| FT-52216-04 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Eitan P. Fishbane | Techniques of Mystical Practice: Isaac of Acre and Kabbalistic Contemplation in the 14th Century | 6/1/2004 - 8/31/2004 | $5,000.00 | Eitan | P. | Fishbane | | | | Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion | Los Angeles | CA | 90007-3717 | USA | 2004 | Religion, General | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
The primary aim of this study is to present a typology of contemplative and meditative techniques as they were outlined and understood by a fourteenth century Jewish kabbalist. I am particularly interested in the mystic’s representation of internal states of devotion and prayer â€" of the place accorded to intention and focus in medieval Jewish mysticism. In studying these practices as modalities of ritual, I shall also seek to clarify the manner in which the Jewish mystic articulates a language of the self (insofar as he testifies to personal experience) while simultaneously attempting to situate these practices within an authoritative line of reception and pedagogical transmission. |