Index
Adam (First man)
102â04, 259â61
Asceticism
17â19, 198, 207, 143â44, 214â17, 224â26, 227â34, 269â70, 280â81
Aristotelianism
25â26, 131â32, 135â36
Opposition towards
82â83
Ashkenaz
Attitudes towards philosophy and kabbalah
19â22, 24â27, 58, 65â66, 131â32
Attitudes towards Halakhah and Minhag
34â36, 170â71, 175â76, 196â97
Leadership
11
Methodology of study
56â57, 116
Reception of kabbalah
88
Avivi, Joseph
, 5n, 13n, 58n, 60
Azikiri, Eliezer
144, 147, 237
Bar Yohai, Shimon
32, 67â68, 72, 118, 176
Bass, Shabbetai
44, 196
Ben Asher, Jacob
9, 30, 35, 87, 178
Ben Sasson, Hayyim Hillel
167, 273
Biblical characters
259â65
Causality
Kabbalistic
75, 108, 111
Natural
126â27
Christianity
19â20, 21, 27â29, 75, 107, 141, 272, 274
Commandments, Fulfilment of
53â55, 82â84, 100, 429
Metaphysical composition
83â85, 187, 195, 199
Theurgical effects
109â110, 114â15
Cordovero, Moses
13, 18, 24, 35â36, 69â70, 77, 86â94, 98â99, 102â04, 118â19, 129, 215â16, 237
Comparison with Luria
249â50
Creation
81, 98â99, 132â36
Purpose of
103, 136, 259â60
Customs see Minhag
Davis, Joseph
9, 18, 25, 127, 140
De Vidas, Elijah
79, 87, 112, 144- 146, 216, 228, 236â37
Devekut
19â20, 142â44
In the Shelah
146â54
Among the Kabbalists
144â46
Early Modern Period
3, 9â11, 18, 27, 141
Elbaum, Jacob
14â15, 21, 23, 89
Encyclopaedia
16, 34â35, 61, 270
Enthusiasm in service of God
40, 96, 146, 235â38, 240â43, 271, 283
Emotion as a central paradigm
21, 85, 142â43, 213, 235, 237, 239, 244â46, 274, 282
Evil
15, 78, 80, 92â93, 198
Transformation of
15, 97, 103â04, 242, 251â63, 270, 275
Exegesis
39, 59, 71, 116, 148, 164
Falk, Joshua
11, 175, 202
Fasting
177, 191, 206â08
As Tikkun
225, 232â33
Fano, Rama
13, 17, 33, 60, 87â88
Food sanctified
188â89, 193, 199, 215, 223â25, 229, 231, 261
Fram, Edward
140
Frankfurt Am Main
2, 13, 28, 43, 274
Gans, David
28, 273
Garb, Jonathan
15, 75, 250
Gluckel of Hameln
12, 41
God
Kabbalistic notion of
98
Relationship with Man and Torah
99â102
Greek Philosophy
128â29, 222
Habad
248, 251, 281
Halakhah
Overview
29â32
In the Shelah
155â211
Hallamish, Moshe
3, 147
Hasidism
14â15, 274â75, 279â282
Hayes, Christine
135, 162
Hebraism
28, 141
Holiness
183â90, 222â235
Horodezky, S.A
13
Horowitz
Abraham
125, 229, 273
Family biography
9â11
Isaiah biography
3â9
Sheftel
3, 15, 34, 38â40, 42â43, 285
Humra
194
see stringency
Ibn Gabbai, Meir
6, 24, 26, 76â77, 86â90, 93â94, 100, 108, 110, 113, 118, 124, 126, 136, 174, 189, 273
Ibn Pakuda, Bahya
17, 57, 87, 132, 143
Idel, Moshe
22, 23, 95, 116, 122, 136, 248
Isserles, Moses (Rama)
26, 30, 87, 132, 167, 171, 172, 176, 192, 199â201, 208, 279
Jacobs, Louis
235
Jaffe, Mordekhai
11, 25, 183
Joy
6, 7, 40, 44, 82â83, 96, 152, 157, 235â247, 270â71
Kabbalah
Background
22â24
Importance
67â75
Application
75â86, 122â24, 157â61
Karo, Joseph
30, 31, 32, 35, 87, 144, 170â71, 185, 190, 195â196, 203â204, 208
Katz, Alexander
13, 58, 68
Katz, Jacob
31, 166
Kavvanah
53, 63, 112, 114
Kavvanot (mystical intentions)
5, 25, 53, 60, 73, 76, 88, 114, 115, 183, 225, 235
Kelippah (pl. Kelippot)
78, 90, 139, 145, 173, 216
Kellner, Marc
135
Koch, Patrick
16â18, 143
Krassen, Miles
22
Krispel, Dalia
14, 48, 100, 146â147, 150
Landau, Ezekiel
278
Legalism
20, 21, 31, 158, 163, 165, 185
Lublin, Maharam
10
Luria, Isaac
