Index
Aaron
23, 80, 100, 158
Abba Mari, Machir ben
25
Abigail
24, 36, 73
Abimelech
32, 74
Abishai
154
Abraham (Patriarch)
11, 57, 75, 85, 89–90 n. 17, 95, 97, 102, 104, 113, 115 n. 84, 127–129, 157–158
Abrams, Daniel
45
Absalom
23, 32, 36, 79, 162
absolute otherness
163
abstinence
41, 124
Abulafia, Abraham
169
abyss tehom
Active Intellect
113
Adah
13, 29 n. 63
Adam
30, 56, 75, 80 n. 114, 91–93 n. 26, 106–110, 140, 148–150
ADaM (acronym of Adam, David, Messiah)
92, 107
Adulam (cave)
58
adultery
vii, 4, 17 n. 35, 25, 32, 65, 69, 74, 103, 136–137, 143, 149, 153, 162, 172
afterlife
52
Afterman, Adam
89, 113
agency
x, 74, 82, 103, 126, 152, 168
ahorayim
15 n. 29, 125
Alkabetz, Shlomo ha-Levi
84, 115–117, 175
allegory
4
Allegory of the Poor Man’s Lamb
62, 74, 139, 146–147 n. 25
Alter, Robert
35, 64
Amidah prayer
74 n. 105, 88
Amir, Dana
162
Amnon
162
Amram
23, 25 n. 55
Amsterdam
104 n. 55
an angel of YHVH
158
androgynous
44, 46, 52, 66, 79 n. 114, 82, 84, 86 n. 8, 103–104, 117, 174
angel
39, 44, 95, 143, 157–159 n. 53
Angel of Death
23, 142, 144, 151
Angelet, Joseph
58, 84
Angelomus
4, 148
anthropomorphism
51
Anthropos
85
antinomian
21 n. 46, 28, 72, 121, 124, 147
Apollo
66
apotheosis
11 n. 15, 39 n. 88–90
Ark
8 n. 5, 30, 36–37, 66
Aron, Lewis
160
asceticism
41, 126, 168, 175
‘Atara Malkhut/Shekhinah
atonement
14, 35, 64–65, 73, 79, 165
Augustine
4
averah lishma (holy transgression)
72, 121
Avodat ha-Kodesh
94–96
Azriel of Gerona
88–89, 95, 157
ba’al teshuvah (penitent)
49, 51, 66, 69, 72–73, 80, 83
Baden, Joel
37
bad objects
162
Baer Gottlober, Avraham
119
Baer, Yitzhak
167
Baghdad
123
Bahir
85–87 n. 9, 88–89 n. 15, 90, 108, 111, 113, 115, 166
Bal, Mieke
74
Balaban, Meir
120
Barcelona
111
bar nafle (stillborn, a non-viable infant)
x, 29–30, 54 n. 54, 56 n. 62, 92 n. 25, 106 n. 59, 131 n. 134, 139
Bar Sheshet, Jacob
84, 88–89, 102 n. 49, 113, 131
Bar Yohai, Shimon
44, 50, 58–59, 90 n. 17, 93, 114, 144, 169
basic fault
158, 163, 174
Bat Kol
44
Bathsheba
4–5 n. 18, 14, 16, 18, 22, 27–28, 30, 32, 36, 47, 67, 69–74, 78 n. 110, 79 n. 114, 103, 107, 109, 136–137, 140–141 n. 13, 145–153, 155, 158, 162
beauty
13, 50, 55, 61–64, 80–81, 91, 161, 165
bediḥa de-malka (the king’s jester, ioculatores Domini)
x, 65, 68–73, 80, 140, 146, 150, 162, 167
Beit Midrash
39, 66
Ben Azzai
115
ben David, Asher
113
Benarroch, Jonatan
143
Benjamin
23, 25 n. 55
Berman, Nathaniel
171
Bernard of Clairvaux
167
Bilaam
50
Bilhah
125
Binah
8 n. 6, 33, 43–44, 47, 56 n. 61, 68, 73, 103
birth
ix–x, 2, 6, 10, 12, 15–21, 23–24, 27–29, 33, 38, 43, 47, 57, 92, 99 n. 40, 101–102, 109, 166
birth story
10, 15–16, 18, 27
miraculous
57 n. 62, 174
rebirth
ix, 2, 77, 128, 174
blood
35, 57, 63, 116, 135
For menstrual blood “menstruation”, For birth blood “birth”
shedding blood, battlefield
4, 55, 135, 141
Bloom, Harold
18
Boaz
18, 28, 110, 127
Bohak, Gideon
49
Book of Chronicles
3, 24, 31–32, 35, 37, 70
Book of Job
146
Book of Revelation
33
Book of Ruth
22, 27, 29
Book of Samuel
14, 27, 31–33, 37 n. 82, 135
Boyarin, Daniel
41
bread of the poor (lechem oni)
128–129
loaf of bread
96
morsel of bread
128
Breuer, Josef
123
Brody
120
Bromberg, Philip
160
Butler, Judith
42, 91, 158, 175
Byzantine
3, 65
Cain
105, 112
Cairo Genizah
123, 152
Campbell, Joseph
9, 155
Carlebach, Elisheva
125 n. 119
Carolingian
3, 65
Castile
vii, 40, 47, 84, 89–90, 103, 108, 113, 147
Chajes, J. H.
