HUMA 1865 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Maimonides, Gematria, Hebrew Alphabet

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1865
• Professor: Aviva Goldberg

Document Summary

Judaism: ashkenazim jews lived in minority under christian rule but under muslim rule, they often flourished. Despite all this, this was a great period for great medieval jewish philosophers: focus on maimonides, this was a time when the jews and muslims got along okay, also composed thirteen principles of faith: doctrine of judaism. When he wrote it, many (even today) disagreed that judaism should have principles of doctrines. Mysticism- experiential, theological: abraham abulafia had teachings. Khai means life: kabala centre has some of his teachings. If you focus on a letter or biblical passage then you can enter a type of healing according to them: not just anyone could do jewish mysticism teachings, kabbalah: multiple books. Taught that the true teachings of this can take evil from the earth: each of ten emanations have a name and represent colours or moods.