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	Learn Kabbalah \| Abraham Abulafia
		Abraham Abulafia (1240-1291) is the most important figure in the prophetic Kabbalah, and among the most fascinating Kabbalists in our historical record.
		Abulafia believed himself to be a messianic figure — not quite the redeemer of Israel, but someone who would prepare the way and who was revealing important new secrets of Creation.
		Abulafia was a prolific writer, fluent in the languages of philosophy, Kabbalah, and theology — though it is not known how well-versed he was in the traditional learning of the Talmud and later authorities.
	www.learnkabbalah.com /abraham_abulafia (1032 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - ABULAFIA, ABRAHAM BEN SAMUEL: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Abulafia's influence upon the further development of the Cabala was rather of a retarding than a fostering nature.
		Abulafia's writings are not wanting in excellent ideas and beautiful illustrations, but these are so overgrown with mystic obscurity and abstruseness that a perusal of them is not very edifying.
		Abulafia was a pupil of Asbasan and a rabbi in Damascus.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=699&letter=A (2864 words)

	Abraham Abulafia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia (Hebrew: אברהם בן שמואל אבולעפיה) was born in Saragosa in 1240, and died sometime after 1290, in Comino, Maltese archipelago.
		Abulafia is closely associated with gematria, the symbolic employment of letters as numerals.
		Abulafia's writings are not wanting in excellent ideas and beautiful illustrations, but these are so overgrown with mystic obscurity and abstruseness that a perusal of them is not very edifying (Kohler et al., Jewish Encyclopedia).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abulafia (1654 words)

	Roman Holiday
		Abulafia was one of the most bizarre and colourful figures in Jewish history.
		Nevertheless, the conventional perception of the messiah as a national redeemer was not absent from Abulafia's self-image.
		Abraham's Abulafia's planned Rosh Hashanah visit with Pope Martin should therefore be seen as a link in a distinguished series of such encounters.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~elsegal/Shokel/990909_RomanHoliday.html (1249 words)

	Qabala & Tantra
		However Abulafia was so influenced by Maimonides that he insisted that the philosopher be studied by his pupils as a prerequisite to the mystic experience.
		Abulafia, in using the metaphor of the horse and rider to describe both the controlling of one’s imagination through will and the experience of entering the mystical realm would seem to be saying that the only way to reach a truly mystical state of consciousness is through active participation with rigorous training.
		Abulafia also seems to be arguing that, while there is a feeling of awe involved in the experience, the practitioner of Kabbalah will stay in control of the situation and be able to navigate his way through the experience by means of his own willpower.
	duard.dreamscrying.net /qabalatantra.html (2355 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Ideas & Belief: From Mystic to Prophet: Abraham Abulafia & Ecstatic Kabbalah
		Abraham Abulafia was a revolutionary mystic, but he was also a devoted follower of Maimonides, the philosopher and rationalist par excellence.
		For Abulafia, too, prophecy can be attained only when one is in a state of conjunction, a state that can come about only when the soul is freed from the bonds of the body.
		For Abulafia, not only is the esoteric wisdom of the divine chariot brought about by knowledge of the various combinations and permutations of the names of God, but vision of the chariot itself consists of the very letters that are constitutive elements of the names.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /ideas_belief/Kabbalah_and_Mysticism/Overview_Kabbalah_And_Hasidism/Kabbalah_In_Spain/Mysticism_Ecstatic.htm (1282 words)

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	The Jews Of Messina
		Abraham ben Shemuel Abulafia, sostenitore di una cabala profetica e di un movimento messianico, soggiornò a Messina per la maggior parte del periodo tra il 1280 e il 1291; ebreo aragonese, tra il 1279 e il 1283 scrisse diversi testi profetici che sfortunatamente sono andati perduti.
		Abraham ben Shemuel Abulafia, the supporter of a prophetic cabbala of a messianic movement, lived in Messina for the greater part of the period from 1280 to 1291; an Aragon Jew, he wrote various prophetic texts between 1279 and 1283 which unfortunately have been lost.
		Abraham Abulafia sempre da Messina annunciò l'inizio dell'era messianica che con certezza sarebbe dovuta iniziare nel 1290.
	www.dieli.net /SicilyPage/JewishSicily/JudaicaMessina2.html (1763 words)

