The Mud and the Water: Towards a History of a Simile in Kabbalah

Moshe Idel

doi:10.1163/18750214-12341285

The Mud and the Water: Towards a History of a Simile in Kabbalah

Moshe Idel^*

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Institute for Jewish Studies

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Abstract

The present study surveys a series of kabbalistic antecedents of a simile for the presence of the roots of evil in the pre-emanationalist stage, as formulated in Lurianic Kabbalah. What has been conceived by scholars as a cathartic explanation characteristic of Lurianism, and even an esoteric aspect of this Kabbalah, turns to be quite an exoteric teaching shared by several kabbalists since the 13th century.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	64-72
Number of pages	9
Journal	Zutot
Volume	14
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/18750214-12341285
State	Published - 2017

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Keywords

Hayyim Vital
Joseph ibn Tabul
Lurianic Kabbalah
evil
tzimtzum

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