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The Kabbalistic Tree / האילן הקבלי (Hardcover)
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The Kabbalistic Tree / האילן הקבלי (Hardcover)
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Ilanot—parchment sheets presenting the kabbalistic “tree of
life”—have been at the center of Jewish mystical practice for
the past seven hundred years. Written by leading ilanot expert
J. H. Chajes, The Kabbalistic Tree is a comprehensive and
gorgeously illustrated history of these arboreal “maps of God.”
This book documents when, where, and why Jews began to visualize
and to draw the mystical shape of the Divine as a Porphyrian tree.
At once maps, mandalas, and memory palaces, ilanot provided
kabbalists with diagrammatic representations of their structured
image of God. Scrolling an ilan parchment in contemplative study,
the kabbalist participated mimetically in tikkun, the development
and perfection of Divinity. Chajes reveals the complex lore behind
these objects. His survey begins with the classical ilanot of
pre-expulsion Spain, Byzantine Crete, Kurdistan, Yemen, and
Renaissance Italy. A close examination of the ilanot inspired by
the Kabbalah taught by R. Isaac Luria in sixteenth-century Safed
follows, and Chajes concludes with explorations of modern ilan
amulets and printed ilanot. With attention to the contexts of their
creation and how they were used, The Kabbalistic Tree investigates
ilanot from collections around the world, including forty from the
incomparable Gross Family Collection. With 250 never-before-seen
images reproduced in stunning quality, this chronological and
typological survey is a singular combination of exquisite art and
foundational scholarship. Specialists in early modern history,
religion, art history, and esotericism, as well as those fascinated
by Kabbalah and its iconography, will enthusiastically embrace
Chajes’s iconic work.
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