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Dec 2022
23m 34s

Music in Jewish Mysticism

FILIP HOLM
About this episode

In this episode, we explore the history of music in Jewish mysticism, from the ancient prophets to the Hasidim of today.



Sources/Suggested Reading:

  • Idel, Moshe (1987). "The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia". State University of New York Press.
  • Idel, Moshe (1988). "Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah". State University of New York Press.
  • Idel, Moshe (1988). "Kabbalah: New Perspectives". Yale University Press.
  • Idel, Moshe (1997). "Conceptualizations of Music in Jewish Mysticism". In "Enchanting Powers: Music in the World's Religions" (ed. Lawrence E. Sullivan). Harvard University Press.
  • Idel, Moshe (2002). "Music in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah in Northern Africa". In "Yuval: Studies of the Jewish Music Research Centre", Vol. 2. The Hebrew University Magnes Press, Jerusalem.
  • Kraemer, Joel L. (2010). "Maimonides: The Life and World of one of Civilization's Greatest Minds". Doubleday & Co Inc.
  • Russ-Fishbane, Elisha (2015). "Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt: A study of Abraham Maimonides and his times". Oxford University Press
  • Scholem, Gershom (1995). "Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism". Schocken Books.


Internet Sources:

  • http://www.nigun.info/chassidic.html


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