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O presente trabalho aborda a vida do artista Amedeo Clemente Modigliani, judeu não ortodoxo, que sempre buscou um saber artístico e filosófico e que se lançou na busca da arte e da mística judaica: a Cabala. Este estudo revela a maneira como questões místicas são expostas em suas obras de modo pouco perceptível. Para atingir os objetivos propostos, foi realizada uma pesquisa bibliográfica e exploratória, em busca de um referencial teórico e prático para a compreensão e elucidação dos fatos e a demonstração de como este artista abriu-se para o mundo sem perder suas raízes fundamentadas na tradição judaica. / The present work deals with the life of the artist Amedeo Clemente Modigliani, an unorthodox Jew, who has always sought artistic and philosophical knowledge and who has launched the quest for Jewish art and mysticism: the Kabbalah. This study reveals how mystical questions are exposed in their works in a barely perceptible way. In order to reach the proposed objectives, a bibliographical and exploratory research was carried out, in search of a theoretical and practical reference for the understanding and elucidation of the facts and the demonstration of how this artist opened up to the world without losing its roots based on the Jewish tradition.

O presente trabalho aborda a vida do artista Amedeo Clemente Modigliani, judeu não ortodoxo, que sempre buscou um saber artístico e filosófico e que se lançou na busca da arte e da mística judaica: a Cabala. Este estudo revela a maneira como questões místicas são expostas em suas obras de modo pouco perceptível. Para atingir os objetivos propostos, foi realizada uma pesquisa bibliográfica e exploratória, em busca de um referencial teórico e prático para a compreensão e elucidação dos fatos e a demonstração de como este artista abriu-se para o mundo sem perder suas raízes fundamentadas na tradição judaica. / The present work deals with the life of the artist Amedeo Clemente Modigliani, an unorthodox Jew, who has always sought artistic and philosophical knowledge and who has launched the quest for Jewish art and mysticism: the Kabbalah. This study reveals how mystical questions are exposed in their works in a barely perceptible way. In order to reach the proposed objectives, a bibliographical and exploratory research was carried out, in search of a theoretical and practical reference for the understanding and elucidation of the facts and the demonstration of how this artist opened up to the world without losing its roots based on the Jewish tradition.

Through the Zohar, the major medieval kabbalistic work, the human body is used in order to symbolise the divine structure. Present throughout are also dire warnings against the dangers of the flesh – a sense of anxiety often surrounds matters of the body. This study examines how the central notion of the body as created in God’s image relates to the negative zoharic characterizations of the body and further, how notions of gender and Jewish religious affiliation are reflected in the zoharic views of the body. The results show that characterizations of the body can work to reinforce boundaries and define the own group. The female body is valued differently than the male, the Jewish differently than the non-Jewish body. The idealized human body belongs to the circumcised Jewish male who adheres to proper religious behaviour. The aim of this thesis is to enrich our understanding of the human body as depicted in the major kabbalistic tradition of the Zohar.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2016-09-15T13:30:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 LUCAS LEAL DA SILVA.pdf: 714427 bytes, checksum: 4344b022f25304830bc8ddaad74c573d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-15T13:30:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LUCAS LEAL DA SILVA.pdf: 714427 bytes, checksum: 4344b022f25304830bc8ddaad74c573d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-12 / This study aims to present the new look of Kabbalah, expression of Jewish mysticism, in the context of post-modernity. The research goal is to show that Kabbalah is Jewish mysticism, the result of an ancient tradition that has been passed on for generations, restricted to male members and most experienced of the community, if not the most religious, but now, in the postmodern context , liquidity and diy, this ancient tradition is presented through an accessible, conversational language, being shared with everyone, men and women, Jews and non-Jews, on the initiative of an American Jewish family in the late 1960s, it opened a kabbalistic study center, the Kabbalah Centre, aiming to share this tradition with everyone. Thus, the Kabbalah Centre is heir of Jewish mysticism, but diffuses its cabalistic design without any restrictions, opening urban core study centers spread all over the world. The object here is to show the changes within the Kabbalistic movement in order to let it relevant to post-modern society. / O presente trabalho visa apresentar a nova roupagem da cabala, expressão do misticismo judaico, no contexto da pós-modernidade. O Objetivo da pesquisa é mostrar que a cabala é o misticismo judaico, fruto de uma antiga tradição que foi repassada por gerações, restrita aos membros masculinos e mais experientes da comunidade, para não dizer os mais religiosos, mas agora, no contexto pós-moderno, de liquidez e bricolagem, essa antiga tradição é apresentada através de uma linguagem acessível, coloquial, sendo compartilhada com todos, homens e mulheres, judeus e não judeus, por iniciativa de uma família judaica americana que, no final da década de 1960, abriu um centro de estudo cabalístico, o Kabbalah Centre, objetivando compartilhar essa tradição com todos. Desta forma, o Kabbalah Centre é herdeiro do misticismo judaico, mas difunde sua concepção cabalística sem nenhuma restrição, abrindo centros de estudos em núcleo urbanos espalhados por todo o mundo. O objeto aqui é mostrar as transformações dentro do movimento cabalístico com o intuito de deixa-lo relevante para a sociedade pós-moderna.

The objective of my dissertation is an analysis of selected passages from the Book of Zohar. The selected texts are analyzed from the synchronic and diachronic point of view. The synchronic approach consists of detailed grammatical study of all contained lexical units and its result is a Czech translation that reflects the interpretative variations as well. The diachronic approach incorporates Czech translation of important rabbinical commentaries and scientific discourse on analyzed themes. My dissertation gives a discussion of the nature of zoharic Aramaic and its literary sources. The scientific question is an evaluation of Moses de-Le'on's success rate in his endeavor to imitate the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos.

This phenomenological study was conducted in order to understand the everyday experiences of contemporary mystics in the Jewish traditions of Kabbalah. This author could find no available information about psychological research of this topic in psychological, educational or psychiatric databases. She used the applied phenomenological methodology of Howard Pollio and the Research Groups at the University of Tennessee. Interviews were conducted by this author with eight volunteer, living, adult participants who lived throughout the United States and ranged in age from 37 to 60+ years. These mystics were found through various means after they had described themselves, by their own definitions, as mystics in the Jewish traditions(s) of Kabbalah. There were six men and two women who participated; four were Jewish and four were not. The interviews ranged from one to three hours in length, were recorded, and later transcribed for confidential analyses. After analyzing the results, the Ground of the participants’ experience was determined to be Being Aware. The Thematic Structure of the participants’ everyday experiences of living with their mystical events and processes contained six themes: 1) Divine/Sacred, 2) Receiving/Calling/Gift, 3) Knowing/Realizing, 4) Practices/Body, 5)Developing/Stages, and 6) Struggling: Self/Others/World. Implications for this study suggest that the everyday experiences of these mystical participants are different in many ways from everyday experiences of non-mystics. There is some support for the ideas of spiritual intelligence, spiritual giftedness, consciousness advancement. Appreciating intuition, higher emotional states, and the deeper, yet usually hidden parts of human experience, along with learning to identify and support young people who are having mystical experiences is a worthwhile goal for psychologists.

Excerpt from introduction: This thesis aims to examine Kafka's life and work in relation to what is arguably the crucial factor in his complex historical, cultural, literary and religious background. The particular relevance of his Jewishness is a subject that has occasionally been discussed in the study of Kafka; attention has been drawn to it especially by his Jewish contemporaries and friends, but the issues involved in it have not yet received exhaustive investigation. The main part of my thesis is devoted to the subject of Kafka's interest in Jewish mysticism, notably in its Hasidic form, in the later years of his life. It shows how his search to regain a sense of participation in Jewish tradition, combined with religious impulses deeply inclined towards an esoteric spirituality, led him to practise his art in the light of this interest as a religious pursuit with unmistakably mystical intent. What I hope becomes clear from my work is the course of individual development by which growing concern for his relation to Jewish tradition led Kafka to deeper appreciation of his historical situation, and guided his increasing sense of moral and spiritual commitment to his time, despite (or because of?) the deficiencies he perceived in it, in a 'task' undertaken through the medium of his art. In selecting nine stories from the Landarzt collection for commentary in the final chapter, I have chosen to concentrate on a crucial period in Kafka's literary development that began in 1916/17, when his continuing, earnest assessment of his position as a Jew had an evidence influence upon his choice of narrative subject and technique. The stories have been considered not in the published sequence of the Landarzt collection, but in an order that seems appropriate to discussion of various aspects of their Jewish context. Where possible, my commentaries upon these stories are related to themes previously identified in discussion of the Oktavhefte, which were begun soon after the collection was completed and contain the chief evidence of Kafka's growing mystical pre-occupation.

This thesis identifies Jewish mystical elements in the Dead Sea Scrolls and compares them with analogous elements in the Corinthian Correspondence, to illuminate through differences and similarities how Paul advocates a mystical and communal participation in the spirit. After defining early Jewish mysticism and introducing methodology—heuristic comparison—in chapter 1, Part I identifies and investigates mystical elements in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Chapter 2 explores how the spirit facilitates a liturgica mystica with angels in Hodayota. Chapter 3 shows from 1QS and Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice that the Qumran temple community, in an archetypal relationship, shares in the priestly service of the angels. Chapter 4 argues that Moses-Δόξα traditions in the Scrolls portray Moses as an exalted, angelic-like mediator with supernatural authority—an ideal model for the Qumran priesthood. The ascent texts surveyed in chapter 5 reveal the conceivability of heavenly ascent at Qumran. In light of these studies, the Qumran community’s worship praxis and apperception of divine transcendence can be characterised as a liturgical and communal mysticism. Part II compares these findings with corresponding elements related to participation in the spirit in 1 and 2 Corinthians. Chapter 6 shows how Paul advances an epistemology of the spirit and participation (κοινωνία) in the spirit that is communal. Chapter 7 analyses angelic presence and angelic tongues as extensions of the spirit-enabled temple metaphor. Chapter 8 demonstrates how Paul democratises the spirit-facilitated, mystical encounter with the glory of the Lord and supports an ongoing, christomorphic and theotic transformation of the community. Chapter 9 examines how Paul’s heavenly ascent functions rhetorically to build up and instruct the ekklesia with a cruciform perspective of communal participation. Chapter 10 draws final conclusions showing the fruitfulness and validity of heuristic comparison. Paul appropriates Jewish mystical traditions and reinterprets them to promote the ongoing Christological and mystical transformation of the Corinthian community in and by the spirit. This reveals the predominantly corporate tenor of participation in the spirit for Paul. Overall, this investigation builds upon and contributes to studies of Jewish mysticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Paul and Jewish mysticism, Corinthians, spirit, and notions of communal participation and theosis.

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