123
Chariot
39, 75, 83–85, 87 n. 9, 88–90, 96, 98–99, 101–102, 104, 112–115, 129–132, 157–158, 166
Fourth leg
x, 49, 57, 84, 88–89, 92, 94, 100 n. 42, 101–102 n. 49, 129, 159, 166
chastity
125 n. 118, 147
marital
147
chosenness
3, 5, 12, 22, 36, 53–54, 64, 79, 81, 165
Christianity
2, 13, 40, 118, 120, 122–123, 133, 147–148, 165–167
commentators
4
interpretation
153
liturgy
3, 65
Messiah
145–146
pilgrimage
76
Christ, Jesus
2, 4, 9, 13, 15, 22, 91, 145–146, 155, 167
Christianity
influence
33 n. 75
circumcision
25, 144, 150
Cixous, Hélène
44
concubine
28, 30, 106, 125
Connell, Raewyn
125
copulation sexuality
Cordovero, Moses
61 n. 72, 112
corporeality
33, 95, 124, 174
countertransference
157
creation
140, 145, 158–159, 169, 172
cultic poetry
3, 37
cup of blessing
93
cutting of the shoots (kitzutz)
79 n. 114, 84, 132
Dar & Soharet (precious stones)
87–88
David’s harp
37 n. 81, 127
David’s symbols in the Zohar
Chariot: the fourth leg
abandoned hero
9–10, 19, 203–204
another David
61, 91, 160
bread of the poor (lechem oni)
128–129
bronze altar
63
David rex et propheta (David as king and prophet)
4, 65
defect (p’gam), blemish of the moon
54 n. 54
gatekeeper
52
having nothing of his own, deprived of light/life (leit la-mi-garmah kelum)
56, 91–93, 111, 134, 173
hero with a thousand faces
85
“hollow of a sling” (Kaf ha-Kela)
59 n. 68
ill Messiah
132
moon
x, 48, 54, 54 n. 54, 56, 90–91, 93, 134, 157
musician
vii, 6–7, 30, 64, 66, 126, 136
nocturnal poet
6, 66
orphan
10–11, 22,
power of the powerless
126, 168
rejected brother
47
Scion of David
1–2
“the anointed”, anointment
1, 10, 36, 52–53, 80–81, 127, 130, 154–155
the fourth
83, 158–159
the poor
51, 84
the seventh (sefirah)
24, 100, 158
the small
7, 42, 55, 63
vagabond
35
viceroy (David as a viceroy)
1 n. 4
weak Messiah
132
dawn
x, 4, 38, 112 n. 78, 127
Dead Sea Scrolls
31, 33
death
4, 10, 18, 23, 25, 29, 47, 57 n. 62, 58, 69, 77, 109, 113, 116, 128, 130, 137–141, 146–149, 151, 153
kiss of
23
death penalties
140
De Leon, Moses
47, 80–81, 84, 94–95
demon
37 n. 81, 43, 149–150, 171, 173.
Devil, Satan
denial
x, 79, 135, 138–141, 153, 160, 163
depression
54 n. 54, 111, 104–106, 111, 126
Derush ha-taninim
121, 125, 133
desert
52
devekut
113
Devil
4, 120, 138, 144 n. 23, 146, 148
Diamond, James
135
Dimen, Muriel
160
Din (judgement)
87, 98, 100, 113
Dionysus
66
disintegration
139–140, 161 n. 56, 162
dissociation
160
Divi filius (son of God)
3, 11
Divine Name
147, 150, 171
divine persona
51, 90
divorce
122 n. 109
divorcée
116, 147
doe
x, 51–52 n. 49, 90, 113, 122
Doniger, Wendy
27
Dönmeh
124
doppelganger, twin figure
135–136
Dumah (Angel of Death)
72 n. 96, 144–147, 151–153
Ecclesia
85
Ecclesiastes
15
Ecstatic Kabbalah
159, 169
Eden
38, 52 n. 51, 57, 80 n. 114, 101–102, 107, 110, 148
Edom
167
egalitarianism
175
ego
156
Egypt
10, 25 n. 55, 94, 145
Ein Gedi
154
Elijah the Prophet
50, 123
Elqayam, Avraham
122
emanation
41, 71, 81, 84, 97 n. 33, 169
Emden, Jacob
119
Emet (truth)
87
enclothement
90 n. 18, 113
eros
25, 45, 60, 62–64, 72, 80, 139, 166, 171
Esau
167
eschatologicaly
81
eschatology
1, 3, 18, 108.
