- Shi’ur
Qomah (Hebrew: שיעור קומה, lit.
Dimensions of the Body) is a
midrashic text that is part of the
Hekhalot literature. It
purports to record, in...
- of Ezekiel") M****ekhet
Hekhalot ("The
Tractate of the Palaces") Shi'ur
Qomah ("Divine Dimensions")
Sepher Ha-Razim ("Book of the Mysteries")
Harba de...
-
Jerusalem (some 22 volumes).
Certain parts, such as
Tefilah le-Moshe and
Shiur Qomah, were
previously published as
separate works.
Tomer Devorah ("Palm tree...
-
Genizah with the text of Shi'ur
Qomah appears with an annotation,
possibly by Maimonides,
cursing believers of Shi'ur
Qomah (Hebrew: ארור המאמינו) and praying...
- is in him".
Metatron also
appears in the
Pseudepigrapha including Shi'ur
Qomah, and most
prominently in the
Hebrew Merkabah Book of Enoch, also called...
- moral". However,
other traditional Jewish texts, for example, the Shi'ur
Qomah of the
Heichalot literature,
describe the
measurements of
limbs and body...
- six of the
seven palaces of God are described,
Hekhalot Zutarti, Shi'ur
Qomah and sixth-century 3 Enoch, as well as
hundreds of
small do****ents, many...
-
Lesser Palaces)
Merkavah Rabbah (The
Great Chariot) Later texts: Shi'ur
Qomah (Divine Dimensions)
Mystical speculations of the
Geonim Influence of Post-Biblical...
- belief.
Maimonides rejected many
texts of Heichalot,
particularly Shi'ur
Qomah whose anthropomorphic vision of God he
considered heretical. In the 13th...
- of
their ascent. This work,
preserved in
various forms, is
called Shi'ur
Qomah ("Measurement of the Body"), and is
rooted in a
mystical exegesis of the...
