"Gathering the Dispersed of Israel": The Evolution of a Kabbalistic Prayer Addendum for Tiqqun Qeri

This article traces the evolution of a kabbalistic prayer supplication that was designed to purify male Jews from pollution caused by improper seminal emission. In doing so, it focuses on the metaphysical rationale behind it, its function, and its metamorphosis from a highly technical practice into...

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Main Author: Koch, Patrick B. 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2021
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 2021, Volume: 114, Issue: 2, Pages: 241-264
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Amidah / Completion / Ejaculation / Cabala / Christianity / History 1400-1900
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
AX Inter-religious relations
BH Judaism
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
NCF Sexual ethics
TH Late Middle Ages
TJ Modern history
Further subjects:B Jewish Mysticism
B Early Modern Judaism
B Jewish-Christian polemics
B Kabbalah
B male sexual pollution
B Prayer
B waste of seed
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