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Moshe idel is max cooper professor of jewish thought at the hebrew university, jerusalem. The emphasis in the text is on the interaction between the original spanish stage of kabbalah and muslim mysticism in the east, mainly in the galilee. Important personages from antiquity, some of whom were mentioned in segment 2, featured in the literature of both. Abraham abulafia, an ecstatic kabbalist, two studies, ed. Hitbodedut as concentration in ecstatic kabbalah created date. Studies kabbalah, jewish mysticism, and western esotericism history. The influence of the kabbalisticsufic synthesis on the later developments of jewish mysticism is traced, thereby providing a more precise understanding of the history of kabbalah as an interplay between the theosophical and ecstatic mystical experiences. Cewebity peaceful pathways shaye tacker slate 52 nystesolpodcasts podcast environment.
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