Mystical Anthropology in the Jewish Tradition with Emphasis on the Zohar

Subject Areas : Christianity

mojdeh shariatmadari ¹ , Tahereh Hajebrahimi ² , Fatemeh Lajevardi ³

1 - ِDepartment of Theology and Philosophy, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad university, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Religions and Mysticism, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Department of Theology and Philosophy, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad university, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2020-05-16 Accepted : 2020-05-16 Published : 2020-02-20

Keywords: Mystical anthropology, Kabbalah, Zohar, Sefirot, Adam kadmon,

Abstract :

The principle that man is in the image of God is the basis of the teachings of Jewish scholars about the existence of mankind. From this phrase of Torah, it is understood that the man is virtuous for all the creatures of the world, and it shows that it is the highest point in the creation of creatures. Therefore, the subject of mankind and the path of his creation, his existential dimensions and his position in the system of being have always been the subject of interest by Jewish scholars and scholars in the field of Judaism. Among these, Zohar that considered to be the most important literary-mystical work of the Middle Ages, its main theme is the representation of man and divine realities. This work, as an interpretation of the five books of the Torah, is somewhat inaccessible and silent to us, as it deserves to be a work of esoteric wisdom. In this research, it has been attempted to explain the aspects of human cognition in the Jewish tradition as the background and foundations of Jewish anthropology, and to investigate the Kabbalah as the main tradition of Jewish mysticism in expressing the views of the Jewish mystical anthropology, provide the views of the Zohar from human beings.

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