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This article lists figures in Kabbalah according to historical chronology and schools of thought. In popular reference, Kabbalah has been used to refer to the whole history of Jewish mysticism, but more accurately, and as used in academic Jewish studies, Kabbalah refers to the doctrines, practices and esoteric exegetical method in Torah, that emerged in 12th-13th century Southern France and ...
This question was actually reported to have been put across to Muhammad to which he replied: "The (people of the old age) used to give names (to their persons) after the names of Apostles and pious persons who had gone before them". [11] Luke 3:23: Job: ʾAyyūb: Iyyov: Job 1:1: Quran 6:84: John the Baptist: Yaḥyā: Yohanan
Building on Kabbalah's conception of the soul, Abraham Abulafia's meditations included the "inner illumination of" the human form [47] The Kabbalah posits that the human soul has three elements: the nefesh, ru'ach, and neshamah. The nefesh is found in all humans, and enters the physical body at birth. It is the source of one's physical and ...
Muhammad, the final seal of the prophets (Arabic: مُحَمَّد خَاتَم ٱلْأَنْبِیَاء) [i] (Muhammad is mentioned four times) Ahmad [ 33 ] [ 52 ] Other names and titles of Muhammad [ 45 ] [ 40 ] [ 31 ] [ 53 ]
Although the Talmud states that only “48 prophets and 7 prophetesses prophesied to Israel”, [6] it does not mean that there were only 55 prophets. The Talmud challenges this with other examples, and concludes by citing a Baraita tradition that the number of prophets in the era of prophecy was double the number of Israelites who left Egypt ...
The Zohar (Hebrew: זֹהַר , Zōhar, lit."Splendor" or "Radiance" [a]) is a foundational work of Kabbalistic literature. [1] It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the Torah and scriptural interpretations as well as material on mysticism, mythical cosmogony, and mystical psychology.
Abraham Abulafia's Ecstatic-Prophetic Kabbalah, his Maimonidean alternative competitor to Theosophical Kabbalah, embodies the non-Zoharic ecstatic stream in Spanish Kabbalism. Re-imagining Judaism's prophetic techniques, it remained marginal to mainstream Kabbalah, but established a following in east Mediterranean:
H. Isaac ben Jacob ha-Cohen; David ben Abraham ha-Laban; Eliakim ha-Milzahgi; Kalonymus Haberkasten; Samuel Haida; Chaim HaKohen; Jacob HaLevi of Marvège; Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi