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FT-52216-04 Summer Stipends Research Programs
Totals: $5,000 (approved)$5,000 (awarded)
Grant period: 6/1/2004 – 8/31/2004
The primary aim of this study is to present a typology of contemplative and meditative techniques as they were outlined and understood by a fourteenth century Jewish kabbalist. I am particularly interested in the mystic’s representation of internal states of devotion and prayer â€" of the place accorded to intention and focus in medieval Jewish mysticism. In studying these practices as modalities of ritual, I shall also seek to clarify the manner in which the Jewish mystic articulates a language of the self (insofar as he testifies to personal experience) while simultaneously attempting to situate these practices within an authoritative line of reception and pedagogical transmission.