redemption
esotericism
167
esoterism
77
Europe
3, 65, 167
Eve
14, 21 n. 44, 25, 75, 107, 140, 148–150
evil inclination (yetzer hara)
23, 37 n. 81, 69 n. 92, 80 n. 114, 105, 140, 146, 152 n. 36
exile
70, 75, 95, 130, 143–144, 170, 175
Ezra of Gerona
89
faith
19, 59, 72 n. 97, 94, 104, 122 n. 109, 127, 154–155, 166
interfaith
viii, 40, 82, 148, 173
mystery of
118
family romance
9, 156
feminism
44, 104, 118–119, 121, 123, 175.
gender
Ferenczi, Sándor
138
fertility
13, 20, 124
Ferziger, Adam
120
Fine, Lawrence
106
Fishbane, Eitan
113
folklore
9
foreskin (orla)
80 n. 114, 148
forgiveness
62
France
44, 175
Frances, Emmanuel
122
Francis of Assisi
69 n. 91, 167
Frankism
119, 122 n. 109, 125
Frank, Jacob
124–125
Freud, Sigmund
9, 44, 135, 138, 156
gazelle doe
gematria (numerical equivalents)
99 n. 38, 112, 131
gender
vii–x, 11, 40–43, 45–46, 63, 89–90, 103, 118, 121, 157–159, 161, 168, 172, 174
distinction
77
duality
73, 172
equality
119
fluidity
42, 45 n. 23, 46, 62, 86 n. 8, 104, 115, 134, 168, 175
identity
52 n. 49
inversion
43
liberation
119
power relations
124
repression
122
reversal
ix, 8, 42, 48, 73, 81, 165, 167, 170–171
revolution
118
roles
42, 159
studies
viii, 43, 173
theories
ix–x, 47, 175
theory
169–170
transformation
87 n. 9, 163
transition
48
transitions
46
genealogy
viii, 6, 14, 16, 18, 24, 27 n. 58, 164
Gerona
89 n. 15, 111, 113, 144 n. 24, 157
Gerson, Samuel
162
Gevurah
57, 85, 87, 97 n. 32, 104–105
Gikatilla, Joseph
47, 71, 79 n. 114, 82, 84, 100, 102, 148
gilgul reincarnation
goddess
175
going on being
134, 139
gold
64
Goliath
36
Grace After Meals (Birkat ha-mazon)
74 n. 105, 88 n. 12, 102
Graetz, Heinrich
119
Grand, Sue
163
Greek
25 n. 54, 36, 61 n. 72, 66, 120
Green, Art
48, 85, 166
Gruenwald, Ithamar
132
Gurevich, Hayuta
138
Habakkuk
50
ha-Kohen, Isaac
89–90 n. 18
ha-Kohen, Jacob
90 n. 18
halakha
21, 55 n. 57, 117–119, 124, 136–138, 173
Halbertal, Moshe
141
Halevi, Judah
113
Hallamish, Moshe
48
Hamadan, Joseph
47, 84, 97, 115 n. 84
Haman
11
Hamnuna Sava
143–144
Hannah
12–13, 29 n. 63
harlotry prostitution
Hasidim
40, 72, 118–119, 146, 170
Ashkenazi
94, 123
literature
5, 72 n. 97, 113, 115
Haskala
119
Haskell, Ellen Davina
45, 166
Hayyun, Nehemiah
104 n. 55
Hazal
vii–viii, 1, 4–8, 11, 13, 15–17, 19, 22–23, 25, 28–31, 39–41, 50, 55, 58, 65–66, 70, 73, 91–92, 98, 102, 105, 114, 116, 118, 120, 124, 128, 135, 139–141, 144, 147, 153, 157, 162–163, 165–166, 171
heaven
33, 38, 41, 77, 97 n. 32, 143, 167, 169
he-Hasid, David ben Yehuda
47, 148
Hekhalot literature
38, 83
hell
26, 143, 151
Hellner-Eshed, Melila
45
Hemdat Yamim
127–128, 131
heresy
104, 115, 117–118, 120–121, 125–126, 132
hermeneutics
5, 11, 120
Hermes (Mercury)
66
Hermon
34, 80
heroism
36, 135, 153–156, 159, 163
Hesed
57, 85–87, 90 n. 17, 97–98, 100, 113, 117
history
vii–viii, 1, 2, 4, 17, 33–34, 44, 55, 70, 81, 91, 118–120, 141, 144, 162, 169, 172
counter history
169
fictionalized
35
Jewish
4 n. 16, 125 n. 119, 141
pseudo-history
31
Hitzonim (outside forces of evil)
105
Hokhmah
97 n. 32
Holmes, Stephen
141
Holy City Jerusalem
holy deceit/huly ruse
29 n.61, 106, 108
Holy Spirit
22, 113, 152
homoerotic
62
horn of salvation
131
humor
143
husks Kelipot
Huss, Boaz
131
Iberian Peninsula
82, 123
Ibn Gabbai, Meir
95–96
Idel, Moshe
45, 48–49, 89, 108, 150, 159, 169
idolatry
80 n. 114, 167
Idra Zuta
58
Ilan (Divine tree)
84, 117, 131
impregnation (ibbur)
16, 20, 22, 49, 109–111, 115, 131 n. 135.
