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Index Abulafia, Abraham, 12 Abulafia, Todros, 46, 134n, 152n aggadah, 18, Adam, xvi, 33, 41-43, 43, 55, 92, 94, 96, 108 145n fall of, 33-40 angels, 25, 72, A~ilut, 55, 127 Azriel of Gerona, 134n, 148n Baer, Yi?l}.ak, 26, 29, 42, 44-45, 50, 61-62, 79, 144, 146n, 152n Bahir, 7, 35, 42, 53, 142n, 152n, 159n beasts of the Chariot, 86 Beriah, 48, 54, 75, 127 birds, 143n-144n blood, 76, 93, 101, 156n 175 bod~ 17,84,95-97, 100, 103, 158n bile 101, 102, 159n heart, 100, 101 liver, 101-102 lungs, 100, 102 spine, 103-104 spleen, 102 chaos, xvi, 33-54, 57 Christianity, 44-45, 51, 62, 158n Christian pietists of Castile, 26, 29, 44-45 circumcision, 35, 90-93, 115, 155n, 156n Cohen, Jacob and Isaac, 46, 134n Cordovero, Moshe, I, 18, 24, 94, 124, 130n, 131n, 133n, 138n, 140n, 176 151n, 153n, 155n, 158n, 159n Dan, Joseph, 129n, 134n, 135n, 141n, 144n, 146n, 150n David ben Yehudah haljasid ,9 Day of Atonement, 45 de Leon, Moshe, 3, 13, 45, 94, 126, 130n, 134n demonic, 24, 35,41,46-53, 55,84-89,101-102,152n didacticism, 11 dove, 9, 31, 43-44, 50 egaz, 9, 92 Ein Saf, 23, 55, 56 Eleazer of Worms, 10 Eliezer, Rabbi, 38-39, 9294 , 95 Elijah, 1,5, 92, 131n, 134n Elijah, the Gaan of Vilna, 144n eroticism 31,116, 151n152n Eve, 35, 37,40,42-43,108 evil, 144n, 145n, 152n see also: demonic Ezra of Gerona, 134n flood, xvi, 43-45 foreskin, 35, 92-93 forty-nine, 52, 72, 147 Galante, Avraham, 130n, 133n,138n Index Gikatilla, Joseph, 9, 11, 12, 14-17, 19, 134n, 137n gilgul, 34, 111 Ginsburg, Elliot, 160n-162n gnosticism, 34, 39,46, 119120 God abstraction of, 18, as Anthropos, 84, 93, 94, 100, 103-104 attributes of, 17-18 immanence of, 54-57, 124 Goldreich, Amos, 30, 131n, 133n, 134n, 140n, 145n, 150n, 151n, 152n, 159n, 161n Gottlieb, Ephraim, 130n, 131n, 133n Green, Arthur, 135n, 140n, 141n, 146n, 153n, 156n Guide far the Perplexed , 136n, 154n halakhah, xvii, 59-79, 82, 90, 125-126 and the demonic, 8396 as slavery, 65 as stonemasonry, 65--68, 70 as a shield, 66 ha-Levi, Judah, 13 I]allah, 91 I]amar, 65, 76, 90, 149n I]ayyat, 157n Hebrew alphabet 11, Index 177 Ibn Gabbai, Meir, 161n Idel, Moshe, 130n, 135n, 142n, 145n, 150n, 156n idolatry, 152n Idrat, 1, 3, 5, 26, 93-94, 129n, 156n Idrah Rabbah 132n impurity, 84-85 Isaac ben Samuel of Acre, 55,134n Islam, 51 Joachim de Fiore, 43-45 Joseph of Hamadan, 161n Kabbalah, 2, 3,59-79,120121 theosophical 3, 7, 8, 10, 19, 22, 40, 84, 107,111,117,125 kamei farah, 136n, Kiener, Ronald, 14, 146n kinnui, xvi, 12, 13-20, 56, 137n law, 154n, see halakhah of damages, 86-89 of guardianship, 87 levirate marriage, 19 Lieberman, Saul, 135n, 136n Liebes, Yehudah, 3, 129n, 130n, 135n, 138n, 139n,140n, 141n, 148n, 150n-151n, 152n-155n, 156n, 157n, 158n Lilit, 36-37,47,49, 75, 89, 102, 144n, 145n Luria, David, 133n Luria, Isaac, 94, 153n maidservant, 75-77,84, 102,109,116 Maimonides, 5, 13, 18, 57, 84, 99, 136n, 137n, 154n, 158n, 159n Margoliot, Reuven, 133n, 139n, 142n, 154n, 157n, 159n, 162n Masekhet A?ilut, 55 maskilim, xvi, 21-25, 26, 27-28,57,59,72,76,90, 93,99,105,111,123124 , 126-127 Masters of the Mishnah 13, 27,51-52,60,65,68,7174 , 88, 96, 103-104, 151n Matt, Daniel c., ix, 147n, 154n, 155n, 157n, 158n maHah, 54, 82 Messiah, 29, 30, 52, 68, 149n, 150n Metatron, 30,54, 72-73 me?i?ah, 156n midrash, 33-34 Midrash ha-Ne'elam, 22 Mishnah, 30, 71, 73, 75, 77,114 mixed multitude ('erev rav), 41,49,75,90,101-102 mi~vot, 75, 81-102, 95-96, 103, 107, 126 Moses,S, 29, 34, 38, 44, 5253 , 78, 60, 67-68, 70, 75, 146n 178 Moshe de Burgos, 46, 134n mother-archetype, 12 mystical experience 20, 21, mystics 21, 30-32, 26, 29, 32, 43, 44-45, 125 Nal].manides, 5, 10, 134n, 135n, 137n, 145n, 148n Names of God, 10, 14-17, 56, 89, 110-111 forty-two letter, 10 ineffable, 138n, kinnuyim as, 137n seventy-two letter, 10 temurot, 11 Neoplatonism, 34,46,55, Or Yaqar , 131n, 138n pardes, 53, 63-64, 69-71, 150n PatalJ Eliyahu...

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