Judaism Notes

1. In Philo, vol. I, "On the Creation," trans. by F.H. Colson (London: William Heinemann, 1929), 41.

2. Philo, "On the Creation," 25.

3. Philo, "On the Creation," 25.

4. Philo, vol. II, "On the Cherubim," 67.

5. Philo, vol. I, "Allegorical Interpretation of Exodus III," 331.

6. Philo, vol. II, "The Posterity and Exile of Cain," 421.

7. Philo, "On the Creation," 57.

8. Philo, vol. I, "Allegorical Interpretation of Genesis, I," 157.

9. Philo, vol. II, "On the Cherubim," 15.

10. Philo, vol. II, "The Sacrifices of Abel and Cain," 175.

11. Sifra to Lev. 1:1 in reference to Exodus 33:20; Berakot 17a, cf. Hagidah 12a. Quoted by David S. Shapiro in "Death Experiences in Rabbinic Literature," Judaism 28, 1 (Winter 1979): 90-94.

12. Zohar, vol. IV, trans. by Harry Sperling, Maurine Simon and Dr. Paul P. Levertoff (Jerusalem: The Soncino Press, 1977), 23. Hereafter, references to the Zohar by volume and page number will be quoted within the text.

13. Rabbi Yehuda L. Ashlag, A Study of the Ten Luminous Emanations from Rabbi Isaac Luria, trans. by Rabbi Levi I. Krakovsky (Jerusalem: Research Centre of Kabbalah, 1972), 28-51.

14. In Derek Emet (Jerusalem: n.d.). Quoted by Rivka Schatz Uffenheimer in Hasidism as Mysticism, trans. by Jonathan Chipman (Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1993), 240.

15. Liqqutei 'Amarim: Tanya (Brooklyn: 1954; photo copy: Vilna, 1937). Quoted by Uffenheimer, Hasidism as Mysticism, 266.

16. Zalman, Tanya, quoted by Uffenheimer, Hasidism as Mysticism, 281.

17. Zalman, Tanya, quoted by Uffenheimer, Hasidism as Mysticism, 288.