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Shalom Shar'abi and the Kabbalists of Beit El (Hardcover, New)
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Shalom Shar'abi and the Kabbalists of Beit El (Hardcover, New)
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Pinchas Giller offers a wide-ranging overview of the most
influential school of kabbalah in modernity, the Jerusalem
kabbalists of the Beit El Yeshivah. The school is associated with
the writings and personality of a charismatic Yemenite Rabbi,
Shalom Shar'abi. Shar'abi's activity overwhelmed the Jerusalem
Kabbalah of the eighteenth-century, and his acolytes are the most
active mystics in contemporary Middle Eastern Jewry to this day.
Today, this meditative tradition is rising in popularity in
Jerusalem, New York, and Los Angeles, both among traditional Beit
El kabbalists and memebers of the notorious Kabbalah Learning
Centers. After providing the historical setting, Giller examines
the characteristic mystical practices of the Beit El School. The
dominant practice is that of ritual prayer with mystical
"intentions", or kavvanot. The kavvanot themselves are the product
of thousands of years of development, and incorporate many
traditions and bodies of lore. Giller examines the archaeology of
the kavvanot literature, the principle of the sacred names that
make up the majority of kavvanot, the development of particular
rituals, and the innovative mystical and devotional practices of
the Beit El kabbalists to this day. The first book in the English
language to address the character and spread of jewish mysticism
through the Middle East in early modernity, it will be a guide post
for further study of this vast topic.
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