reincarnation
incarnation
49
incest
viii, 127 n. 123, 162, 174
Inés from Herrara
123
inferiority complex
35
infertility
9, 73
Inquisition
120
insomnia
54 n. 54, 127
instrumentalization
135, 142, 172
intrusive identification
136, 141
intercourse sexuality
internalization
146
inward acculturation
169
Irenaeus
4
Irigaray, Luce
44
irony
143
Isaac (Patriarch)
9, 57, 75, 85, 89–90 n. 17, 95, 98, 100, 102, 104, 113, 115 n. 84, 127–128, 157–158
Isaac Luriah
ix
Isaac of Acre
47, 84, 102, 148
Isaac the Blind
88–89, 102 n. 49, 113
Isaiah
1
Islam
118, 120
Israel
118
Assembly of
40, 64, 66, 77, 80, 98, 101
Children of
148
Community of
87 n. 9
Knesset Israel
85
nation of
143
people of
64, 165
tribes of
167
Jacob (Patriarch)
27–28, 37 n. 82, 57, 75, 85, 89–90 n. 17, 94–95, 98, 100, 104, 113, 115 n. 84, 127–128, 157–158, 174
jealousy
137
Jeremiah
75
Jerusalem
x, 10, 33–37, 51–52, 63, 66, 75, 77–79, 88, 98–99 n. 37, 102
Heavenly
98
Supernal
98
Jesse
10 n. 12, 15, 17, 22–23, 25–28, 106, 110–111, 131
Jesus
2, 54 n. 54, 56 n. 61
Joab
23, 146
Job
146
Jonathan
36
Joseph
15, 73 n. 101, 158.
Yesod
Joseph of Shushan
99, 115–116, 148
Josephus
77 n. 109
Judah
10, 18, 28, 99, 101–102, 110, 141 n. 13
Judah ha-Nasi
2, 149
Judah, tribe of
162
Judeo-Christian polemic
viii, 11, 16 n. 31, 22, 40, 54 n. 54, 76 n. 106, 82, 85, 103, 133, 145, 147–148, 165, 168 n. 12
vulnerability
viii
Judith
125
Jung, Carl
9, 138, 155
Kafka, Franz
2
Kalmin, Richard
135
Karo, Joseph
116, 173
kawanot (intentions)
113
Kedushah
38, 157
Kedushah prayer
88
Kelipot (husks/shell)
28, 71, 106, 108–109, 111–112, 121
Kessler
19
Kessler, Gwynn
15, 19
Keter
42, 55, 150
Kilab
23, 25 n. 55
Kingdom Malkhut
spiritual kingdom
viii
King of Israel, David
7, 38, 54–55, 136
kingship
48 n. 37, 97 n. 32, 117, 167
king’s jester bediḥa de-malka
King Solomon
7, 18, 29–30, 56 n. 61, 146, 150, 152
Kiriath-arba
75
Kise ha-Kavod Throne/Chariot
Klein, Melanie
134, 153, 160
Knesset Israel Israel, Assembly of,
126, 168
Kohut, Heinz
135, 153, 155, 160
Kosofsky Sedgwick, Eve
104
Kristeva, Julia
44
Lacan, Jacques
45
Lamech
13
Lamentations
75
Lanzkron
119
Leah (Matriarch)
13, 24–25 n. 55, 27, 29, 75, 99 n. 40, 125
Lekhah Dodi
175
Lenowitz, Harris
91
Levi
101
Levites
3, 37, 72 n. 97
The Song of the
35
Liebes, Yehuda
8, 45, 48, 55, 103, 106, 169
Lilith
43–44, 173, 176
liminal
47, 84, 102, 171, 175
liturgy
33, 37, 39, 50–51, 65, 88–89, 127, 141, 175
holy liturgy
3
Lord Raglan
9
Lord’s jester bediḥa de-malka
Lot
28
daughters of
6, 16, 21, 28, 120, 162
Luke
2
Luria, Isaac
5, 20 n. 43, 29 n. 61, 40, 59 n. 67, 82, 84, 89, 104, 108, 111, 114, 125, 127, 170
lust
21, 26
Luzatto, Moshe Hayyim
121 n. 100
Maʿarekhet ha-ʾElohut
94, 96, 113–114, 127, 157
macula (defect)
54 n. 54, 168 n. 12
Magen David (Shield of David)
49, 128
Maggid Mesharim (Preacher of Righteousness)
116
magic
49, 120
Magid, Shaul
166
Mahlon
110
Maimonides
113
Malkhut
8 n. 6, 48 n. 37, 56 n. 61, 59 n. 67, 73 n. 98, 78 n. 110, 80 n. 114, 81 n. 116, 97 n. 32, 102 n. 49, 152 n. 38
manipulative behavior & mask
142–143, 155, 158, 160, 172
Mar’ah le-Avraham (Vision of R. Abraham)
129
Marcus, Ivan
169
marriage
