{"id":696,"date":"2020-02-12T15:10:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T15:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/?p=696"},"modified":"2020-02-12T15:10:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T15:10:34","slug":"imaginative-thinking-with-a-lurianic-diagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"Imaginative Thinking with a Lurianic Diagram"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> At the heart of a concise review of the cosmogonic theory of R. Isaac Luria (1534\u201372), his preeminent disciple, R. Hayyim Vital (1543\u20131620), drew a captionless\u00a0diagram. Rather than suggest that this diagram would clarify the complex text surrounding it, Vital introduced it with the rather surprising, &#8220;and now I will draw you\u00a0a circle, and from it you will understand what you have to understand.&#8221; What kind of understanding did Vital believe could be attained through an engagement with\u00a0his &#8220;circle&#8221;? What did he believe the diagram offered that was lacking in the text? How did he expect the text and the diagram to be correlated? A close reading of\u00a0this material invites broad reflection on the place of diagrams in Kabbalah: from their intended functions and epistemological status to the ways in which they were\u00a0to be used, performed, or &#8220;thought with.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/747287?fbclid=IwAR2udjqPes1QVRc3YHX2znEnTYwzgrN4fHRUt8gm6NNN6FLWaYDbgAxCFc4\">To read the full article, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Chajes-Imaginative-Thinking-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Chajes-Imaginative-Thinking-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Chajes-Imaginative-Thinking-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Chajes-Imaginative-Thinking-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Chajes-Imaginative-Thinking-1.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the heart of a concise review of the cosmogonic theory of R. Isaac Luria (1534\u201372), his preeminent disciple, R. Hayyim Vital (1543\u20131620), drew a captionless\u00a0diagram. Rather than suggest that this diagram would clarify the complex text surrounding it, Vital introduced it with the rather surprising, &#8220;and now I will draw you\u00a0a circle, and from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/?p=696\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Imaginative Thinking with a Lurianic Diagram&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}