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Index This index is designed to help locate authors, titles and subjects that appear in the body of the text and in the endnotes. Classical works cited in the endnotes en passant have generally been omitted. Detailed information has been provided in certain cases: Biblical, Rabbinic, Bahir, and Zoharic references have been annotated; and a sefirotic lexicon, provided. Key Hebrew and technical terms have also been indexed (and their definitions cited) to aid the non-specialist. Abraham bar J:Iiyya, 41n.1O Abraham ben David of Posquieres. See RaBaD Abraham ha-Kohen, 154n.107 Abudraham, David, 78, 175-76n.231, 247n.21. See also Sefer 'Abudraham Abulafia, Abraham, 12-13, 15, 22, 46-47nn.30-33, 54n.79, 104n.154, 150n.79 Abulafia, Todros ha-Levi, 15, 70-71, 72, 75-76, 87, 146n.48, 189, 245n.18. See also 'O.~ar haKavod ; Shacar ha-Razim 'Adam Qadmon, 29-30, 32 'Aggadah, defined, 21 Albeck, Chanoch (J:Ianokh), 249n.37 Albo, Joseph, 22, 54n.79, 78, 151n.83, 170n.208 AI-Bo!ini, Judah, 46n.33 Alcastiel, Joseph, 144n.38 AI-Naqawa, Israel, 52n.67, 78, 105, 178n.244. See also Menorat haMa 'or Alon, Gedaliayahu, 249n.37 Alter, Robert, 58n.108 Altmann, Alexander, 41n.7, 46n.29, 49n.50, 51n.62, 159n.129, 209n.26, 252n.44 Anatoli, Jacob, 67-68 Andreassen, N.A., 138n.6 Androgyny, divine, 7, 17, 30, 70-71, 98, 99, 106-107, 109-11, 145n.42, 289-91 Asher ben David, 9, 72, 75, 146n.48, 147n.57 Angelino, Joseph, 50n.59 Ankori, Zvi, 249n.37 Apokatastasis. See Hitballecut Apotropaic, defined, 214n.49 cAqedat Yil:,~aq (Arama), 78, 151n.83, 209n.30 Ariel, David, 52n.66 Arama, Isaac, 78, 209n.30. See also cAqedat Yil:,~aq Aristobulus, 62, 139n.8, 140n.11 Asher ben Saul of Lunel, 179n.250 cAsiyyah, world of, 180n.267 Assaf, Sim~ah, 179n.250 cAtarah. See Malkhut: as Diadem; Shekhinah: as Diadem cAvodat ha-Qodesh (ibn Gabbai), 145-46n.46, 194, 209n.30, 290, 296 Axis mundi. See Sabbath: as center and axis mundi; Yesad: as Foundation of the Cosmos 'Ayin (divine Nothingness), 11, 31, 34-35, 45nn.25 and 28, 55n.85, 99 Azriel of Gerona, 9, 10, 25, 34, 45n.28, 70, 75, 80-81, 123-24, 147n.56, 179n.254, 209n.28 Azulai, Avraham, 291-92 319 320 Index Baer, Yitz~ak F., 48-49n.46, 52n.66, 52n.70, 58n.105, 279n.13 Bahir, Seter hadiscussed , 5-6, 7, 10, 41n.10, 41-42n.11, 42nn.12-13, 42-43n.14, 43nn.15-16, 44n.17, 46n.30, 69-71, 75, 79-80, 87, 102, 106-108, 110, 112, 123, 150n.79, 151n.83, 152n.88, 165n.169, 169n.193, 170nn.196-97, 208-209n.25 specific passages analyzed (ff. Margaliot ed.), sec. 82, pp. 208-209n.25; sec. 86, p. 169n.193; sec. 131, p. 43n.14; sec. 157, pp. 80, 123; sec. 158, p. 123; sec. 159, pp. 87, 165n.169; sec. 180, pp. 71, 87, 156n.118; sec. 181, pp. 71, 107; sec. 182, p. 107, 156n.118; sec. 183, p. 80 Ba~yya ben Asher, 20, 76, 91, 110, 125, 148n.63, 149n.68, 151n.83, 156nn.115 and 120, 159n.135, 164n.I64, 207n.15, 209n.25, 285-86 Bava' Me~ica' (TB), 84a, p. 282n.230 Bava' Qamma' (TB), 32a-b, pp. 102, 105; 82a, pp. 114, 212n.36, 292 Bei~ah (TB), 16a, pp. 122, 180n.262, 260, 262; 17a, p. 280n.24 Bei~ah (fosetta?, 2:2, p. 280n.24 Bekhorot (TB), 40a, p. 247n.28 Ben-Shlomo, Joseph, 148n.62 Bension, Ariel, 50n.60 Berakhot (Mishnah), 8:6, pp. 21On.34, 271, 281n.29 Berakhot (TB), 17a, pp. 185n.292, 294; 33a, p. 259; 43b, pp. 262, 265; 49a, p. 280n.24 Berger, Peter, 205n.3 Beri'ah, world of, 180n.267, 238, 275 Besamim, defined, 261 Be'ur le-Ferush ha-RaMBaN. See Be'ur Sodot ha-RaMBaN Be'ur Sodot ha-RaMBaN (ibn Shuayb; edited, ibn Sahula), 77, Ill, 149nn.68-69, 180n.262, 213n.41 Biale, David, 40nn.I-2, 41n.3 Bialik, H.N., 140n.15 Binah (sefirah) as Ark, 196 as Cistern, 82 as Eden. 81, 82, 121, 291 as Eternal Life, 288 as Fire, 283n.36 as Freedom, 99 as Garden, 4 gates of, 174n.223, 284n.41 as Grape Cluster, 279n.ll as he' (H) in Tetragrammaton, 30 as ~olam, 157-58n.126 as Holy of Holies, 86, 196...

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