Physician of the soul, healer of the cosmos : Isaac Luria and his kabbalistic fellowship

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Title:

Physician of the soul, healer of the cosmos : Isaac Luria and his kabbalistic fellowship

Author:

Fine, Lawrence.

Personal Author:

Fine, Lawrence.

Publication Information:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2003]

Physical Description:

xiii, 480 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.

Language:

English

Contents:

Introduction: embodying the study of Lurianic Kabbalah -- Rabbinical scholar, spice dealer, contemplative ascetic -- Lamenting the exile, striving for redemption -- Saintliness, heavenly communication, and the divinatory arts -- Lurianic myth -- Physician of the soul -- Tiqqun: healing the cosmos through the performance of mitsvot -- Tiqqun: healing the cosmos through contemplative prayer -- Communing with the "very special dead" -- Metempsychosis, mystical fellowship, and Messianic redemption

Personal Subject:

Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572.

Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572-Disciples.

Subject Term:

Cabala -- History.

Mysticism -- Judaism.

Judaism -- Israel -- Tsefat -- History.

ISBN:

9780804738255

9780804748261

Format :

Book