Rabbi Akiba

Akiba can refer to: Akihabara - a neighborhood of Tokyo. Rabbi Akiba - a tannaitic Rabbi. Akiba-Schechter Jewish Day School - A Jewish school in Hyde Park, Chicago. Other related archivesAkiba-Schechter Jewish Day School, Akihabara, Chicago, Hyde Park, Rabbi, Rabbi Akiba, Tokyo, tannaitic

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Rabbi Akiba: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Akiba, Rabbi

Akiba, Rabbi. See AQIBA, RABBI

Rabbi Akiba: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Akiba

Akiba (Hebrew, Jewish). The only one of the four Tanaim (initiated prophets) who entering the Garden of Delight (of the occult sciences) succeeded in getting himself initiated while all the others failed. (See the Kabbalistic Rabbis).

Rabbi Akiba: Encyclopedia - Rabbi Akiva

Akiba ben Joseph (or Rabbi Akiva, Rebbi Akiva, c. 50-c. 135) was a famous Jewish rabbi of the 2nd century. He was a great authority in the matter of Jewish tradition, and one of the most central and essential contributors to the early Oral Torah, mainly the Mishnah and the midrash halakha. He laid the foundations of the mishnaic dispute, by which pairs or larger groups of sages dispute points of Halakha or Bible interpretation. Rabbi Akiva - In the Mishnah. A member of the ...

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Rabbi Akiba: Encyclopedia - Usha

Usha was a city in the Western part of Galilee. It is noteworthy because in the 2nd Century (c. 135), the Sanhedrin, or rabbinic court, was moved from Jabneh in Judea to Usha, and then from Usha back to Jabneh, and a second time from Jabneh to Usha. The final settlement in Usha indicates the ultimate spiritual supremacy of Galilee over Judea, the latter having become depopulated by the war of Hadrian. Usha was also important because one of the pupils of Rabbi Akiba resided there, including Judah ...

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Rabbi Akiba: Encyclopedia - Constantin Brunner

Constantin Brunner (1862-1937) was the pen-name of the German Jewish philosopher Leopold Wertheimer, born 27 August 1862 in Altona (near Hamburg). He came from a prominent Jewish family that had lived in the vicinity of Hamburg for generations; his grandfather, Akiba Wertheimer, was chief Rabbi of Altona and Schleswig-Holstein. He lived in Germany until 1933, when, with the rise to power of the Nazi party, he moved to The Hague. Constantin Brunner - Doctrine. In its essence, Brunner's thought is holi ...

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Rabbi Akiba: Encyclopedia II - Rabbi Akiva - In the Mishnah

A member of the third generation of the Mishnah sages, Akiba was a disciple of Nahum of Gimzo, Rebbi Eliezer son of Hyrcanos, and Rebbi Yehoshua. Some say that Rebbi Tarfon was also a teacher of his; others claim he was his contemporary colleague. Among other contemporary colleagues are: Elisha ben Avuya, Rebbi Eleazar ben Zadok, Rebbi Eleazar ben Azarya, Rabban Gamliel, Rebbi Yehuda ben Beteira, Rebbi Yochanan ben Nuri, Rebbi Yosei Haglili, and Rebbi Yishmael. "What was Rabbi Aki ...

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Rabbi Akiba: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Acher

Acher (Hebrew, Jewish). The Talmudic name of the Apostle Paul. The Talmud narrates the story of the four Tanaim, who entered the Garden of Delight, i.e., came to he initiated; Ben Asai, who looked and lost his sight; Ben Zoma, who looked and lost his reason; Acher, who made depredations in the garden and failed; and Rabbi Akiba, who alone succeeded. The Kabalists say that Acher is Paul.

Rabbi Akiba: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Rabbis

Rabbis (Hebrew, Jewish). Originally teachers of the Secret Mysteries, the Qabbalah; later, every Levite of the priestly caste became a teacher and a Rabbin. (See the series of Kabbalistic Rabbis by w.w.w.)

1 Rabbi Abulafia of Saragossa born in 1240, formed a school of Kabbalah named after him; his chief works were The Seven Paths of the Law and The Epistle to Rabbi Solomon.

