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	Science Fair Projects - Abulafia
		Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia (1240 - probably 1292, Comino, Maltese archipelago) is one of the earliest kabbalists.
		Abulafia was next heard of in Sicily, where he appeared as a prophet and Mesiah.
		Abulafia is closely associated with gematria, the symbolical employment of letters as numerals.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Abulafia (469 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - ABULAFIA, ABRAHAM BEN SAMUEL: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	Learn Kabbalah \| Abraham Abulafia
		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 not a modest man, when it came to these aspects of his personality.
		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)

	Meir Abulafia
		The ibn Abulafia family settled in Toledo in the 12th century.
		Meir Abulafia was the most authoritative Spanish talmudist during the first half of the 13th century.
		Abulafia is also credited with writing the authoritative Torah scroll for Spanish Jewry.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/MAbulafia.html (296 words)

	tomblock.com
		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.
		Abulafia imported the emotional, ecstatic aspects of Sufism into Kabbalistic practice, as well - features that had been missing from the rationalistic Jewish attitudes towards prayer for the prior 1000 years.
	www.tomblock.com /11shalom/article_abulafia.php (1957 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.
		Though Abulafia was notified in advanced of the Pope's inhospitable intentions, he remained determined nonetheless to keep his appointment.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~elsegal/Shokel/990909_RomanHoliday.html (1249 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.07.51
		As Abulafia puts it, "in writing the history of the Mediterranean it is essential to write a human history of the Mediterranean Sea expressed through the commercial, cultural and religious interaction that took place across its surface" (26).
		Abulafia deftly describes the new centrality of the Middle East to the rival European states, along with Italian imperialism, the inter-war rivalries, the world wars themselves, the Arab-Israeli conflicts, northern Europeans' views of the Mediterranean, and mass tourism.
		Abulafia's introduction exaggerates the deficiencies of Horden and Purcell's volume and overstates its proximity to Braudel.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-07-51.html (2009 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)

	Learn Kabbalah \| Basic Meditation Techniques
		Third, and unlike most of the Kabbalah, Abulafia's practices are clearly intended to bring about a particular mystical experience; they are not speculations on the cosmos, or elaborations on the commandments.
		In fact, when one actually opens Abulafia's books -- none of which has yet been translated into English -- one quickly sees that this extraction is a bit misleading, because Abulafia's prophetic techniques are tied to the type of prophecy one receives.
		What they bring about, in Abulafia's accounts and my own experience, is often a kind of stream of free association which plays within the concepts and words being permuted.
	learnkabbalah.com /basic_meditation_techniques (1286 words)

	Abulafia: Kidnappings Top Terrorist Priority - News Briefs - Arutz Sheva
		Abulafia warned that terrorists are extremely motivated to kidnap Israelis, because they wish to use captives or dead bodies as bargaining chips to gain the release of terrorists imprisoned in Israel.
		Abulafia expressed concern that there is little awareness of the severity of recent kidnapping alerts.
		Abulafia expressed particular concern for youth, who he said often hitchhike alone, and who travel via hitchhiking at all hours of day and night.
	www.israelnationalnews.com /News/Flash.aspx/121825 (207 words)

	Amazon.com: Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor (Oxford Paperback Reference): Books: David Abulafia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Abulafia, had access to the Vatican archives to research his book, and thus has been able to recast these years of the Middle Ages, as well as the character of Frederick II.
		Abulafia has looked at the facts and interpreted them the way he saw it, and his arguments are very sound.
		Abulafia succumbs to the tendency of certain historians today to be first and foremost, a "revisionist".
	www.amazon.com /Frederick-II-Medieval-Paperback-Reference/dp/0195080408 (1908 words)

	Main Page - Abulafia Random Generators
		Abulafia is a collection of user-contributed random generators housed within a special kind of wiki.
		If you think the results could use a little more imagination, click the 'edit' tab at the top of the page and add a few more choices to the mix (keep with the format you see in the edit box and you'll be fine).
		Abulafia was designed with Role-Playing Gamers in mind, but would work equally well for playwrights, authors, and so forth.
	www.random-generator.com (669 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)

