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Adam Kadmon
Primordial man, a term used in the Kabbalah to denote the stage of the divine unfolding which provides the link between En Sof and the Sefirot.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
(Heb., ‘the Infinite’).
Kabbalistic designation of God in his transcendence. The term first appeared in the 13th century in the
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2 ed.)
(; No End), kabbalistic term indicating the supreme divinity, the Godhead, the source of all divine and earthly existence. It may have originated with Hebrew descriptions of the ...
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Emanation
Expressions of power or wisdom from a higher being, making connection between an uninvolved or uncontaminated source, and imperfect (because contingent) appearance. Emanations are characteristically ...
God, name of in Judaism
Because of God's exalted nature, his name is sacred. The tetragrammaton is never pronounced, and Adonai (the Lord) or Ha-Shem (the name) is substituted. In the Aramaic targums, the name ...
Habad
The movement and tendency within Hasidism which places particular emphasis on the role of the intellect in the life of religion. Habad (often spelled Chabad in English) is an acronym formed from the ...
kabbalah
The ancient Jewish tradition of mystical interpretation of the Bible, first transmitted orally and using esoteric methods (including ciphers). It reached the height of its influence in the later ...
Menaḥem ʿazaryah Da Fano
(1548–1620), Italian rabbi and kabbalist. He lived in various Italian cities and as a wealthy man was a patron of scholarship. His influence on medieval Jewish thought was largely through ...
Moses Cordovero
Safed Kabbalist (1522–70) whose family probably came from Cordoba in Spain. Cordovero was a disciple of Joseph Karo in Talmudic and Halakhic studies and of his brother-in-law, Solomon Alkabetz, in ...
Refa’el ʿimmanu’el Ricchi
(1688–1743), rabbi and kabbalist born in Ferrara, Italy, who wandered throughout the Mediterranean area, including the Holy Land. For twelve years he served as rabbi in Florence and lived for ...
Sefirot
The powers or potencies in the Godhead as taught by the Kabbalah. The doctrine features prominently in the Zohar, although the Zohar does not actually use the word Sefirot, preferring terms such as ...
Via negativa
‘The Negative Way’, of speaking of God. The proponents of this way believe that God is so beyond all human comprehension that it is only possible for humans to describe what He is not, never to ...
Zohar
‘Illumination’ or ‘Brightness’, the classical work of the Kabbalah, containing the record of revelations regarding the divine mysteries alleged to have been vouchsafed to the second century teacher ...
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