Index
Abarbanel (Abravanel), Isaac
16, 348
Abner of Burgos
38
“Abode of the Message”
208
Abraham
311–12
Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham
214, 215, 218, 219
abyss
54–60
Adam
creation of
318, 322n29, 332n67
Fall of
319, 326, 366–67
Israel called
325, 326, 333
Adam Kadmon
61, 104
Adams, John
44
Addison, Avruhm (Howard)
259
Adler, Abraham Jakob
237–38
afterlife
225
Afterman, Adam
40–41
Ages of the World (Schelling)
57–58
aḥdut adam
322
Aish HaTorah
350
Akiba, Rabbi
22
ʿAl ha-Geʾulah ve-ʿal ha-Temurah (Teitelbaum)
282
Alter, Avraham Mordekhai
274
Altmann, Alexander
171–76, 177–78
America
assimilation of Jews in
185–86, 187, 302, 328, 388
change in Schneerson’s discussions of
307–13
exile to
292–93, 296–97
and Jewish identity
387
and Jewish renaissance
300–307
as new center of Hasidism
293–300
popularization of Kabbalah in
346–47
Schneerson’s identification with origin story of
311–12
“America” (Allen Ginsberg)
186
American Conservative Judaism
254–64
American interventionism, Schneerson on
312–13
“American Scholar, The” (Emerson)
66
American scholarship
Judaic text study as model for
25–26
and modern Kabbalah
178
Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC)
138, 142–43, 144n27
animals, forbidden
348, 350–51.
kashrut
Anima Mundi (Schelling)
64
anokhi
279
anthropos
61, 66
Arab-Israeli relations
194–95
Arendt, Hannah
190
Artson, Bradley
260–61
Aryan sources of Kabbalah
76, 77, 83
Ashkenazi Jewry
174
Ashlag, Rabbi Yehuda Halevi
366, 383–84, 387
Ashlagian Kabbalah
382, 383–84, 385–86, 387
Asian religions
influence on Allen Ginsberg
188
Kabbalah’s origins in
76–83
Askanazi, Rabbi Moses
23–24
assault
369
assimilation of Jews
185–86, 187, 302, 328, 388
Attiq
334–36
Auswahl Kabbalistischer Mystik (Jellinek)
97n9
Azriel of Gerona
326
Baal Shem Tov (BeSHT)
275, 288–89, 311
Band, Arnold
12
Bar Jehudah, Rabbi Tobiah
23–24
Bassan, David Abraham
127
Beat generation
188.
Ginsberg, Allen
Beatnik phenomenon
305
Beer, Peter
80
belonging
379, 380–81, 388
Beloved-Despised Tradition: Modern Jewish Identity and Neo-Hasidic Writing at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, A (Ross)
382
Ben-Amotz, Dan
191
Benamozegh, Rabbi Elijah
87–88, 89
Ben Israel, Rabbi Menasseh
13–14
Berg, Rabbi Philip S.
346, 381–82
Berg, Yehuda
358–59, 365, 366–69, 374, 375, 384n18
Berkeley Folk Festival
199, 202–3
Besserman, Perle (Epstein)
229–30
Bhagavad Gita
62–63
Bhajan, Yogi
204, 205
Bible. Hebrew Bible
and Aryeh Kaplan’s verbal archaeology
214
and prophecy in Aryeh Kaplan’s Kabbalah
228–29
Spinoza on events described in
236
Biblia Americana (Mather)
14–20
Bien, Julius
125
binah consciousness
227
Blank, Rabbi Bill
242–43, 250
Blavatsky, Madame
81–83, 84, 105
Block, Rabbi Bruce
244
Bloom, Harold
51–52, 66, 176
body, separation of soul and
321–22
Boehme, Jakob
53, 54–55, 56–57, 59
Bogdan, Henrik
87
Bokser, Ben-Zion
257
“bom pico” masculinity
374–75
Book of Isaiah, Mather’s commentary on
19
Boteach, Rabbi Shmuley
358–59, 370–74, 375
Bowen, Francis
52
“Brahma” (Emerson)
63
Brahman
63
Breasluer, Daniel
156
Broido, Ethel
191, 192
Bronx
193
Brooks, Eugene
187
Buber, Martin
168, 174, 192–94, 200, 381, 382n15
Büchner, Ludwig
150–51
Buck, Jirah Dewey
83–84
Buddhism
Allen Ginsberg’s interest in
196–97
and American spiritual development
386
and Aryeh Kaplan’s approach to Kabbalah
222, 227
Burgoyne, Thomas Henry
103–5
burial, Jewish
185
Cabot, James
58
Cairo Genizah
163
capitalism, and sacred sexuality
366, 369, 370–72
Carigal, Rabbi Raphael Haim Isaac
23–25, 34–35
Carlebach, Shlomo
199–200, 207–9
and counterculture of late
1960s, 200–202
and “Holy Man Jam” gatherings
204–5
and House of Love and Prayer
203–4
moves from music events to proto-New Age events
203–4
plays at Berkeley Folk Festival
199–200, 202–3
and Sufism
206–7
Carter, Jimmy
312
Chabad.org
351–55
Chakhmah consciousness
218
character, private, as entwined with public leadership
309
chevres
365n19
Christensen, Kim
365n19
Christian, Paul
105n51
Christian intellectualism, Jewish elites’ acculturation to
173–74
Christian interest in Kabbalah
11–14, 26–28, 192
Christianity
Allen Ginsberg’s interest in
192
source of Judaism and
326–27
Christian mysticism
78–79
Christians, and messianic coming
329–31
classical Reform
240, 241, 243
Cohen, Hermann
244
Cohen, Judah
200
Cohen, Martin S
259
Cohen, Rabbi Samuel
23–24
Cohen, Seymour J.