29 n. 63, 71, 79 n. 114, 111, 117, 147–148, 174
holy marriage (hieros gamos)
68
martyrdom
155, 168
martyrology
41
Mary
12, 15, 22, 27, 54 n. 54, 122
cult of
166
veneration of
85, 165
Mary Magdalen
153
masculinity
viii–ix, 2, 4, 7, 12, 22, 40, 43–48, 54, 59 n. 68, 62, 65–66, 71, 73, 76, 81, 85, 87 n. 9, 91, 95, 97, 101–104, 109, 117, 119, 121, 125, 132, 143, 153, 158–159, 161, 164–166, 172–174
Matt, Daniel
79
Matthew
2
Maẓmiah Qeren Yeshu’ah (Horn of Salvation)
128, 131
David’s horn, horn of unguent
81
Mazo Karras, Ruth
4, 65, 103 n. 52, 148, 153, 165
Meirat ‘Einaim
47, 102
Melave Malka
127
menstruation
15, 20–21, 75, 168, 173
impurity
57
Merkavah Chariot
Merkavah literature
94
Meroz, Ronit
144
Messiah
ix–x, 1, 2, 8, 11, 22, 25, 28–29, 32 n. 71, 38 n. 86, 41, 47–48, 54 n. 54, 56, 58–59 n. 68, 60, 80–82, 91–92, 106–108, 111–112, 122, 125–126, 128, 130–132, 134, 145–146, 148, 158–160, 166–171, 174
failed
91
feminized
viii, ix, 82, 117, 174,
mother of
viii, 6, 47, 120, 122
Son of David
2, 56, 92 n. 25, 106 n. 58, 106, 108
Son of Joseph
2, 32 n. 71, 92 n. 25, 106 n. 58
suffering messiah
32 n. 71, 166
messianism
27 n. 58, 43, 51, 53, 56, 91, 124–125, 143
neutralization of the messianic idea
170
Metatron
38, 49
metempsychosis
111, 117
Michal (David’s wife)
36, 73
Middle Ages
12, 40–41, 48, 65, 74, 76, 120, 123, 153, 165, 167–168, 175
Midrash
vii, 2, 5–6 n. 1, 7–8 n. 5, 9, 11, 13–21, 24–30, 34, 55–57, 59 n. 68, 68–70, 93 n. 26, 106, 127, 131, 134, 150, 152, 171, 174
Midrash HaGadol
39
Midrash Shemu’el
171
midwifery
120
mikveh (ritual bath)
176
miraculous birth, wondrous pregnancy
13, 57 n. 62, 174
Miriam
12, 23
Miskhan ha-Edut
47
misogyny
74
Mitchell, Stephen
160
mitkalah (cosmic scales)
62
modernization
124
moon
47, 50–51, 53–56, 94 n. 27, 113, 173
new
48, 54
Mopsik, Charles
45, 63
Moses
9, 11–12, 23, 31 n. 69, 50, 59, 100, 115 n. 84, 158
motherhood
6 n. 1, 11, 12 n. 18, 13, 19 n. 37, 29
Mount Zion
75–76 n. 106, 77 n. 109, 94
multiple self
47, 85, 108, 134, 143, 160, 163
murder
70
myrrh
80
mysticism
viii, 43, 49, 70, 81, 83, 89–90, 104, 117, 125, 156, 172–175
experience
159
interpretation
77
language
159
literature
46, 48, 171, 173
mystic
64, 118, 159, 165, 172
mystics
55, 103
texts
82
myth
viii–ix, 1–2, 6–12, 24, 27 n. 58, 32, 43, 47, 51, 55, 58–59, 84, 89, 92, 102, 114, 120–122, 125, 131, 134–135, 150, 157, 163, 172–173, 176
Nahash serpent
Nahmanides
48, 84, 89, 108, 111, 113, 115, 159 n. 53
Naomi
27
narcissism
135, 155, 158
Nathan of Gaza
28, 84, 111, 117, 121, 125, 129, 132–133
Nathan (Prophet)
14, 16, 32, 62, 138, 146, 149, 162
Near East
94
nefesh (soul)
109
physical soul
109
Nephilim
29
Neumann, Erich
104, 156
New Age
175–176
new soul
112
New Testament
4, 9, 13, 27, 31, 167
Nidah menstruation
Nitzevet (mother of King David)
11–13, 28
nukva
59 n. 67, 109
Obed
27, 110
ocean
113
Oedipus
79, 174
Ogden, Thomas
92 n. 25, 163
Olam ha-Pirrud (World of Seperation)
101
Olam ha-Yiḥud (World of Unity)
101
Olam ha-Zachar (the masculine world, world of the male)
8 n. 6, 43, 47, 101
On the Left Emanation
89
Orpha phenomenon
139
Orpheus
2, 66
Otherness
28, 44, 92, 163, 167
Pahad (fear, judgment)
86–87.
