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The Elements of New Age in Contemporary Judaism (so called Jewish Renewal)
Schneiderová, Eva ; Holubová, Markéta (advisor) ; Biernot, David (referee)
Master thesis "The Elements of New Age in Contemporary Judaism (so called Jewish Renewal)" deals with mutual relationship between Judaism and New Age movement. In the first part it describes their main mutual elements such as holism, monism, environmentalism, tender issues and esotericism. The second part is focused on Jewish Renewal movement, which aroused in 60's of 20th century in the United states of America. This movement is transdenominational neoschasidic movement, which tries to renew Judaism through Chasidic and kabalistic thoughts adapted to present days, it emphasizes personal spirituality. The third part talks about the Jewish elements within new Age, which are mainly kabbalah and Jewish mysticism. The fourth part describes the phenomenon of dual religious identity, whose the best known groups are Messianic Jews, Jews for Allah, Jewbus and Hinjews.
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In The Light of Kabbalah: Jewish Mistique in Polish Literature in The Interwar Period
Benešová, Michala ; Poslední, Petr (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee) ; Sobotková, Marie (referee)
Thesis In the Light of Kabbalah: Jewish Mystique in Polish Literature in the Interwar Period deals with different models of reflection of Jewish religious and mystical tradition in the Polish interwar literature (on the example of three authors representing different ways of perceiving their own Jewish roots as well as the processing of themes based on the tradition of Jewish mysticism). Aleksander Wat, originally a futurist, was critical of the Jewish religious tradition - but still cannot his own "Jewishness" escape; prose writer Bruno Schulz offers an unique vision of cosmogony and eschatology reminiscent of - besides other things - selected concepts of Kabbalah; Bolesław Leśmianʼs relationship to this tradition is the looses, but on the other hand his method of working with motives which can interpreted in the context of the Jewish religious tradition is very original. Literary work of all three - as the heirs to the "people of the Book" - is marked by a specific relationship to language and the written word. In addition to this theme we deal with e.g. the Golem motive, the idea of the creation of the world or the idea of God. These analytical chapters are preceded by a theoretical and methodological introduction based on the traditions of literary hermeneutics, but also on selected concepts of...
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The Meaning of Symbol in Kabbala and Chasidism
Jezný, Samuel ; Hošek, Pavel (advisor) ; Vojtíšek, Zdeněk (referee)
The Meaning of Symbols in Kabbala and Chasidism The aim of this thesis is to analyze the meaning and the role of symbols in the stories of Eastern European Chasidism. Chapter 1 aims to define two possible definitions of the symbol, based upon the work of Umberto Eco. It also reveals strategies, which could be potentially used by authors describing their mystical experiences. Chapter 2 deals with Judaism as origin of Eastern European Chasidism and describes teachings of Lurianic Kabbalah, which are comprised in Chasidism. Chapter 3 analyzes character of Chasidism and finally Chapter 4 offers a decoding 'map', which could be used as a solid base for a new interpretation model.
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The Vision of Merkabah and Its Reflection in Rabbinical Judaism
Pos, Vladimír ; Holubová, Markéta (advisor) ; Biernot, David (referee)
Thesis with title The Vision of Merkabah and its Reflexion in Rabbinical Judaism deals with jewish's mysticism. The work has point evidence, that jewish's mysticism starts yet in early medieval times. During centuries extends further and its line achieves until today's time. It compares most old mysticism texts with their occurrence at a later literature. It focus on mystical groups and theirs incidence. The work attends to difference mystic of jewish in different geographical regions in course of time. Keywords Ezekiel, prophets, mysticism, kabbalah, merkabah, sefirot, God
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Textual and Grammatical analysis of Selected Passages from the Book of Zohar
Kohout, Ivan ; Nosek, Bedřich (advisor) ; Beneš, Jiří (referee) ; Hošek, Pavel (referee)
The objective of my dissertation is an analysis of selected passages from the Book of Zohar. The selected texts are analyzed from the synchronic and diachronic point of view. The synchronic approach consists of detailed grammatical study of all contained lexical units and its result is a Czech translation that reflects the interpretative variations as well. The diachronic approach incorporates Czech translation of important rabbinical commentaries and scientific discourse on analyzed themes. My dissertation gives a discussion of the nature of zoharic Aramaic and its literary sources. The scientific question is an evaluation of Moses de-Le'on's success rate in his endeavor to imitate the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos.
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