• The Hekhalot literature (sometimes transliterated Heichalot) from the Hebrew word for "Palaces", relating to visions of ascents into heavenly palaces....
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    antiquity, Jewish disciples of the esoteric have engaged ... Elior, Rachel, Heikhalot Literature and Merkavah Tradition Ancient Jewish Mysticism and its Sources...
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    sources of its aggadah separately. Of the smaller Midrashim he used the Heikhalot Rabbati, the Alfabet de-Ben Sira, the Sefer Zerubabel, the Baraita de-Ma'aseh...
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    Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. ISBN 1-874774-84-6. OCLC 65978708. Heikhalot Literature and Merkavah Tradition Ancient Jewish Mysticism and its Sources...
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    to an ecstatic state in which they might behold the heavenly halls ("heikhalot") as vividly as if they really had entered them. Contrary to his father-in-law...
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  • (mystical Creation) (1st-2nd centuries). Yordei Merkabah (Chariot Riders)-Heikhalot (Palaces) mysticism (1st-11th centuries). Early-Formative texts are variously...
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  • corporeal being. He likewise considers that the expressions in R. Ishmael's Heikhalot must be taken figuratively. In many places he refutes assertions of the...
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    passage in No. 20, which is elsewhere quoted in the name of the "Pirkei Heikhalot" and of "Ma'aseh Bereshit". No. 36 was considered doubtful on account...
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