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The kabbalistic culture of eighteenth-century Prague : Ezekiel Landau (the "Noda Biyehudah") and his contemporaries /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flatto, Sharon
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2010.
Series:Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
Subjects:
Judaism > Czech Republic > Prague > History.
Cabala > Czech Republic > Prague > History.
Mysticism > Judaism > History.
Jews > Czech Republic > Prague > History.
Prague (Czech Republic) > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Prague's Jewish community
  • Prague's rabbinic culture : halakhah and Kabbalah
  • Mystical and modernizing trends : Prague's rabbinic culture threatened
  • Historiography, personal history, and folk tales
  • Promotion of kabbalistic study, books, and customs
  • Tension
  • Zohar and early mystical sources
  • The path to devekut : ecstatic and cordoverian teachings
  • Lurianic Kabbalah : berur, final sparks, and the mission of exile
  • Demons, the soul, and the afterlife
  • The banished consort : theurgy and the exiled Shekhinah.