This book addresses a central question in the study of Jewish
mysticism in the medieval and early modern periods: why are there
no known female mystics in medieval Judaism, unlike contemporaneous
movements in Christianity and Islam? Sharon Faye Koren demonstrates
that the male rejection of female mystical aspirations is based in
deeply rooted attitudes toward corporeality and ritual purity. In
particular, medieval Jewish male mystics increasingly emphasized
that the changing states of the female body between ritual purity
and impurity disqualified women from the quest for mystical
connection with God.
Offering a provocative look at premodern rabbinical views of the
female body and their ramifications for women's spiritual
development, Koren compares Jewish views with medieval Christian
and Muslim views of both female menstruation and the possibility of
female mystical experience.
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