Meir ibn Gabbai, ‘Avodat ha-Qodesh 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 Moses Hayyim Ephraim of Sudlikov (c. 1737-1800), grandson of Israel ben Eliezer, Ba’al Shem Tov (1700-1760), Degel Mahaneh Efrayim (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1984), 87b Zohar 3-265a Zohar, 2-57b Zohar 2-60a-b […]
Zohar 1-60b Joseph Gikatilla, Sha‘arei ’Orah. Zohar Hadash, 62c Zohar Hadash, 62b Zohar 2-143b Zohar 1-50a. Hayyim Vital, Liqqutim Hadashim I. Hayyim Vital, Liqqutim Hadashim II. Joseph Gikatilla, Sha‘arei ’Orah Sefer ha-Shem, Heikhal ha-Shem, 30a. Hayyim Vital, ’Arba‘ Me’ot Sheqel Kesef (Cracow, 1886), 27c-d Moses Cordevero, Pardes Rimmonim, 16, 34a Moses Cordevero, Pardes Rimmonim, 27-10, […]
Shabbetai Donnolo, Sefer Hakhmoni, pp. 32-33 Anonymous commentary from the Hug Sefer ha-Temunah All Hebrew Letters Texts
From Azriel of Gerona, The Path of Faith and the Path of Heresy Zohar 1-15a Zohar 3-80b Zohar 2-20a Eleazar.of Worms, Sode Razzaya, 19 Shabbetai Donnolo, Sefer Hakhmoni, pp. 32-33 13th century, MS JTSA Mic. 2469, fol. 146a. Zohar 1-246b Hayim Vital, Liqqutim Hadashim, pp. 17-18. Zohar 1-16b Zohar 2-226a Zohar 1-156a-b Zohar 1-18a Zohar […]
Ibn Tabul, Derush Hefsi Bah. Moses of Burgos, “The Left Pillar.” Todoros Abulafia, Otzar ha-Kavod ha-Shalem (Jerusalem, 1970) 3a. Moses of Burgos, “The Left Pillar II.” Moses of Burgos, “The Left Pillar,” 208-9 Zohar 2-69b. Zohar 2-184a Zohar 2-34a Zohar 3-80b Zohar 2-26b-27a Zohar 1-228a Zohar 1-97a-b. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, TQT”W Tefillot, § 17, pp. […]
Zohar 1-66b Joseph Gikatilla, in Heikhal ha-Shem (Venice, 1601), 40a. Ma‘arekhet ha-’Elohut, 120a. Jacob Semah, Semah Saddiq. Hayim Vital, ‘Es Hayyim, 39-2, 67d. Sha‘ar Ma’amerei Rashbi, 29b. Zohar 3-100b Zohar 2-136a Zohar 3-12b-13a Zohar 3-260a Zohar 2-46a Sefer Hasidim, § 815, p. 206 Eleazar of Worms, Sefer ha-Roqeah (Jerusalem, 1967), pp. 5-6 Moses Cordevero, Zohar […]
Zohar 2-89a; cf. 2-204b-205a Zohar 3-49b Ma‘arekhet ha-’Elohut, 120a Sefer Hasidim, § 978 Eleazar of Worms, Sefer ha-Roqeah, § 20, p. 30 Sefer Hasidim, § 2, pp. 4-5 Sefer Hasidim, § 815, p. 206 Eleazar of Worms, Sefer ha-Roqeah (Jerusalem, 1967), pp. 5-6 Eleazar of Worms, Perushei Siddur ha-Tefillah la-Roqeah, p. 451 Eleazar of Worms, […]
Ascetism Creation Eros Evil Hebrew Letters Male and Female Mysteries of the Torah Mystical Experience Prayer Secrets and Mysteries Shabbat Shekhinah The Commandments The Messiah The Name of God The Sefirot The Soul Visionary Experience
Of far greater impact was the messianic movement that arose around Shabbetai Zvi (1626-1672). In fact, in its scope and intensity the so-called Sabbatian movement has no parallel in Jewish history. It drew its strength from traditional Jewish hopes for political and spiritual redemption; but the specific catalyst for it was the kabbalistic interpretation of […]
After the expulsion from Spain, many Sephardic Jews moved to the Ottoman empire where they were welcome as useful economic agents (see above). Some settled in the town of Safed, a commercial crossroads connecting Egypt, Jerusalem, Damascus and Beirut. A sixteenth century Italian Jew, Moses Bosola, reported that- The city [of Safed] is filled with […]