Index
Aba Ila’ah [Supernal Father]
138, 166, 214, 216
Abjection-and-crystallization
Catharsis and
49
Overview of Kristeva’s portrayal
49–55
Pervasive importance for this book
13, 33, 49–50, 53–55
Abraham
Biblical figure
96, 115, 118
Sefirah of Ḥesed [Lovingkindness], associated with
10, 86, 177, 184, 189
Abrams, Daniel
18, 28n, 29n56, 221n590
Abstraction [Hafshatah], tendency in kabbalah
21, 25, 27
Alliances; Corporealization [Hagshamah]; Tishby, Isaiah
Abulafia, Todros Halevi
19n28, 125n332
Abyss [Tehom]
Ambivalent
14, 256
Catastrophe and redemption
250–270
Constitution into signifiable object
136
Dance of creation
258–259, 268–270
David, King
259–260, 267–268
Demonic, dwelling-place of
60
Dissolution and creation of meaning, forms, and faces, site of
14, 139, 227
Divine and demonic, emergence and return to
226
Dragon, in
254–255
Illumination of
254–255, 258
Lilith
71, 223, 250, 254
Miracles and new creations, source of
1, 250–252
Other Side, associated with
252
Pillars and sapphires
255–256
Renewal of creativity, site of
227
Sama’el
222–223, 250, 254
Satan
264
Sefirot of Ḥokhmah and Binah, as two abysses
225, 259
Serpent
266–268
Shekhinah, associated with
257
Slab, restrained by
227, 259–269
Tehiru, associated with by Nathan of Gaza
251
Temptation for subject
51
Tseror
259–263
Tehom
Ada (biblical figure)
204
Adam
Biblical figure
43n110, 71–72, 85, 96, 118, 123–126, 130, 198–204, 238, 242
Divine persona
123–124, 126, 160, 186–188, 201–203
First and Second Adam (divine personae)
187–188
Mythical persona
125
Adultery
191–2
Sotah ritual
Aggressive Enclothing
,
see Enclothing
Ahasuerus (biblical figure)
248
Aḥer
39, 43, 254
Elisha ben Avuyah
Alien
Demonic realm as
23, 180–1, 226, 233
Element within divine
48
God
36
Lilith (“Alien Woman”)
5, 122, 197, 206–7, 219–220, 222
Other as
2, 5
Alienation
2, 237
Allegories
75n183, 134
Craftsman
157–158
Dunghill
275–281
Mountain-Dweller
32
Sisters
191–192, 232
Alliances
Abstraction and “Primitivism” in modern art
25–27
Abstraction and Corporealization in kabbalah
27
Divine and Demonic
63
Alterity
2–7, 15–17, 35, 37, 44, 49, 53, 68, 121, 125, 152, 175, 224, 256, 274–275, 282–283
Ambivalence
7, 12–13, 188, 285
Abjection-and-crystallization
166
Abyss
14, 260
Colonialism
42
Cordovero
209
Devil
38
Dragons
102
Enclothing
229–230, 238
Freudian
36, 38, 175, 182
Hyperbolic
101–2, 111, 134, 245
Intimacy
46, 193
Job
115–118
Kristeva
49
Modernist
27
Nogah
119–120, 126–129
Origins of demonic
154, 168
Other Side
48, 133, 205, 208, 220, 264n697
Primordial divine
150
Serpent
108–113
Shekhinah
107, 130
Slab, restraining the abyss
267
Splitting
37–44
Splitting and abjection-and-crystallization
37
Subjective and objective
35–36
Suckling
213
Supernal Mother
175, 182
Sustenance
210
Tropes
101
Yitsḥak Ha-Kohen
103
Zoharic mythology
271, 283
Anaphora
12, 75–81, 82–87, 88–90, 92–93, 95–99, 101, 133–134, 184, 273–274
Rhetoric; Schemes; Antithetical Homonyms
Angels
43n109, 71–2, 125–6, 181, 187, 206–7, 220, 238
Angel of Death
86
Jacob’s angel
233n611
Metatron
111
Transmutation between angels and demons
111
Anti-cosmic
“Vector” in kabbalah
109, 145
Anti-dualism
66, 69, 74, 144, 149, 118
Anti-myth
20–21
Antithetical homonyms
40, 44, 53, 65, 69, 76, 79, 85–86, 90, 93, 95–96, 99–100, 132–133, 169, 193, 237, 273–4
Apollinaire, Guillaume
8
Aramaic
2–3, 10–11, 56, 61, 77, 80, 86, 92, 119n314, 122, 150, 157n416, 159, 161n426, 210n560, 222, 261
Language of the “Other Side”
283–284
Arikh Anpin (divine persona)
9, 139
Greater Countenance
Aristotle
46–47
Armilus
247
Ashkenazi, Shim’on
87n215
Ashkenazi, Yosef ben Shalom
87, 169n450
Ashmedai (demonic persona)
11
Assemblies (Zoharic treatises)
9, 56, 158
Idrot; Idra Raba; Idra Zuta
Greater Assembly
159
Lesser Assembly
156
Atara
,
see Diadem
Atik [Ancient One] (divine persona)
188n489
Atika Kadisha [Holy Ancient One] (divine persona)
9, 139, 151, 158, 280
Authorship and editorship, Zoharic
29, 32–33, 67, 72, 74, 89, 95, 125, 179, 188
Avant-garde
3, 26, 54–55, 140
Avraham bar Ḥiya
252n662
Azriel of Gerona
109
Bahir, Sefer Ha-
3, 39, 149, 161–162
Balaam
44, 81–83, 117, 206, 220
Basilides
140
Benarroch, Jonatan M.
