1. The Cult of the Saints in Lurianic Kabbalah.
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Garb, Jonathan
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CULTS , *JEWISH sects , *SAINTS , *HASIDISM , *JEWS - Abstract
The article presents a study which explores the comparison between the role of the cult of the saints in the practice of Lurianic Kabbalah in the sixteenth century in Galilee, Israel and the set of practices to the later phenomenon of Hasidism in the eighteenth century in Eastern Europe. It stresses the importance of the figure of the saints in the Lurianic school, which has not been fully recognized. The effervescence of kabbalistic creativity in Safed to the traumatic aftereffect of the expulsion of the Iberian Jews was ascribed by Gershom Scholem. The research states that the expulsion created several migratory paths along which the Iberian exiles made their way to Palestine.
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- 2008
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