Suckling at My Mother's Breasts: The Image of a Nursing God in Jewish Mysticism

Contents

Contents Hebrew and Aramaic Transliterations ix Introduction Kabbalistic Images, Relationality, and a Breastfeeding God 1 Chapter 1 Breastfeeding and Religious Transmission in Rabbinic Literature 15 Chapter 2 Suckling the Divine Overflow in Early Kabbalah 39 Chapter 3 God as a Nursing Mother in Sefer ha-Zohar 65 Chapter 4 Concluding Thoughts on the Nursing Divine 89 Notes 111 Bibliography 175 Index 189 vii ...