- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Introduction
-
1 Introduction to the Idra Rabba -
2 The Language of Divine Faces -
3 The Gaze -
4 Reflections on Zeʿeir Anpin -
5 Literature, Mysticism, Praxis -
6 Overarching Themes in the Idra Rabba -
7 What Is the Idra Rabba Trying to Communicate? -
8 Entering the Idra Rabba -
9 The Kings of Edom -
10 Arikh Anpin -
11 Arikh Anpin -
12 Arraying Arikh Anpin’s Beard -
13 The Kings of Edom -
14 Zeʿeir Anpin Comes into Being -
15 Zeʿeir Anpin’s Head and Its Features -
16 The Tiqqunim of Zeʿeir Anpin -
17 The Ancient of Ancients and Zeʿeir Anpin -
18 Forming the Male and Female Body -
19 The Kings of Edom -
20 Separation and Coupling -
21 Sweetening Judgment -
22 Emerging from the Idra Rabba - Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
-
Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism
Forming the Male and Female Body
Forming the Male and Female Body
- Chapter:
- (p.309) 18 Forming the Male and Female Body
- Source:
- Seekers of the Face
- Author(s):
Melila Hellner-Eshed
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
This chapter explores the emanation of the divine masculine and feminine bodies, and the sources of the idraic myth of those bodies.
Keywords: body, sexuality, masculine, feminine, androgyne, intercourse
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Introduction
-
1 Introduction to the Idra Rabba -
2 The Language of Divine Faces -
3 The Gaze -
4 Reflections on Zeʿeir Anpin -
5 Literature, Mysticism, Praxis -
6 Overarching Themes in the Idra Rabba -
7 What Is the Idra Rabba Trying to Communicate? -
8 Entering the Idra Rabba -
9 The Kings of Edom -
10 Arikh Anpin -
11 Arikh Anpin -
12 Arraying Arikh Anpin’s Beard -
13 The Kings of Edom -
14 Zeʿeir Anpin Comes into Being -
15 Zeʿeir Anpin’s Head and Its Features -
16 The Tiqqunim of Zeʿeir Anpin -
17 The Ancient of Ancients and Zeʿeir Anpin -
18 Forming the Male and Female Body -
19 The Kings of Edom -
20 Separation and Coupling -
21 Sweetening Judgment -
22 Emerging from the Idra Rabba - Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
-
Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism