Moshe Idel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 289754 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Moshe Idel |
| PRENOMES | Moshe |
| SOBRENOME | Idel |
| ASSINATURA | IDEL M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Abraham Abulafia and the Emergence of Christian Kabbalah
The present study asserts the special importance of Italian Kabbalah in the emergence of Christian Kabbalah. With a more open approach than others, relating to his definition of Judaism as being in recognition of the divine name, Abraham Abulafia’s prophetic Kabbalah was quite different both from other forms of Kabbalah and from traditional understandings of Judaism, and thus opened the way for an appropriation of his ideas through the Sicilian a…
Abraham Abulafia on the Messiah and the Pope
The biblical episode of the encounter between Moses and the Pharaoh turned out to be a matrix of speculations in Judaism about the messianic drama. Nahmanides contributed to it in his dispute with Paulus Christianus by assuming that the Messiah will go to the Pope as part of the messianic scenario. Some few decades later, the Kabbalist Abraham Abulafia (1240-c.1292) reports about his intention to meet the Pope in 1280. Scholars differed as to wha…
Sefer Razi’el ha-Mal’akh – A Conduit of Medieval Ashkenazi Culture
This essay examines Sefer Razi’el ha-Mal’akh, a complex work reflecting diverse textual sources and literary layers, as a crucial channel for transmitting early esoteric traditions in Ashkenazi religious culture. It emphasizes the »nominal register« related to the exegesis and uses of divine names as a key part of the Ashkenazi esoteric tradition. The popularity of Sefer Razi’el ha-Mal’akh in Ashkenaz, especially during the Hasidic renaissance, h…
On Equality and Irreducibility of Female to Male in Safedian Forms of Kabbalah
In kabbalistic writings equality between the male and female divine entities recurs in dozens of instances and this is also the case in Safedian forms of Kabbalah. However, there is an additional theme to equality, that is shared by the two main and extensive literary corpora, that of Moses Cordovero and the much later texts of his former disciple, that of R. Hayyim Vital: the irreducibility of the female principle to the male one during the sexu…
Magus
On Neglected Hebrew Versions of Myths of the Two Fallen Angels
The present study presents and discusses two Hebrew versions of the myth of fallen angels previously unknown to modern scholarship. Their protagonists are Shemhaza’el and ‘Azza, and the mythical drama whose actors they are takes place at the beginning of the process of creation. Those versions are preserved in two late thirteenth-century books, one written in Northern France and the other in Catalunia. Those versions are quoted as ’Aggadah and, r…
Prisca Theologia and Retrograde Phenomenology at Eranos
The article proposes a re-evaluation of the Eranos meetings by analyzing its underlying aspects as a «laboratory of spiritual scholarship». To this aim, the first half of the article highlights R. Otto’s approach to religious experience as a source of inspiration for the Eranos project, as the mentor of Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, and it advances three key terms to understand the atemporal character of the lectures held at Ascona and their connections to…
The Privileged Divine Feminine in Kabbalah
This volume addresses the complex topic of the preeminent status of the divine feminine power, to be referred also as Female, within the theosophical structures of many important Kabbalists, Sabbatean believers, and Hasidic masters. This privileged status is part of a much broader vision of the Female as stemming from a very high root within the divine world, then She was emanated and constitutes the tenth, lower divine power, and even in this lo…
The Privileged Status of the Divine Feminine in Theosophical-theurgical Kabbalah
Absorbing Perfections
In this wide-ranging discussion of Kabbalah—from the mystical trends of medieval Judaism to modern Hasidism—one of the world’s foremost scholars considers different visions of the nature of the sacred text and of the methods to interpret it. Moshe Idel takes as a starting point the fact that the postbiblical Jewish world lost its geographical center with the destruction of the temple and so was left with a textual center, the Holy Book. Idel argu…
The Mud and the Water
The present study surveys a series of kabbalistic antecedents of a simile for the presence of the roots of evil in the pre-emanationalist stage, as formulated in Lurianic Kabbalah. What has been conceived by scholars as a cathartic explanation characteristic of Lurianism, and even an esoteric aspect of this Kabbalah, turns to be quite an exoteric teaching shared by several kabbalists since the 13th century
