Varieties of Religious Visualizations

• Authors: Tzvee Zahavy
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, I describe several distinct visualizations that I recognize in Jewish prayers. By the term prayers, I mean the texts recited by Jews in religious ritual contexts. By the term visualizations, I mean the formation of mental visual images of a place and time, of a narrative activity or scene, or of an inner disposition. The goals of the visualizations can include: (1) professed communication with God, articulation of common religious values for (2) personal satisfaction or for (3) the sake of social solidarity, or (4) attainment of altered inner emotional states or moods.

Keywords

EN

Judaism; prayer; Jewish philosophy

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studia Humana
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 43-55

Dates

published

2014-06-01

online

2014-10-03

Contributors

author

Tzvee Zahavy

• Professor at the University of Minnesota and at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, USA

References

• 1. M. Jastrow, A Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Babli, Yerushalmi, and Midrashic Literature. New York, 1967.
• 2. Koren Sacks Siddur. Jerusalem, 2009.

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/sh-2014-0008