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Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah
Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah
Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah
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Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals is the first book-length study of mystical eating practices and experiences in the kabbalah. Focusing on the Jewish mystical literature of late-thirteenth-century Spain, author Joel Hecker analyzes the ways in which the Zohar and other contemporaneous literature represent mystical attainment in their homilies about eating. What emerges is not only consideration of eating practices but, more broadly, the effects such practices and experiences have on the bodies of its practitioners.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 20, 2005
ISBN9780814340035
Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah
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Joel Hecker

Joel Hecker is associate professor of Jewish mysticism at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.

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