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By Elliot Wolfson

This long-awaited, magisterial study-an exceptional mixture of philosophy, poetry, and philology-draws on theories of sexuality, phenomenology, comparative faith, philological writings on Kabbalah, Russian formalism, Wittgenstein, Rosenzweig, William Blake, and the very physics of the time-space continuum to set up what's going to absolutely be a highwater mark in paintings on Kabbalah. not just a examine of texts, Language, Eros, Being could be the fullest war of words of the physique in Jewish reviews, if no longer in non secular experiences as a whole.

Elliot R. Wolfson explores the complicated gender symbolism that permeates Kabbalistic literature. targeting the nexus of asceticism and eroticism, he seeks to outline the function of symbolic and poetically charged language within the erotically configured visionary mind's eye of the medieval Kabbalists. He demonstrates that the normal Kabbalistic view of gender was once a monolithic and androcentric one, within which the female was once conceived as being derived from the masculine. He doesn't slash from the detrimental implications of this doctrine, yet seeks to make a good acknowledgment of it because the first step towards the redemption of
an historical wisdom.

Comparisons with different mystical traditions-including these in Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam-are a awesome characteristic during the booklet. they're going to make it very important way past Jewish reports, certainly, a needs to for historians of comparative faith, particularly of comparative mysticism.

Praise for Elliot R. Wolfson:
"Through a Speculum That Shines is a crucial and provocative contribution
to the learn of Jewish mysticism through one of many significant students now operating during this field."-Speculum

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