9, 31n67
Berg, Alban
1
Bhabha, Homi
42–43, 62, 85
Biale, David
26
Binah, Sefirah of Understanding
8–10, 60, 68–70, 81, 88–90, 155, 168–169, 175–183, 186, 188, 199–200, 212, 225, 257, 259
Binah-as-Teshuvah Passage
178–182
Ima Ila’ah; Mother, Supernal
Blacksmith
,
see Allegory
Bloom, Harold
13, 56, 138
Bohu [void]
39, 108–9, 161–164, 168, 260
Bondwoman, associated with Lilith
4–5, 35, 42–43, 54, 150, 196–197, 208, 219, 247
Bornstein, Shmu’el
112–113
Botsina de-Kardinuta
,
see Dark Lamp
Bride, divine
9, 89, 104, 115
Bridegroom, divine
9, 89, 104, 115
Brightness
62, 101–102, 118–120, 122–123, 126, 131–132, 135, 150
Nogah
Brooks, Cleanth
31–32
Buzaglo, Shalom
163n433, 166–169
Cain (biblical figure)
71, 186, 189
Cardoso, Miguel
40
Castile
2, 8, 19, 22, 74
Catachresis
75, 139–141, 158–159, 162, 164–165, 168, 172, 193, 210–211, 213, 217, 219, 241–242
Catalonia
2, 22, 74
Catharsis
33–34, 46–49, 52–53, 146–148, 150–154, 164
Chaos
108–109, 165
Circumcision
127–128, 134–135
Clark, Mary T.
10
Clean Body Passage
183–189
Cohen, Hermann
20
Cohen-Alloro, Dorit
45n114, 231n63
Colonialism
17, 42
Companions [Ḥevraya]
2, 4, 15, 23, 196, 279, 283
Concentricity
,
see Models of the Other Side
Cordovero, Moshe
11, 39–41, 43, 93, 104, 107, 122–124, 153, 166–169, 188, 197, 205–209, 219, 225
Corporealization [Hagshamah], as tendency in kabbalah
21, 27
Abstraction [Hafshatah]; Alliances; Tishby, Isaiah
Craftsman
,
see Allegory
Creation, Divine
14, 23–24, 55, 72, 108–109, 125, 145, 148–149, 161–162, 164–166, 183, 199–202, 222–224, 237, 239, 251–252, 254–259, 261, 265–270, 273, 275, 278, 280
Cremona edition of the Zohar
67, 124
Crevice of the Great Abyss [Nukva de-Tehoma Raba]
60, 71, 222, 256, 266–269
Crystallization
,
see Abjection-and-Crystallization
Cultural-Modernism
17, 25–27, 35, 54–5, 140
Cust, Edward
42–43n108
Dada
25
Dance of Creation Passage
258–259
Daniel (biblical figure)
18, 29, 67, 85–87, 89, 124, 172, 237, 285
Dark Lamp [Botsina de-Kardinuta]
148–9, 155–60, 163, 175, 179, 183, 258–9, 268, 272
Darkness
54, 109, 115, 117, 121, 160, 163–166, 168, 184–185, 221, 226, 244, 257–258, 266–267, 273
David, King (biblical figure)
10, 26, 190, 205, 221, 260–261, 266–269
De Man, Paul
139, 213
Demonic
Kelipot [shells, husks], defined
11
Personae, overview
10–11
Sitra Aḥra [Other Side], defined
3
Terminology used in this book, overview
3, 8, 11
Derrida, Jacques
38, 213
Devils
12, 19, 37–39, 51, 58, 70, 86, 105, 160, 171, 228, 237, 264, 273, 281
Lilith; Sama’el; Satan
Diadems [Atara, pl. Itrin]
Sefirot
64
Shekhinah
64–65, 125, 129, 198
Dishonor of divine king
56–57, 196–197
Disintegration
Abyss
257
Demonic
256
Sefirot
244
Subjectivity
50, 57, 248
Supernal Mother
177
Tseror
261–263
Zoharic manuscripts
284
Dissociation
Divine Self
171, 174–175
Inassimilable elements of Self
39, 47
Sparks
160
Dissolution
Craftsman, byproducts of
158
Dark Lamp, byproducts of
159
Form
57
Meaning
14, 269, 273
Reified World
265
Self
251, 274, 281
Slab
227
Smoke
171, 173
Tseror
262
Divine
Mo’aḥ, Moḥa [kernel, essence, brain, consciousness], defined
11, 61
Personae, overview of
9
Sefirot, overview of
8–9
Side of Holiness, paired with Other Side
3
Doctrine, Zoharic
13, 30–32, 34, 35, 59, 76, 108, 126, 132, 144, 146–149, 213, 221
Dragons
1, 3, 23–24, 55, 102, 107, 109, 251, 254–256, 264, 266–267, 273
Serpents, Taninim