Kabbalah
"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: that of the human brain. In lieu of the theological, sociological, and psychoanalytic approaches that have generally dominated the study of ecstatic mystical experiences, the authors endea…
The External and Internal Worlds
Transfers of Categories
A Controversy over a Preface
From the point of view of the status of the Jews, the period between the two World Wars in Romania can be divided into two equal parts: The first saw a relative openness toward the participation of Jews in economic and cultural activity; the second witnessed a stark decline of this participation, culminating in the Holocaust. Without anticipating the worst that was going to come, those who participated in the cultural effervescence of the interwa…
Crafting a Golem
On Jerusalem as a Feminine and Sexual Hypostasis
The Tsadik and His Soul's Sparks
The present study shows the continuity between the Safedian Kabbalistic view of the relations between the sparks of a certain soul, and the Hasidic theory, that was conceived of as innovated by and characteristic of 18th century Hasidism, as to the responsibility of the Tsadik for the sparks that belongs to his soul. In the two literatures, the rescue of a spark of one's soul is related to the beautiful captive woman that is conceived of as an ex…
The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia
On Kabbalah in R. Judah Moscato’s Qol Yehudah
Unlike the famous sermons of Judah Moscato, which attracted the attention of scholars because of the rhetorical skills of the homilist, the later book of the Mantovan author, Qol Yehudah , remained on the margins of scholarship until recently. R. Judah Moscato's Qol Yehudah is the first commentary on R. Judah Halevi's Kuzari in which significant Kabbalistic elements have been adduced. The author's claim is that some treatises that adopt a more ph…
Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah
Messianic Scholars
Journal Article Messianic Scholars: On Early Israeli Scholarship, Politics and Messianism Get access Moshe Idel Moshe Idel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 32, Issue 1, February 2012, Pages 22–53, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjr030 Published: 22 February 2012
Revelation And The ‘Crisis Of Tradition’ In Kabbalah
This chapter describes two major approaches: the traditionalist one, gravitating around Nahmanidess approach, and the revelatory one, first connected to the ecstatic Kabbalah of Abraham Abulafia, to the Zoharic literature, and to the literature known as Sefer ha-Meshiv. It discusses the issues related to some of the views articulated in the powerful Safedian Kabbalistic centre during the mid-16th century regarding the emergence and transmission o…
Multiple Forms of Redemption in Kabbalah and Hasidism
The present study maps the main forms of messianic views, what I call the constellation of the messianic ideas, found in early Kabbalah, their sources in philosophy and astrology, and their impact on Safedian Kabbalah and on early Hasidism in Eastern Europe. The leading hypothesis is that already in Kabbalah, under the impact of philosophical sources, it is possible to discern conspicuous instances of individual redemption, as well as more comple…
On Solomon Schechter in the Pages of JQR
One of the earliest and most frequent contributors to the Jewish Quarterly Review was Solomon Schechter, who began his professional career as a lecturer of rabbinics at the Cambridge University in England and at University College in London. I wonder if there is another author since who has published as much in this journal. His contributions amount to at least thirty-two article-length studies and shorter pieces. His association with JQR started…
Kabbalah and elites in Thirteenth‐century Spain
(1994). Kabbalah and elites in Thirteenth‐century Spain. Mediterranean Historical Review: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 5-19
Messianic Scholars
Journal Article Messianic Scholars: On Early Israeli Scholarship, Politics and Messianism Get access Moshe Idel Moshe Idel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 32, Issue 1, February 2012, Pages 22–53, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjr030 Published: 22 February 2012
The Tsadik and His Soul's Sparks
The present study shows the continuity between the Safedian Kabbalistic view of the relations between the sparks of a certain soul, and the Hasidic theory, that was conceived of as innovated by and characteristic of 18th century Hasidism, as to the responsibility of the Tsadik for the sparks that belongs to his soul. In the two literatures, the rescue of a spark of one's soul is related to the beautiful captive woman that is conceived of as an ex…
