List Books » Physician of the Soul and Healer of the Cosmos: Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic Fellowship
Authors: Lawrence Fine
ISBN-13: 9780804738255, ISBN-10: 0804738254
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: April 2003
Edition: 1
Lawrence Fine is Irene Kaplan Leiwant Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion at Mount Holyoke College. His most recent book is Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages Through the Early Modern Period (ed).
This is a study of Isaac Luria (1534-72), one of the most remarkable and influential figures of late-medieval and early-modern Jewish mysticism. It looks primarily at Luria as a real historical figure, in the context of his relationship with his circle of disciples in the Galilean city of Safed, the great center of kabbalistic thought and teaching.
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Note to Readers | ||
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Introduction: Embodying the Study of Lurianic Kabbalah | 1 | |
1 | Rabbinical Scholar, Spice Dealer, Contemplative Ascetic: Luria's Life in Egypt | 19 |
2 | Lamenting Exile, Striving for Redemption: Pre-Lurianic Safed | 41 |
3 | Saintliness, Heavenly Communication, and the Divinatory Arts: Luria's Charismatic Religious Authority | 78 |
4 | Lurianic Myth | 124 |
5 | Physician of the Soul | 150 |
6 | Tiqqun: Healing the Cosmos Through the Performance of Mitsvot | 187 |
7 | Tiqqun: Healing the Cosmos Through Devotional Prayer | 220 |
8 | Communing with the "Very Special Dead": The Practice of Yihudim | 259 |
9 | Metempsychosis, Mystical Fellowship, and Messianic Redemption | 300 |
Notes | 361 | |
Select Bibliography | 445 | |
Index | 469 |