vatican, ebr. 456, fol. 4a MS Vatican, ebr. 456, fol. 3b Zohar 2-3b Shabbetai Donnolo, Sefer Hakhmoni, pp. 32-33 Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, TQT”W Tefillot, § 17, pp. 17-18. Jacob ben Jacob ha-Kohen, […]

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The Messiah
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The Messiah

Sha‘ar ha-Kawwanot, 24b Zohar 1-257a Zohar 1-72b Zohar 1-117a Moses Cordovero , Tefillah le-Moshe (Przemysl, 1892), 141a Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, Ma’amar ha-Ge’ullah, p. 72. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, Ma’amar ha-Ge’ullah, pp. 50-51 Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, ’Adir ba-Marom, pp. 9-10 All Messiah Texts

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The Commandments
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The Commandments

Abraham Abulafia, ’Osar ‘Eden Ganuz (Jerusalem, 2000), p. 285. Joseph Gikatilla, Sha‘arei ’Orah II Zohar 2-238b II Joseph Gikatilla, Sha’arei Orah, 2-59-61 Joseph Gikatilla, Sha’arei Orah, 64-65 Zohar 1-219a Zohar 3-15b-16a Zohar 3-278a (Ra’aya Mehemna) Zohar 2-213b II Zohar 2-250a Zohar 2-136a 13th Century Ashkenazic text, “Sha‘are ha-Sod,” 154-155 Eleazar of Worms, Perushe Siddur ha-Tefillah […]

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Shekhinah
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Shekhinah

Moses Cordevero, Pardes Rimmonim, 16, 34a Zohar Hadash, 62b Moses Cordevero, Zohar ‘im Perush ’Or Yaqar (Jerusalem, 1986), 14-109 Jacob Semah, Semah Saddiq Hayim Vital,‘Es Hayyim, 35-1, 50c-d Eleazar of Worms, MS Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale héb. 772, fol. 144b Eleazar of Worms, Perush ha-Tefillot we-ha-Berakhot, pt. 1, pp. 97-98 MS Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica ebr. 228, […]

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Shabbat
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Shabbat

Joseph Gikatilla, in Heikhal ha-Shem (Venice, 1601), 40a Ma‘arekhet ha-’Elohut, 120a. Zohar 2-204a Moses de Leon, “Sefer ha-Mishkal,” pp. 110-111 Moses de Leon, Book of the Pomegranate, edited by Wolfson, pp. 333-334 Sha‘ar Ma’amerei Rashbi, 18b-c Sha‘ar Ma’amerei Rashbi, 5a-b Sefer Hasidim § 637 All Shabbat Texts

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Secrets and Mysteries
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Secrets and Mysteries

Solomon Alkebetz, Liqqutei Haqdamot le-Hokhmat ha-Qabbalah Nahmanides, Sermon on Ecclesiastes Abraham Abulafia, Or ha-Sekhel, MS Vat. 233, fols. 43a-43b Isaac of Acre, MS Guenzberg 775, fol. 50a Zohar 2-98b Moses de Leon, She’elot u-Teshuvot le-R. Mosheh de Le’on be-‘Inyene Kabbalah Moses Cordevero, Or Yaqar to Ra’aya Mehemna (Jerusalem, 1987), 15-87 Zohar 3-175b R. Isaiah ben […]

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Prayer
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Prayer

Moses Hayyim Luzzatto,’Adir ba-Marom, p. 215 Isaac the Blind, Cited by Ezra ben Solomon of Gerona in his Commentary on Canticles, in Kitve Ramban, 2- 522 Anonymous text that reflects as well the Provençal-Geronese tradition, 13th century. MS Berlin Or. Qu. 833, fol. 98a, cited in Scholem, “The Concept of Kavvanah,” p. 178, n. 38 […]

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Mystical Experience
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Mystical Experience

Abraham Abulafia, ’Osar ‘Eden Ganuz Joseph Gikatilla, Sha’arei Orah, 2-59-61 Joseph Gikatilla, Sha’arei Orah, 64-65 Tikkunei Zohar, 1a MS Paris, Bibliothéque Nationale 824, fol. 108a Zohar 1-44a. Cf. Zohar 2-176a, 179a (Sifra’ di-Tzeni’uta); ZH, 2b (Sitrei Otiyyot) and 6c (Sitrei Otiyyot) Zohar 2-213b I Zohar 1-41a Zohar 2-213b II Zohar 2-250a Zohar 2-136b Zohar 2-136a […]

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