Gevurah
Pappenheim, Bertha
123
Paradise
52
paranoid-schizoid
33, 134, 142, 163
Pardes, Ilana
127
Pardes Rimonim
112
Passover
99 n. 37, 130
Patriarchs
56–57, 75, 77, 83, 85–97, 99–104, 113, 128–130, 136, 140, 146, 157–158
as “gods” and “crowns”
88, n. 14, 157, n. 49
as the three festivals
98, 100
chief of the captains (rosh hashalishim)
88, 129
patriarchy
74, 124, 172–173
pauper’s prayer
129 n. 130
Pedaya, Haviva
34, 48, 89, 131
Peninnah
13, 29 n. 63
penis envy
44
penitent ba’al teshuvah
Pereṣ, Abraham
28
Perez
110
performance
x, 41–42, 84, 91, 175
Perry, Menachem
69, 74
persecution
32–35, 125, 128
Perush ha-aggadot (Commentary on the Talmudic Aggadoth)
157
phallus
144, 172
Pharoah
24
Philo
73
pilgrimage
77
pious of the pious (hasid she-be-hasidim)
14
Poland
120
polemic
76 n. 106
polygamy
174
Prague
124
pregnancy
12–13, 17 n. 35, 19–20, 47, 57 n. 63, 135 n. 2, 145
Priests
1, 3, 65, 72 n. 97, 98, 103
projection
x, 135, 141, 153
prophecy
3, 10 n. 12, 14, 32, 39 n. 88, 65, 75, 118, 123, 138, 149, 162
female
123–125 n. 118, 152
mass
123 n. 110, 124
prophet
103
Prophetic Kabbalah Ecstatic Kabbalah
prostitution
viii, 13, 29–30, 75, 121, 124–125, 152, 162
Provence
25, 51, 85
Proverbs
8, 72
providence
81
Psalms
x, 1, 3, 6–7, 14–16, 20, 31 n. 69, 30–38, 51, 54, 59–60, 66, 126, 135, 140, 171
psychoanalysis
viii–x, 6, 43, 47, 92 n. 25, 108, 121, 134–135, 138, 143–144 n. 23, 153, 156–157, 160, 173,
theories
134, 170
psychology
6 n. 1, 9, 35, 63–64, 78, 104, 141, 161 n. 56, 58, 165, 174, 176
psychosis
139
Queen Esther
97
queer theory
104
R. Aha
14
R. ʿAzariah
13
R. Judah (ha-Nasi), Rabi
13
R. Levi
17
R. Yehuda
7
rabbinic Hazal
rabbinization
4 n. 16
Rachel (Matriarch)
13, 25 n. 55, 27, 29, 125
Rahamim (mercy)
100, 113
rainbow
44
Rank, Otto
9, 156–157
rape
121, 138, 162
Rapoport-Albert, Ada
118, 123–125
Rashbi Bar Yochai, Shimon
Rashi
14 n. 26, 144
Rav
7
Raya Mehemana
59 n. 68, 115 n. 84
Raza de-ma’aseh merkavah/Raza de-malka meshiha
130
Rebekah (Matriarch)
75
Recanati, Menachem
84, 115
Redeemer
ix, 2, 5, 12, 35, 51, 106, 108, 112, 117, 122, 128
redemption
x, 5, 11–12, 19, 26, 28–29 n. 61, 38 n. 86, 40, 46–47, 51–52, 56, 58, 61, 71–72, 75, 80 n. 114, 81, 84, 95, 102, 104, 109, 115, 121, 125–126 n. 121, 127, 132, 134, 143, 150, 159, 165–167, 169–172, 174, ix
feminine
ix, 46–47, 51, 71, 121–122, 124, 132
internal
170
national
169
personal
48
regalim
98, 99 n. 37
regalim (pilgramage festivals)
98, 100, 129–130
reincarnation
viii, x, 77, 108–109, 111 n. 74, 115, 147,
new soul
108
Reiner, Elchanan
76
Renaissance
69
repair
70
reparation
79, 161
repentance
ix, 33, 35, 40, 46, 49, 64–66, 68, 78–79 n. 113, 83, 129, 162–163, 167, 170
Yoke of Repentance (Ula she Teshuva)
79, 135
repression
x, 122, 135, 144 n. 23
“return of the repressed”
22
resurrection
1–2, 56 n. 61, 91, 109–110, 174
Reuben
23, 101
Reumah
125
Rochus
121
Roi, Biti
46, 59 n. 68
Rome
120
rose
90, 113
Rosh Hashanah (New Year)
99 n. 37
Ruth
