PHI 505 Introduction to Jewish Mysticism
In this course we will follow major trends of Jewish mysticism. We will start our journey in the land of Israel with the Merkabah literature and migrate to medieval Germany and its Ashkenaz Hassidism and to Spain and the book of the Zohar Ecstatic Kabbalah of Rabbi Abraham Abulafia. We will relocate back in the Land of Israel with Isaac Luria and his school (16th century) and migrate to Eastern Europe to read from Hasidic "modern Kabbalah" text