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Visionary Experience
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Visionary Experience

Sefer Hasidim, § 978 Tikkunei Zohar, 1a Zohar 2-136b Zohar 2-136a Moses de Leon, “Sefer ha-Mishkal- Text and Study,” Wijnhoven, 59-60 3th century Ashkenazic text, MS Oxford, Bodleian Library 1566, fols. 45a-b Eleazar of Worms, Hokhmat ha-Nefesh, 13b-c Moses de Leon, Shushan ‘Edut, pp. 363-364 Simhah Bunem of Przysucha (1765-1827), Qol Simhah to Gen. 1-26 […]

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Tradition reported in the name of three figures, Judah he-Hasid, Joel he-Hasid, and Qalonymous he-Hasid:Merkavah Shelemah, 30a; cf. ‘Arugat ha-Bosem, 4:78, n. 41.
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Tradition reported in the name of three figures, Judah he-Hasid, Joel he-Hasid, and Qalonymous he-Hasid:Merkavah Shelemah, 30a; cf. ‘Arugat ha-Bosem, 4:78, n. 41.

Jewish Mysticism “Upon this semblance of a throne, there was the semblance [of a human form]” (Ezek. 1-26). Why are there two images (dimyonot)? This is what is said in the Book of Beliefs regarding the two glories (kevodot) above in heaven, one upon the throne and the other above. This is the explanation of […]

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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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