6, 16, 18, 21, 27–28, 30, 116–117, 120, 127, 162
Sabba de-Mishpatim
68 n. 88, 115, 143, 146–147, 150, 173
Sabbateanism
viii–ix, 5, 20 n. 43, 25 n. 54, 28–29 n. 61, 40, 72, 82, 84, 89, 104, 112, 114–115, 117–134, 148,
Sabbath
55 n. 58, 119, 127–128, 130–131, 159, 175
sacrifice
160
Sages Hazal
salvation redemption
Samael
44 n. 17
Samson
9, 11
Samuel
1, 9, 12, 26, 35, 54, 64, 66, 138
Sarah (Matriarch)
75
Sarah (Sabbatai Ṣevi’s wife)
122
Satan
136–138, 143, 146, 149
Saul
36–37 n. 81, 105, 142, 154
Schäfer, Peter
39, 85, 166
Schneider, Michael
89
Scholem, Gershom
7, 49, 83, 94, 118, 123, 169–170
secondary elite
47
Second Temple
literature
1, 31
secularization
124
seduction
30 n. 67, 120, 127, 152–153, 163, 165
Sefad
5, 104, 108, 123, 175
Sefer ha-gilgulim
107
Sefer haBahir
51
Sefer ha-beriah
130, 132
Sefer ha-emuna ve-habitahon
89
Sefer ha-plia
84, 150
Sefer ha-pliah
97, 150
Sefer ha-Shem
47
Sefer Toldot Adam
99
sefirot
44, 50, 84, 86, 98, 101–103, 111, 113, 150, 159, 166, 175
feminine
68
serpent
17 n. 33, 22, 24–25 n. 54, 28, 67, 132, 148–150
serpent
22–25, 146
Ṣevi, Sabbatai
x, 28–29, 84, 92, 111, 117, 118 n. 90, 121, 123, 125–134
sexuality
viii–ix, 11, 5 n. 18, 13, 16 n. 31, 41, 44–45, 54 n. 54, 63, 127, 140, 168, 174,
boundaries
16, 118, 124
conquest
172
denial of
123
desire
18, 54 n. 54, 138, 153
deviance
5, 119
deviant
21
ethic
117
exploitation
125
fantasies
28, 175
freedom
119, 174
gratification
13
illicit relations
117, 162
imagery
43
improprieties
25
liberation
119
misbehavior
147
overt
65
perversion
70, 121, 124
promiscuity
124
purity
25, 54 n. 54, 144, 174
relations
15, 21, 26
repression
122
roles
161 n. 58
taboos
174
theories
47
transgression
ix
union
132 n. 141, 159
Shapiro, Judith
104
Shekhinah
45 n. 24, 54 n. 54, 55 n. 58, 59 n. 68, 61 n. 72, 78 n. 110, 86 n. 8, 87 n. 9, 90 n. 18, 112 n. 78, 159 n. 53,
Malkhut
shemirat habrit (preserving the covenant of circumcision)
144
Shemini Atzeret
98, 100, 128 n. 127
Shimoff, Sandra
135
Shinan, Avigdor
135
shmitah
73
Shoresh Yishai
84, 113, 115, 117
Simeon
101
sin
ix–x, 14, 5 n. 18, 15–16, 18–28, 31–33, 35–36, 40, 46, 51–52, 62, 64–66, 68–84, 91, 103–104, 106–107, 109–111 n. 74, 115 n. 84, 121, 127 n. 123, 132, 135–155, 160, 162, 165, 167–174,
primordial
109
Sisra
99 n. 41
sitra aḥra
80 n. 114, 132 n. 141
snake serpent
Sodom
18
Sofia
72
Solomon
8 n. 6
Spain
85, 103
sparks
107–108
sparks (nitzozot)
108 n. 69
spiritualization
119, 170
splitting
33, 62–63, 91, 134–135, 138–139 n. 12, 140–141, 153, 161
stabat mater
12
Sternberg, Meir
69, 74
St. Gregory
4, 148
Stone, Sandy
104
Story of the Cave
58 n. 65
Studies in Hysteria
123
Sufi
123
super ego
146
sun
47, 54, 94 n. 27, 157
Sword of the Ammonites
69 n. 92
symbol
viii, x, 1, 2–5, 9, 11, 13, 22, 24, 34, 41, 48, 50–54, 59 n. 68, 64–65, 71–72 n. 97, 73–76, 78 n. 110, 80–81, 84–86 n. 8, 87 n. 9, 90–91, 95, 97 n. 32, 103–104, 112 n. 78, 113, 115, 126, 132, 137–140, 143–144, 150, 159–162, 166–174,
Synagoga
85
Talmud