Dualism
36–38, 45, 58–63, 66–67, 71, 74, 101, 118, 144–153, 250
Duality
144–148, 151–152
Dunghill
,
see Allegory
Earth, associated with the Shekhinah
155, 160–162, 164–166, 182, 222, 260, 273, 279, 283
Eden
39, 72, 155–156, 205, 215, 243
Edom
159, 243, 278–280, 282
Eibeschütz, Jonathan
282
Elef
,
see Thousand
Elijah (biblical figure)
161, 163, 167–168
Elisha ben Avuyah
96
Aḥer
Elkayam, Avraham
107, 145, 248
Elyashiv, Shlomo
110, 113, 240, 243, 245
Emissions
Abject
173, 193, 200
Adam
130, 198, 200
Binah
177–180, 182, 199
Dark Lamp, produced by
159
Divine
46, 56, 194, 199, 203, 207
Drops
166
Earth, prior to formation of
161
Improper
181
Intimacy, improper
218
Irony
192
Kabbalist, improper
223
Milk
212
Nutritive
220
Refuse
169, 176, 189
Self and Other, prior to formation of
154, 208, 218
Seminal
190–191, 223
Shedim, generation of
202
Smoke
171, 174
Snow-in-Water, issuing from
162–164
Tropes of Limitation
138
Empedocles
36
Enclothing
Aggressive
14, 226, 228–250
Ambivalence
229
Blessed Holy One in Sefirot
64
Divine phallus in turban
129, 198
Lilith and the Shekhinah
230, 242–244, 247–248
Lurianic portrayal
242–244
Messiah in Kelipot
111n292
Post-Zoharic composite
231–239
Sabbateanism
244–246
Sefirot, unfolding as
68–69
Serpent, lack of
113
Sexual defilement
240–242
Garments; Ethopoeia, Impersonation
Ends [Kets] Passage
85–90, 92n229, 132
Ephemera
56, 136, 138, 158–160
Ernst, Max
140, 194
Eros
9, 29–32, 36, 132, 140
Creation as dance
259, 269–270
David, King
260, 268
Diabolical couples
11, 171
Divine and demonic, between
5, 13, 83, 122, 137, 232, 240
Divine couples
9, 11
Freud
36
Self, completion of
224
Zohar ve-Eros (Liebes)
30–32, 132n350, 140
Esau
Biblical figure
128, 160, 184, 189–191
Demonic persona
105–106, 110n282, 160, 184–185, 189–191, 282
Tanin, as
105, 190–191
Esther (biblical figure)
248
Ethopoeia
228, 230, 232, 236, 238–239, 246, 248
Etiology
6, 14–15, 227–229, 269, 284–285
Eve
Biblical figure
43n110, 71–72, 123–126, 186, 194
Birth of Shedim
130, 198–199
Divine persona
123–126, 186, 189, 194, 201, 203–204
Exile
54, 71, 86, 92–93, 95, 106–107, 233–235, 236, 238, 284
Existentialism
17, 226
Expression, contrasted with rhetorical construction
6, 58, 65, 142, 271
Ezekiel (biblical figure)
62, 102, 119–121, 123, 127, 131, 161, 167, 201–202, 242
Ezra of Gerona
109, 211
Farber-Ginat, Asi
109, 143, 145, 151n405
Fate, of the Other Side
48–49, 92, 181, 191
Father, Supernal
9, 138, 239
Aba Ila’ah
Faubion, James D.
56n144
Filth
67, 146, 162–164, 185–186, 203, 219, 241, 245, 248–249, 252
Fingernail of the Shekhinah Passage
45, 51, 64–66, 73–74, 93, 134
Fishbane, Eitan
30, 103
Foreskin, divine
119, 127–130, 134, 199, 240
Form-making
57
Morpho-poiesis
Foundation
,
see Yesod; Phallus, Divine
Freud, Sigmund
7, 36, 38–39, 46–47, 51, 53, 58, 175, 182, 213
Frontisi-Ducroux, Françoise
10
Garments
68–70, 99, 228–229, 231–232, 234–235, 239–241, 243–245, 247, 248–249
Enclothing
Gestation, of divine Body
186, 188
Gevurah, Sefirah of Might or Judgment
8, 10, 36, 41, 72, 79, 86, 105, 113, 120, 132, 155, 159, 169–174, 177, 179, 183–184, 186, 189, 209, 231–232, 263–264
Gikatilla, Yosef
42, 103, 110, 113, 119
Gnosticism
8, 19, 21–22, 34, 49, 59–60, 74, 134, 141, 143, 147–148, 150, 153, 225
Gold
86, 120, 189–190, 229, 233
Goldman, Emma
269
Goldreich, Amos
26
Goldwater, Robert J.
