On Equality and Irreducibility of Female to Male in Safedian Forms of Kabbalah

IF 0.1 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Zutot Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI:10.1163/18750214-bja10043

Moshe Idel

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Abstract

In kabbalistic writings equality between the male and female divine entities recurs in dozens of instances and this is also the case in Safedian forms of Kabbalah. However, there is an additional theme to equality, that is shared by the two main and extensive literary corpora, that of Moses Cordovero and the much later texts of his former disciple, that of R. Hayyim Vital: the irreducibility of the female principle to the male one during the sexual encounter. The present study explores the passages reflecting the details of this similarity, as well as the theurgical impact of the feminine soul, in the wider context of the relationship between some important ideas shared by those distinct kabbalistic writings.

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论卡巴拉 Safedian 形式中女性与男性的平等和不可还原性

在卡巴拉著作中，男性和女性神性实体之间的平等反复出现在数十个实例中，在卡巴拉的 Safedian 形式中也是如此。然而，在摩西-科多韦罗（Moses Cordovero）和他的前弟子哈伊姆-维塔尔（R. Hayyim Vital）晚近的著作中，平等还有一个共同的主题：在性接触过程中，女性原则对男性原则的不可还原性。本研究从这些不同的卡巴拉著作所共有的一些重要思想之间的关系这一更广阔的背景出发，探讨了反映这种相似性细节的段落，以及女性灵魂的仪式影响。

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