Conceptualizations of tzimtzum in Baroque Italian Kabbalah

Moshe Idel

doi:10.1163/9789004292697_004

Conceptualizations of tzimtzum in Baroque Italian Kabbalah

Moshe Idel^*

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Institute for Jewish Studies

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Abstract

The paper will survey the ways in which three Kabbalists active in Italy at the end of the 16th and early 17th centuries transformed the Lurianic concept of divine contraction: Menahem Azariah of Fano, Joseph Shlomo of Candia, and Abraham Herrera. The main point of this essay is to analyze the contribution of philosophical concepts to the inter-pretion of Luria’s mythopoeic method.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Value of the Particular
Subtitle of host publication	Lessons from Judaism and the Modern Jewish Experience: Festschrift for Steven T. Katz on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday
Editors	Ingrid Anderson, Michael Zank
Publisher	Brill Academic Publishers
Pages	28-54
Number of pages	27
ISBN (Electronic)	9789004292680
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004292697_004
State	Published - 2015

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Name	Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy
Volume	25
ISSN (Print)	1873-9008

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Idel, M. (2015). Conceptualizations of tzimtzum in Baroque Italian Kabbalah. In I. Anderson, & M. Zank (Eds.), The Value of the Particular: Lessons from Judaism and the Modern Jewish Experience: Festschrift for Steven T. Katz on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (pp. 28-54). (Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy; Vol. 25). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004292697_004

Idel, Moshe. / Conceptualizations of tzimtzum in Baroque Italian Kabbalah. The Value of the Particular: Lessons from Judaism and the Modern Jewish Experience: Festschrift for Steven T. Katz on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. editor / Ingrid Anderson ; Michael Zank. Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. pp. 28-54 (Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy).

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