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		Surprising though it may be, a 13th century Jewish Rabbi, Abraham Abulafia (1240-c.1291), was one of many medieval Jews who wove the beauty of Muslim mysticism into the Jewish spiritual quilt, forever changing the face of Jewish practice - and allying Jews and Muslims at their mystical cores in ways that, today, neither would suspect.
		Abulafia didn't fare quite as badly, though his bizarre, Sufi-inspired proclamations did attract the attention of one of the leading Rabbinical authorities of his times, Rabbi Solomon ben Abraham Ibn Adret, who promptly excommunicated him, forcing him into exile on a small island off the coast of Sicily, where he died around 1291.
		In addition to Abulafia's belief in the ability to commune completely with the Godhead, he borrowed much of what is today commonly thought of as particularly Jewish mystical prayer from the Muslim mystics.
	www.tomblock.com.cob-web.org:8888 /11shalom/article_abulafia.php (1957 words)

	Wikinfo \| Messiah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As a result of his mystic studies, Abulafia came to believe first that he was a prophet; and in a prophetic book which he published in Urbino (1279) he declared that God had spoken to him.
		The latter foretold in mystic language at Ayllon in Segovia the advent of the Messiah.
		In 1574 Abraham Shalom, a pretender to the Davidic Messiahship, it seems, sent to Vital, saying that he (Shalom) was the Davidic Messiah, whereas Vital was the Messiah of the house of Joseph.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Messiah (4097 words)

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		Abraham Abulafia, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah, exposed a mysticism that includes a deep interest in language as a universe in itself, to be studied as the philosophers study nature, in order to attain higher knowledge than natural science and speculative philosophy.
		Torah was regarded by Abulafia as the most important text, reflecting the constitution of the intellectual world and being identical with the Active intellect and even to God Himself.
		On the other hand, Torah was interpreted in Abulafia's Kabbalah as an allegory to the psychological processes of the mystic, an approach different from the regular Kabbalistic interpretation of this text as a symbolic corpus reflecting the divine intrasefirotic life.
	www.chez.com /jec2/resumidel9.htm (206 words)

	JewishGates.Com - The Definitive Source for Talmudic Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Abraham ben Samuel ben Abulafia lived during the second half of the 13th century.
		The furor aroused the concern and then the anger of RaSHBa, who declared him a fake and accused Abraham of being a false Messiah.
		Abraham ben Samuel ben Abulafia was considered the leading kabbalist before Isaac Luria.
	www.jewishgates.com /file.asp?File_ID=201 (260 words)

	ABULAFIA, Abraham ben Samuel
		ABULAFIA, Abraham ben Samuel, jüdischer Mystiker und Schwärmer, * 1240 in Saragossa (Aragonien), 1292 in Barcelona.
		In seiner Überspanntheit reiste A. 1280 nach Rom, um den Papst zum Judentum zu bekehren, ein gewagtes Unternehmen, das er beinahe in Suriano bei Rom mit dem Tod auf dem Scheiterhaufen hätte büßen müssen, wenn der Papst nicht plötzlich gestorben wäre.
		Mystik, 1853; - A. A., der Pseudomessias, in: MGWJ 56, 1887, 557 ff.; - G. Scholem, Abulafia and the Doctrine of Prophetic Kabbalism: Major Trends in Jewish Mysticiam, Jerusalem 1941; - JüdLex I, 61 f.; - EJud I, 637 ff.; - LThK I, 59.
	www.bautz.de /bbkl/a/abraham_abulafia.shtml (157 words)

	sacrd objects
		Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia, a Sicilian Kabbalist born in Saragosa, Spain in 1240, is considered one of the most colorful figures in Jewish mysticism.
		Abulafia sought a state of mystical union with God beyond the individual self.
		When I came to the night in which this power was conferred on me, and midnight—when this power especially expands and gains strength whereas the body weakens had passed, I set out to take up the Great Name of God, consisting of seventy-two names, permuting and combining it.
	www.mysticsmasters.com /AbrahamAbulafia.html (258 words)

