A leading scholar of the Kabbalah, Moshe Idel ( Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic, SUNY, 1995, pp. 17 – 18 ), ascribes this doctrine to the kabbalistic system of Rabbi Moses Cordovero ( 1522 – 1570 ) and in the eighteenth century, Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Hasidic movement, as well as his contemporary, Rabbi Menahem Mendel, the Maggid of Bar.

In Eros and Kabbalah, Moshe Idel ( Professor of Jewish Mysticism, Hebrew University in Jerusalem ) argues that the fundamental distinction between the rational-philosophic strain of Judaism and mystical Judaism, as exemplified by the Zohar, is the mystical belief that the Godhead is complex, rather than simple, and that divinity is dynamic and incorporates gender, having both male and female dimensions.

* Challenging the Master: Moshe Idel ’ s critique of Gershom Scholem Micha Odenheimer, MyJewishLearning. Com, Kabbalah and Mysticism

* Adler, Jeremy, Beyond the Law: the artistry and enduring counter-cultural power of the kabbala, Times Literary Supplement 24 February 2006, reviewing: Daniel C Matt, translator The Zohar ; Arthur Green A Guide to the Zohar ; Moshe Idel Kabbalah and Eros.

His subsequent preoccupations were linked to the Jewish tradition of interpreting symbols, and he reportedly told scholar Moshe Idel: " I paint in Kabbalah ".

Major contributions to the analysis of Abulafia ’ s thought and that of his school have been made by Gershom Scholem, Chaim Wirszubski, Moshe Idel, and Elliot R. Wolfson.

* Idel, Moshe " The Renascence of Abraham Abulafia in the Last Generation "

* Idel, Moshe " Abraham Abulafia and the Prophetic Kabbalah "

* Idel, Moshe " The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia " ( Labyrinthos, 1992 ).

Moshe Idel, Gershom Scholem, Joseph Dan, and others have raised the natural question concerning the relationship between the " chambers " portion of the Heichalot literature and the Bavli's treatment of " The Work of the Chariot " in the presentation and analysis of such in the Gemara to tractate Hagigah of the Mishna.

The question of how much gnosticism has influenced Kabbalah is one of the major themes of modern-day research on Kabbalah, see the works of Gershom Scholem and Moshe Idel for more information.

* Moshe Idel

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In the Jewish view this indicates more, that the teaching of the Sod in the book of the Zohar was not invented in the Tannaic period, but rather it is a tradition from ancient times which Rashbi and his Chevraya Kadisha used and upon which they built and founded their Kabbalah, and also that its roots are in the Torah that was given by Hashem to Moshe on Sinai.

Philosophers in modern-day Israel in the rationalist tradition include David Hartman and Moshe Halbertal.

* The pietistic musar tradition was continued by 18th century rabbis such as Moshe Chaim Luzzatto in his book Mesillat Yesharim.

Semikhah represents an unbroken chain of tradition and authority dating back to the time of Moshe and Yehoshua.

In 1541, Karo succeeded Berab and he perpetuated the tradition by ordaining Moshe Alshich, Elisha Gallico and Jacob Berab II.

According to tradition, Isaac Luria ( known by the acronym " Ari " or " Arizal ") arrived in Safed on the exact day of the funeral of Moshe Cordovero in 1570.

On December 11, 2008, Moshe Nahari, a Jewish teacher, was murdered in a market in Raidah, home to one of the last Jewish communities in Yemen.

* Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, one of the highest halachic authorities for much of the twentieth century

This synonimizing of the names is explained by Moshe Sharon who writes that the twin ancient settlements, which he calls Haifa-Sycaminon, gradually expanded into one another, becoming a twin city known by the Greek names Sycaminon or Sycaminos Polis.

Israeli politician Moshe Dayan wearing an eyepatch An eyepatch or eye pad is a small patch that is worn in front of one eye.

During his lifetime, Moshe Feldenkrais taught more than one thousand unique ATM lessons.

It is home to one of the world's major diamond exchanges, many high-tech industries, and Israel's tallest building, the Moshe Aviv Tower.

Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, Israel Tal, Moshe Peled and Mordechai Gur were admired by the public as " war heroes " while the IAF pilots won unprecedented prestige and were considered to be " the best pilots in the world " ( even today, the IAF is considered to be one of the most competent air forces in the world ).

The Mishneh Torah (, " Repetition of the Torah ") subtitled Sefer Yad HaHazaka ( ספר יד החזקה " Book of the Strong Hand ,") is a code of Jewish religious law ( Halakha ) authored by Maimonides ( Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, also known as RaMBaM or " Rambam "), one of history's foremost rabbis.

As Moshe Gammer points out in his book Lone Wolf and Bear, Soviet ideology fell somewhere in between the two views-and notably, one such abrek, Zelimkhan, was deified.

This eventually found the support of Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, who envisioned five settlement points in the West Bank, one of them being the Etzion bloc.

The projects he worked on ranged from Toronto's Opera House by Moshe Safdie to Kansai's International Airport, one of many projects with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

Moshe Mordechai Epstein ( 1866-1934 ) was Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Knesseth Yisrael in Slabodka, Lithuania and is recognized as having been one of the leading Talmudists of the twentieth century.

The line was built at the Suez Canal, a unique water barrier that Moshe Dayan described as " one of the best anti-tank ditches in the world.

A member of the B ' ne Moshe and Hoveve Zion movements in Ukraine, he was one of the organizers with Dr. Theodore Herzl of the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland in the fall of 1897.

Over time, certain choices became established in certain communities ; in contemporary Jewish observance one may not choose his or her own haftarah, explains Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, as that would run against accepted custom.

On 10 November 2011 Joubran, one of three Supreme Court judges deciding the fate of Israel ’ s former president, Moshe Katzav, upheld his conviction for rape.

Eventually, three Tzomet candidates were voted into the Knesset, though one of them, Moshe Peled, broke away to form his own Mekhora faction before joining Moledet.

* Moshe Chaim Luzzatto " The holy one who cleaves constantly to God and his soul fires up with true intellectual understanding with great love of his creator and fear ... Behold a person like this, he himself, is considered to be like the Tabernacle Beit HaMikdash and the Mizbeiach ... And also it is said regarding Tzadikim they are the Markavah, because the Shekhinah dwells in them just like it dwelled in the Beit HaMikdash.

Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik is the son of Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik and heads one of the Brisker Yeshivas in Jerusalem, which was attended by many Torah scholars, including the current Radziner Rebbe, Grand Rabbi Moshe Leiner.

Rabbi Soloveitchik was even a candidate for Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv at one point, but was outvoted by supporters for Rabbi Moshe Avigdor Amiel.

Rabbi Meir Simcha ( as well as the Rogatchover Gaon, the Gerer Rebbe, Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner of Klausenburg, the Dor Revi ' i, and Rabbi Dr Yissachar Dov Ritter of Rotterdam ) was one of the prominent rabbis who discovered that the work was a very clever forgery, and denounced it as such.

According to Xilinx CEO Moshe Gavrielov, the addition of a heterogeneous communications device, combined with the introduction of new software tools, and the Zynq line of 28 nm devices that combine an ARM core with an FPGA, are part of shifting its position from a programmable logic device supplier to one delivering “ all things programmable ”.

Seal of the Scribe and acronym for Chidushei Toras Moshe Sofer ), ( 1762 – 1839 ), was one of the leading Orthodox rabbis of European Jewry in the first half of the nineteenth century.