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Mystical bodies, mystical meals : eating and embodiment in medieval Kabbalah / Joel Hecker.

By: Series: Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropologyPublication details: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (x, 282 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780814340035
  • 0814340032
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals : Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah.DDC classification:
  • 296.8/2 22
LOC classification:
  • BM526 .H43 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Give heed to me, and you shall eat choice food : the religious significance of eating in Judaism from the Bible to the Kabbalah -- A blessing in the belly : mystical satiation -- The bread of angels : the role of idealized foods -- I am so glad to see the face of the Shekhinah! : the social aspects of meals -- Blessing does not rest on an empty place : talismanic theurgy -- He makes peace and increases peace between the supernal realm and the lower realm : augmentation theurgy at mystical meals.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-270) and index.

Give heed to me, and you shall eat choice food : the religious significance of eating in Judaism from the Bible to the Kabbalah -- A blessing in the belly : mystical satiation -- The bread of angels : the role of idealized foods -- I am so glad to see the face of the Shekhinah! : the social aspects of meals -- Blessing does not rest on an empty place : talismanic theurgy -- He makes peace and increases peace between the supernal realm and the lower realm : augmentation theurgy at mystical meals.

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