Jewish Concepts of Scripture

150 Aaron W. Hughes interpret it in such a manner that it means something diff erent? If Genesis claims that Abraham cooked a bu ...

Concepts of Scripture in Nahmanides 151 curred in a vision of night. Linking his disagreement with Maimonides to kabbalistic int ...

152 Aaron W. Hughes And in their love I will grow And with them we will have Discussions, investigations, and examinations . . . ...

Concepts of Scripture in Nahmanides 153 power of potency, fi t to assume form and to proceed from potentiality into reality. Th ...

154 Aaron W. Hughes Conclusions Nahmanides’s conception of scripture is multifaceted. Drawing on the work of previous scholars s ...

Concepts of Scripture in Nahmanides 155 See, e.g., Yitzhak Baer, A History of the Jews in Christian Spain, 2 vols. (Phila- delp ...

156 Aaron W. Hughes Ramban, commentary to Genesis 1:1, 1:13 – 15 (1:22). Ibid. On the role of this text in medieval Jewish thou ...

157 Chapter 10 Concepts of Scripture in Jewish Mysticism Moshe Idel Th e correlation between any Jewish theology and the concept ...

158 Moshe Idel names of God that are otherwise not known and that these names have the power to aff ect God and/or to aff ect th ...

Concepts of Scripture in Jewish Mysticism 159 God created the world. If this is so, then the question needed to be asked: what w ...

160 M o s h e I d e l of a human being. Th is concept usually appears together with the notion of the Torah as a divine name, an ...

Concepts of Scripture in Jewish Mysticism 161 Th e identifi cations, “God’s name = God’s body” and “name = Torah,” recall Ezra b ...

162 Moshe Idel defi nitions) was projected onto the divine realm. Kabbalistic symbolism of this sort facilitated a move from the ...

Concepts of Scripture in Jewish Mysticism 163 detailed explanation of the manner in which someone may have a sense of direct con ...

164 Moshe Idel unconcerned with these verbal meanings. Th is latter approach attends to an aspect of the text that precedes and ...

Concepts of Scripture in Jewish Mysticism 165 the opposite direction. Th e lower entity, the Torah, refl ects a higher one, and ...

166 M o s h e I d e l in R. Joseph of Hamadan’s work: “a limb that holds up,” which means that the lower limb not only correspon ...

Concepts of Scripture in Jewish Mysticism 167 limbs are parallel not only because they possess a similar structure but also beca ...

168 M o s h e I d e l Instrumental and Talismanic Uses of Torah in Later Jewish Mysticism Th e notions that the Torah is a name ...

Concepts of Scripture in Jewish Mysticism 169 According to the Besht, then, by studying the Torah for the sake of the “name” (na ...