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Shalom Shar'abi and the Kabbalists of Beit El Hardcover - 2008

by Pinchas Giller


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The Jerusalem kabbalists of the Beit El Yeshivah are the most influential school of kabbalah in modernity. The school is associated with the writings and personality of a charismatic eighteenth-century Yemenite Rabbi, Shalom Shar'abi, considered by his acolytes to be divinely inspired by the prophet Elijah. Shar'abi initiated what is still the most active school of mysticism in contemporary Middle Eastern Jewry. Today, this meditative tradition is rising in popularity not only in Jerusalem, but throughout the Jewish World. Pinchas Giller examines the characteristic mystical practices of the Beit El School. The dominant practice is that of ritual prayer with mystical "intentions," or kavvanot. The kavvanot themselves are the product of thousands of years of development and incorporate many traditions and bodies of lore. Giller examines the archaeology of the kavvanot literature, the principle aspect of which is the meditation on God's sacred names while reciting prayers, the development of particular rituals, and the innovative mystical and devotional practices of the Beit El kabbalists.

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  • Title Shalom Shar'abi and the Kabbalists of Beit El
  • Author Pinchas Giller
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY
  • Date 2008-02-19
  • ISBN 9780195328806 / 0195328809
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.63 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.60 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Jewish Studies
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Cabala - History, Yeshivat Bet El (Jerusalem)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007017669
  • Dewey Decimal Code 296.833

About the author


Pinchas Giller is Professor of Jewish Thought at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He is the author of Reading the Zohar: The Sacred Text of the Kabbalah.
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