The Privileged Divine Feminine in Kabbalah

Introduction-theosophical kabbalah: complexity and dynamism -- Reification and the ontological status of thought and action in early kabbalah -- The gender addition to "action" -- On the elevated status of the divine feminine in theosophical kabbalah -- The father, the head, and the daughter -- Sefer Ma'arekhet ha-'Elohut and its reverberations -- R. Moshe Cordovero and R. Shloma ha-Levi Alquabetz -- R Isaac Luris Ashkenazi, his kabbalist and sabbatean followers -- R. Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto: 1707-1746 -- The privileged female in some later kabbalists in Ashkenaz -- Some hasidic examples of the three- phases gender theory -- Some wider terminological considerations -- Concluding remarks -- Primary sources -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index.

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