257
Cohn, Amertat
205
Coleridge, Samuel
56
colonial America
Christian interest in Kabbalah
11–14, 26–28
and Mather’s fascination with Jewish mysticism
14–20
and Stiles’ Kabbalah study
20–26
commandments
rational approaches to
348–50
seeking reasons for
344–45, 347–48
communism
184–86
comparison, Hutner on
327–28
“Compensation” (Emerson)
55
computer system, God as, in Aryeh Kaplan’s Kabbalah
223–26
consciousness
knowing God through higher
226
meditative
216–18
mental golem and entering higher states of
218–19
and prophecy in Aryeh Kaplan’s Kabbalah
228–29
reaching non-verbal
227
routes to altered states of
224
Conservative Judaism
254–64
consumerism, Boteach’s rituals of sacred sex as critique of
370–72.
capitalism, and sacred sexuality
contextualization of scripture
17
continuous understanding, Heschel on
169–70
conversion, Stiles’ appeal for Jews’
34–35, 45
Coopersmith, Aryae
201
Cordovero, Moshe
359, 362–65
cosmopolitanism
157
Coudert, Alison
34
Couliano, Ioan
211
counter-exegesis
271
Cousin, Victor
64–65
creation
abyss as possibility for and repetition of
58
of Adam
318, 322n29, 332n67
and Hutner’s espousal of universalistic anthropology
319
and potential of souls
354–55
and sacred sexuality
366–67, 371
Darwin, Charles
151
Davis, Alexander Barnard
127, 132
death, and Hutner’s espousal of universalistic anthropology
319.
resurrection
decrees
344–45, 347–48
Derech Hashem (Luzzatto)
226
desire, and sacred sexuality
367, 369
Detweiler, Robert
61
Deuteronomy
6:4, 44
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch
35–36
dietary laws. see kashrut
difference, Hutner on
327–28
Discourse on Saving Knowledge (Stiles)
37–38, 39
Disher, Joel
143
divine names
102, 109
divinity, Hasidic approach to
271–72, 274.
God
Dosick, Rabbi Wayne
250
Doubleday, Abner
98n14
Dresner, Samuel
257
drugs, psychedelic
192–93, 201–2, 216–18, 224
Drush ha-Taninim (Homily on the dragons or sea monsters) (Nathan of Gaza)
59
Dunlap, Samuel Fales
80n43
Eastern European immigrants and scholars 147–48, 153–54, 161. See also Altmann, Alexander; Heschel, Abraham Joshua; Schechter, Solomon
Eckhart, Meister
57
eclecticism
64–65
eddammeh le-elyon
333n68
Einhorn, Rabbi David
139
Ein Sof
104, 326, 333n68
ejaculation
in Berg’s sacred sexuality
368
in Boteach’s sacred sexuality
370, 374
Eleazar of Worms, Rabbi
214, 218, 219, 221–22
elements, Aryeh Kaplan on four
230
Emerald (Smargadine) Tablet
83
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
51–53
concept of abyss
54–60
concept of oversoul
60–64
passage between ontology and psychology
64–68
Erikson, Eric
379n6
Esau
326–27, 328
evolution
216
exile
274, 275, 292–93, 296–98
existence, purpose of
295
Exposition of the Old Testament (Gill)
36
Ezekiel
228
Ezekiel 34:31
325
Fall of Adam
319, 326, 366–67
family, religion and search for
380
Family Dog collective
204n25
Feigelson, Mimi
260
Feld, Edward
263n37
Feuerbach, Ludwig
55n2
Fierst, H.
302
Finkelstein, Louis
255, 303
Fishbane, Eitan
262
Fleer, Gedaliah
248–49
Forst, Rabbi Binyamin
350
Forty Questions Regarding the Nature of the Soul (Boehme)
54–55
Franck, Adolph
80–81
Frankel, Rabbi Zacharias (Zechariah)
139
Franklin, Benjamin
31–32, 33, 36
“Freedom” (Schelling)
58
Freelander, David
236
Freeman, Rabbi Tzvi
351, 352–53, 354–55
Freemasonry
117, 126, 129–30, 131
Free Synagogue
243
Freud, Sigmund
52, 53
Freystadt, Moritz
97n8
“Friction” (Freeman)
355
Friedlander, Rabbi Albert
251
“From the Periphery to the Center: Kabbalah and Conservative Judaism” (Artson)
260–61
Frydman-Kohl, Baruch
259
“Galilee Shore” (Allen Ginsberg)
195
Gaskin, Steven
205
Gaster, Moses
167
gematriah
102, 109
gender, and Aryeh Kaplan’s approach to Kabbalah
229–30
generosity, and sacred sexuality
367
Genesis 37:36
87–88
Genizah
163
geopolitics, Schneerson on
312–13
Gersoni, Henri (Zvi Hirsch)
89
Gerstel, Murray
203
Gertel, Elliot
259–60
Gest, Benefsha
206
Gevurah
363
Gill, John
36
Giller, Pinchas
260, 261–62
Ginsberg, Allen
background of
184–88
interest in Buddhism
196–97
involved in cultural events
203, 205
Jewish motifs in poetry of
190–91
Kaddish
189–90
meets Scholem
183
visits India
195–96
visits Israel
191–95
Ginsberg, Louis
184, 185, 186
Ginsberg, Naomi
184, 185, 186, 189
Ginsburg, Christian David
84, 96n5, 101, 102n39
“Giving of the Torah”
294, 296
Glazer, Aubrey
262
Glueck, Nelson
246
Gnosticism
66
goats, sacrifice of identical
327
God. divinity, Hasidic approach to
Abraham’s teachings on
311–12
Aryeh Kaplan’s portrayal of
223–26
in Eleazar’s Kabbalah
221
Liebman on
245
Schneerson on obligation to
307–8
Schneur Zalman on presence of
294–95
seeking reasons for laws of
344–45
self-restriction of
67
servitude to
343–44, 356
Sossnitz on existence of
150–51
Golden Calf
271, 281–88
Goldman, Shalom
12, 201
Golem (Idel)
218
golem, mental
218–19
Goleman, Daniel
222
Gordis, Robert
259
Gorni, Josef
385
Govinda, Anagarika Brahmacari
222
Graetz, Heinrich
80, 237
gravity
294–95
greed, and sacred sexuality
367
Groes-Green, Christian
374–75
Grotius, Hugo
13
Gryn, Rabbi Hugo
251
Guedeman, Mortiz
174
Gutherz, Rabbi Tom
244
Habad Hasidism
Boteach and
370, 371
and Jewish identity
380
messianic vision of modern
385–86
Habad-Lubavitch Hasidism 292, 295–96, 305, 311. See also Lubavitch Hasidism; Schneersohn, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak (Raynats); Schneerson, Menachem Mendel
Habad outreach
Kabbalah as tool of
345–47
kashrut and
351–55
as twentieth- and twenty-first-century phenomenon
355–56
ha-Cohen, Rabbi David
246
hallucinogens
192–93, 201–2, 216–18, 224
Haman
327
Ha-Maor (Sossnitz)
151–52
Hanegraaff, Wouter J.
101–2n34
ḥarut al ha-luḥot
321
Hasbrouck, J.A.H.
120
hashkafah
343
Hasidism. Habad Hasidism; Habad-Lubavitch Hasidism
Altmann and
171
America as new center of
293–300
American Jewish interest in
388
Carlebach and receptivity to decontextualized
200–202
and exile of Schneerson
292–93
Frydman-Kohl’s studies in
259
Heschel and
168–69, 170–71
late twentieth-century change in status of
381–83
as oriented toward inner religious life
387
Schechter and
165, 166, 167, 178
and Schneerson’s exegesis of the Golden Calf
284–88
and Schneerson’s views on Revelation
278–81
scholarship on, in America
270
spiritualization of
175
Teitelbaum and Schneerson’s attempt to refashion legacy of
269–75, 288–89
and Teitelbaum’s exegesis of the Golden Calf
281–84
and Teitelbaum’s views on language
275–78
heaven, Aryeh Kaplan on
225
Hebrew
and legacy of Hasidism
272–74
studied in old and New England
12
Teitelbaum on
275–81
“Hebrew and Christian Occultism” (Wilder)
106–7
Hebrew Bible
Grotius’s efforts to historicize
13
and Mather’s Biblia Americana
15
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR)
241–44, 246–47
hegemonic masculinity
374–75
he-goats, sacrifice of identical
327
Heidegger, Martin
321n22
hell, Aryeh Kaplan on
225
Hellner-Eshed, Melila
239–40
Henkin, Steven
261
heresy
distortion of tradition as
275
modernity as
274
Teitelbaum on Zionism and
283–84
“Hermes Trismegistus” (Myer)
83
Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor
95–96n4, 99
Herskowitz, Daniel
321n22
Heschel, Abraham Joshua
168–71, 173–76, 177–78, 255, 258, 259
Hillel, Rabbi
22
Hinduism, and sacred sexuality
371, 373
“Hindu Symbolism” (Myer)
83
hisbodʾdus
248
Hoffman, Abbie
200
Hoffman, Nehemia Dov
151, 155–56
hokhmah consciousness
227
holiness, Hasidic approach to
271–72, 274
“Holy Man Jam” gatherings
199, 203, 204–5
holy spirit
40–41
House of Love and Prayer
203–4, 208–9
Howl (Allen Ginsberg)
187
humanity, unity of
318–23, 331, 334
humans, singularity of
318–23, 331, 334
Huss, Boaz
3, 33, 260, 366
Hutner, Isaac
316–17
on destiny of Jewish people
321–22
on discerning difference
327–28
on election of Israel and nature of humanity
322–23
espousal of universalistic anthropology
317–23
on Jews as emblematic representation of humanity
323–25
on messianic era
319–20
on metaphysical and physical statuses of Jews and non-Jews
324–32
Huxley, Aldous
224, 225, 227, 229
I and Thou (Buber)
200
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon
107
Idel, Moshe
1–3, 215, 218
Idelsohn, Abraham Zevi
238
identity
379, 380–85, 387–88
idolatry
271, 281–88
igulim
294–95
Immortality, resurrection, and the age of the universe: a kabbalistic view (Aryeh Kaplan)
216
Indeed, There Is a God (Akhen yesh Hashem) (Sossnitz)
150–51
India, Allen Ginsberg visits
195–96
inebriation, on Purim
327
Institute for Jewish Spirituality
262
interventionism, Schneerson on American
312–13
Introduction to the History of Modern Philosophy (Cousin)
65
Isaac of Acco
214, 216
Isaacs, Rabbi Samuel Myer
121
Ishmael
328
Isis Unveiled (Blavatsky)
81, 84, 105
Israel
Allen Ginsberg visits
191–96
and future of Judaism
298
Jewish identity and nationalism in
385
nature of humanity and election of
322–23, 328–29
spiritual renewal in
388
Weiner on appeal of
241
Weiner’s study in
245
Weiner’s visits to
247–49
Weiner takes administrative position in
246–47
Israelites
called adam
325, 326, 333
and Schneerson’s exegesis of the Golden Calf
285–86
and Teitelbaum’s exegesis of the Golden Calf
282–83
