Kodesh

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The basic notion of the Iggeret ha-Kodesh is that sexual relations between husband and wife are sacred and that the state of both husband and wife during intimacy determines the character of the future child.

Iggeret Ha-Kodesh. 2009

“Iggeret ha-Kodesh Attributed to the Ramban” (Hebrew).

Iggeret Ha-Kodesh. 2009

But the Talmudic saying does not develop the concept of intent, which is central to the author of the Iggeret ha-Kodesh, nor does it detail the relationship between the higher and lower worlds as the author does.

Iggeret Ha-Kodesh. 2009

The deciding factor in attributing the Iggeret ha-Kodesh to the Ramban was that about seventy years after his death, Rabbi Yisrael Elnekaveh (d. 1391) included the entire work in his own book, Menorat ha-Meor, even prefacing and concluding it with an attribution to the Ramban.

Iggeret Ha-Kodesh. 2009

Brown Judaic Studies, vol. 54, Chico, CA: 1984, 53 – 105; Harris, M. “Marriage as Metaphysics: A Study of the Iggereth ha-Kodesh.”

Iggeret Ha-Kodesh. 2009

Paris: 1994; “Ha-Pulhan ha-Yehudi be-Signon shel Teatron Kodesh” (Jewish Ritual as a Genre of Sacred Theater).

Michal Govrin. 2009

The Iggeret ha-Kodesh (The Holy Epistle), a Kabbalistic work written in the second half of the twelfth century, has been mistakenly attributed to the Ramban (Moses ben Nahman or Nahmanides, 1194 – 1270).

Iggeret Ha-Kodesh. 2009

Thus Iggeret ha-Kodesh is one of the earliest works to express the notion that would later be developed in many Kabbalistic works, that meditation is not simply contemplative, but can also design and activate the reality.

Iggeret Ha-Kodesh. 2009

Sinai 90 (5/6) (1982): 232 – 234; “Iggeret ha-Kodesh.”

Iggeret Ha-Kodesh. 2009