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Absorbing perfections, kabbalah and interpretation yale university press, new haven, 2002. Moshe idel is max cooper professor of jewish thought, hebrew university, and senior researcher at the shalom hartman institute, jerusalem. The first to focus attention on a specific center of kabbalah, moshe idel charts the ways that kabbalistic thought and literature developed in italy and how its unique geographical situation facilitated the arrival of both spanish and byzantine kabbalah. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the absorbing perfections kabbalah and interpretation, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country. The one who receives should try to receive the sefirot first in order to receive the divine overflow. Idel provides fresh insights into the origins of jewish mysticism, the relation between mystical and historical experience, and the impact of jewish mysticism on western civilization.
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