Wilder on ancient esoteric tradition among
107
Jacob
326–27
James, William
377–78, 379
Jellinek, Adolph
97n9, 162, 164
Jerusalem, as center of Jewish studies
162
Jewish burial
185
Jewish-Christianity see Stiles, Ezra
Jewish collectivity
157
Jewish communists
184–86
Jewish culture
appropriation of
201
preservation of
185
Jewish history, Monis as culmination of
43–44
Jewish identity
380–85, 387–88
Jewish Indian theory
14
Jewish Institute of Religion (JIR)
1, 243–44
Jewish literature, magic’s role in
174–75
Jewish Liturgy and Its Development (Idelsohn)
238
Jewish Meditation (Aryeh Kaplan)
217
Jewish Messenger
120–21, 122n32, 126, 131
Jewish Peoplehood
157–58
Jewish prayer Kaddish (Allen Ginsberg)
Aryeh Kaplan on position in
215
and promotion of Trinity
40
Jewish renaissance
300–307
Jewish Renewal
208–9, 261–62, 384, 387, 388
Jewish studies
beginnings of
161–62
centers of
162
Jewish Theological Seminary
168, 254–59, 262–63, 381n11
Jews. Judaism
assimilation of
185–86, 187, 302, 328, 388
as emblematic representation of humanity
323–24
exile of
293, 297–98
Hutner on destiny of
321–22
Hutner on metaphysical status of
324–32
Mather’s approval of
18–19
Mather’s distrust of
16, 17
Mather’s interaction with
26
messianic moment and dissolution of boundary separating non-Jews and
335–36
in Newport, Rhode Island
20–26, 27
Puritans’ engagement with
13
Schneerson on identicalness of non-Jews and
331–34
socialist ideologies espoused by
184–86
Stiles’ appeal for conversion of
34–35, 45
Stiles’ interaction with
27
Teitelbaum on assimilated
276–77
Johnson, Thomas Moore
and Kabbalah as perennial philosophy
108–10
Kabbalah in library of
96–98, 102n39, 109n70
and Kabbalah in The Platonist
99–108
letter collection of
95n3
Myer and
85–86
and Osceola as center for Kabbalah cultivation and dissemination
94–95
“Journal Night Thoughts” (Allen Ginsberg)
191
Judaism. American Conservative Judaism; Jews; Reform Judaism
and Allen Ginsberg’s spiritual pilgrimage
188, 192
belonging in
380
connection between Freemasonry and
117
critical studies of
161–62
dimensions of inner religious life in
378
disconnection of Kabbalah from
103, 105
of Eastern European immigrants
147–48
“fifty-fifty”
302, 303
as living movement
170
nationalist theory of
153–54, 157
popularized through Kabbalah
123–30
post-ethnic
388
Schechter’s scholarship on
164–65
Schneerson on demographic dispersion and future of
297–98, 299
Schneerson on preservation of
302
source of Christianity and
326–27
spirituality in Buddhism versus
386
spiritual renewal of
175
Stiles’ ambivalence toward
26
Weiner’s engagement in
240–41
Judge, William Quan
83–85, 88
Kabbalah
American Jewish interest in
387, 388
American questions in modern
178
Christian interest in
11–14, 26–28, 192
decline in interest in
261–62
early study of
345
Hasidic background of
387
Judaism popularized through
123–30
late twentieth-century change in status of
381–84
marginalization of
350n17
origins of
76–83
as outreach tool
345–46
as perennial philosophy
108–10
popularization of, in American culture
346–47
rejected by Reform thinkers
235–39
rise in interest in
260
scholarship on American
1–4
soul levels in
55
Stiles and chain of transmission of
43–44
“Kabbalah, The” (Burgoyne)
103–4
Kabbalah Book of Sex and Other Mysteries of the Universe, The (Berg)
358–59, 366–69, 375
Kabbalah Centre
365–66, 369, 384
Kabbalah: Its Doctrines, Development, and Literature, The (Ginsburg)
96n5
Kabbalah: New Perspectives (Idel)
1–3
Kabbalah Unveiled, The (Mathers)
96n6
KabbalaToons
352–54
Kaddish (Allen Ginsberg)
189–90
Kalisch, Rabbi Isidor
138–44
Kalisch, Samuel
139, 144n27
Kaplan, Dana Evan
254
Kaplan, Israel
154–55
Kaplan, Mordecai
background of
148
on Kabbalah
148–49, 156
Sossnitz’s influence on
149, 154–58
on Zionism and future of Judaism
298
Kaplan, Rabbi Aryeh
211, 230–31
approach to understanding and recreating Kabbalah
214–16
and creation of twentieth-century Jewish meditation
220–23
gender and Kabbalah of
229–30
God in Kabbalistic writings of
223–26
Kabbalah and outreach efforts of
346
life of
212–13
on meditative consciousness
216–18
and meditative mathematics
219–20
on prophecy
228–29
on reaching non-verbal consciousness
227
kashrut
as decree
343–44, 347–48
Habad educational material on
350–51
and Habad outreach
351–55
rational approach to
348–50
violations of
350–51
Katz, Jacob
187
ke-illu
325n37
Kelman, Ari
201
Kelman, Aryeh
202
Kerbel, Paul
264n40
Kesey, Ken
200
Khan, Pir Vilayat
206, 207, 208
King, Samuel
24–25
King, Thomas Starr
129–30
Klein, Isaac
258
Kline, David L.
241–42
Knobel, Rabbi Peter S.
250
Knorr von Rosenroth, Christian
33–34, 36
knowledge, Sossnitz on
153
Kook, Rabbi Abraham Isaac
150–51, 246–47
kosher food
351–52
kashrut
Kosher Sutra: Eight Sacred Secrets for Reigniting Desire and Restoring Passion for Life, The (Boteach)
358–59, 370–74, 375
Krakovski, Levi Yitzhak
383
Kranzler, Gershon
297
Kripal, Jeffery
211
Krishef, Rabbi David
262
Krochmal, Nachman
161
Kurzweil, Baruch
176
Kushner, Rabbi Lawrence
251
Labor Zionism
385
Lachover, Fischel
154
language
and legacy of Hasidism
272–74
Teitelbaum on
275–81
Law of Attraction
366n24, 367–68
laws
rational approaches to
348–50
seeking reasons for God’s
344–45, 347–48
leadership, Schneerson on
307–9
Leary, Timothy
201–2, 205
Leeser, Isaac
139
Legends of the Jews (Ginzberg)
168
letter permutation
102
Lévi, Eliphas (Alphonse Louis Constant)
81, 97n10, 100, 101–2, 105–6, 109n70
Lewis, Harvey Spencer
142–43
Lewis, Murshid Samuel
206
Lewis, Ralph Maxwell
143
L. H. Frank & Company
141–42
Lieberman, Saul
168, 254–55
Liebes, Yehuda
38, 168
Liebman, Rabbi Joshua Loth
245
light, Berg’s conception of
368
Loras, Jelaldin
379–80
LSD
192–93, 201–2
Lubavitch Hasidism
162, 165.
Habad-Lubavitch Hasidism; Schneerson, Menachem Mendel
Luria, Rabbi Isaac
214, 294, 350–51
Luzzatto, Moses Hayyim
226, 326, 348
Magid, Shaul
201, 202, 209, 388
Mahler, Rabbi Mark
249–50
Maimonides
16, 164–67, 329–30
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (Scholem)
1, 2, 3, 381
Malchi, Rabbi Moses
23–24
male sexual pleasure, as divinizing redemptive force
368–69
Malkhut
335, 362, 363
Malkhut de-Malkhut
335
Mapai
385
Marcus, Ivan
1
materialism, religious
147–48, 152
mathematics, meditative, and Aryeh Kaplan’s approach to Kabbalah
219–20
Mather, Cotton
13, 14–20, 26–27
Mathers, S.L. MacGregor
96n6
Matt, Daniel C.
227, 258
Matt, Hershel
257–58
meditation
and Aryeh Kaplan’s approach to Kabbalah
215–16, 224
creation of 20th century Jewish
220–23
and creation of mental golem
218–19
and gender in Aryeh Kaplan’s Kabbalah
229–30
knowing God through
226
and prophecy in Aryeh Kaplan’s Kabbalah
228–29
and sacred sexuality
360, 363, 364
meditative consciousness
216–18
meditative mathematics
219–20
“Meeting of the Ways”
199, 203, 204, 205
Meet The Real You (Aryeh Kaplan)
224
memory, in Aryeh Kaplan’s Kabbalah
224–26
Mendelssohn, Moses
236
mental golem
218–19
Meroz, Ronit
359n1
Merton, Thomas
201
messiah
and Mather’s interest in Kabbalah
18–19, 26–27
role of non-Jews in paving way for
329–31
and Stiles’ interest in Kabbalah
21–23
messianic era, Hutner on
319–20
messianic rectification
332–34
messianism
of modern Habad
385–86
movement to utopianism from
366
neutralization of, in studies of Schechter, Heschel, and Altmann
175–76
Method of Nature, The (Emerson)
55–56
Mevlevi Sufi order
379–80
Meyer, Michael A.
235, 240
mikveh
248–49
Miller, Chaim
271
Miller, Joe
205
Milzhagi, Elyaqim
161
mind, in Aryeh Kaplan’s Kabbalah
224–25
Mindful Jewish Living (Slater)
262
mitzvah
Aryeh Kaplan’s view of
224
rational approaches to
348–50
seeking reasons for
344–45, 347–48
Teitelbaum on taking on select
284
modernity, as heresy
274
Monis, Judah
26, 39–41, 42, 43–45
Moody Blues
217, 231
Moore, George Foot
35–36
Moore, Humphrey
44, 45
Moots, Glenn
12
Morais, Shabbtai (Sabato)
88–89
Mordecai
327
More, Henry
61–62
Moses, Lionel
258n19
Moshe de Leon
75
Munk, Salomon
80
Muslims, and messianic coming
329–31
Myer, Isaac
72–73, 90
life and writings of
73–75
perception of Kabbalah
75–79
and The Platonist
106, 107–8
Qabbalah—The Philosophical Writings of Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol
72–73, 75, 78–79, 82, 90, 96–97n7
scholarly and esoteric networks of
82–89
sources of
79–82
Myers, Jody
260, 366
“Mystical Element in Judaism, The” (Heschel)
255n6
naʿaseh we-nishma
323–24
Nachmanides
16, 165–66
Nahama: Shira Beatnikit Americayit (Howl: American Beatnik Poetry) (Omer)
189
Nahmanides
16, 165–66
Nathan, Moses Nathan
127
Nathan of Gaza
59
nationalism
385, 388n27
nationalist theory of Judaism
153–54, 157
Native Americans
14
neo-Hasidism
381–83, 384, 387
Neoplatonism
61–62, 101, 103, 107–8, 109–10
neutral society
187
New Age Movement
207–8, 386.
