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Peering Through the Lattices - Mystical, Magical and Pietistic Dimensions in the Tosafist Period (Hardcover)
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Peering Through the Lattices - Mystical, Magical and Pietistic Dimensions in the Tosafist Period (Hardcover)
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During the high Middle Ages, the tosafists flourished in northern
Europe and revolutionized the study of the Talmud. These Jewish
scholars did not participate in the philosophical and religious
thought that concerned Christendom, and today they are seen as
having played a limited role in mystical or esoteric studies.
Ephraim Kanarfogel now challenges this conventional view of the
tosafists, showing that many individuals were influenced by ascetic
and pietistic practices and were involved with mystical and magical
doctrines. He traces the presence of these disciplines in the
pre-Crusade period, shows how they are intertwined, and suggests
that the widely available Hekhalot literature was an important
conduit for this material. He also demonstrates that the asceticism
and esotericism of the German Pietists were an integral part of
Ashkenazic rabbinic culture after the failure of Rashbam and other
early tosafists to suppress these aspects of pre-Crusade thinking.
The identification of these various forms of spirituality places
the tosafists among those medieval rabbinic thinkers who sought to
supplement their Talmudism with other areas of knowledge such as
philosophy and kabbalah, demonstrating the compatibility of
rabbinic culture and mysticism. These interests, argues Kanarfogel,
explain both references to medieval Ashkenazic rabbinic figures in
kabbalistic literature and the acceptance of certain ascetic and
mystical practices by later Ashkenazic scholars. Drawing on
original manuscript research, Kanarfogel makes available for the
first time many passages produced by lesser known tosafists and
rabbinic figures and integrates the findings of earlier and
contemporary scholarship, much of it published only in Hebrew.
"Peering through the Lattices" provides a greater appreciation for
these texts and opens up new opportunities for scholarhship in
Jewish history and thought.
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