Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah / Joel Hecker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hecker, Joel.

Series:

Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zohar.

Sacred meals.

Mysticism--Judaism.

Mysticism.

Dinners and dining--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Dinners and dining.

Cabala--History.

Cabala.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals is the first book-length study of mystical eating practices and experiences in the kabbalah. Focusing on the Jewish mystical literature of late-thirteenth-century Spain, author Joel Hecker analyzes the ways in which the Zohar and other contemporaneous literature represent mystical attainment in their homilies about eating. What emerges is not only consideration of eating practices but, more broadly, the effects such practices and experiences have on the bodies of its practitioners.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-270) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8143-4003-2

OCLC:

868219126