Jewish mysticism

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 126. Chapters: Kabbalah, Original sin, Succubus, Gematria, Atbash, Leviathan, Tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Tree of life, Tzadikim Nistarim, Divine simplicity, Hasidic philosophy, Devekut, Divine providence, Jewish views on astrology, Gilgul, Merkabah, Adam Kadmon, Gehenna, Jewish meditation, Yehuda Ashlag, Tzimtzum, Nathan of Gaza, Seder hishtalshelus, Gershom Scholem, God in Judaism, Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, Red string, Third Heaven, Rachel Elior, Behemoth, I Am that I Am, Tikkun HaKlali, Bahya ben Asher, Godhead, Hamsa, Pulsa diNura, Bat Kol, Jewish theosophy, Hitbodedut, Solomon Molcho, Judah he-Hasid, Seven Heavens, Kabbalistic astrology, Joseph Dan, Guf, Isaac the Blind, Siegmund Hurwitz, Book of the Penitence of Adam, Jewish mystical exegesis, Eliyahu de Vidas, Dybbuk, Naamah, Eliezer Schweid, Jehoel, Qalal, Dream question, Zeir Anpin. Excerpt: Hasidic philosophy or Hasidus (Hebrew: ¿¿¿¿¿¿), alternatively transliterated as Hassidism, Chassidism, Chassidut etc. is the teachings, interpretations of Judaism, and mysticism articulated by the modern Hasidic movement. It includes the charismatic folk religious elements of Hasidism, but mainly describes its structured thought, expressed in its range from theology to philosophy. The word derives from the Hebrew "hesed" (kindness), and the appellation "hasid" (pious) has a history in Judaism for a person who has sincere motives in serving God and helping others. Some earlier Jewish movements were also called by this name, such as the Hasidei Ashkenaz of medieval Germany. However, today, the Hasidic philosophy and movement invariably refers to the mystical, populist revival of Judaism, initiated by Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (The Baal Shem Tov) in 18th century Podolia and Volhynia (now Ukraine). His close disciples developed the philosophy in the early years of the movement. From the third generation, the select leadership took their different interpretations and dispersed across Eastern Europe, from Poland, Hungary and Romania, to Lithuania and Russia. Hasidic tradition and thought has gained admirers from outside its immediate following, and outside Orthodox Jewish belief, for its charismatic inspiration and insights. Distilling a culture of Jewish religious life that began before the arrival of modernity, its stories, anecdotes, and creative teachings have offered spiritual dimensions for people today. In its more systematic and intellectual articulations, however, it is also a form of traditional Jewish interpretation(exegesis) of Scriptural and Rabbinic texts, a new stage in the development of Jewish mysticism, and a philosophically illuminated system of theology that can be contrasted with earlier, mainstream Jewish Philosophy. This quality can bridge and unite the different disciplines of philosophy and mysticism (In the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah, t