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Our second example of this ritual dramatizing the exile of the Shekhinah is the
ritual ofyom kippur katan, or Lesser Day of Atonement, as the Kabbalists called
the day before the new moon, that was to be devoted to fasting and repentance.
Our second example of this ritual dramatizing the exile of the Shekhinah is the
ritual ofyom kippur katan, or Lesser Day of Atonement, as the Kabbalists called
the day before the new moon, that was to be devoted to fasting and repentance.
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Talmudic explanation, which relates only to the designation of the moon as the '
lesser light' in the first chapter of Genesis, the Kab- balists connected their
knowledge of the changing phases of the moon, which seemed to indicate that
until the ...
Talmudic explanation, which relates only to the designation of the moon as the '
lesser light' in the first chapter of Genesis, the Kab- balists connected their
knowledge of the changing phases of the moon, which seemed to indicate that
until the ...
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because they drew a parallel between the scapegoat, sent out into the
wilderness as a sin offering onyom kippur, and the he-goat which, as we have
seen, was also sacrificed on the day of the new moon. The first explanation
seems the more ...
because they drew a parallel between the scapegoat, sent out into the
wilderness as a sin offering onyom kippur, and the he-goat which, as we have
seen, was also sacrificed on the day of the new moon. The first explanation
seems the more ...
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RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY AND MYSTICISM | 5 |
Scapegoat ritual 129 153 | 28 |
THE MEANING OF THE TORAH IN JEWISH | 32 |
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| Title | On the Kabbalah and its symbolism |
| Author | Gershom Gerhard Scholem |
| Publisher | Schocken Books, 1965 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 24, 2009 |
| Length | 216 pages |
| Subjects | › › Body, Mind & Spirit / General Religion / Judaism / Kabbalah & Mysticism Religion / Judaism / Sacred Writings |
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