1, 7–8, 11–13, 17–18, 21–22, 28, 54–58, 83, 88, 91, 102 n. 49, 116, 121, 128, 131, 139, 144, 146, 153, 169, 172–173
Tamar
6, 16, 18, 21, 27–28, 117, 120, 141 n. 13, 162
Tefillin (phylacteries)
73
tehom
171
Temple
33–35, 37–39, 72 n. 97, 76
building of
3, 34–35, 37, 57, 171
rites
33, 63, 98
teshuvah repentance
tetragrammaton
102, 113
the booth of David (sukkat David)
95
theodicy
111 n. 74
theophany
90
theosophy
41, 43, 47, 50, 77, 90, 103, 117
theurgy
5, 41–43, 47, 50, 56, 69 n. 92, 70–71, 76, 86 n. 8, 95, 97, 108, 159, 166
negative
79
Throne
83, 94, 100, 113
Tiferet
90 n. 17, 97 n. 32, 33, 115 n. 84, 132 n. 141
tikkun
2, 27, 44, 51, 60, 63, 76, 84, 91, 95, 107, 109–112, 115, 121, 143, 149–150, 163, 172, 174
Tikkun Hatzot
175
Tikkun Leil Shavuot
175
Tikla (wheel of souls)
110
Tikunim Tiqqunei ha-Zohar
Tiqqunei ha-Zohar
59 n. 67, 84 n. 6, 115, 143
Tishby, Isaiah
49
To‘ey Ruah
130
Toledot Yeshu
22
Tomb of David
76–77 n. 109
tragic hero
34, 155
transference
157
transformative trauma
164
transgender
104
theory
134
transgenderization
169
transgression
viii, 5, 11, 14, 16, 18–25, 28, 72, 78, 115 n. 84, 117, 120, 125 n. 118, 144, 153, 163, 174
transmigration
108, 110–112, 115–116, 174.
reincarnation
transsexualism
104
trauma
121, 138, 159, 162, 164, 169
Tree of Life
66, 96–97 n. 32, 116 n. 88, 131
Trinity
56 n. 61, 104 n. 55
male
95, 166
true self/false self
134, 139
Tu bi-Shvat (New Year of the Trees)
131
Turner, Victor
47
tzadik (the righteous, Yesod)
22–24, 29, 60, 66, 70–71, 77, 80 n. 114, 86 n. 8, 87–88, 90 n. 18, 97–100 n. 43, 105, 113–114, 116 n. 86, 135, 141, 146–147, 152 n. 36, 158, 174
tzelem
105
Ulcinj
130
Ullman, Chana
156, 159–160, 162
unconscious
157, 171
unripe
80 n. 114
Uriah
4, 67–69, 103, 107, 142, 145–148, 150–153
Uriah the Hittite
5 n. 18, 147 n. 25, 148 n. 28, 149
Valler, Shulamit
135
Van der Haven, Alexander
122
vessel
53, 64, 79, 113, 124, 159, 161
Vilon (heavenly curtain)
93
virgin
21 n. 46, 54 n. 54, 121, 123–124, 147, 171 n. 2
cult of
122
virginity
75
Visotzky, Burton
15
Vital, Haim
x, 29 n. 61, 84, 105–111, 123
Vital, Samuel
107
Von Hahn, Johann George
9–10
wandering Jew
59, 92, 166
Warner, Michael
104
Weiss, Judith
144, 146
wellspring
113
Wertheimer, Solomon
39
wilderness
47
wine
97
Winnicott, Donald
134, 160
witch hunts
120
Wolfson, Elliot
45, 48, 94
womb
8 n. 5, 16–17 n. 35, 19, 22, 47, 116
as a tomb (rehem hu kever)
77
of God
12, 38
of the Shekhinah
58
womb of God
10 n. 14
World to Come
141, 174
Yalkut ha-Makhiri
27–29
Yalkut ha-Reuveni
148, 150
Yavan, Baruch
120
Yehudah
101
Yesod (sefirah of, Righteous)
47, 56 n. 61, 57, 86 n. 8, 87 n. 9, 97–102,
tzadik
yirah (fear)
132
Yishai Jesse
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
121, 151–152
Zakovitch, Yair
32
Zeruiah
24
Zif Desert
154
Zillah
13, 29 n. 63
Zilpah
125
Zion
33, 52, 75, 80–81
Zohar
vii–x, 5, 8, 31, 33, 39–48, 50–66, 68–97, 99–117, 124, 129–135, 139, 142–148, 150–153, 158–159, 161, 163, 165–176