By Oded Yisraeli, Liat Keren
ISBN-10: 3110439506
ISBN-13: 9783110439502
This monograph discusses the Zohar, an important booklet of the Kabbalah, as a past due strata of the Midrashic literature. the writer concentrates at the 'expanded' biblical tales within the Zohar and on its dating to the traditional Talmudic Aggadah. The analytical and important exam of those biblical topics finds facets of continuity and alter within the background of the outdated Aggadic tale and its manner into the Zoharic corpus.
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For this structure of the zoharic homily, see Hellner-Eshed (: – ); Matt (). For examples of this approach in the works of Moses de Léon, see Matt (: – ). 24 Chapter 3: From the Rabbinic to Zoharic Aggada for the most part in an interpretive context that is closely tied to the biblical text and not relating to essential ideas. In general, the Zohar only appeals to them when the textual base it requires for its homily is already “taken” by the rabbinic homily and it needs space for the new zoharic innovation.
While their spiritual language differs, Moses de Léon and the Zohar thus both reflect the spirit of the ancient midrash. The second trend is that of radicalization. While the texts that exemplify this direction preserve the spirit of the early source they “stretch” it far beyond its original scope, at time radically expanding its parameters. Here, the creative endeavour to apply the ancient literary motif or myth to foreign theological or eth Early on, Liebes (a: ) noted that the talmudic story frequently receives systemic formulation in the kabbalistic literature, being reworked into rigid frameworks.
This exegetical crux—echoed in the tannaitic dispute in the baraita—is adduced and elucidated by the amoraim. ” According to a literal understanding, its uniqueness lies in its power—and possibly also its physical quality, which grants human beings the ability to see (“one could see and look thereby”) great distances (“from one end of the world to the other”). Although the tannaim do not explain why the light was hidden, the amora R. Eleazar understands their words as indicating that God concealed it when He saw the wickedness of the generations of the flood and dispersion.
Temple Portals: Studies in Aggadah and Midrash in the Zohar by Oded Yisraeli, Liat Keren
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