	NPR : A Grandson's Quest to Preserve His Jewish Heritage
		Hear Rabbi Abulafia's music on a 30-minute radio documentary reporter Jon Kalish recently produced for NPR member station KCRW.
		Abulafia was a living repository of sacred Jewish music dating back centuries.
		Before Abulafia died, the rabbi asked his grandson, Lionel Ziprin, to make sure the recordings were someday shared with the world.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5076613 (303 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Culture: The Hebrew Letters in Jewish Mysticism
		Believing that each of us can attain lofty spiritual states, Abulafia taught in a practical way that the Hebrew letters are a key pathway--in fact, the means for "the soul to actualize its potential with much greater ease" than with any other method.
		Abulafia taught that the path to higher awareness is not particularly difficult.
		The crucial aspect of Abulafia's system is the utilization of the Hebrew language as the vehicle by which we ascend into the transcendent world.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /culture/Languages/Languages_Hebrew_TO/HebrewLetters/MysticalHebrew/MysticalHebrew2.htm (1337 words)

	the view from here
		12/29/2004 03:43:00 PM The Abulafia bakery, located in the predominantly Arab city of Jaffa next to Tel Aviv, is 125 years old.
		And the lines are equally as long at three in the morning when Tel Aviv club goers and party folk want something delicious in their stomachs to soak up all the alcohol in their bellies after a night of dancing to that damn techno music.
		Oooh!) Abulafia is an institution in Israel and the food that the family has been serving at the same exact spot for 125 years is as authentic and indigenous as it gets.
	www.theviewfromhere.net /2004/12/abulafia-i-love-you.html (627 words)

	Louche Cannon » Abulafia
		At the time I initially wrote Abulafia, the web was still an experiment at CERN and Apple’s HyperCard had practically co-opted the term “hypertext” despite really being an application development environment.
		Abulafia was partially a response to HyperCard and was inspired by IRIS’s industrial strength research hypertext environment, Intermedia.
		Abulafia supported single-user “collections”, in which case it stored all links and document information in a special file within a collection folder, but it also supported multi-user collections, where documents were stored on network drives (AppleShare, I’m afraid) and link and document status information (e.g.
	www.breakawayrepublic.com /blog/?p=45 (1747 words)

	Abulafia - IBM 300GL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		With the added RAM, Abulafia is fine for light Windows usage including some office applications for reading documents that would otherwise be indecipherable, it can play music through my stereo, and of course it's looking for aliens.
		It's also been equipped with a bay for easy plugging of IDE harddiscs, partly because it needed something to fill an empty 5 1/4" slot and that item just happened to be available.
		Abulafia has an enigmatic password and some enigmatic contents in Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.
	www.wind.dk /goodtoprint/computer.abulafia.html (294 words)

	Walking On Fire
		Moshe Idel (Language, Torah, and Hermeneutics in Abraham Abulafia) writes regarding this enigmatic phrase and its connection to the pentacle:
		Thus, the athame inscribed as discussed above, which as an extention of the witch herself, is used not only to project and direct mystical kavanah, but to direct Divine Energy as well.
		From this we learn that God's purpose in creation is, in general, to manifest His infinite Divine goodness throughout reality, and, in particular, to combine and unite together the two created realms of "heavens" and "earth"--the spiritual realm and the physical realm.
	liorah-chanah.livejournal.com /tag/abulafia (633 words)

	Revived Qabalah/Kabbalah: Abraham Abulafia and Pope Nicholas III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		And on the sixth day [Friday] on the twenty-fifth day of the sixth month the star will appear and be gathered to the seventh day [the Sabbath].
		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)

	Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia
		Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia was one of the earliest kabbalists.
		In the next year he went to Rome in order to convert Pope Nicholas III.
		A short time later, Abulafia compiled his Sefer ha-Ot (The Book of the Sign) on the little island of Comino, near Malta, in years 1285-1288.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Abulafia.html (235 words)

	Abulafia, Abraham, Ohr Ha-Sechel, Light of the Intellect, Sheva Netivot Ha-Torah - The Seven Paths of Torah, Sefer ...
		This book is among the four masterpieces by Abulafia.
		We are very proud to announce the first complete translation of a book by Abraham Abulafia.
		Abulafia relates his experiences and visions, some of which are really frightening.
	www.everburninglight.org /Abulafia-Abraham-3.html (140 words)

	abulafia A Bookmarks
		IDF Warns: Terrorists Seeking to Kidnap CiviliansArutz Sheva, Israel - Feb 18, 2007(IsraelNN.com) Binyamin Region Commander Colonel Amir Abulafia has issued a warning to the Jewish community in his jurisdiction that Arab terrorists are...
		Saudi prince looking to buy TA hotelJerusalem Post, Israel - Feb 15, 2007Plans by Saudi Prince Al-Walid bin Talal to build an eight-story hotel in Tel Aviv together with the Abulafia family of Jaffa are in their early stages.
		Saudi prince to invest in TA hotelJerusalem Post, Israel - Feb 15, 2007Saudi prince Al-Walid Bin Talal, according to Forbes Magazine the world's eighth-wealthiest man and the wealthiest Arab, is partnering with the Abulafia...
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Bookmarks/A/abulafia (258 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)

	Abraham Abulafia: Life and Work
		Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia was a Sicilian Kabbalist born in Saragossa, Spain in 1240.
		He taught that a complex science of combinations, permutations, and invocations of these symbols gives access to the highest spiritual realities and may even confer a “prophetic” status.
		Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia contributions can be found in the World Wisdom book, Pray without Ceasing.
	www.worldwisdom.com /author/Detail.asp?AuthorID=154&WhatType=2 (180 words)

	Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
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		At Patras in Greece, his first prophetic book "Sefer ha-Yashar" (Book of the Righteous) was written in 1279.
		Abulafia's 'Life of the World to Come' (http://www.grimoar.cz/hebrew/abulafia/chaje_olam_ha-ba.htm)
	www.egnu.org /thelema/Abulafia (408 words)

	History in Review - The Mediterranean in History
		It is also the history of the peoples that lived along the periphery of the waters edges, and those that plied its waves.
		The Mediterranean in History, edited by David Abulafia is a thrilling book about the Great Sea, and the impact that it had upon the development of Western Civilization.
		The text discusses the Sea from its days as a trading and exploratory highway for the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, and the Etruscans, to the role it has played in modern day political and economic endeavors of the countries bordering the Great Sea.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /abulafia.html (533 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance by Anna Abulafia
		Anna Abulafia probes the anti-Jewish polemics of scholars who used the new ideas to redefine the position of the Jews within Christian society.
		They formulated a universal construct of humanity which coincided with universal Christendom, from which the Jews were excluded.
		Dr Abulafia shows how the Jews' exclusion from this view of society contributed to their growing marginalization from the twelfth century onwards.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook21580.htm (336 words)

	NPR : 'Misirlou,' from Klezmer to Surf Guitar
		Rabbi Abulafia's version is from "Talmudic Legends: Liturgical songs of Nuftali Zvi Margolies Abulafia," copyright 1979 Lionel Ziprin.
		Weekend Edition Sunday, January 8, 2006 · The tune "Misirlou" has traveled quite a path, from klezmer music to 1950s exotica acts and finally to surf guitar and an appearance in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction.
		Many of you heard it again in a Jan. 1 feature by Jon Kalish on Lionel Ziprin's efforts to preserve the recordings of his grandfather, Rabbi Nuftali Zvi Margolies Abulafia.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5134530 (283 words)

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