Search Results: 138 openings of wisdom by avraham yehoshua greenbaum

Azamra Institut. New. New Azamra Institut, 2005 New Luzzatto's outstanding kabbalistic work is Kela? (= 138) Pit?ei ?okhmah, a systematic exposition of the Lurianic Kabbalah There Luzzatto demonstrates the task which he has undertaken in the history of the Kabbalah: to reveal the internal meaning (nimshal) of the paradigms (meshalim) so numerous in the Lurianic writings, to which they tend to give an anthropomorphic coloring Luzzatto often quotes from the works of Maimonides; in the same spirit he believes that it will be thus possible to get rid of the main cause of error concerning what is divine: materialization (hagshamah) Rejecting an interpretation which would accept the Lurianic descriptions literally (ki-feshuto) and in a materialistic sense, is for Luzzatto also part of the fight he is leading against Shabbateanism Kela? Pit?ei ?okhmah is the perfect illustration of the close connection between logic and Kabbalah in the works of Luzzatto The very structure of that treatise is built on… Read More