Abraham J. Heschel on Mysticism and Hasidism
Journal Article Abraham J. Heschel on Mysticism and Hasidism Get access Moshe Idel Moshe Idel Hebrew University of Jerusalem [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 29, Issue 1, February 2009, Pages 80–105, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjn028 Published: 25 March 2009
Multiple Forms of Redemption in Kabbalah and Hasidism
The present study maps the main forms of messianic views, what I call the constellation of the messianic ideas, found in early Kabbalah, their sources in philosophy and astrology, and their impact on Safedian Kabbalah and on early Hasidism in Eastern Europe. The leading hypothesis is that already in Kabbalah, under the impact of philosophical sources, it is possible to discern conspicuous instances of individual redemption, as well as more comple…
Rabbinism Versus Kabbalism
Journal Article RABBINISM VERSUS KABBALISM: ON G. SCHOLEM'S PHENOMENOLOGY OF JUDAISM* Get access Moshe Idel Moshe Idel HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 11, Issue 3, October 1991, Pages 281–296, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/11.3.281 Published: 01 October 1991
A Controversy over a Preface
From the point of view of the status of the Jews, the period between the two World Wars in Romania can be divided into two equal parts: The first saw a relative openness toward the participation of Jews in economic and cultural activity; the second witnessed a stark decline of this participation, culminating in the Holocaust. Without anticipating the worst that was going to come, those who participated in the cultural effervescence of the interwa…
George Steiner
Journal Article George Steiner: A Prophet of Abstraction Get access Moshe Idel Moshe Idel Hebrew University, Jerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 25, Issue 2, May 2005, Pages 109–140, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kji009 Published: 01 May 2005
Some Forlorn Writings of a Forgotten Ashkenazi Prophet
Scholarship of the thirteenth century Hasidei Ashkenaz as represented by the studies of Joseph Dan, has assumed the existence of two main schools (one related to the Kalomynus family, the other named the circle of the Unique Cherub), and a variety of different treatises written by anonymous authors. More recently Yehuda Liebes proposed to identify an additional circle related to an anonymous commentary on the seventy names of Metatron. The presen…
Androgyny and Equality in the Theosophico-Theurgical Kabbalah
Androgyny may have more than one meaning. On the one hand, it may point to the anatomical coexistence of two sorts of sexual organs in an individual body. This is an observable fact and its most well-known expression is found in the famous myth from Plato's Symposium (para.189). Alternatively, in other texts this concept may point to a state understood by some scholars to be an allegory, a form of spiritual perfection. This interpretation is foun…
A la recherche de la langue originelle
Cet article traite de l'émergence de la conception médiévale qui voit dans l'hébreu la langue primordiale et parfaite. Elle vit le jour dans le cadre de la polémique dirigée contre les Musulmans qui proclamaient la supériorité de la langue arabe. Les uns et les autres se référaient à Hérodote qui raconte une expérience menée sur de jeunes enfants pour retrouver la langue originelle. Contrairement à la plupart des kabbalistes, Abulafia ne pensait …
On Talismanic Language in Jewish Mysticism
Linguistic magic can be divided into three major categories: the fiatic, the Orphic and the talismanic. The first category includes the creation of the signified by its signifier, the best example being the creation of the world by divine words. The Orphic category assumes the possibility of enchanting an already existing entity by means of vocal material. Last but not least is the talismanic, based on the drawing of energy by means of language, …
Mystique juive et histoire juive
L'un des événements les plus marquants survenus dans le domaine des études juives au XXesiècle est le changement profond d'attitude envers la nature de la mystique juive et son rôle dans l'histoire juive. Jusque-là, les plus réceptifs à cette forme mystique du judaïsme étaient essentiellement des érudits et non des historiens au sens classique du mot, tels Meier Landauer, Adolphe Frank, Adolf Jellinek au XIXesiècle et plus récemment Martin Buber.…
"Idel, "Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah
On the History of the Interdiction against the Study of Kabbalah before the Age of Forty [לפני גיל אדבעיס לחחולדוח האיסוד ללמוד קבללה]
The paper reviews briefly the relevant views on the age of forty as found in the Talmud and in the Arab tradition, views which are the background of the later development in the Middle Ages. Afterwards the philosophical discussions on the age of forty found in the writings of Moses ibn Ezra, Jehuda ibn Abbas, Shem Tov Falaquera, Levi ben Abraham, Nissim of Marseilles, Prat Maimon and Isaac Aboab are analyzed. The views of authors like Falaquera a…
On the History of the Interdiction against the Study of Kabbalah before the Age of Forty [לפני גיל אדבעיס לחחולדוח האיסוד ללמוד קבללה]
The paper reviews briefly the relevant views on the age of forty as found in the Talmud and in the Arab tradition, views which are the background of the later development in the Middle Ages. Afterwards the philosophical discussions on the age of forty found in the writings of Moses ibn Ezra, Jehuda ibn Abbas, Shem Tov Falaquera, Levi ben Abraham, Nissim of Marseilles, Prat Maimon and Isaac Aboab are analyzed. The views of authors like Falaquera a…
On the History of the Interdiction against the Study of Kabbalah before the Age of Forty
The paper reviews briefly the relevant views on the age of forty as found in the Talmud and in the Arab tradition, views which are the background of the later development in the Middle Ages. Afterwards the philosophical discussions on the age of forty found in the writings of Moses ibn Ezra, Jehuda ibn Abbas, Shem Tov Falaquera, Levi ben Abraham, Nissim of Marseilles, Prat Maimon and Isaac Aboab are analyzed. The views of authors like Falaquera a…
The Occult Philosophy in the Elisabethan Age
The Origin of Alchemy according to Zosimos and a Hebrew Parallel
Idel Moshe. The Origin of Alchemy according to Zosimos and a Hebrew Parallel. In: Revue des études juives, tome 145, n°1-2, janvier-juin 1986. pp. 117-124
Kabbalah
Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia, The
"Swietlicki's "Spanish Christian Cabala
Rabbinism Versus Kabbalism
Journal Article RABBINISM VERSUS KABBALISM: ON G. SCHOLEM'S PHENOMENOLOGY OF JUDAISM* Get access Moshe Idel Moshe Idel HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 11, Issue 3, October 1991, Pages 281–296, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/11.3.281 Published: 01 October 1991
"Idel's "Kabbalah
"Idel's "Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia
Perceptions of Kabbalah in the second half of the 18th century
"Idel, "Language, Torah and Hermeneutics in Abraham Abulafia
"Idel, "Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah
Some Remarks on Ritual and Mysticism in Geronese Kabbalah
Kabbalah and elites in Thirteenth‐century Spain
(1994). Kabbalah and elites in Thirteenth‐century Spain. Mediterranean Historical Review: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 5-19
Jewish mysticidsm in Spain
Mystique juive et histoire juive
L'un des événements les plus marquants survenus dans le domaine des études juives au XXesiècle est le changement profond d'attitude envers la nature de la mystique juive et son rôle dans l'histoire juive. Jusque-là, les plus réceptifs à cette forme mystique du judaïsme étaient essentiellement des érudits et non des historiens au sens classique du mot, tels Meier Landauer, Adolphe Frank, Adolf Jellinek au XIXesiècle et plus récemment Martin Buber.…
Secrecy, Binah and Derishah
"Idel, "Golem
On Talismanic Language in Jewish Mysticism
Linguistic magic can be divided into three major categories: the fiatic, the Orphic and the talismanic. The first category includes the creation of the signified by its signifier, the best example being the creation of the world by divine words. The Orphic category assumes the possibility of enchanting an already existing entity by means of vocal material. Last but not least is the talismanic, based on the drawing of energy by means of language, …
Langue et Kabbale [Présentation]. Le langage mystique
Idel Moshe. Langue et Kabbale [Présentation]. Le langage mystique : de la Cosmogonie à l’épistémologie. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 213, n°4, 1996. Langue et Kabbale. pp. 379-384
A la recherche de la langue originelle
Cet article traite de l'émergence de la conception médiévale qui voit dans l'hébreu la langue primordiale et parfaite. Elle vit le jour dans le cadre de la polémique dirigée contre les Musulmans qui proclamaient la supériorité de la langue arabe. Les uns et les autres se référaient à Hérodote qui raconte une expérience menée sur de jeunes enfants pour retrouver la langue originelle. Contrairement à la plupart des kabbalistes, Abulafia ne pensait …
Gazing at the Head in Ashkenazi Hasidism
Mystical Union in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Represents the only updated book on comparative mysticism, written by some of the most influential scholars of mysticism in the world. -- Incognita
Messianic Mystics
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