2. Lamenting Exile, Striving for Redemption: Pre-Lurianic Safed

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Note to Readers xv
5. Abbreviations xvii
6. Introduction: Embodying the Study of Lurianic Kabbalah 1
7. 1. Rabbinical Scholar, Spice Dealer, Contemplative Ascetic: Luria's Life in Egypt 19
8. 2. Lamenting Exile, Striving for Redemption: Pre-Lurianic Safed 41
9. 3. Saintliness, Heavenly Communication, and the Divinatory Arts: Luria's Charismatic Religious Authority 78
10. 4. Lurianic Myth 124
11. 5. Physician of the Soul 150
12. 6. Tiqqun: Healing the Cosmos Through the Performance of Mitsvot 187
13. 7. Tiqqun: Healing the Cosmos Through Devotional Prayer 220
14. 8. Communing with the "Very Special Dead": The Practice of Yiḥudim 259
15. 9. Metempsychosis, Mystical Fellowship, and Messianic Redemption 300
16. Notes 361
17. Select Bibliography 445
18. Index 469