Mystical bodies, mystical meals : eating and embodiment in medieval Kabbalah / Joel Hecker.
Series: Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropologyPublisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2005]Copyright date: �2005Description: 1 online resource (296 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 0814331815 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780814331811
- 9780814340035 (e-book)
- 296.8/2 22
- BM526 .H43 2005eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Give heed to me, and you shall eat choice food : the religious significance of eating in Judaism from the Bible to the Kabbalah -- A blessing in the belly : mystical satiation -- The bread of angels : the role of idealized foods -- I am so glad to see the face of the Shekhinah! : the social aspects of meals -- Blessing does not rest on an empty place : talismanic theurgy -- He makes peace and increases peace between the supernal realm and the lower realm : augmentation theurgy at mystical meals.
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