LEADER 05638nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910457770403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-61811-098-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781618110985 035 $a(CKB)2550000000063509 035 $a(OCoLC)606352554 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10509027 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000565435 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12199705 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565435 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10533095 035 $a(PQKB)10073976 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3110402 035 $a(DE-B1597)541084 035 $a(OCoLC)1119142116 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781618110985 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3110402 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10509027 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000063509 100 $a20081124d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWisdom of love$b[electronic resource] $eman, woman & God in Jewish Canonical literature /$fNaftali Rothenberg ; [translated by Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel] 210 $aBoston $cAcademic Studies Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (235 p.) 225 1 $aJudaism and Jewish life 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-934843-29-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPREFACE -- $tIntroduction. Love in the Canonical Literature: Dealing with Cognitive Dissonance -- $tSECTION I. THE ANDROGYNE UNITY; SEPARATION; DESIRE AND UNITY -- $t1. The Androgyne Myth According to Plato -- $tChapter One. THE ANDROGYNE MYTH ACCORDING TO PLATO -- $tChapter Two. MALE AND FEMALE UNITY, PRIMORDIAL SIN AND REBELLION AGAINST THE GODS -- $tChapter Three. IN THE MIDRASH: ANDROGYNOUS ADAM -- $tChapter Four. IN THE KABBALAH: AN ETERNAL/DIVINE, SPIRITUAL AND HUMAN ANDROGYNE -- $tChapter Five. THE REBIRTH OF THE ANDROGYNE: JUDAH ABRAVANEL CITES PLATO AND MOSES -- $tChapter Six. SUMMARY: THE POWER OF MYTHS -- $tSECTION II. A PROFILE OF THE SAGE OF LOVE -- $tChapter One. INTRODUCTION: THE PHILOSOPHER AS SAGE OF LOVE -- $tChapter Two. THE LOVE OF RACHEL -- $tChapter Three. THE SAGE OF LOVE "RESCUES" THE SONG OF SONGS -- $tChapter Four. PRACTICE AND THEORY IN THE WISDOM OF LOVE -- $tChapter Five. THE SAGE AND TEMPTATION -- $tChapter Six. LOVE THY FELLOW AS THE BASIS OF HUMAN SOCIALISATION -- $tChapter Seven. OPTIMISM OUT OF LOVE -- $tChapter Eight. ULTIMATE LOVE -- $tChapter Nine. THE ORCHARD OF LOVE -- $tChapter Ten. SUMMARY: THE UNIVERSAL SAGE -- $tSECTION III. THE SAGE OF UNCONSUMMATED LOVE: JUDAH ABRAVANEL'S DIALOGHI D'AMORE -- $tChapter One. INTRODUCTION: PHILO AND SOPHIA -- $tChapter Two. THE SAGE'S DESIRE -- $tChapter Three. LOVE AS A UNIVERSAL PHENOMENON -- $tChapter Four. THE PARADOX OF ABSTRACT PERCEPTION -- $tChapter Five. LOVE AND BEAUTY -- $tChapter Six. WHEN AND WHERE WAS LOVE BORN? -- $tChapter Seven. UNCONSUMMATED LOVE -- $tSECTION IV. WRITTEN FOR MEN BY MEN: FEMINIST REVOLUTION AND INNOVATION IN THE CANONICAL SOURCES -- $tChapter One. INTRODUCTION: IDENTIFYING REVOLUTIONARY AND INNOVATIVE APPROACHES IN CULTURAL SOURCES -- $tChapter Two. A MONOGAMOUS MESSAGE TO A POLYGAMOUS CULTURE -- $tChapter Three. ONAH: THE OBLIGATION TO HAVE SEX FOR PLEASURE -- $tChapter Four. THE LOVE RELATIONSHIP AS PERFECTION: THE END OF MALE EXCLUSIVITY -- $tChapter Five. SUMMARY: INNOVATION AND THE NORM -- $tSECTION V. CONTRAST AND HARMONY IN MARRIED LIFE: ON SPIRITUALITY AND ABSTINENCE -- $tChapter One. INTRODUCTION: THE DUALISTIC APPROACH -- $tChapter Two. MARRIAGE AND INTELLECTUAL GROWTH: HELP OR HINDRANCE? -- $tChapter Three. CATEGORICAL REJECTION: ABSTINENCE IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH! -- $tChapter Four. THE DILEMMA OF ABSTINENCE FOR INDIVIDUALS ON A HIGH SPIRITUAL PLANE -- $tChapter Five. MOSES' ABSTINENCE -- $tChapter Six. ABSTINENCE: A PRECONDITION FOR LOVE IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF RABBI BAHYA IBN PAKUDA -- $tChapter Seven. RABBI JUDAH HALEVI'S REJECTION OF ABSTINENCE -- $tChapter Eight. SUMMARY: MAINTAINING BALANCE -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aThe Wisdom of Love strives to challenge the discrepancy between the way source texts relate to love and the way they are perceived to do so, introducing readers to the extensive, profound, and significant treatment of love in the Jewish canon. This is a book about love, not its repression; it is an opportunity to study the wisdom of love, not those who lack such wisdom and are unlikely to ever acquire it. The Wisdom of Love brings about not only a change in perception-recognizing the existence of the wisdom of love per se-but also the realization that this wisdom is the very foundation of religious wisdom as a whole, rather than a peripheral branch of it. All love derives from a single source: love between man and woman. 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