2 Rabbi Akiba. Author of a famous Kabbalistic work, the "Alphabet of R.A.", which treats every letter as a symbol of an idea and an emblem of some sentiment; the Book of Enoch was originally a portion of this work, which appeared at the close of the eighth century. It was not purely a Kabbalistic treatise.

3 Rabbi Azariel ben Menachem (A.D. 1160). The author of the Commentary on the Ten

Sephiroth, which is the oldest purely Kabbalistic work extant, setting aside the Sepher Yetzirah, which although older, is not concerned with the Kabbalistic Sephiroth. He was the pupil of Isaac the Blind, who is the reputed father of the European Kabbalah, and he was the teacher of the equally famous R. Moses Nachmanides.

4 Rabbi Moses Botarel (1480). Author of a famous commentary on the Sepher Yetzirah; he taught that by ascetic life and the use of invocations, a man’s dreams might be made prophetic.

5 Rabbi Chajim Vital (1600) ( The great exponent of the Kabbalah as taught R. Isaac Loria: author of one of the most famous works, Otz Chiim, or Tree of Life; from this Knorr von Rosenroth has taken the Book on the Rashith ha Gilgalim, revolutions of souls, or scheme of reincarnations.

6 Rabbi Ibn Gebirol. A famous Hebrew Rabbi, author of the hymn Kether Malchuth, or Royal Diadem, which appeared about 1050; it is a beautiful poem, embodying the cosmic doctrines of Aristotle, and it even now forms part of the Jewish special service for the evening preceding the great annual Day of Atonement (See Ginsburg and Sachs on the Religious Poetry of the Spanish Jews). This author is also known as Avicebron.

7 Rabbi Gikatilla. A distinguished Kabbalist who flourished about 1300: he wrote the famous books, The Garden of Nuts, The Gate to the Vowel Points, The mystery of the shining Metal, and The Gates of Righteousness. He laid especial stress on the use of Gematria, Notaricon and Temura.

8 Rabbi Isaac the Blind of Posquiero. The first who publicly taught in Europe, about A.D. 1200, the Theosophic doctrines of the Kabbalah.

9 Rabbi Loria (also written Luria, and also named Ari from his initials). Founded a school of the Kabbalah circa 1560. He did not write any works, but his disciples treasured up his teachings, and R. Chajim Vital published them.

10 Rabbi Moses Cordovero (A.D.1550). The author of several Kabbalistic works of a wide reputation, viz., A Sweet Light, The Book of Retirement, and The Garden of Pomegranates; this latter can be read in Latin in Knorr von Rosenroth’s Kabbalah Denudata, entitled Tractatus de Animo, ex libro Pardes Rimmonim. Cordovero is notable for an adherence to the strictly metaphysical part, ignoring the wonder-working branch which Rabbi Sabbatai Zevi practised, and almost perished in the pursuit of.

11 Rabbi Moses de Leon (circa 1290 A,D.). The editor and first publisher of the Zohar, or "Splendour", the most famous of all the Kabbalistic volumes, and almost the only one of which any large part has been translated into English. This Zohar is asserted to be in the main the production of the still more famous Rabbi Simon ben Jochai, who lived in the reign of the Emperor Titus.

12 Rabbi Moses Maimonides (died 1304). A famous Hebrew Rabbi and author, who condemned the use of charms and amulets, and objected to the Kabbalistic use of the divine names.

13 Rabbi Sabbatai Zevi (born 1641). A very famous Kabbalist, who passing beyond the dogma became of great reputation as a thaumaturgist, working wonders by the divine names. Later in life he claimed Messiahship and fell into the hands of the Sultan Mohammed IV. of Turkey, and would have been murdered, but saved his life by adopting the Mohammedan religion. (See Jost on Judaism and its Sects.)

14 Rabbi Simon ben Jochai (circa A.D. 70-80). It is round this name that cluster the mystery and poetry of the origin of the Kabbalah as a gift of the deity to mankind.

