The Kabbalistic Tree by Chajes, J. H - 2022-11-28

New. New Ilanot?parchment sheets presenting the kabbalistic "tree of life"?have been at the center of Jewish mystical practice for the past seven hundred years Written by leading ilanot expert J H Chajes, The Kabbalistic Tree is a comprehensive and gorgeously illustrated history of these arboreal "maps of God"This book documents when, where, and why Jews began to visualize and to draw the mystical shape of the Divine as a Porphyrian tree At once maps, mandalas, and memory palaces, ilanot provided kabbalists with diagrammatic representations of their structured image of God Scrolling an ilan parchment in contemplative study, the kabbalist participated mimetically in tikkun, the development and perfection of Divinity Chajes reveals the complex lore behind these objects His survey begins with the classical ilanot of pre-expulsion Spain, Byzantine Crete, Kurdistan, Yemen, and Renaissance Italy A close examination of the ilanot inspired by the Kabbalah taught by R Isaac Luria in sixteenth-century Safed… Read More

Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2022. Hardcover. New. 472 pages. 10.00x8.00x1.56 inches.