5, 13, 15, 24, 26, 40, 41, 44, 60, 66, 80, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 93, 94â98, 103, 112, 115, 116, 145, 154, 172, 173, 175, 176â177, 178â183, 190, 191, 208, 213, 217, 223, 225, 230, 231, 237, 240, 248â250, 251, 252, 256, 258, 259, 261, 262, 264, 265, 270, 272, 278
Luria, Solomon
132, 173, 174, 176, 199, 200â202
Maimonides, Moses
7, 9, 25, 31, 36, 55, 70, 87, 107, 108, 110, 111, 115, 125, 133, 134, 135, 136, 154, 157, 158, 189, 196, 214â215, 217, 220â223, 225, 229, 231, 236
Maharal of Prague
15, 26, 27, 28, 78, 99, 127, 140, 150, 178, 283
Maharshal see Solomon Luria
Man, Concept of
99â101
Fall of Man
102â104
Materialisation
77
Messiah
7, 69, 72, 97, 102, 248, 250, 258â259, 261â265, 270, 276
Mikveh
191â192, 198, 205, 207
Minhag (customs)
15, 30â33, 42, 60, 86, 87, 94, 97, 119â120, 159, 161, 171, 172, 175â182, 186, 190, 208, 269, 278
Musar
16â18, 20, 35, 46â47, 57, 61, 66â67, 84, 86, 88â89, 143, 154, 205, 235, 248, 250, 254, 259, 264, 269, 270
Mysticism
13â15, 19
Nahmanides
24, 70, 87, 108, 109, 118, 130, 158
Natural Sciences
26, 28, 132â34
Newman, Eugene
13, 16, 58
Organic Universe
75, 81, 83, 84, 115, 139, 161, 227, 233, 239, 243, 253
Orthodoxy
89, 107, 124â127, 129, 131, 133â134, 158, 275â277
Particularism
7, 124â131
Popularisation of Kabbalah
11, 15, 24, 36, 176
Pietism
6, 17, 20â22, 27, 35, 41, 84, 90, 158, 165, 183â194, 205â209, 213â215, 227â228, 233, 234, 250, 254, 269â270, 274â276, 279â283
Philosophical study (inc. Philosophers)
17, 25â28, 69, 93, 99, 115, 116â117, 124, 125â133, 138, 144, 222, 236, 269, 273â274, 279
Prague
10, 11, 15, 27, 37, 40, 78, 162, 271â274
Prayer
36, 88, 110, 111â116, 133, 178, 181, 184, 190, 227, 236â237, 244â245
Providence
27, 68, 69, 101, 107, 108, 110, 128, 279
Purity inc. purification
18, 21, 51, 52, 59, 71, 72, 99, 103, 106, 124, 130, 135â137, 150, 151, 154, 177, 184â193, 208, 213, 219â222, 225, 227, 250, 251, 255, 263, 265, 269, 282
Rabbinic authority
30, 32, 69, 103, 167, 195
Rama
,
see Isserles, Moses
Rashbi
,
see Bar Yohai, Shimon
Rashi
9, 116, 163, 176
Recanati, Menahem
87, 114, 129, 130
Repentance
14â16, 53, 56, 59, 61, 67, 96, 144, 179, 180, 186, 191â192, 205, 207, 208, 232, 250, 252, 255, 272, 293
Ruderman, David
35, 140, 277
Sabbateanism
11, 248, 271, 275â276, 282, 296
Sabbath
42, 53, 54, 60, 139, 191â192
Sack, Bracha
13, 16
Safed
5, 7, 10, 15, 17, 24â28, 65, 72, 94, 111
Scholem, Gershom
9, 14, 19, 22, 64, 65, 248
Sefirot
5, 19, 81, 110, 145
Self-Transformation
97â101
Sephardic Jewry
25, 31, 120, 166, 176, 178
Serpent (Primordial)
197â203
Shekhinah
51, 112, 117, 145, 152, 187, 237, 243, 280
Shelemut
18, 19, 46, 53, 56, 57, 117, 142, 143, 147â149, 187, 191, 207, 222, 243
Shnei Luhot Ha Berit
Composition
42â46
Audience
36â42
Contents
46â57
Sinai, Mount
30, 49, 77, 84, 101, 130, 138, 150, 159â161, 280
Sirkes, Joel
11, 33, 112
Soloveitchik, Haym
168
Stringency
194â211
Tikkun
56, 88, 91, 94, 97, 102, 112, 142, 150, 152, 182, 215, 217, 250, 255, 258â259, 263â265, 276, 278
Torah Study
115â124, 164, 190, 215, 221, 282
Theology
3, 6, 7, 21, 24, 25, 27, 40, 61, 65â67, 86, 96, 123â125, 269, 275â276, 278
âThreefold Cordâ principle
12, 34â57, 208, 246, 248, 258, 260
Tractates in the Shelah
38, 44â45, 49, 53, 60â61, 73
Tsaddik
217
Vital, Hayyim
5, 13, 33, 44, 60, 61, 88, 93, 94, 95, 100, 104, 116, 145, 176, 184, 217, 230, 237, 249
Weinstein, Roni
166
Wine
167â171, 271
Wolfson, Elliot
13, 20, 22, 84, 259, 273
Zoharic authority
167â183