Vocal Rites and Broken Theologies : Cleaving to Vocables in R. Israel Ba‘al Shem Tov's Mysticism

Vocal Rites and Broken Theologies : Cleaving to Vocables in R. Israel Ba‘al Shem Tov's Mysticism

Moshe Idel

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Vocal Rites and Broken Theologies deals with the central practices of the founder of Hasidism, Rabbi Israel Ba'al Shem Tov—known as the Besht—and its sources in the Safedian Kabbalah of Rabbi Moses Corovero. These include the loud pronunciation of the vocables during prayer, study of the Torah, and