دانلود کتاب Temple Portals: Studies in Aggadah and Midrash in the Zohar

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Preface
Table of Contents
Chapter One: The Zohar as Midrash
Why midrash?
The Zohar’s homiletic methodology
Chapter 2: The Zoharic Homilies: General Outlines
Chapter 3: From the Rabbinic to Zoharic Aggada: Preservation, Reworking, and Alteration
Chapter 4: “The Light Hidden for the Righteous”: For Whom is it Reserved?
“The light reserved for the righteous”: The early traditions
The “hidden light” and the “light of thought”
The “world to come” and the “future”
The “hidden light” in the Zohar
The “hidden-present”: In the wake of the Zohar
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Adam’s Sin: Its Meaning and Essence
The meaning of Adam’s sin: Polemical residues in nascent kabbalistic thought
“He entered in tranquility and departed in terror”: Original sin in the writings of R. Moses de Léon
“Many accounts”: Original sin in the Zohar
Exegetical tendencies and the exegete
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Enoch and Elijah: From Angel to Man, Man to Angel
The ancient traditions about Enoch and Elijah
Enoch and Elijah’s ascents in medieval philosophy
Elijah’s ascent: Nahmanides’ view
Enoch’s and Elijah’s ascents in the zoharic circle and later works
Conclusion
Chapter 7: “He failed”: The Story of Abraham’s Origins
The zoharic homily: The exegetical context
The story of Abraham’s origins in medieval Jewish literature
The activist approach and its early roots
The Zohar, Maimonides, and Sefer Yetzira
The various versions in the Zohar
The Zohar, Philo, and Genesis Rabbah
Conclusion
Chapter 8: The Aqeda: From Test to Experience
What did God really want?
The essential view of the aqeda and its manifestations in midrash and piyyut
The essentialist approach in Nahmanides commentary on the Torah
The zoharic aggada: The “completion” of the aqeda
The zoharic aggada: The aqeda as an incense offering
The aqeda as the “binding of Din” in early kabbalistic writings and the Zohar
The aqeda in the Zohar: From theosophic to a personal-existential midrash
Conclusion
Chapter 9: The Birthright and the Blessing: Esau’s Suppressed Cry
‘That wicked one’: Esau as archetype
The literary roots of the archetypal image
Esau and Edom in the zoharic myth
Esau’s cry: The wronging of evil and its vengeance
Conclusion
Chapter 10: The Exodus and the Liberation of the Kabbalistic Spirit
From the deliverance of the people to the deliverance of the spirit
From national enterprise to mythical struggle
From mythic struggle to personal-spiritual freedom
Conclusion
Chapter 11: The War Against Amalek: Human vs. Divine Needs
“Did Moses’ hands wage war?”: The Zohar and Roš. Haš. 3:7
The war against Amalek: A double and triple war
Moses’ hands and Amalek’s defeat
Conclusion
Chapter 12: Nadab and Abihu’s Sin as a “Holy Revolt”
Early and earlier traditions
Nadab and Abihu’s sin in the Zohar
Nadab, Abihu, and Phinehas
The meaning of the homily in its historical context
Conclusion
Chapter 13: “But Amongst the Nations of the World There Did Arise One Like Moses”: Moses and Balaam
Prophet or diviner: From the ancient aggadah to the early Kabbalah
Moses and Balaam: An aggadic tradition and its meaning
Balaam’s and Moses’ prophecies in the Zohar and R. Moses de Léon’s Writings
Criticism of the dualist view of prophecy
The dualistic view of prophecy: Exegetical and ideological aspects
Conclusion
Chapter 14: “Then Moses, the Servant of the LORD, Died There”: Did Moses Really Die?
Moses’ death in the pre-zoharic literature
“Death by a kiss”
Moses’ death in the Zohar
The relationship between the Zohar and the early aggada
Moses’ light and soul in the Tiqunim literature
Conclusion
Chapter 15: Elijah the Zealot
Elijah’s origin and identity
Zeal and Elijah in rabbinic thought
Elijah and Phinehas in the zoharic tradition
Elijah’s zeal: Between earth and heaven
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Chapters first published elsewhere
Index of Zoharic Sources
Index of subjects
Index of persons