Add to ORKGThe kabbalistic literature contains erotic descriptions of the unification between the masculine and the feminine aspects of God. This article introduces another significant unification -- same-sex relationship between the feminine aspects of God, sefirat Shekhinah and sefirat Binah. It focuses on the relationships between mother and daughter, sisters, and lovers in the Zohar and in Hebrew poems by Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934) and Zelda (Shneurson Mishkowsky, 1914-1984). According to the Zohar, the Shekhinah, as the divine archetype of eternal womanhood, is actually embodied in the particular personalities of the mortal woman. This intriguing notion from a feminist perspective reveals a more complex model for the relationship between a ...
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Shekhinah, the ‘cloud of Yahweh’ in the Bible, a synonym for God’s presence in the rabbinic traditio...
The issue of gender has been a topic of discussion in the research of Hasidism since S. A. Horodecky...
Medieval Kabbalistic literature, especially from the last third of the thirteenth century onwards, w...
Despite the study of Jewish mysticism, or Kabbalah, being a tradition entirely created by male Rabbi...
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The biblical, talmudic, midrashic, and mystical traditions, as well as contemporary Jewish feminist ...
Feminist reading of literary texts was introduced at the end of the 1970s. Over the last twenty year...
Yetzer hara, commonly translated as the ‘evil inclination,’ is a key concept in rabbinic discourse c...
Based on ethnographic research with Jewish women participating in the summer program at Nishmat: The...
analyst in Haifa, Israel, and a lecturer and supervisor at the New Israeli Society of Analytical Psy...
During the past two decades the new awareness of women has developed from a diffuse protest to consc...
Women have played various roles in all cultures throughout time. However, the Qur’ān and Torah have ...
Among the most exciting areas in both feminist spirituality discourse and Jewish religious practice ...
What kind of reader of the Bible am I? This question is at the core of my research. I am a woman; I ...
Shekhinah, the ‘cloud of Yahweh’ in the Bible, a synonym for God’s presence in the rabbinic traditio...
The issue of gender has been a topic of discussion in the research of Hasidism since S. A. Horodecky...
Medieval Kabbalistic literature, especially from the last third of the thirteenth century onwards, w...
Despite the study of Jewish mysticism, or Kabbalah, being a tradition entirely created by male Rabbi...
This article examines the roles of Jewish women in Zeev Jawitz' Writings. His perception was influen...
This study grows out of the contemporary feminist reclamation of the past. It is an exploration of t...
The biblical, talmudic, midrashic, and mystical traditions, as well as contemporary Jewish feminist ...
Feminist reading of literary texts was introduced at the end of the 1970s. Over the last twenty year...
Yetzer hara, commonly translated as the ‘evil inclination,’ is a key concept in rabbinic discourse c...
Based on ethnographic research with Jewish women participating in the summer program at Nishmat: The...
analyst in Haifa, Israel, and a lecturer and supervisor at the New Israeli Society of Analytical Psy...
During the past two decades the new awareness of women has developed from a diffuse protest to consc...
Women have played various roles in all cultures throughout time. However, the Qur’ān and Torah have ...
Among the most exciting areas in both feminist spirituality discourse and Jewish religious practice ...
What kind of reader of the Bible am I? This question is at the core of my research. I am a woman; I ...