Jewish mysticism
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Academic study of Jewish mysticism, especially since Gershom Scholem's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, draws distinctions between different forms of mysticism which were practiced in different eras
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Merkabah mysticism
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Merkabah or Merkavah mysticism is a school of early Jewish mysticism, centered on visions such as those found in Ezekiel 1 or in the hekhalot literature, concerning stories of ascents to the heavenly
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…Europe, is the most well known, but it is not the only typological form, nor was it the first form which emerged. Among the previous forms were Merkabah mysticism (c. 100 BCE – 1000 CE), and Ashkenazi Hasidim (early 13th century) around the time of the emergence of Kabbalah. Kabbalah means "received tradition…
Copy of Matthäus Merian's engraving of Ezekiel's vision (1670)
Ezekiel's Wheel in St. John the Baptist Church in Kratovo, North Macedonia. Fresco from the 19th century.
Tomb of Yohanan ben Zakkai in Tiberias
Talmud on the Knesset Menorah. References in rabbinic Talmud and Midrash to merkabah mysticism are brief, avoiding explanation.