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contents Foreword · xi Acknowledgments · xv Introduction · 1 Part I: Early Jewish Mysticism 1 From Earthly Temple to Heavenly Temple: Impurity in Early Jewish Mysticism · 15 2 The Mysticism of the Beraita d’Niddah · 28 3 Menstruation and the Mystics of Ashkenaz · 43 Part II: Medieval Kabbalah 4 Menstrual Impurity and Mystical Praxis in Theosophical Kabbalah · 63 5 The Myth of the Menstruating Shekhinah · 75 6 The Ontic Metamorphosis of the Menstruating Shekhinah · 84 7 The Interplay between Myth, Science, and Law · 98 Part iii: Mysticism & Menstruation in Islam & Christianity 8 Menstrual Impurity and Sufism · 127 9 Menstrual Impurity in Medieval Christianity · 144 Conclusion · 172 Notes · 177 Bibliography · 237 Index · 277 ...

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