Of Stinging Nettles and Stones: The Use of Hagiography in Early Modern Kabbalah and Pietism

In one of his letters sent from Safed to Poland, R. Shlomo Shlomel Meinstral of Dresnitz reports the rather exceptional penitential exercises of Avraham ben Eliezer ha-Levi Berukhim (1515–93). Even though this particular epistle was not one of the hagiographical accounts compiled in Shiv@he ha-Ari,...

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Main Author: Koch, Patrick Benjamin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Penn Press 2019
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2019, Volume: 109, Issue: 4, Pages: 534-566
Further subjects:B Tsevi Hirsh Kaidanover
B Isaac Luria Ashkenazi
B Avraham ben Eliezer ha-Levi Berukhim
B tikunim
B musar
B Kabbalah
B Hagiography
B Kav ha-yashar
B hanhagot
B Penance
B Jewish Mysticism
B Naftali Bakhrakh
B Emek ha-melekh
B self-castigations
B @Hemdat yamim
B Repentance
B Shlomo Shlomel Meinstral of Dresnitz
B early modern Judaism
B Shiv@he ha-Ari
B Pietism
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