Mystical Vertigo : : Contemporary Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide / / Aubrey Glazer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• VerfasserIn: Glazer, Aubrey,
• MitwirkendeR: Magid, Shaul,; Wolfson, Elliot R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

Mystical Vertigo immerses readers in the experience of the contemporary kabbalistic Hebrew poet, serving as a gateway into the poet’s quest for mystical union known as devekut. This journey oscillates across subtle degrees of devekut—causing an entranced experience for the Hebrew poet, who is reaching but not reaching, hovering but not hovering, touching but not touching in a state of mystical vertigo. What makes this journey so remarkable is how deeply nestled it is within the hybrid cultural networks of Israel, crossing over boundaries of haredi, secular, national-religious, and agnostic beliefs among others. This volume makes a unique contribution to understanding and experiencing the mystical renaissance in Israel, through its multi-disciplinary focus on Hebrew poetry and its philosophical hermeneutics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Permissions -- System of Transciption -- Chapter 1. Touching God: Vertigo, Exactitude and Degrees of Devekut -- Chapter 2. Why Contemporary Jewish Mysticism Needs Poetry: From Kosman’s “Our God” to ben Yitzhak’s IntegrEL Divinity “of All Worlds” -- Chapter 3. Dissemination of Devekut: How Culture Can Connect Deeper. Agi Mishol’s “Woman Martyr” and “Transistor Muezzin” -- Chapter 4. Contrition as a Returning to Devekut: Binyamin Shevili’s Cycle “Contrition” -- Chapter 5. Opening Secrecy: Is There Duplicity in Devekut? Schulamith Hava HaLevy’s “Strange Fire” and “Impregnation” -- Chapter 6. Caught in the Infinity Catchers: Devekut as A Web of Discourse. Shai Tubaly “Come Here,” “I Came to God,” and “Infinity Catchers” -- Chapter 7. Auto-Erotic Cosmogeny as Devekut: Rebirthing God as Self in Haya Esther’s My Flesh Speaks G!d -- Chapter 8. (Hit)Devekut as Durée of the Godlover: Disentangling Intuitive Time in Binyamin Shevili’s “HomosexuELity” -- Chapter 9. Parables and Prayers of Love and Rape: Devekut as Depth and Flow of Self in Tamar Elad-Appelbaum’s “Psalms for Jerusalem” -- Chapter 10. Scent of Darkness: A Synesthetic Dissolution into Devekut. Yonadav Kaploun’s cycles “Scent of Darkness” and “A Window of Opportunity” -- Chapter 11. I Almost Vowed to Touch You: Breaking through Doubt to Daily Devekut. Zelda Schneerson Mishkovsky’s “On that Night” -- Chapter 12. Rebirthing Devekut from Darkness to Light: Haviva Pedaya’s “Gently Please,” “The Golden Molten Stream,” “Sun-space,” “Crack the Sun,” and “Majesty Manacled” -- Chapter 13. CODA: Gross, Subtle and Secret Moments of Devekut -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index -- Short Bio