25
Greater Countenance [Arikh Anpin] (divine persona)
9, 139
Joseph of Hamadan
45–46, 193, 197–198, 203–205, 207–208, 210, 219–221, 224
Ha-Kohen, Yitsḥak
11, 19n28, 103–104, 110–111, 114, 149, 180–182, 184, 200, 233n611
Hamlet
138
Ḥashmal [Amber]
120, 127–131, 135
Nogah
Haskell, Ellen
209–212, 215, 220, 224
Hass, Robert
16
Ḥaver, Yitsḥak Isaac
110, 240, 278
Hekhalot, Zoharic Palaces Treatises
17, 60, 84, 149, 155, 158, 183
Palaces
Hellner-Eshed, Melila
10, 29–31
Ḥesed, Sefirah of Lovingkindness
8–10, 36, 60, 68, 70, 79, 86, 105, 113, 177, 184, 186, 192, 263, 265
Ḥokhmah
Ḥokhmot [Wisdoms], demonic
64–65
Sefirah of Wisdom
8–9, 65n165, 68–69, 155, 169, 174, 186, 225, 259
Shekhinah
64–65
Aba Ila’ah; Father, supernal; Shekhinah
Holy Ancient One (divine persona)
9, 139, 151, 157–158, 280–282
Atik; Atika Kadisha
Homology
,
see Models of the Other Side
Horvitz, Shabetai Sheftel
259
Hosea (biblical figure)
18–20, 85, 96–97, 116
Husks
,
see Demonic
Huss, Boaz
28n55, 29n58, 30n63, 30
Hybrid
Abject
51
Catachresis
213, 233, 238
Divine/demonic
65, 193, 233, 238, 241–242
Hyperbolic Ambivalence
,
see Ambivalence, Hyperbolic
Hypertrophy of Judgment, source of demonic
73, 150, 170–172, 174, 184, 263
Idel, Moshe
19–20, 109, 181–182, 204–205
Idols
36, 52–53, 90, 96, 230, 237–239, 246–247
Jeroboam; Nebuchadnezzar
Idrot, Zoharic Assemblies Treatises
9, 56, 158
Idra Raba [Greater Assembly]
151, 159, 186, 200–2, 224, 278–282
Idra Zuta [Lesser Assembly]
156, 160, 163, 179
Assemblies; Greater Assembly; Lesser Assembly
Ima Ila’ah [Supernal Mother], divine persona
138, 166
Mother, Supernal
Impatient One [Ze’er Anpin] (divine persona)
9, 111, 139
Ze’er Anpin; Lesser Countenance
Impersonation, of divine by demonic
14, 55, 94, 193, 225, 226–233, 235, 237, 239–241, 243, 245, 247, 249, 251, 253, 255, 257, 259, 261, 263, 265, 267, 269, 281, 284
“Incense” Passage
172–175
Incest taboo
216–217
Inchoate
13, 46, 49–53, 55, 136, 138–139, 145, 147, 151, 153–156, 159, 162–164, 168–172, 186, 192–193, 210–211, 223, 241, 257
Indeterminacy
Abyss
256
Aggressive enclothing as explanation of
229
Anaphorically established distinctions
85–97
Cosmos
80
Divine/demonic distinction
6, 14, 38, 40–1, 55, 58, 62
En-Sof
151
Sabbatai Tsevi’s turban
245
Snow-in-Water passage
161, 166, 169
Suckling
217
Tehiru
151
Tropes
101–102, 107–108, 118, 132–134, 274
Zoharic interpretation
74, 273
ineffability
Abjection, contrasted with
281
Demonic obstacles, contrasted with
273
Rhetorical technique, contrasted with
140
Intimacy, divine/demonic
5–6, 13, 19, 36, 44–46, 53, 65, 95, 113, 130, 132, 136–137, 141, 193–196, 200, 207, 209, 213–214, 217, 218–221, 232, 234, 239, 259, 274–275, 280–281
Scandal
Irony
13, 44, 56, 132, 138, 156, 158, 160, 162–166, 170–171, 175–176, 182, 192, 194, 199, 218, 279, 283
Isaac
Biblical figure
189
Sefirah of Gevurah [Might or Judgment], associated with
10, 132n, 171–172, 177–178, 184, 189
Jacob
Biblical figure
85–90, 105–106, 112, 118, 128, 160, 177, 189–191, 233n611, 248, 263, 265
Blessed Holy One, associated with
89, 160, 190
Holy serpent, associated with
105–106, 112, 128, 190
Sefirah of Tif’eret [Beauty], associated with
10, 177, 190n503
Jastrow, Marcus
261n688
Jazz
29
Jeroboam (biblical figure)
246–247
Jerusalem
City
119n315
Shekhinah, associated with
197, 242–243, 255
Jethro (biblical figure)
117
Joseph
Biblical figure
285
Sefirah of Yesod [Foundation], associated with
10
Judgment
,
see Gevurah
Kant, Immanuel
272
Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, Ruth
130n346, 204n545, 209
Keesey, Donald
47n122
Kelipah, Kelipot
,
see Demonic
Kets
,
see End
Kinship
Abyss and form
269–270
Abyss and slab
269
Divine and demonic
136, 159, 249, 273
Nogah and mo’aḥ
131
Self and Other
14, 51, 136, 273–275
Kingdom
,
see Malkhut; Shekhinah
Kings of Edom Passage
278–281
Klein, Melanie
38n85
Kofman, Sarah
38n85
Kristeva, Julia
7, 13–14, 33, 35, 37, 45, 49–55, 128, 136–137, 143, 147, 152, 187, 195, 200–201, 211, 216, 218, 227, 253, 262
Lemekh (biblical figure)
204
Lausberg, Heinrich
230n602
Lautréamont, Comte de
140n362
Lavi, Shimon ibn
166, 168–169, 284–285
Lazier, Benjamin
25n47
Leah
Biblical figure
248
Sefirah of Binah, associated with
10
León, Moshe de
28, 85, 89–90, 94–96, 100, 108, 120, 123, 151
Lesser Countenance [Ze’er Anpin] (divine persona)
9, 111, 139, 167n441, 186, 201
Letters and Names Passage
81–83, 88, 99
Leviathan
23–24, 102
Taninim, Serpents, Dragons
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
29, 38
Lévy-Valensi, Eliane Amado
30n63
Liebes, Yehudah
Adam, Primordial
188n489
Aramaic as language of demonic
283n
Authorship of Zohar
18n26
Body of Sefirot
200
Botsina de-Kardinuta [Dark Lamp]
148n390
Circle of the Zohar
28
Demonic and early kabbalah
22
Eros and Zoharic writing
140
Irony and demonic
132
Kings of Edom
282
Mishḥata
187n487
Moshe of Burgos and Joseph of Hamadan
197, 198n524
Myth in Judaism
20
Proto-Sefirot and Demonic
150nn400, 402, 152
Sabbateanism
107n270, 145n376
Serpent in Sifra di-Tsni’uta
108–109
Taninim [Dragons] in kabbalistic myth
103n252, 104n258, 110–112
Zohar as literature
30–32, 72
Lilith
3, 5, 10–11, 13, 19, 40, 62, 64, 67, 69–74, 76, 88, 90, 104–105, 107, 123, 126, 129–130, 139, 170, 182, 191, 196–199, 202–204, 207–209, 219, 222–223, 232, 242–245, 247–249, 282
Literariness of Zoharic writing
3, 16, 21–22, 27, 30–34, 49, 59, 63–66, 74, 76, 118, 133, 135, 141–144, 154, 220, 272
Livyatan
,
see Leviathan
Lurianic kabbalah
10, 56, 61, 110–111, 119, 123–124, 129, 143–149, 151, 154, 166–167, 188, 195, 197, 208, 229–230, 239–243, 247–248, 251, 259, 278–279, 282
Luzzatto, Moshe Ḥayim
105, 110–111, 153, 246–250
Magid, Shaul
6, 112–113
Maimonides
163, 272
Malkhut, Sefirah of Royalty
8–10, 60, 64, 73, 81, 88–90, 98, 104, 123–125, 155, 161, 188, 212, 230, 242, 248, 282
Shekhinah; Matronita
Mallarmé, Stéphane
8
Mantua edition of the Zohar
67, 124, 163
Margoliot, Re’uven
17, 188n489
Maternal
50, 107, 142, 175, 177, 210–218, 220
Matronita [Queen]
4, 186, 196–197, 201–203, 205–206, 208, 220, 224
Malkhut; Shekhinah
Matt, Daniel C.
10, 67, 98, 106, 108, 115, 122, 124, 155–156, 169, 171–172, 175, 179, 190, 266–267, 285
Meat and milk, prohibition of
214–216
Menstruation
218–219
Meroz, Ronit
29–30
Metalepsis
75
Metaphor
24, 61, 57, 75, 139, 164–165, 211–212, 216
Metastasis
70, 73–74, 86, 120, 172–173, 232
Metatron
111
Metonymy
75, 171
Middleton, J.C.
25
Mimicry
42–43, 55
Mistress of the blessed Holy One
42–43, 54, 107, 150, 196–197
Lilith
Mo’aḥ, Moḥa
,
see Divine
Models of the Other Side, Tishby’s
Concentricity of divine and demonic, defined
61
Critique of Tishby’s models
63–75
Geography, structure, and essence, overview
59–63
Homology of divine and demonic, defined
60
Modernism, Cultural
,
see Cultural-Modernism
Monism
147–148, 152–153
Monsters
46, 52, 70–71, 102, 107, 139–140, 160, 193, 200, 211, 213, 215, 217, 219, 228, 230, 232, 236, 238–239, 241–242, 245, 270, 278
Mopsik, Charles
34n76, 83, 94–95, 109n277, 126n336, 198n524
Morpho-poiesis
56, 138, 140, 163–165, 167, 174, 182
Form-making
Moses
Biblical figure
246
Holy Serpent, associated with
110–111
Sefirot of Tif’eret and Netsaḥ, associated with
10
Moshe of Burgos
19, 22, 41, 45, 85, 106, 112, 125, 129–130, 160, 191, 197–200, 202–203, 205, 226, 233, 245
Mother, Supernal
3, 9, 81, 138, 175, 177–178, 186, 188, 212
Ima Ila’ah
Moths
284–286
Myth, Zoharic literature on divine and demonic as
1–7
Naḥmanides
106n265, 163n433, 251n658
Nathan of Gaza
1, 107, 143, 145–146, 244–245, 250–255, 257, 259, 264, 267
Nebuchadnezzar (biblical figure)
237, 246
Neoplatonism
49, 59–60, 74, 84, 134, 147–148, 153, 209, 252
Noah (biblical figure)
96, 118
Nogah [Brightness]
62–63, 101–103, 118–120, 122–123, 126–132, 134–135, 192, 232
Ḥashmal
Nurturance, of demonic by divine
6, 13, 15, 45–46, 49, 55, 137, 141, 210–213, 215, 217, 219–220, 224, 281
Oaths
261–262
Ontology and Rhetoric, central analytical axes of the book, overview
6
Allegory, Mountain-dweller; Anaphora; Catachresis; Demonic; Divine; Ethopoeia; Irony; Models of the Other Side; Parallelism; Personae; Prosopopeia; Sefirot; Solomon; Tropes
Orifices, divine
45, 205–207
Origins
Abyss and slab
269
Adversaries
249
Ambivalences
154–182, 199, 209, 220
Demonic
42n108, 141, 143–144, 152, 167, 200, 209, 219
Divine and demonic, common
13, 44, 53, 55, 156, 168, 220, 228
Dualism
147
Esau
189
Evil
149
God and the Devil, common
38
Self and Other, common
14–15, 38, 53, 134
Shedim
130
Slime
167
Subject and abject, common
50–51
Pachter, Mordechai
61
Palaces
Binah, as palace
68, 84–85, 149, 158, 276–277, 280
Divine and demonic
39
First palace as divine/demonic threshold
17–22, 85n212
Palace on the dunghill
,
see Dunghill Allegory
Zoharic treatises
17, 149, 158n419,
Hekhalot
Parallelism, rhetorical
3, 12–13, 37, 40, 43–44, 57–58, 60, 65–66, 76–77, 79, 81–86, 88–89, 92–93, 95, 97, 99–101, 103, 107, 134, 184, 207, 209, 264
Anaphora; Antithetical Homonyms; Splitting
Paraphrase
Heresy of (Brooks)
31, 34, 90
Zoharic writing’s defiance of
3, 31–32, 34, 66, 80, 90, 144
Parker, Patricia
165
Parmenides
16
Parody, of divine by demonic
42–43
Partsuf [persona, face]
10, 56, 146, 151, 230, 247
Personae
Paskow, Alan
47
Patient One (divine persona)
9, 139
Arikh Anpin; Greater Countenance
Persona, personae
Choice of term for Zoharic divine and demonic beings
9–10
Overview of Zoharic divine and demonic personae
9
Phallus, divine
45, 110, 124, 126–129, 134, 194, 196, 198, 202, 205–207, 212, 219–220, 240
Yesod
Pharaoh (biblical figure)
111, 114, 117, 285
Phenomenal incoherence
31–32, 45, 64–66 64–66, 134, 137, 139–140, 156, 158, 162–164, 192, 241, 273
Philo
140
Picasso, Pablo
25, 269
Pillars Passage
255–256
Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer
24, 162–163, 165, 253–254, 261
Plato
46–47, 141
Platonism
21–22, 84
Poetic
Justice
236
Translation
225n599
Zoharic writing as
1–15, 22, 66, 70, 78–80, 125, 133, 171, 272, 283
Poetry
Impossibility of paraphrase
31, 66
Justice
236
Polysemousness
76
Tikkun of the divine personae as
56–57
Zoharic mythology as
1–4, 6, 8, 10, 15, 22, 70, 114, 125, 133, 225, 283
Zoharic writing as
70, 78–80, 171, 272
Pottery
,
see Slab; Tseror
Preminger, Alex
139
Primitivism
25–27
Pritzker Edition of the Zohar
67n167
privation, evil as
209
Procreation
183–189, 265
Proliferation
Anaphora
78–79
Antithetical homonyms
85
Discourse and ritual concerned with demonic
54
Doubles
38
Lights in the abyss
258
Portrayals of abjection
55, 143, 154
Zoharic images
3, 271
Zoharic textuality
3, 27–28, 30, 32, 34, 57, 65, 274
Prosopopeia
44, 56, 70–71, 123, 138–140, 151, 158, 160, 167, 170–172, 174, 182, 192–193, 218, 230, 232
Rhetoric; Tropes of Transition
Prospero
54
Proto-demonic
144, 146, 172, 252
Proto-divine
11, 46, 66, 136–137, 139, 143–145, 147, 149, 151, 258
Proto-duality
146–147, 152
Proto-Sefirot
150
Proto-subject
50, 52
Provence
2–3
Psychoanalysis
7, 12, 17, 33, 36–38, 42, 49, 188, 213–214, 216–217
Psychoanalytic portrayals of subjectivity and Zoharic portrayals of divine and demonic personae
7, 33, 49–55
Psychology
7, 20, 36
Psychological reductionism
37–39, 58–59
Queen
3–5, 196, 224
Matronita, Shekhinah
Quintilian
75, 139–140
Rachel
Biblical figure
248
Shekhinah, associated with
10
Ramban
109
Naḥmanides
Rapoport-Albert, Ada
61
Rashi
189, 223, 242, 284
Redemption
Abyss
269
Broken World
14–15
Convergence with horror
225, 249–250
Cosmic
146, 221, 271, 274, 286
Divine desire for demonic
221, 224
Divine/demonic admixtures
193
Enemy transformed into lover
233n611
Impersonation
226–229
Irony and
138
Nogah
127
Shekhinah
255
Tropes of hyperbolic ambivalence
134
Reductionism
,
see Psychology
Reification
Demonic
267–269
Divine/demonic doubles
14, 226–228, 250–251, 265, 268–269
Sefirot
8
Relationality
Kelipah or mo’aḥ, identity as
67–68, 70
Male/female
157, 212, 224
Renaissance
26
Repentance
,
see Teshuvah
Repression
Demonic
4
Devil as product of
38, 51
Freudian catharsis and
47
Incest
216
Myth
20
Other
2
Primary
152
Primordial divine
282
Reptiles
102–114
Dragons; Serpents
Reunification
9, 14, 193, 221, 226, 274
Revision, textual
28–29, 274
Rhetoric
,
Anaphora; Catachresis; Ethopoeia; Irony; Ontology and Rhetoric; Parallelism; Prosopopeia; Tropes
Rhetorical construction, contrasted with expression
6, 58, 65, 142, 271
Rhythm, Poetic
3, 68–70, 79–80, 83, 90, 121, 134, 268
Poetic; Poetry; Anaphora
Ricoeur, Paul
36
Rieff, Philip
47
River Passage
175–182
Rizzuto, Ana Maria
38
Routinization, of divine/demonic intimacy
193, 203, 207–208, 221
Rubin, Tsviyah
107, 112
Runia, David T.
