#yoram bilu

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Dybbuk possession, by definition, involved spirits of the dead as possessing agents ... But the designation dybbuk was reserved for the spirits of the wicked who penetrated humans in order to find escape from persecution. Since these were spirits of sinners, they were doomed to remain in limbo, wandering between two worlds without being allowed to enter Hell. (In Jewish tradition, Hell was not considered a place of eternal torment, but of temporary retribution from which some could enter Paradise.) In this limbo, the spirits were exposed to ruthless persecution by angelic and demonic beings. Thus, the inhabitation of humans gave the spirits temporary shelter as well as a unique opportunity to be purified, thereby to gain access to the world of the dead ... It should be noted that the term dybbuk was introduced during the seventeenth century to designate this type of possession and was employed by the Askenazic Jews only. Sephardic Jews adhere to the terminology of the early kabbalistic literature, in which the possessing agent was named "evil spirit."

Yoram Bilu, “The Taming of the Deviants and Beyond: An Analysis of Dybbuk Possession and Exorcism in Judaism” in Spirit Possession in Judaism: Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present (2003)

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With Us More Than Ever: Making the Absent Rebbe Present in Messianic Chabad by Yoram Bilu Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was the charismatic leader of the Chabad Hasidic movement and its designated Messiah.

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Sur la signification occulte du mot Covid

COVID est-il censé être lu en hébreu ? Signifie-t-il être possédé par un esprit maléfique ? COVID -19 serait un acronyme de Corona Virus Disease et de l’année où il a été enregistré pour la première fois, 2019. Si on étudie COVID selon l’algorithme Dolly/ Ylod/ילוד, COVID devient DIVOC transcrit comme דיבו en hébreu qui signifie possession par un esprit maléfique. En anglais le mot se transcrit par dybbouk, b et v étant représentés par le même caractère hébreu, Bet-ב. Le professeur Yoram Bilu, professeur de sociologie et d’anthropologie à l’Université hébraïque de Jérusalem et lauréat du prestigieux prix Israël en 2013, citant les travaux du célèbre kabbaliste Gershom Sholem, souligne que "l’intensification émotionnelle ou l’éveil" sont des conditions préalables à une telle possession démoniaque. L’induction de la peur extrême a-t-elle été la condition préalable à la possession par un dybbouk ? Cela laisse la victime comme un objet passif, temporairement dépourvu de conscience de soi et sans contrôle de soi... Les synchronicités entre un dybbouk et le virus produisant le COVID ne se limitent pas à un simple nom. Dybbouk vient du verbe hébreu dāḇaq qui se traduit par « adhérer » ou « s’accrocher ». De la même manière qu’un dybbouk s’empare du corps de sa victime, le coronavirus s’accroche à une cellule hôte et en prend le contrôle. Le dybbouk est un problème spirituel, non physique ou psychologique. Une sorte d’exorcisme pourrait-il être le seul remède possible ? Article complet : https://lesakerfrancophone.fr/sur-la-signification-occulte-…

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The 55 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in July 2020

Here is the list of the 55 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in July 2020. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon; the “on this site” links to the book’s page on this site.

The Age of Questions: Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and … by Professor Holly Case (on this site)

As Needed for Pain: A Memoir of Addiction by Dan Peres (on this site)

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (on this site)

Bitter Herbs: Based on a true story of a Jewish girl in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands by Marga Minco (on this site)

The Blue Guide to Grey Living by Lionel Blue (on this site)

A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman’s Harrowing Escape from the Nazis by Francoise Frenkel (on this site)

The Cave 3 Copper Scroll: A Symbolic Journey by Jesper Hagenhaven (on this site)

Children of the Stars by Mario Escobar (on this site)

Chutzpah, Wisdom and Wine: The Journey of an Unstoppable Woman by Jodi Samuels (on this site)

Crossings by Alex Landragin (on this site)

The Drive by Yair Assulin (on this site)

Exile: Portraits of the Jewish Diaspora by Annika Hernroth-Rothstein (on this site)

Four Girls From Berlin by Marianne Meyerhoff (on this site)

From Infinity to Man: The Fundamental Ideas of Kabbalah Within the Framework of Information Theory and Quantum Physics by Eduard Shyfrin (on this site)

Gabriel Bach: Attorney, Judge and Gentleman: The Child Who Escaped from Nazi Germany and Became the Prosecutor of Adolf Eichmann by Yael Roseman, Gabriel Bach (on this site)

Halakhic Positions of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (Volume 8) by Rabbi Aharon Ziegler (on this site)

The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku (on this site)

Hello Darkness, My Old Friend by Sanford D. Greenberg (on this site)

Hope Comes Knocking by Col. Micky Seiffe (on this site)

I Am the Tree of Life: My Jewish Yoga Book by Rabbi Mychal Copeland (on this site)

Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period by Alison Salvesen, Sarah Pearce, and Miriam Frenkel (on this site)

Jewish Cuisine in Hungary: A Cultural History with 83 Authentic Recipes by Andras Koerner (on this site)

Jews and Protestants: From the Reformation to the Present by Irene Aue-Ben David , Aya Elyada, Moshe Sluhovsky, Christian Wiese (on this site)

The Jews and the Reformation by Kenneth Austin (on this site)

