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Seekers of the Face - Melila Hellner-Eshed

Seekers of the Face

Secrets of the Idra Rabba (the Great Assembly) of the Zohar
Buch | Hardcover
480 Seiten
2021 | New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
9781503628427 (ISBN)
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A magisterial, modern reading of the deepest mysteries in the Kabbalistic tradition.

Seekers of the Face opens the profound treasure house at the heart of Judaism's most important mystical work: the Idra Rabba (Great Gathering) of the Zohar. This is the story of the Great Assembly of mystics called to order by the master teacher and hero of the Zohar, Rabbi Shim'on bar Yochai, to align the divine faces and to heal Jewish religion. The Idra Rabba demands a radical expansion of the religious worldview, as it reveals God's faces and bodies in daring, anthropomorphic language.

For the first time, Melila Hellner-Eshed makes this challenging, esoteric masterpiece meaningful for everyday readers. Hellner-Eshed expertly unpacks the Idra Rabba's rich grounding in tradition, its probing of hidden layers of consciousness and the psyche, and its striking, sacred images of the divine face. Leading readers of the Zohar on a transformative adventure in mystical experience, Seekers of the Face allows us to hear anew the Idra Rabba's bold call to heal and align the living faces of God.

Melila Hellner-Eshed has been a Professor of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. She is the author of A River Flows from Eden: The Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar (Stanford, 2009).

Part One, Chapter 1: Introduction to the Idra Rabba
Part One, Chapter 2: The Language of Divine Faces
Part One, Chapter 3: The Gaze
Part One, Chapter 4: Reflections on Ze'eir Anpin
Part One, Chapter 5: Literature, Mysticism, Praxis
Part One, Chapter 6: Overarching Themes in the Idra Rabba
Part One, Chapter 7: What Is the Idra Rabba Trying to Communicate?
Part Two, Chapter 8: Entering the Idra Rabba
Part Two, Chapter 9: The Kings of Edom: The First Appearance
Part Two, Chapter 10: Arikih Anpin: Origins
Part Two, Chapter 11: Arikh Anpin: Features of the Face
Part Two, Chapter 12: Arraying Arikh Anpin's Beard
Part Two, Chapter 13: The Kings of Edom: The Second Appearance
Part Two, Chapter 14: Ze'eir Anpin Comes into Being
Part Two, Chapter 15: Ze'eir Anpin's Head and Its Features
Part Two, Chapter 16: The Tiqqunim of Ze'eir Anpin: The Language of Flowing Bounty
Part Two, Chapter 17: The Ancient of Ancients and Ze'eir Anpin: All Is One
Part Two, Chapter 18: Forming the Male and Female Body
Part Two, Chapter 19: The Kings of Edom: The Third Appearance
Part Two, Chapter 20: Separation and Coupling
Part Two, Chapter 21: Sweetening Judgment
Part Two, Chapter 22: Emerging from the Idra Rabba

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism
Verlagsort Palo Alto
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Judentum
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13 9781503628427 / 9781503628427
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