140
Sabbateanism
1, 17n24, 19, 35, 40, 105, 107, 110–112, 143, 145, 239, 244–246, 248, 251, 253, 256, 282
Sama’el
10, 13, 40, 62, 86, 104–105, 107, 115, 139, 160, 170, 172, 182, 184, 190–191, 198, 215, 222–223, 225, 233, 236, 241, 250, 254–255, 264, 267, 282
Sapphires
8–9, 255–256, 263
Satan
110, 114–115, 264, 266–267
Scandal
Divine/demonic intimacy
34, 45, 65, 125, 137, 200, 203, 208, 210, 219, 221, 274
Theological
4, 6, 45–46, 48, 66, 125, 128, 142, 144, 176, 208, 214, 237, 280
Schemes, rhetorical
58, 75–80, 83–84, 96–97, 100–102, 118, 133–134, 184–185, 271, 273–274, 283
Rhetoric; Anaphora
Scholem, Gershom
Authorship of Zohar
28
Castilian Gnostics
8, 19n28
Catharsis
33, 46
Demonic interests
17n24, 19, 22, 27, 54
Doctrinal focus
30–31
Dragons in Nathan of Gaza
107–108
Fate of the Other Side
48, 153n409
Modernism
17, 24–26, 35, 54
Mystical symbol
140
Myth
19–21, 34n76
Psychoanalysis
7
Scholem tradition
19, 21, 27–28, 31, 34–35, 46, 59, 97, 141
Tehom
259n680
Tensions within kabbalah
21–22, 141, 147
Schopenhauer, Arthur
53
Seduction
3, 34, 55, 69, 75, 83–84, 90, 95–96, 100–101, 118, 120–129, 134–135, 184n, 198–200, 202, 220, 222, 232, 281
Seeman, Don
6
Sefirah, Sefirot
overview
8–9
Sefirotic interpretation
8–9
Semantic meaning
Defiance of
49, 71, 176
Polyvalence
56n146, 149n392, 150, 151, 157n416, 161n426, 217, 261n688
Subordination to constructional scheme
58, 75–76, 79, 83, 100, 112, 185
Serpent
3, 24, 83–84, 86, 102–108, 110–114, 122–123, 128, 145, 170, 172, 194, 201, 214–215, 219, 266–268
Dragons; Leviathan; Taninim
Shapira, Kalonimus Kalmish of Piasetzna
113–114, 128
Shedim [demonic spirits]
11, 17, 19, 105, 130, 198–202, 207, 232, 253, 284–285
Shekhinah (divine persona)
9
Abyss
257
Ambivalence
107, 194
Biblical heroines, associated with
10
Bondwoman, domination by
107n267
Breasts
212
Capture by the demonic
92, 115, 195, 209n558, 232, 241
Consort of the blessed Holy One
10–11, 104, 139, 194, 201, 203, 206, 208
Covenant
124n327
Daughter
81
Demonic, toehold of
93
Disruption of union with divine male
127
Earth
161
Enclothing by the demonic
232–235
Eve
186
Field
76
Fingernail of Shekhinah Passage
45, 64–66
Garment of Supernal Mother
239
Garden
177
Ḥashmal
130
Heaven
98n245
Jacob, association with
106n266
Jacob, departure from
87, 90
Jerusalem
255
Lilith
divine counterpart of
88
initial state of
282
sister of
191–192
struggle with
242–249
substitution by
209, 219
transformation into
130, 203
Lower Ḥokhmah [Wisdom]
64
Menstruation
218–219
Mercy and Judgment
73
Moon
83
Mother of demonic
142, 214–217
Nogah
Association with
120n317
Seduction by
124, 128
Proximity to the Other Side
60, 134
Sabbath
99n248
Serpent
Divided
106
Seduction by
84, 123
Sexual abstinence as catastrophe
204
Sin
125
Solomon
94–95
Temple
127
“These”
40
Tree of Knowledge
94
Shells
,
see Demonic
Siblings
183, 189–192
Simulacra
53, 226–228
Sisters
189–192, 226, 232, 248
Slabs, restraining the abyss
227, 259–261, 263–264, 269
Slime
45, 51–52, 64–67, 73–74, 93, 134, 161–169, 182, 194–195, 201, 230, 273
Zohama
Snow-in-Water Passage
161–169
Solomon
Human and divine figure
34n75, 90–97, 233
Quest to unify divine and demonic
94–97, 118
Sefirah of Binah, associated with
10
Sons
87–90, 178, 186, 199
Sotah ordeal
191–192
Sparshott, Francis
47
Splitting
7, 12–13, 37–44, 58–135
Intimacy, compared with
46
Abjection-and-Crystallization; Ontology and Rhetoric; Psychoanalysis; Parallelism, rhetorical
Stoyanov, Yuri
144, 150
Structuralism
17, 29, 221
Suckling
5, 13, 178, 194, 197, 199–200, 205–207, 210–220, 232, 240
Supernal Father
,
see Aba Ila’ah; Father, Supernal
Supernal Mother
,
see Ima Ila’ah; Mother, Supernal
Surrealism
140
Sustenance
