Merkabah mysticism
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Merkabah mysticism (Heb., ‘Chariot’ mysticism). Jewish speculations on God's throne. Later Jewish mystics speculated on the prophet
Ezekiel's vision of God's chariot, and such study was recognized to have particular dangers to untutored minds.
Johanan ben Zakkai was a practitioner of merkabah mysticism, and early accounts of his experience (e.g. in a
Cairo Genizah fragment) so closely resemble the accounts of Saul/
Paul's Damascus road experience (with the obvious exception of the perception of Jesus) that it seems virtually certain that Saul had been an adept also. See also
HEKHALOT AND MERKABAH.
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"Mysticism" in the Gospel of John: An Inquiry into Its Background
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Christian writings as the Wisdom of Ben Sira (Sir 49:8; 3:21-23...IOMelch; Revelation). Given that Johanan ben Zakkai was a contemporary of John, Kanagaraj investigates four versions of Johanan's Merkabah experience as recounted...
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WHY DID MATTHEW GET THE SHEMA WRONG? A STUDY OF MATTHEW 22:37
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Jew (the supposed converted rabbi of the school of Johanan ben Zakkai!).9 However, the tendentious reference to ben Zakkai aside, this argument is effectively countered by Davies...
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The Shadow of God.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Currents in Theology and Mission; 6/1/2007; ; 464 words
; ...debates in Babylon on whether to serve Nebuchadnezzar and ends with a tale about a conversation between Johanan ben Zakkai and Vespasian that won Johanan a claim to imperial property near Jamnia, where he founded rabbinic Judaism. In thirteen other...
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From Belief To Fanaticism: Sadly, Jewish history is full of Baruch
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Week; 3/10/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...radical Zealot leader, Rabbi Zechariah ben Avkilus, opposed such accommodation...Because of the rigidity of Zechariah ben Avkilus, our House has been destroyed...pragmatist of Jewish history was Rabban Johanan ben Zakkai. When in their fierce fight against...
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The evolution of American orthodox relief and rescue efforts during the Holocaust: two documents.
Magazine article from: Journal of Ecumenical Studies; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...greatest and noblest world philanthropic organization. (5) In the olden days of the destruction of the Temple, Rabbi Johanan ben Zakkai pleaded for the great Academy of Yavneh and her scholars (6) because he believed that the Torah was the Jewish...
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The Right Time to Give Hardwoods a Soft Start
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/2/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Messiah has come, let him finish planting the tree and then meet the Messiah." This was said by biblical scholar Johanan ben Zakkai around 70 A.D. Since tree planting is considered, even biblically, as such a significant occurrence, we should...
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BOOK NOTES
Newspaper article from: Chicago Jewish Star; 6/25/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...the New Encyclopedia difficult to use have been retained. For example, "Judah Halevi" and Yohanan (here, "Johanan") ben Zakkai are both found under the letter "J" in the text and index. Such blemishes are of minor import, however, and...
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Ethnic Turf Wars in City Synagogue, THE MOSCOW TIMES
Newspaper article from: The Moscow Times (Russia); 5/16/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...adult Jewish men required in order to read the Torah and several crucial prayers. As the first-century Jewish sage Johanan ben Zakkai said, "When God comes to a synagogue and does not find a minyan there, he is angry." The Choral Synagogue also...
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Johanan ben Zakkai
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Johanan ben Zakkai The Jewish teacher Johanan ben Zakkai (active ca. A.D. 70) was the leading expounder...his time. He founded an important academy at Yavneh. Johanan ben Zakkai was the youngest among the numerous disciples of the...
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Zakkai, Johanan ben
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Zakkai, Johanan ben (leading Jewish sage): see JOHANAN BEN ZAKKAI .
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Akiba ben Joseph
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...interpretation. The early life of Akiba ben Joseph is enshrouded in legends...shepherd employed by the wealthy Ben Kalba Sabua, whose daughter Rachel...entered the rabbinical academy of Johanan ben Zakkai, a Pharisaic teacher, at Yabneh...
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Jamnia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of Jerusalem (AD 70), Jamnia became a great Jewish cultural center. At the prayer of Johanan ben Zakkai , Vespasian spared Jamnia and permitted Johanan to settle there as leader of the Jewish community after the fall of Jerusalem. The Great...
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Hekhalot and merkabah
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...chariot chapters of Ezekiel are at least as early as Johanan ben Zakkai , and, following the discovery among the Cairo Genizah Fragments of an early text describing Johanan's experience, it seems clear that Saul (who became...
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