Melila Hellner-Eshed has been a Professor of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. She is the author of A River Flows from Eden: The Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar (Stanford, 2009).
Part One
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Idra Rabba Part One
Chapter 2: The Language of Divine Faces Part One
Chapter 3: The Gaze Part One
Chapter 4: Reflections on Ze'eir Anpin Part One
Chapter 5: Literature
Mysticism
Praxis Part One
Chapter 6: Overarching Themes in the Idra Rabba Part One
Chapter 7: What Is the Idra Rabba Trying to Communicate? Part Two
Chapter 8: Entering the Idra Rabba Part Two
Chapter 9: The Kings of Edom: The First Appearance Part Two
Chapter 10: Arikih Anpin: Origins Part Two
Chapter 11: Arikh Anpin: Features of the Face Part Two
Chapter 12: Arraying Arikh Anpin's Beard Part Two
Chapter 13: The Kings of Edom: The Second Appearance Part Two
Chapter 14: Ze'eir Anpin Comes into Being Part Two
Chapter 15: Ze'eir Anpin's Head and Its Features Part Two
Chapter 16: The Tiqqunim of Ze'eir Anpin: The Language of Flowing Bounty Part Two
Chapter 17: The Ancient of Ancients and Ze'eir Anpin: All Is One Part Two
Chapter 18: Forming the Male and Female Body Part Two
Chapter 19: The Kings of Edom: The Third Appearance Part Two
Chapter 20: Separation and Coupling Part Two
Chapter 21: Sweetening Judgment Part Two
Chapter 22: Emerging from the Idra Rabba
