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Mystical bodies, mystical meals : eating and embodiment in medieval Kabbalah

Title: Mystical bodies, mystical meals : eating and embodiment in medieval Kabbalah / Joel Hecker.
Author: Hecker, Joel.
Publication: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Description

x, 282 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals is the first book-length study of eating practices and experiences in the kabbalah. Focusing on the Jewish mystical literature of late-thirteenth-century Spain, author Joel Hecker analyzes the ways in which the Zohar and other contemporaneous literature represent mystical attainment in their homilies about eating. What emerges is not only consideration of eating practices but, more broadly, the effects such practices and experiences have on the bodies of its practitioners." "Using anthropology, sociology, ritual studies, and gender theory, Hecker accounts for the internal topography of the body as imaginatively conceived by kabbalists."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology

Uniform Title

Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology.

Subjects

Cabala > History
Dinners and dining > Religious aspects > Judaism
Mysticism > Judaism
Zohar
Sacred meals

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-270) and index.

Contents

1. "Give heed to me, and you shall eat choice food" : the religious significance of eating in Judaism from the Bible to the Kabbalah -- 2. "A blessing in the belly" : mystical satiation -- 3. "The bread of angels" : the role of idealized foods -- 4. "I am so glad to see the face of the Shekhinah!" : the social aspects of meals -- 5. "Blessing does not rest on an empty place" : talismanic theurgy -- 6. "He makes peace and increases peace between the supernal realm and the lower realm" : augmentation theurgy at mystical meals.

ISBN

0814331815 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004017355

OCLC

ocm56033364
SCSB-5223568

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries