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Mystical Midrash

Author(s) -

Marianne Schleicher

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

nordisk judaistik/scandinavian jewish studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.113

H-Index - 2

eISSN - 2343-4929

pISSN - 0348-1646

DOI - 10.30752/nj.69604

Subject(s) - mysticism , midrash , torah , judaism , kabbalah , philosophy , literature , jewish mysticism , jewish studies , theology , art

This article conceives of mystical midrash as the act of interpreting the details of a Torah verse with the purpose of entering a meditative or ecstatic state of union with God, in which the mystic by drawing down God’s insights can explain how the Torah verse mediates the micro-macrocosmic relation between God’s will and the course of history. However, since mystical midrash is such a rare phenomenon in Judaism, I have chosen to highlight the various approaches to the Torah in Jewish mysticism as a background for understanding why only one of these approaches qualifies for the epithet ‘mystical midrash’.

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