	Revived Qabalah/Kabbalah: Abraham Abulafia and Pope Nicholas III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Revived Qabalah/Kabbalah: Abraham Abulafia and Pope Nicholas III
		Moreover, the similarity between the eschatological tone struck by the Zohar and the messianic tone of Abulafia's incident is highly suggestive.
		It is possible that not only the death of Nicholas but also other information about Abulafia's planned meeting with the pope a a certain time could have influenced this section of the Zohar...
	www.psyche.com /psyche/lex/qbl/abulafia_nicholas3.html (259 words)

	The Jewish Community in Malta
		One of the most remarkable figures in Medieval Jewish history, Avraham Ben Shmuel ABULAFIA, lived for many years in Malta, to be exact on the small rocky isle of Comino.
		Born in Saragossa, Spain, in 1240, Abulafia, visionary and prophetic cabbalist, proclaimed himself the Messiah and predicted the messianic era would begin in the year 5050 (1290 CE).
		With the pyre prepared, the pope suddenly died of a heart attack and Abulafia was subsequently freed.
	www.aboutmalta.com /grazio/jewish.html (1253 words)

	Belief
		However, although he acknowledged the influence of Maimonides on Abraham Abulafia, Scholem never devoted a full study to "our Rabbi, of blessed memory," as Maimonides was known among generations of readers.
		[11] Abraham Abulafia surely saw Maimonides as more than an "influence"; rather, he adopted Maimonides' view of the structure of the universe as central to his system and built his meditation techniques on top of that structure.
		Maimonides' in-law was a known sufi [39]; his wife may have been one too [40]; there were known Jewish sufis in his entourage [41]; his son was under sufi influence [42]; and the school that developed under R. Abraham was certainly under sufi influence.
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	Nota: La Tradición viva: Abraham Abulafia. Francisco Ariza.
		Como todos los cabalistas, Abulafia concede una importancia capital a las letras del alfabeto hebreo, pues ellas constituyen entidades simbólicas que, como tales, expresan la realidad de los arquetipos, principios e ideas de orden universal.
		Para Abulafia ese conocimiento procura lo que él denomina la "visión profética", en la que "el temor de Dios se ha transformado en amor", pues el hombre, atravesando los diversos niveles de la realidad cósmica y de sí mismo, ha tomado contacto con su principio supra-individual y se ha hecho uno con él.
		Por todo ello, no es aventurado afirmar que Abraham Abulafia esté considerado, junto a Ramón Llull, como uno de los principales precursores de este importante movimiento hermético, a través del cual el esoterismo de Occidente encontró un nuevo impulso revitalizador.
	www.geocities.com /symbolos/nota05.htm (1368 words)

	Tarot and the Hebrew Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		De Rossi describes Abraham as a celebrated writer whose “advice and instruction was sought from afar.”
		Hayei ha‘Olam Ha-Ba (Italy, 1286), an anyonmous fragment attributed to Abulafia, explaining the formation of a golem.
		Born in Toledo in 1240, Abulafia spent much of his adult life in Italy.
	www.spiritone.com /~filipas/Masquerade/Essays/eta.html (1241 words)

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		Abulafia was one of the chief proponents and innovators of "prophetic Kabbala." Rabbi Yehuda Chayat and Rabbi Shlomo ben Aderet (the Rashba) vigorously opposed Rabbi Abraham.
		Kabbala work attributed to Avraham Avinu (Abraham the Patriarch) which, according to some, was finally redacted by Rabbi Akiva.
		Between 1272-1274 studied with Avraham Abulafia who praised him as his most successful student.
	www.kabbalaonline.org /staticpages/indexofsagesold.asp (4441 words)

