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A river flows from Eden : the language of mystical experience in the Zohar / Melila Hellner-Eshed ; translated from the Hebrew by Nathan Wolski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hellner-Eshed, Melila.
- Standardized Title:
- Ṿe-nahar yotse me-ʻEden. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zohar.
- Cabala.
- Mysticism--Judaism.
- Mysticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (490 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the Zohar, the jewel in the crown of Jewish mystical literature, the verse "A river flows from Eden to water the garden" (Genesis 2:10) symbolizes the river of divine plenty that unceasingly flows from the depths of divinity into the garden of reality. Hellner-Eshed's book investigates the flow of this river in the world of the Zoharic heroes, Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai and his disciples, as they embark upon their wondrous spiritual adventures. By focusing on the Zohar's language of mystical experience and its unique features, the author is able to provide remarkable scholarly insight into the mystical dimensions of the Zohar, namely the human quest for an enhanced experience of the living presence of the divine and the Zohar's great call to awaken human consciousness.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Figure of Rabbi Shim’on bar Yohai
- 2. The Companions of Rabbi Shim’on in Their Own Eyes
- 3. “Happy is this generation”
- 4. Mysticism of the Group
- 5. “While you walk on the way”
- 6. “In the wee hours of the night”
- 7. Wondrous Characters and Journeys in the Upper Worlds
- 8. Concealed and Revealed
- 9. Zoharic Midrash
- 10. “If you wake and rouse love”
- 11. “A river flows from Eden”
- 12. Descriptions of the Mystical Experience
- 13. General Characteristics of Zoharic Mystical Experience
- 14. The Zohar’s Three Main States of Mystical Consciousness
- 15. The Ability to Express Mystical Experience
- 16. On Books and Writing
- Concluding Remarks
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Names and Book Titles
- Index of Subjects and Terms
- Index of Works Quoted
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Hebrew in 2005 under the title Ve-nahar yotzei me-Eden."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-445) and indexes.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780804776240
- 0804776245
- OCLC:
- 676696285
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