41, 43, 44, 45–49, 55, 72,
Sefer ha-Razim (The Book
89; in Christian kabbalah,
of Secrets), 14
64; Lilith and, 50, 51; Ma—
Sefer Yezira (The Book of
donna and, 104, 110; Vir—
Creation), 12, 15–18, 38,
gin Mary as, 48–49, 110
66; golem and, 105–106,
shevirah
(destruction), 73, 107;
sefirot
(divine pow-75–77, 81, 82
ers), 15, 16–17, 21, 25, 42
Shiur Komah (The Measure-
sefirot
(divine powers), 36, ment of the Height), 15,
41–45, 57, 89; as anthro—
19, 43
pomorphic text, 15, 43;
Shneersohn, Menachem
binah
(fountain), 43, 52; in Mendel, 100–101
Christian kabbalah, 64;
ein
Shulhan Arukh
(The Laid
sof
(infinity) and, 39–40, Table), 72
43;
hesed
(love and mercy), Simon (Jewish scholar), 63
43, 44, 45;
hokhmah
(wis-Solomon, king of Israel, 4
dom), 43, 44;
keter
(divine Soloveitchik, Dov Baer, 108– will), 40, 43, 44, 82; in
109
Lurianic kabbalah, 70, 74,
Song of Songs, 15, 43
76; numbers and, 17, 19,
soul, 33, 45, 81, 82
29, 45; in Sefer Yezira, 15,
Spanish kabbalists, 3, 20, 27;
16–17, 21, 25, 42; struc—
exile of, 34–35, 86; Girona
ture of, 81–82;
tiferet
school, 5, 20, 25, 27, 48;
(sixth
sefirah
), 43, 45, 46; Moses de Leon, 5, 26, 29,
Zohar and, 29, 43, 55, 82
30, 32, 52.
See also
Zohar
semikhah
(ordination), 71
(de Leon)
sermons, 31–32, 33, 38–39
spiritual intentions
(kavanot),
Shaaey Ora
(The Gates of 38, 57
Light), xii, 29
spirituality, 8, 24, 95; com—
Shalom Ashkenazi, Joseph
mandments and, 53–59;
ben, 34
rationalistic philosophy
Shavuot holiday, 80
and, 53–54;
shefa
(divine
shefa
(divine flow), 40, 46, flow) and, 54–56
54–56, 58
Sufi literature, 10
128
I N D E X
taamey mitzvot
(reasons of traditionalists, 37–38
commandments), 53–54
transmission, 2, 4; oral, 2
Talmud, x, 5, 6, 27, 89;
Treatise on the Emanations on
Babylonian, 106; creation
the Left
(ha-Cohen), 50, 52
story in, 11, 16; golem in,
tree, of divine world, 21–22
106; Hassidic threat to,
truth, 9, 108; divine, 2–3, 4,
95; on prophecy, 86; sages
10, 29
of, 2, 13; Zohar and, 29
talmudic literature, 1–2, 46
ultraorthodoxy, 72, 77, 81,
tanaim
(Mishnah sages), 20, 93
37
university campuses, 69
tehiru
(emptiness), 74, 75–76
utterances
(ma’amarot),
42
temple in Jerusalem, 33, 46,
74
vessels
(kelim),
74; breaking tetragrammaton (YHVH), 44
of, 57, 58, 75–76, 78
theurgy, 56, 57–58
Virgin Mary, 48–49, 110
tiferet
(sixth
sefirah),
43, 45, visionary experience, 38, 39
46
Vision of Ezekiel
(More), 65
tikkun
(redemption), 77–81, Vital, Hayyim, 73, 79, 80,
82; Sabbatian messianism
81, 82
and, 86, 88, 89; spiritual—
von Rosenroth, Christian
ization and, 57–58, 59.
See
Knorr, 66
also
redemption Tikuney Zohar (Emenda—
Western culture, 110.
See also
tions of Zohar), 31
European culture
Tishby, Isaiah, 30, 31, 39, 73,
Williams, Michael, 23
75
Wisdom of the Zohar
(Tishby), Torah, 2, 32, 59, 73, 77;
30, 31
messianism and, 90, 91,
92.
See also
command-Yehuda Ashlag, Rav, 31
ments
yesod
(ninth
sefirah),
44, 45,
torah de-azilut
, 19, 39–40, 41, 82
43, 44–45, 90
YHVH (tetragrammaton), 44
tradition, 39, 41, 68; Jewish,
Yohai, Eleazar bar, 31
2, 41, 67, 68, 77; secret, 3–
Yohai, Shimeon bar, 31, 32,
4
63, 71
129
I N D E X
yordey ha-merkavah
(descend-Zohar (de Leon), x, 26, 29– ers to the chariot), 14–15
34, 39, 40, 63; authorship
of, 29–30; Christian
zaddik
(Hasidic leader), 96– kabbalah and, 63; com—
99, 102
mandments in, 54, 57;
zahzahot
(source of light), 40
commentary on, 72, 108,
Zalman, Shemur, 100
110; Latin translation of,
Zevi, Shabbatai, 79, 84, 85–86,
66; Lurianism and, 5, 73,
87; conversion to Islam,
80; realm of evil in, 52–53;
88–89, 90; reincarnations
sefirot
(divine powers) in, of, 91, 92.
See also
Sabbatian 29, 43, 55, 82; sermons in,
messianism
31–32, 33;
shekhinah
(femi-zimzum
(constriction), 73– nine power) in, 45, 48.
See
75, 81, 82
also
bar Yohai, Shimeon Zioni, Menahem, 34
Zohar Hadash (The New
Zionism, 98
Zohar), 31
130