	5 Kabbalah Texts
		And Abraham was old, and well advanced in age; and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
		From Abraham we learn that “all” is a daughter-in-law, a wife for his son.
		The work was ascribed to Abraham, which fact indicates an old tradition, and the possible antiquity of the book itself.
	home.utah.edu /~rfs4/jkm05.htm (9437 words)

	Chayye Olam Ha Ba - Life in the World to Come
		This is a section about a growing study and translation of R. Abulafia's work on the "Chaya O'lam Haba" ("Life in the World to Come").
		This manuscript, written in 1280, and reprinted recently, is Abulafia's explanation about the secret of the 72 names, Abulafia's circles, YHVH, the golem and Sefer Yetzirah.
		There seem to be some common content between Abulafia's book and the "Sefer Raziel HaMelech," especially in the description of the 72 names (based on the 3 lines of Exodus 14:19-21).
	emol.org /kabbalah/olamhaba (305 words)

	Velveteen Rabbi (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Here we have Abraham arguing with God to spare the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and those cities' eventual downfall anyway.
		This week we're reading parashat Lekh Lekha, the story which begins with God's injunction to Abraham to go forth (or, perhaps, to go to himself) on what is now the paradigmatic Jewish journey of becoming.
		Each one of us is always going forth from her land, the place of her birth, the house of her father.
	velveteenrabbi.blogs.com.cob-web.org:8888 (3067 words)

	INDEX OF SAGES & BOOKS
		Received rabbinical ordination from the Chief Rabbi of Safed R. Chaim Abulafia.
		Author of Mishnat Chassidim; Yosher Leivav; Chozei Tzion a kabbalistic commentary on Psalms.
		Raavad II (acronym of the name Rabbi Avraham Av Beit Din).
	www.kabbalaonline.org /staticpages/indexofsages.asp (2869 words)

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		Definitions of Mysticism and Jewish Mysticism Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, 1-39 Joseph Dan, The Heart and the Fountain: an Anthology of Jewish Mystical Experiences, 1-15 (optional) 3.
		Jewish esotericism — Between Jewish philosophy and Jewish mysticism Elliot Wolfson, Abraham Abulafia — Kabbalist and Prophet, 9-38 David Ariel, The Mystic Quest, 51-63 (optional) 4.
		The Ecstatic Kabbalah of R. Abraham Abulafia Idel, “Abraham Abulafia and Unio Mystica,” Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah, 1-31 Scholem, Major Trends, 119-155 (optional) The Zohar Scholem, Major Trends, 156-204 Yehuda Liebes, “How the Zohar Was Written,” Studies in the Zohar, 85-138 (Optional) 16.
	overseas.huji.ac.il /Aut2004_syl/Ogren.doc (436 words)

	The Language of Angels by Edward Hoffman Jewish angels Language of Angels -- Beliefnet.com
		Among his writings on angels and prayer, Abulafia declared: “Look at these holy letters with truth and belief.
		With Abulafia’s method, the practitioner “begins to combine letters, a few or many, reversing them and rolling them around rapidly, until one’s heart feels warm.” Those who carefully follow this technique, Abulafia assured, will eventually experience “an abundance of saintly spirit, wisdom, understanding, good counsel and knowledge.
		In the centuries following Abulafia’s influential life, many sages extolled the spiritual power of the Hebrew alphabet.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/121/story_12163_2.html (445 words)

	Rabbi Abraham Abulafia: Circles 3 (from Life of the Future World) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rabbi Abraham Abulafia: Circles 3 (from Life of the Future World)
		View All Poems by Rabbi Abraham Abulafia
		Please support the Poetry Chaikhana, as well as the authors and publishers of sacred poetry, by purchasing some of the recommended books through the links on this site.
	www.poetry-chaikhana.com /A/AbulafiaRabb/Circles3from.htm (191 words)

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		Abraham Abulafia recorded perhaps the best text describing in detail the entry way into the meditative Kabbalah.
		And this is clear testimony that he asked wisdom from his Creator and that wisdom he was taught by Him, blessed be His name.
		The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia, Moshe Idel, SUNY Press, page 109.
	www.cc.utah.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /~rfs4/jkm04.htm (9380 words)

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