eschewing classical
kabbalistic terminology, Heschel still employs many
The fact that this third book has been lost to us and that it bears such a title, perhaps underscores, by its very absence, the
Kabbalistic thought that Language simultaneously reflects both eternity and the messianic time to come.
Unlike Western astrology which is founded on the Gregorian calendar or the location of the sun,
kabbalistic astrology utilizes the Hebrew calendar which is based on the placements of the sun and the moon.
According to
Kabbalistic doctrine, (2) Jehovah, who is boundless and beyond comprehension, combined twenty-two letters with the Sephiroth, ten attributes such as understanding, mercy, and symmetry, to generate the universe.
This enumeration of human anatomy leads directly to more esoteric
kabbalistic considerations: the Pentateuch consists of 5,550 verses and is divided into five books, just as the Book of Psalms is traditionally divided into five sections (Midrash Tehillim 1.
Therefore, a union with "nothingness" has retained some of its literal meaning in Hassidism, which is heavily based on
Kabbalistic symbolism.
Therefore I propose a differentiation between qualitative phenomena (innovative and complex
kabbalistic works) and quantitative phenomena (the popularization of Kabbalah).
However, in some early
Kabbalistic writings composed in Catalunia, the assumption is that the performance of the commandments has not only an accumulative effect on high for the fate of the souls of the dead, but also in the very present, when the pious souls are endowed by a light stemming from above, as a retribution for her keeping the commandments.
Then, out of the blue, an old manuscript falls into his hands, the tale of Eleazar, a
Kabbalistic adept whose successive appearances presage some portentous event.
The name Avenue 18 was a reference to
kabbalistic numerology, in which 18 was a lucky number that stood for "life" and "completeness", Burger said.
Moving along the fault-lines of the
Kabbalistic grounds upon which the edifice of the contemporary American literary theory was to rest, with a view to explore and possibly penetrate the fissures, this paper suggests the possibility of comparativizing a Poetics of tradition, metonymized here through the sign of qiblah.
The omnipresence of the Divine would become an indispensable component of
Kabbalistic ideology.
