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- Title: Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals
- Author : Joel Hecker
- Release Date : January 20, 2005
- Genre: Judaism,Books,Religion & Spirituality,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4023 KB
Description
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.