Carlebach, Shlomo
Newcomb, Simon
153–54
Newport, Rhode Island, Jews in
20–26, 27
New Thought
367–68
9½ Mystics: The Kabbala Today (Weiner) context of
239
and engagement in Judaism
240–41
Kook’s influence on
246
meaning of title
249–50
reception and impact of
242–43, 250, 251
and Weiner’s interest in mysticism
244–45
and Weiner’s visits to Israel
247–49
Noahide laws
323
non-verbal consciousness
227
“Notes on the Kabbalah” (Johnson)
100
“Not Every Mysticism Is a Jewish Mysticism” (Matt)
258
Nothingness
227
Occident
126, 128, 131
Oetinger, Friedrich
57
Ohabei Shalom congregation (Boston)
118–19
Old Testament. see Hebrew Bible
Omer, Dan
189
“On Dreams” (Synesius of Cyrene)
86
One Life principle
104, 105
ontology, Emerson and passage between psychology and
64–68
Ophir, Natan
205
oppositions
58
“Oration on the Hebrew Literature” (Stiles)
20–26
Oriental Review, The
87
Origin of the Rites and Worship of the Hebrews, The
115–17, 132–33
educational intent of
123–30
publication and explication of
120–23
public reception of
130–32
sale of
126
Orlovsky, Peter
191, 195
Orthodoxy
and kashrut as decree
347–48
and popularization of Kabbalah in American culture
346–47
and rational approach to kashrut
348–50
and servitude to God
343–44
youth outreach in
346
Osceola, Missouri, as center for Kabbalah cultivation and dissemination
94–95, 99, 108–10
outreach
Kabbalah as tool of
345–46
kashrut and Habad
351–55
as twentieth- and twenty-first-century phenomenon
355–56
Oversoul
60–64
“Oversoul” (Emerson)
60–61
Pancoast, Seth
84, 108
Pardes Rimmonim (Cordovero)
364–65
Pasi, Marco
72n1
Path, The
84–85
Paul of Heredia
38
Peace of Mind (Liebman)
245
Penn, Ascher
301, 305
Perfect World Museum
132
Persico, Tomer
386
personal character, as entwined with public leadership
309
personalized non-denominationalism
303
Peterson, Paul Silas
18
philological issues, Altmann’s emphasis on
172
Philosophia cabbalistica et Pantheismus (Freystadt)
97n8
Philosophy of History, The (Emerson)
52, 67
pilgrims
311–12
Platonism
109–10
Neoplatonism
Platonist, The
85–86, 99–108
pleasure
in Berg’s teachings on sacred sexuality
368–69
in Boteach’s teachings on sacred sexuality
371–72
and theurgy in sex magic
361–62
Plutonian Ode (Allen Ginsberg)
194
“Poet, The” (Emerson)
67
post-ethnic Judaism
388
Pound, Ezra
190
Prag, Mary
129–30
prayer see Jewish prayer; Kaddish (Allen Ginsberg)
Prayer of Moses (Cordovero)
362–64
pride, in Jewish identity
385
Prima scriptura
41
Prinz, Rabbi Joachim
250
prisca theologia tradition
34, 42, 45, 102n34, 108
Progressive Era
158
prophecy
and Aryeh Kaplan’s approach to Kabbalah
214, 228–29
connection between Jewish pneumatic traditions and search for
169–70
Protestant educational mission
21–22
protest masculinities
376
Prothero, Stephen
305
psyche, Cousin on
65
psychedelic drugs
192–93, 201–2, 216–18, 224
psychology, Emerson and passage between ontology and
64–68
Purim
327
Puritans
interest in Kabbalah
11–14, 26–28
and Mather’s fascination with Jewish mysticism
14–20
and Stiles’ Kabbalah study
20–26
Putzu, Vadim
86
Qabbalah—The Philosophical Writings of Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol (Myer)
72–73, 75, 78–79, 82, 90, 96–97n7
Qunṭres Yuṭ Kislev—5752 (Schneerson)
334–37
Ram Dass, Baba
204, 205
rape
369
Raphall, Morris Jacob
128
Rashi
16, 329, 331
rationalism
236–38, 244.
reason
Ratosh, Yonatan
194–95
Rava
327
reason. rationalism
Cousin on pre-reflective
65
and rejection of mysticism
236–38
term used by Emerson
59
Reform Judaism
and emphasis on moral tenets of Judaism
125
Kalisch and
139
9½ Mystics’ impact on
242–43
rejection of Kabbalah
235–39
religious and theological issues dividing
235
and Weiner’s interest in mysticism
239–42, 244–46, 251–52
reincarnation
224–25
religion
motivations to join
379–80
versus religiosity
377–79
religiosity
and Jewish identity
385
versus religion
377–79
religious materialism
147–48, 152
renaissance, Jewish
300–307
Representative Men (Emerson)
56
resurrection
19, 321n22, 322
Revelation
Schneerson on
278–81, 287, 334
Teitelbaum and Schneerson’s understanding of
270–71
Teitelbaum on
276–77
“Revolution for the Hell of It” (Hoffman)
200
Rieff, Philip
68
ritual
240–41, 248–49
ritual purity, and sacred sexuality
360–61, 362
Rodgers, Daniel T.
