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Mystical bodies, mystical meals : eating and embodiment in medieval Kabbalah / Joel Hecker.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hecker, Joel.
- Series:
- Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zohar.
- Cabala--History.
- Cabala.
- History.
- Dinners and dining--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Dinners and dining.
- Mysticism--Judaism.
- Mysticism.
- Sacred meals.
- Physical Description:
- x, 282 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2005]
- Contents:
- Give heed to me, and you shall eat choice food : the religious significance of eating in Judaism from the Bible to the Kabbalah
- A blessing in the belly : mystical satiation
- The bread of angels : the role of idealized foods
- I am so glad to see the face of the Shekhinah! : the social aspects of meals
- Blessing does not rest on an empty place : talismanic theurgy
- He makes peace and increases peace between the supernal realm and the lower realm : augmentation theurgy at mystical meals.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-270) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0814331815
- OCLC:
- 56033364
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