An Ḥalamish, Mosheh. creator text globe bibliography Electronic books. History nyu Albany State University of New York Press ©1999 1999 monographic eng heb 1 online resource (viii, 379 pages). ""Front Matter ""; ""Half Title Page ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""PREFACE""; ""Content ""; ""Part I: The Kabbalah and its Attainment""; ""Mysticism and the Kabbalah""; ""WHAT IS KABBALAH?""; ""WHAT IS MYSTICISM?""; ""THE WORLD OF SYMBOLS""; ""The Kabbalist and His Kabbalah""; ""THE WAYS OF TRANSMISSION""; ""THE QUESTION OF RELIABILITY""; ""Prerequisites""; ""PHYSIOGNOMY AND CHIROMANCY""; ""GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS""; ""INTELLECTUAL LEVEL""; ""The field of Halakhah""; ""The realm of community leadership""; ""Kabbalists""; ""MORAL PERFECTION"" ""PRIDE AND ANGER""""LOVE AND UNITY""; ""AGE""; ""FIXED TIMES OF STUDY""; ""PLACE""; ""Early Preparations""; ""SOLITUDE""; ""EQUANIMITY""; ""SILENCE""; ""ASCETICISM AND FASTING""; ""CONFESSIONS""; ""PURIFICATION""; ""PERSEVERANCE AND MUCH TOIL""; ""The Dangers Facing the Mystic""; ""Techniques of Exploring Mysteries""; ""PROSTRATION ON THE GRAVES OF THE ZADDIKIM""; ""Evaluation of the Kabbalah""; ""THE OBJECTIONS TO THE KABBALAH""; ""The Origins of the Revelations""; ""SEEING AND HEARING""; ""INTELLECTUAL ATTAINMENT""; ""PERSONAL TRANSMISSION""; ""REVELATION FROM ELIJAH"" ""SPIRITUAL ILLUMINATION""""DREAMS""; ""THE APPARITION OF THE MAGGID""; ""JOY AND WEEPING""; ""THE DISCLOSURE OF SECRETS""; ""MYSTICAL RAPTURES""; ""Part II: The Basic Concepts of the Kabbalah""; ""The Doctrine of the Sefirot""; ""THE TERM ""SEFIROT""""; ""THE NAMES OF THE SEFIROT""; ""DIVISION OF THE SEFIROT INTO GROUPS""; ""THE HUMAN FIGURE""; ""THE DIVINE NAMES""; ""ELEMENTS OF NATURE""; ""COLORS""; ""THE POINTS OF THE COMPASS""; ""BIBLICAL FIGURES""; ""'EIYN SOF AND REVELATION""; ""ONENESS AND MULTIPLICITY""; ""ESSENCE AND VESSELS""; ""Good and Evil""; ""THE DESTINY OF EVIL"" ""The Doctrine of Creation""""SOME POSITIONS""; ""THE DOCTRINE OF EMANATION""; ""THE PURPOSE OF CREATION""; ""THE DOCTRINE OF SIMSUM""; ""THE DOCTRINE OF THE SHEMITTOT""; ""The Torah""; ""DIVINE SPEECH""; ""KABBALISTIC READING OF THE TORAH""; ""THE TORAH AND ITS GIVER""; ""THE TORAH AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE""; ""THE CONCEPT OF THE COMMANDMENTS""; ""THE COMMANDMENTS AND DEVEKUT""; ""COMMANDMENTS AND TIKKUN""; ""VARIOUS PROBLEMS""; ""The Doctrine of the Soul""; ""THE UNIQUENESS OF THE SOUL""; ""DIVISIONS OF THE SOUL""; ""THE PREEXISTENCE OF THE SOUL""; ""BLEMISHED SOULS"" ""THE SOULS OF NON-JEWS""""MAN AT HIS DEATH""; ""THE DOCTRINE OF THE SELEM""; ""THE DOCTRINE OF THE SOUL IN LURIANIC TEACHING""; ""The Doctrine of Transmigration""; ""REASONS FOR THE DOCTRINE OF TRANSMIGRATION""; ""THE TERM GILGUL""; ""WHAT CAUSES A PERSON'S SOUL TO TRANSMIGRATE?""; ""NUMBER OF TRANSMIGRATIONS""; ""GILGUL -- COMPASSION OR PUNISHMENT?""; ""TRANSMIGRATION AND THERE SURRECTION OF THE DEAD""; ""AGAINST GILGUL""; ""Back Matter ""; ""EPILOGUE""; ""NOTES""; ""Chapter 1. Mysticism and the Kabbalah""; ""Chapter 2. The Kabbalist and his Acquiring of the Kabbalah"" Moshe Hallamish ; translated by Ruth Bar-Ilan and Ora Wiskind-Elper. Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-366) and index. Mysticism Judaism History Cabala History Cabala History Mysticism Judaism History RELIGION Judaism Kabbalah & Mysticism Cabala Mysticism Judaism BM526 .H3413 1999 296.1/6 Ḥalamish, Mosheh. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1999 (DLC) 98007527 9781438405551 1438405553 9780791440124 0791440125 http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=3408120 http://site.ebrary.com/id/10588667 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=549422 http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781438405551/ http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=3408120 http://site.ebrary.com/id/10588667 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=549422 http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781438405551/ Nz 980421 20200709055751.0 ocn794929188 eng