158
Roof, Wade Clark
209
Rosenberg, David
117, 121
Rosenzweig, Franz
382n15
Rosh ha-Shanah
324
Rosicrucian Order
138, 142–43, 144n27
Ross, Niham
382
Roth, Rabbi Aharon (Reb Arele)
247–48
Rothschild, Rabbi Sylvia
251
Ruach Kudsha
40–41
“Ruach: Spirit of Judaism”
208
Rubenstein, Marcus
261
Ruderman, David
1
Ryan, Harriet
365n19
Sabbateanism
176
Sabbath
322n29
sacred colleges
25
sacred sexuality
358–59, 374–75
Berg’s reinterpretation of rituals of
365–69
and medieval Kabbalah
359–65
as protest masculinity in Kosher Sutra
370–74
sacred speech
and legacy of Hasidism
272–74
Teitelbaum on
278–81
Safed, Schechter’s survey of 16th century
167
Salkin, Rabbi Jeffrey
251
Sameth, Rabbi Mark
250
Satchidinanada, Swami
204, 207, 208
Satmar. see Teitelbaum, Yoel
Schachter-Shalomi, Rabbi Zalman
188, 196, 201–2, 205, 208–9, 387–88
Schatz, Boris
151
Schechter, Solomon
162–68, 173–76, 177–78, 255
Schelling, Friedrich
52–53, 54, 56–58, 59, 64, 65
Schneersohn, Dovber
336n83
Schneersohn, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak (Raynats)
293–97, 331n67
Schneersohn, Sholom Dovber
273
Schneerson, Menachem Mendel
on America as new center of Hasidism
297–300
attempt to refashion legacy of Hasidism
269–71, 288–89
change in discussions of America
307–13
exegesis on Golden Calf
284–88
exile of
292–93
on identicalness of Jew and non-Jew
331–34
and Jewish renaissance
300–307
and Jewish Renewal
387
and legacy of Hasidism
271–75
as Lubavitcher Rebbe
301–2
Qunṭres Yuṭ Kislev—5752
334–37
on Revelation
278–81, 287
Schneur Zalman of Liadi
294–95, 306, 332n67, 335–36n80, 345–46
Scholem, Gershom
Altmann’s criticism of
172
on authorship of Holy Epistle
165n14
and changing views on Kabbalah
381
on comprehensive account of Jewish mysticism
8
contrasted with Schechter, Heschel, and Altmann
175–77, 178
on magical issues in Jewish literature
174
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
1
meets Allen Ginsberg
183, 193–94
omission of American Kabbalah in writings of
2
popular among Jewish counterculture
192
and transfer of categories
174
Schultz, Rabbi Joseph
256
Schwarzschild, Steven S.
244, 317–19, 322, 324n33, 326–27
scripture
contextualization of
17
Prima scriptura
41
Scult, Mel
149
Sefer ha-Gilgulim (Vital)
165
Sefer Yezirah. Sepher Yezirah: A Book on Creation (Kalisch)
and Aryeh Kaplan’s approach to Kabbalah
214–15, 220–21
Meyer’s edition of
140–41
origins of
101
sefirot
Aryeh Kaplan on
230–31
Burgoyne on
104
gendering of
363
and sacred sexuality
359–60, 362–65, 366–67
Segol, Marla
220n26
“Self-Reliance” (Bloom)
51–52
self-restriction
67
Selig, Gottfried
97n11
Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson
153–54
semen
Berg on sacred sexuality and
368
Boteach on sacred sexuality and
370, 374
Sepher Yezirah: A Book on Creation (Kalisch)
138, 140–44
Setzer, “Shin Tzaddik”
246
sexual assault
369
sexual imagery
177–78
sexuality. see sacred sexuality
Shalev, Alon
321n22
Shammai, Rabbi
22
shekhinah
18, 221
Sherwin, Byron L.
236–37, 259
Shimon Bar Yochai, Rabbi
37–38, 75
Shiʿur Qomah
166–67, 364
Siddur Lev Shalem
263–64
Siddur Sim Shalom
263
Siegel, Seymour
256–57
Simmel, Georg
377
Singer, Bashevis
192
singularity of the human
318–23, 331, 334
Six-Day War
and Schneerson’s exegesis of the Golden Calf
284–88
and Teitelbaum’s exegesis of the Golden Calf
282–84
Sketch of the Talmud, the World Renowned Collection of Jewish Traditions, A (Kalisch)
141–42
Slater, Jonathan
262
Slonimsky, Hayyim Zelig
151
Slonimsky, Henry
244
Smargadine (Emerald) Tablet
83
Snell, Merwin-Marie
86–87
socialism
184–86, 385
Sociology of Religion (Simmel)
377
Sodei Razaya (Eleazar of Worms)
221–22
Sollas, M.M.
128
“Some Aspects of Rabbinic Theology” (Schechter)
166
Song of Songs
373
Sossnitz, Joseph Leib
148
background of
149–50
as influence on Mordecai Kaplan
149, 154–58
intellectual circle of
154
on Kabbalah
152–53
philosophy of
150–52, 154, 157
works of
150–52
soul
in Aryeh Kaplan’s Kabbalah
224–25
connection between abyss and
54–56
creation and potential of
354–55
Johnson’s notion of preexistence and transmigration of
102
separation of body and
321–22
sovereignty, Schneerson on
307–9
speech, sacred
and legacy of Hasidism
272–74
Teitelbaum on
275–81
Spinoza, Baruch
236
spirituality
378–79, 380–81, 384, 385, 386–87, 388–89
Stahl, Rabbi Samuel
240
Steinchneider, Moritz
164
Stiles, Ezra
attitude toward Jewish erudition
13
interest in Kabbalah and interactions with Jews
20–26, 27
and Judah Monis
39–41
personal edition of Zohar
35–37
and Protestant interest in Kabbalah
44–45
receives Sulzbach edition of Zohar
33–35
requests copy of Zohar
31–32
and “saving knowledge” in Zohar
42–44
and Trinity of Zohar
37–41
Stock, Ernest
241
Sufism
206–7
Sukkot
324
Sulzbach Edition of Zohar
33–34
Sulzbach Kabbalists
34, 36
Sunseed
205
Synesius of Cyrene
86, 107–8
synesthesia
217, 229
System of Transcendental Idealism (Schelling)
52–53
taʾamei hamitzvot
345
tantric sex, Boteach on
370–73
Tarot
102, 103, 105–6, 109
technology
275
Teitelbaum, Yoel
attempt to refashion legacy of Hasidism
269–71, 288–89
exegesis on Golden Calf
281–84
on Hebrew
275–78
and legacy of Hasidism
271–75
Tepfer, John
246
textological issues, Altmann’s emphasis on
172
Theosophical Society
82–83, 95n4, 99, 106nn57-58
theosophic Kabbalah
214–15
theurgy, and pleasure in sex magic
361–62, 373
Thorowgood, Thomas
14
Tiferet
362
tikkun
366, 367, 369
timtum ha-lev
348–49, 351
Tishby, Isaiah
38
Torah
“Giving of the Torah”
294, 296
messianic ideal of new
320
spreading meaning of
332n67
Teitelbaum and Schneerson on translation of
270–71
Teitelbaum on translation of
276–77, 278–81
Touro, Isaac
27
Trachtenberg, Joshua
174
Tractatus Theologico—Politicus (Spinoza)
236
tradition, distortion of, as heresy
275
transfer of categories
174, 178
Trinity
37–41, 44–45
Trungpa, Chögyam
196
tsaddikim, Schneerson on
286
tsimtsum
54, 57–58, 77
Tumarkin, Yigal
191
Tzaddiq
167
Tzevi, Sabbatai
167
Uhrbach, Jan
263–64
unconscious
Bloom on
51–52
and concept of abyss
54–60
gains currency in English
52–53
Kabbalah-inflected tropes in Emerson’s representations of
53, 68
Understanding, term used by Emerson
59–60
Ungrund
54
unity of humanity
318–23, 331, 334
universalistic anthropology, espoused by Hutner
317–23
utopianism, movement from messianism to
366
Van Engen, Abram
13, 17
Variety of Religious Experience, The (James)
377–78
Va-Yoel Moshe (Teitelbaum)
277
Vedas
62–63
vegetarianism
352
venitmetem
348
verbal archaeology
214–16
vertical renewal
372–73
Vital, Rabbi Hayyim
165, 214, 218
Vivekananda, Swami
222–23
Vogelin, Eric
173–74
von Meyer, Johann
97–98n12, 100n24, 140–41
Walter, Balthasar
54
Walter, Gerry
247–48
Weiner, Herbert
background of
239
evaluating thought of
249–50
impact of
251–52
interest in mysticism
239–42, 244–46
Kook’s influence on
246–47
as public speaker
250–51
and reception and impact of 9½ Mystics
242–43, 250, 251
studies at Jewish Institute of Religion
243–44
visits Israel
247–49
Wentz, Richard
148
Werblowsky, R.J. Zwi
176
Werdenhagen, Johann Angelius
54, 55
Wheeler, Osgood Church
129, 130
“Why Celebrate?” video
353–54
Wilder, Alexander
106–7
Wild Goats of Ein Gedi: A Journal of Religious Encounters in the Holy Land, The (Weiner)
241–42
Williams, Linda
368, 370
Wineman, Aryeh
258
Wise, Isaac Mayer
139
Wise, Stephen Samuel
243
Wissenschaft des Judentums
164
Wolff, Max
115, 118–20, 123, 124, 125, 126–30.
Origin of the Rites and Worship of the Hebrews, The
Wolfson, Elliot
178
Wolfson, Harry A.
172
Wolosky, Shira
14
Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah (Segol)
220n26
world soul
62, 63–64
yeḥidut adam
322
yeshivah
343
Yiddish
280–81
Yih King
77
“Yoga of Joy, A” event
205
Yom Kippur
327
yom she-kullo ṭov
319–20
yosher
294–95
Youdkevitch, Osnat
132
Youdkevitch, Shaul
132
Zach, Natan
189–90
Zachariah 14:9
319
Zephaniah 3:9
335
Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies
260, 261–62
Zionism
Allen Ginsberg on
193
and future of Judaism
298–99
and Jewish identity
385
language identity and
273–74
Schneerson on
271, 274–75, 284–88
Scholem and
177
Teitelbaum on
270, 271, 274–75, 277–78, 281–84
Weiner on
239, 241–42
Zohar
Aryeh Kaplan on
214
authorship of
75, 84–85, 359n1
militaristic language regarding halachic eating in
349–50
Myer’s writings on
75
New Testament passage compared to passage in
87–88
origins of
101
and The Platonist
107–8
Raya Mehemna
38, 39
sacred sexuality in
359–62
Stiles and “saving knowledge” in
42–44
Stiles and Trinity of
37–41
Stiles’ personal edition of
35–37
and Stiles’ quotation of Monis
39–41
Stiles receives Sulzbach edition of
33–35
Stiles requests copy of
31–32
and view of mysticism as threat
237
Zweifel, Eliezer
153–54