Jews on the Move: Modern Cosmopolitanist Thought and its Others by Cathy Gelbin, Sander L Gilman (on this site)

Judenrein by Harold Benjamin (on this site)

Kabbalah for Beginners: Understanding and Applying Kabbalistic History, Concepts, and Practices by Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks (on this site)

Kabbalah in America; Ancient Lore in the New World by Brian Ogren (on this site)

The Last Visit to Berlin by Ruvik Rosenthal (on this site)

Lethal Scripture by Yoram Katz (on this site)

Maimonides the Universalist: The Ethical Horizons of the Mishneh Torah by Menachem Kellner, David Gillis (on this site)

Memory Identity Encounter: Ukrainian Jewish Journey by Risa Levitt Kohn (on this site)

My Sister Is Sleeping by Devora Busheri (on this site)

The Nesting Dolls by Alina Adams (on this site)

The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli (on this site)

No Fixed Abode: A Jewish Odyssey to Africa by Peter Fraenkel (on this site)

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story by Bess Kalb (on this site)

The Origin and Character of God: Ancient Israelite Religion through the Lens of Divinity by Theodore J. Lewis (on this site)

Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last by Rabbi Israel Meir Lau (on this site)

Quest for Life: A Study in Aharon David Gordon’s Philosophy of Man in Nature by Yossi Turner (on this site)

Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust by Heidi Fried (on this site)

Rachel’s Roses by Ferida Wolff (on this site)

Ruth: An Earth Bible Commentary by Alice M. Sinnott (on this site)

They Called Him a Gangster by Zali de Toledo (on this site)

They Went Left by Monica Hesse (on this site)

A Ticking Bomb by Izhar David (on this site)

Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon (on this site)

Too Far From Home by Naomi Shmuel (on this site)

Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination by David E. Lowe (on this site)

The Tree and the Vine by Dola de Jong (on this site)

Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century by Alexandra Popoff (on this site)

Violence in the Hebrew Bible; Between Text and Reception by Jacques van Ruiten and Koert van Bekkum (on this site)

Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South by Sue Eisenfeld (on this site)

With Us More Than Ever: Making the Absent Rebbe Present in Messianic Chabad by Yoram Bilu (on this site)

Zionism and the Melting Pot by Matthew Mark Silver (on this site)

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With Us More Than Ever: Making the Absent Rebbe Present in Messianic Chabad by Yoram Bilu

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was the charismatic leader of the Chabad Hasidic movement and its designated Messiah. Yet when he died in 1994, the messianic fervor he inspired did not subside. Through traditional means and digital technologies, a group of radical Hasidim, the Meshichistim, still keep the Rebbe palpably close―engaging in ongoing dialogue, participating in specific rituals, and developing an ever-expanding visual culture of portraits and videos. With Us More Than Ever focuses on this group to explore how religious practice can sustain the belief that a messianic figure is both present and accessible.

Yoram Bilu documents a unique religious experience that is distinctly modern. The rallying point of the Meshichistim―that the Rebbe is “with us more than ever”―is sustained through an elaborate system that creates the sense of his constant and pervasive presence in the lives of his followers. The virtual Rebbe that emerges is multiple, visible, accessible, and highly decentralized, the epicenter of a truly messianic movement in the twenty-first century. Combining ethnographic fieldwork and cognitive science with nuanced analysis, Bilu documents the birth and development of a new religious faith, describing the emergence of new spiritual horizons, a process common to various religious movements old and new.

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Morocco

Last edited 2018-05-13

Chapters

Bilu, Yoram. “Dybbuk, Aslai, Zar: The Cultural Distinctiveness and Historical Situatedness of Possession Illnesses in Three Jewish Milieus.” In Spirit Possession in Judaism: Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present, edited by Matt Goldish, 346-365. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2003. 

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Ethiopia

Last edited 2018-05-13

Chapters

Bilu, Yoram. “Dybbuk, Aslai, Zar: The Cultural Distinctiveness and Historical Situatedness of Possession Illnesses in Three Jewish Milieus.” In Spirit Possession in Judaism: Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present, edited by Matt Goldish, 346-365. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2003.

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In Ethiopian cosmology, zar is a category of personified spirits that occupy a stratified universe of their own alongside humans and are distinguished from other categories of potentially injurious beings [...] Zar spirits are believed to cause a wide variety of ailments, from pain and other somatic problems to depression, eating problems, and hysterical symptoms [...] The zar specialist, balazar is typically an ex-patient who obtained his or her healing skills from an association with and control over high-rank zar family [... H]ealing here is not exorcistic but symbiotic: attempts are made to placate the spirit so that the host is able to maintain a stable, ongoing relationship with it [...] The "domestication" of the zar puts its host under certain daily ritual obligations. Aside from these domestic rituals (which include roasting coffee for the buna ceremony, lighting incenses, and sacrificing a fowl), public rituals that are conducted periodically in concert with other patients include ceremonial performances of "invited" possession that constitute the "zar society." In Ethiopia the zar coterie has been an important source of social support, particularly for single women devoid of family protection who are indeed overrepresented among the possessed.

Yoram Bilu, “Dybbuk, Aslai, Zar: The Cultural Distinctiveness and Historical Situatedness of Possession Illnesses in Three Jewish Milieus” in Spirit Possession in Judaism: Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present (2003)