Tradition has it that the Kabbalah was a divine theosophy first taught by God to a company of angels, and that some glimpses of its perfection were conferred upon Adam; that the wisdom passed from him unto Noah; thence to Abraham, from whom the Egyptians of his era learned a portion of the doctrine. Moses derived a partial initiation from the land of his birth, and this was perfected by direct communications with the deity. From Moses it passed to the seventy elders of the Jewish nation, and from them the theosophic scheme was handed from generation to generation; David and Solomon especially became masters of this concealed doctrine. No attempt, the legends tell us, was made to commit the sacred knowledge to writing until the time of the destruction of the second Temple by Titus, when Rabbi Simon ben Jochai, escaping from the besieged Jerusalem, concealed himself in a cave, where he remained for twelve years. Here he, a Kabbalist already, was further instructed by the prophet Elias. Here Simon taught his disciples, and his chief pupils, Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Abba, committed to writing those teachings which in later ages became known as the Zohar, and were certainly published afresh in Spain by Rabbi Moses de Leon, about 1280. A fierce contest has raged for centuries between the learned Rabbis of Europe around the origin of the legend, and it seems quite hopeless to expect ever to arrive at an accurate decision as to what portion of the Zohar, if any, is as old as Simon ben Jochai. (See "Zohar".)

Rabbi Akiba: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Sepher Yetsirah

Sepher Yetsirah (Hebrew) Book of formation or creation; a Qabbalistic work formerly attributed by Hebrew Qabbalists to the patriarch Abraham, but by most scholars today to Rabbi `Aqiba' (Akiba). It is a small work treating of the evolution of the universe as based upon a system of numbers and correspondences.

Deity is described as forming the universe by means of numbers by 32 paths or ways of secret wisdom corresponding to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet and the ten fundamental numbers. The latter are the ten primordial numbers whence proceeded the universe in the Pythagorean sense.

The 22 letters are divided into Three Mothers -- a triad, a heptad, and a dodecad -- corresponding to the three primal letters A M S, the seven planets, and the twelve signs of the zodiac. Blavatsky remarks that the Sepher Yetsirah is "the most occult of all the Kabalistic works now in the possession of modern mystics" (TG 165).

Rabbi Akiba: Encyclopedia - Judaism and Christianity

The article Judaism and Christianity compares and contrasts two closely related Abrahamic religions that are in some ways parallel to each other and in other ways fundamentally divergent in theology and practice. Whereas the article on the Judeo-Christian tradition emphasizes continuities and convergences between the two religions, this article emphasizes that Judaism and Christianity each have widely diverging views of their respective relationship to the other, and of elements they have in common, such as the Bible and God. Including:

Judaism and Christianity - Neither religion is monolithic

Judaism and Christianity - Raison d'être of the religion

Judaism and Christianity - The nature of religion: national versus universal

Judaism and Christianity - Concepts of God

Judaism and Christianity - Understanding of the Bible

Judaism and Christianity - Sin and Original Sin

Judaism and Christianity - Faith versus good deeds

Judaism and Christianity - Love

Judaism and Christianity - Abortion

Judaism and Christianity - War violence and pacifism

Judaism and Christianity - Judgement

Judaism and Christianity - Capital punishment

Judaism and Christianity - Heaven and Hell

Judaism and Christianity - The Messiah

Judaism and Christianity - Catholic views

Judaism and Christianity - Eastern Orthodox views

Judaism and Christianity - Jewish views

Judaism and Christianity - Evangelism

Judaism and Christianity - Miscellaneous

Judaism and Christianity - Mutual views

Judaism and Christianity - Common Jewish views of Christianity

Judaism and Christianity - Common Christian views of Judaism

Rabbi Akiba: Encyclopedia II - Judah ben Ilai - Personal piety

Judah's personal piety was most rigid; and he observed many of the practices of the Hasidim and the Essenes. He drank no wine except on the days when the Law required, and was a vegetarian. The study of the Law was his chief and dearest occupation; and he lamented the fact that such a devotion was not wide-spread as in former times. He also had great compassion. Whenever a funeral or a wedding-procession passed, he interrupted his study to join it ( ...

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