44–45, 99, 136–137, 207–211, 213, 215, 220, 228, 271
Synecdoche
75
Syntax, defiance of
3, 57, 123, 125, 162
Tabul, Joseph ibn
107, 112, 147
Tamisari, Franca
56n145, 138n356
Taninim
1, 102, 104–107, 109–110, 112, 190–191, 250–252, 254, 257, 264, 266–267
Dragons; Leviathan; Serpents
Tehiru
150–151, 169, 250–252, 258–259, 263
Tehom [Abyss]
14, 60, 226, 250–251, 254–255, 259, 266
Abyss
Tertullian
10
Teshuvah [Repentance], associated with Sefirah of Binah
178–182
Theoclasty
83
Theology
,
see Scandal
Theurgy
83–84, 109, 116, 145, 148, 152, 173–174, 181, 192, 195, 212, 214, 221, 230, 238, 240, 254
Demonic
83, 220, 222–223, 234, 236, 239, 242
“Thousand” Passage
85, 90–97
Tikun
1, 56, 96–97, 146–147, 151, 153, 157–158, 178–179, 189, 201–203, 212, 224, 254, 278, 280–282
Tillich, Paul
25–26
Tishby, Isaiah
Aggressive Enclothing
242
Catharsis
33, 46, 48, 152
Conflict between theology and mythology
20–21, 27
Divine sin debate
125n331
Doctrinal focus
30
First and Second Adam
187
Holy understood from unholy
112n300
Mitigation of dualism
45–46, 67
Models of the Other Side
59–63, 65–66, 69, 71, 73, 97, 101, 122, 128, 133
Origin of Other Side
141, 143–150, 152, 154–155, 159
Sabbateanism
107n270
Zoharic texts as sites of conflict
32, 64
Tohu
39, 108–109, 161–169, 182, 195, 251, 276
Transgressive Divine/Demonic Relations
5, 7, 33, 137, 176, 215–216, 224, 241, 274, 276
Trinity
10
Tropes
58, 72, 100–101, 230, 271
Ambivalence
101
Doubled, divided, indeterminate, hyperbolically ambivalent
101–102, 133, 274
Hyperbolically ambivalent
114
Indeterminacy of dragons
107
Limitation, tropes of
13, 37, 55–57, 138, 141, 164, 170, 182, 274
Misprision, potential for
118
Monstrous
140
Polysemousness
76
Representation, tropes of
13, 37, 55–57, 138, 141, 163, 164, 182, 274
Sabbatean
245
Schemes, compared with
75n183, 134
Transition, tropes of
13, 37, 55–57, 137, 139–140, 164
Catachresis; Ethopoeia; Irony; Morpho-poiesis; Prosopopeia
Tseror
261–264, 269
Tsilah (biblical figure)
204
Tsimtsum [contraction]
146, 251, 278
Turban
Covering divine phallus
129–130, 198–199, 202
Turkish
244–245
Turco, Lewis
75
Twins
Abyss/Tehiru
263
Divine/demonic
41, 85, 106, 112–114, 160, 189–192, 203, 228, 233, 274, 282
Esther and the demoness
248
Improper
189, 228
Jacob and Esau
105–106, 160, 191n503
Tyre
242–243
Uncanny
38, 53
Unspeakability
140, 210–211, 219, 281
Urtubey, Luisa de
39n89
Vav (Hebrew letter)
Blessed Holy One, associated with
9
Hyperbolic ambivalence, image of
132, 184
Vickers, Brian
76n185
Vilna Gaon (Elijah ben Solomon Zalman)
107n269, 110, 278n710
Vital, Ḥayim
104n257, 107n269, 110n281, 111–112, 124n326, 146n379, 147n381, 188n489, 225, 242–243
Wasserstrom, Steven M.
7n10
Whittaker, John
140n361
Williams, Michael A.
19n28
Wirzubski, Ḥayim
143n370
Wisdom
,
see Ḥokhmah
Wissenschaft des Judentums
26
Wives
94–96, 203–204, 208
Wolfson, Elliot R.
94n232, 115n308
Alterity in kabbalah
5n5&8, 17
Aramaic as language of the demonic
283n722
Catharsis and emanation
154n410
Consciousness and mo’aḥ
61n160
Descent to the Dark Side
221n589
Esau and Jacob
160, 282
Feminist critique
209
Gender in Zoharic writing
212, 215
Integration of good and evil
117n312
Literary dimension of Zoharic writing
30
Personae in kabbalistic myth
9
Publication of the Zohar
3n4
Sabbateanism
107n270, 244n640
Suckling
212–213, 215, 220
Zoharic kabbalah
29
Wolski, Nathan
30
Wrath, divine
136, 169–174, 176, 186, 237
Yenikah
,
see Suckling
Yesod, Sefirah of Foundation
8–10, 104, 110–111, 124, 129–130, 155, 196, 198–200, 205–209, 219–220
Phallus, Divine
Yetsirah, Sefer
39, 108, 169
Yitsḥak Ha-Kohen
,
see Ha-Kohen, Yitsḥak
Zohama
45, 52, 162–163, 190, 194–195, 219
Slime