Concept
Jewish mysticism
Overview
different forms of mysticism in Jewish history
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So they can only be the objects of private and local rites. But after the idea has once been established, it naturally spreads to the higher spheres of the religious life, and thus mythical personalities of a superior order are born. Though the ceremonies of the different clans differ from one another, they all belong to the same religion, none the less; also, a certain number of essential similarities exist between…
Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Close in meaning to Jewish mysticism; the term itself is not named.
Not only do these other tribal gods exist alongside of Jahve, but the patriarchal sagas centre about individuals that resemble now demonic and now divine beings. The most remarkable of these figures is Jacob. In the account of his personality there seem to be mingled legends of differing origin, dating from a time probably far earlier than the developed Jahve cult. The scene with his father-in-law, Laban, represents…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
Close in meaning to Jewish mysticism; the term itself is not named.
But as men ceased to believe in his supernatural origin and nature, his commands ceased to be the highest; and there arose a distinction between the regulations made by him, and the regulations handed down from the old god-kings, who were rendered ever more sacred by time and the accumulation of myths. Hence came respectively, Law and Morality: the one growing ever more concrete, the other more abstract; the…
Herbert Spencer, Essays on education and kindred subjects
Close in meaning to Jewish mysticism; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Jewish mysticism
- Gershom Scholem
- Walter Benjamin
- Franz Rosenzweig
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Hannah Arendt
- Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno
- Max Kadushin
Related ideas
- Hellenistic Judaism
- Renaissance magic
- Gershom Scholem
- Gnosticism
- History of the Jews in Germany
- Halakha
- Fustat
- Abraham ibn Ezra
- Hasidic Judaism
- Bahya ibn Paquda
- Alhambra Decree
- Iberian Peninsula
- Ashkenazi Jews
- Sephardic Jews
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
- Judaism
- Jewish eschatology
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
- Chabad
- Abraham Isaac Kook
- Jewish philosophy
- Kabbalah
- Shneur Zalman of Liadi
- Kingdom of Judah
Place in the tradition
Part of German philosophy.