- The
Hekhalot literature (sometimes
transliterated Heichalot) from the
Hebrew word for "Palaces",
relating to
visions of
ascents into
heavenly palaces....
-
Gikatilla composed a
kabbalistic treatise entitled Hekalot of the same
character as the
Pirqe Hekalot.
Adolf Jellinek, Beiträge zur Gesch. der Kabbala,...
- century. The
oldest printed text of 3
Enoch appears to be the
Derus Pirqe Hekalot. It
covers 3:1–12:5 and 15:1–2, and it is
dated by
Arthur Ernest Cowley...
- Wertheimer, l.c. ii. 23 et seq.)
Hekalot Rabbati (Great
Hekalot; in B. H. iii. 83-108); M****eket
Hekalot (Tractate
Hekalot; ib. ii. 40-47; comp. also ib...
- Midrashim,
esoteric attributes of
Enoch are
expanded upon. In the
Sefer Hekalot,
Rabbi Ishmael is
described as
having visited the
Seventh Heaven, where...
-
conversation of
Rabbi Ishmael with the
angels in
heaven probably from the
Hekalot, it forms, nevertheless, a
coherent work. It was edited, on the
basis of...
-
followers for his
Jewish rationalism,
rejected many of the pre-Kabbalistic
Hekalot texts,
particularly Shi'ur
Qomah whose starkly anthropomorphic vision of...
-
containing principles which in the
Sifra are
given their application. The
Hekalot are also
called by some the "Baraita of R. Ishmael." The
thirteen rules...
- mystical,
particularly Hagigah 12b-14b. Many
esoteric texts,
among them
Hekalot Rabbati,
Sefer HaBahir,
Torat Hakana,
Sefer P'liyah,
Midrash Otiyot d'Rabbi...
- use of
secret names of God
which abound in the
Hekhalot literature. The
Hekalot Zutarti in
particular is
concerned with the
secret names of God and their...
