| After this digression, let us now return to the historic development of the kabbalistic movement. |
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| In this book he offers an innocent interpretation of his own kabbalistic amulets, deciphered by his opponents as heretical. |
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| In spite of the fervor which kabbalistic studies had engendered, they had never reached beyond the circles of initiates. |
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| According to other kabbalistic authors, the sefirot are summed up in kavod, the divine glory. |
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| Towards 1200 a fully developed kabbalistic system is to be found almost everywhere. |
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| As the Chief Rabbi of the kabbalistic city of Safed, he probably felt he held some sway. |
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| Imbued with the quasi-monistic tendency of much kabbalistic and hasidic teaching, Kook understands Teshuvah as the drive of all existence to return to its source in the One. |
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| Among these kabbalistic treatises inspired by the Zohar, the commentary on the Pentateuch by Menahem of Recanati, the first representative of the new movement in Italy, must be mentioned. |
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| Before continuing this survey of the development of esoteric movements in Judaism, it would not be inopportune to give here a very summary description of the main lines of kabbalistic doctrine, as presented in the Zohar. |
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| There is no room here to speak of all the literature which bears the name of the prophet in the intertestamentary period, but one must emphasize the importance given to him in the kabbalistic system. |
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| The grievous events through which Spanish Judaism was to pass, introduced into kabbalistic speculation, a new element which, until then had only a very secondary role in the system. |
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| The movement which was to come from Safed, where the kabbalistic renewal was seen at its finest and most tangible, was the last great religious current to affect the whole of Judaism. |
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| In the 16th century, kabbalist Elazar Azikri wrote a book called Seftr Haredim, which became a cornerstone of ethical and kabbalistic study. |
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| Bureus viewed runes as holy or magical in a kabbalistic sense. |
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| Kabbalistic grammatical speculation was directed at recovering the original language spoken by Adam and Eve in Paradise, lost in the confusion of tongues. |
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