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Essays from the Frater Eisenheim Blog tagged jewish mysticism.
An essay on the Kavod, the divine Glory that manifests as a cloud in the Temple of Jerusalem, and on the mystical paradox between revelation and veil in the Jewish tradition and in Kabbalah.
Read essay →An essay on the essential differences between the qol demamah daqqah revealed to Elijah at Horeb and the Talmudic Bat Kol, two distinct voices in the history of Jewish revelation.
Read essay →An essay on Ezekiel's Merkabah, the Hekhalot literature, and the spiritual dangers that the ancient Jewish sages recognized in the quest for mystical ascent to the Divine Throne.
Read essay →An essay on the Shekhinah in the Kabbalistic tradition, symbol of the divine feminine and of the presence that accompanies exile, and on the spiritual nostalgia that runs through all traditions of faith.
Read essay →An essay on the celebrated talmudic narrative of the four sages who entered the Pardes, and on the ethical and spiritual risks of direct mystical experience.
Read essay →An essay on Metatron, the enigmatic 'Prince of the Countenance' of Jewish mystical tradition, and on the limits that rabbinic angelology imposed upon his veneration.
Read essay →An essay on the cosmogonic myth of the breaking of the vessels in Lurianic Kabbalah and its ethical translation as a daily vocation to repair the world.
Read essay →An essay on the legend of the Golem of Prague, the creative force of sacred language in Jewish mysticism, and the ethical limits of human will before creation.
Read essay →An essay on the Urim and Thummim of the Israelite priestly breastplate, reflecting on the nature of the biblical oracle and the profound ethics involved in consulting the Sacred.
Read essay →An essay on Jacob's vision at Bethel, the angels who ascend and descend, and how this biblical symbol dialogues with Jewish mystical Merkabah tradition and the human quest for communion with the divine.
Read essay →An essay on the Ain Sof in the Kabbalistic tradition: the nameless Infinite that precedes all emanation, and silence as the mystic's first language.
Read essay →An essay on the Jewish method of PaRDeS — Peshat, Remez, Derash and Sod — and how it reveals layers of meaning in the reading of the sacred Scriptures.
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