Abulafia Study Questions

Use these questions to guide your reading.  

1. To what does the concept of effacement in Abulafia refer?
2. What is Hokhmath ha-Tseruf?
3. What is a general tendency of Abulafia's "inward method?"
4. What is devekut? How is it pertinent to Abulafia's project of mysticism?
5. What does Scholem mean by "Jewish Yoga?"
6. What does the text, Shaarey Tsedek, describe?
7. In the historic struggle against "pure Aristotelianism," Jewish philosophers often found themselves arguing about "the eternity or non-eternity of the universe." Why was this struggle meaningless to Abulafia?