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השכינה והמשיח במסורת המיסטית היהודית
במגילת איכה נשמע לראשונה קול נקבי על־זמני במסורת המקראית: קולה של בת־ציון, המקוננת על חורבן ירושלים ועל עמה הגולה. מכאן עוקב החיבור אחר גלגוליהם של שני מושגי יסוד, השכינה והמשיח, לאורך אלפי שנות מסורת יהודית: מספרות ההיכלות והמרכבה, דרך ספר הזוהר ומקובלי ספרד, ועד לעולמם של הבעש"ט, ר' יוסף קארו והרב קוק.
גלות השכינה וגאולתה הם ציר הספר. השכינה, שנולדה לפי המסורת ביום חורבן המקדש, מלווה את העם בנדודיו; גאולתה תלויה בתיקון עולם ובייחוד הקדוש ברוך הוא והשכינה שאליו מכוונות תפילה ומצווה. החיבור מראה כיצד זוג מושגים זה, שורשיו בקינה ובחורבן, הפך לציר שסביבו סובבת תודעת הגלות והגאולה היהודית לאורך הדורות.
גלות השכינה וגאולתה הם ציר הספר. השכינה, שנולדה לפי המסורת ביום חורבן המקדש, מלווה את העם בנדודיו; גאולתה תלויה בתיקון עולם ובייחוד הקדוש ברוך הוא והשכינה שאליו מכוונות תפילה ומצווה. החיבור מראה כיצד זוג מושגים זה, שורשיו בקינה ובחורבן, הפך לציר שסביבו סובבת תודעת הגלות והגאולה היהודית לאורך הדורות.
89 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2026
About the author
Rachel Elior
22 books15 followersRachel Elior (Hebrew: רחל אליאור) served twice as the head of the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been a member of the university’s faculty since 1978 and is the John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Philosophy in the Department of Jewish Thought. She received her BA (1973) and PhD (1976), both summa cum laude, from the Hebrew University.
Prof. Elior's research interests include the history of Jewish mysticism – early Jewish mysticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Heikhalot literature; Kabbalah – the early modern period, Messianism, Sabbatianism, Hasidism, Frankism; the presence and absence of women in Jewish culture and religious tradition, and the history of freedom; traditional sources of secular Judaism – identity, knowledge, criticism and creativity.
Prof. Elior has taught at the University of Chicago, Princeton University, Doshisha University at Kyoto, Tokyo University, Yeshiva University and Case Western University, the Shalom Institute at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Oberlin College and University College London. She has also been a research fellow at the Oxford Center for Jewish Studies at Oxford University.
Prof. Elior has written eight books on various periods of Jewish mystical creativity, six of which have been translated into English, Spanish and Polish. She has edited eight books, transcribed from manuscripts, edited and annotated three books and authored some hundred articles on this subject. She has received many awards, among them the Friedenberg Award of Excellence of the Israel National Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Beracha-Yigal Alon Prize for Academic Excellence, the AVI Fellowship – Geneva award, the Warburg Prize, the Federman Foundation award, the State University of New York Research Foundation award, The Littauer Fund award, the Oxford Jerusalem Trust Visiting Fellowship, the Wolfson Foundation award and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Studies Fellowship. In 2006 the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities awarded her the Gershom Scholem Prize for Research in Kabbalah. Her book Israel Ba’al Shem Tov and His Contemporaries: Kabbalists, Sabbatians, Hasidim and Mitnaggedim was published in 2014 in Jerusalem by Carmel Publishing House.
Prof. Elior is a member of the international council of the New Israel Fund, the Council for Secular Judaism and the Tag Meir forum.
Prof. Elior's research interests include the history of Jewish mysticism – early Jewish mysticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Heikhalot literature; Kabbalah – the early modern period, Messianism, Sabbatianism, Hasidism, Frankism; the presence and absence of women in Jewish culture and religious tradition, and the history of freedom; traditional sources of secular Judaism – identity, knowledge, criticism and creativity.
Prof. Elior has taught at the University of Chicago, Princeton University, Doshisha University at Kyoto, Tokyo University, Yeshiva University and Case Western University, the Shalom Institute at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Oberlin College and University College London. She has also been a research fellow at the Oxford Center for Jewish Studies at Oxford University.
Prof. Elior has written eight books on various periods of Jewish mystical creativity, six of which have been translated into English, Spanish and Polish. She has edited eight books, transcribed from manuscripts, edited and annotated three books and authored some hundred articles on this subject. She has received many awards, among them the Friedenberg Award of Excellence of the Israel National Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Beracha-Yigal Alon Prize for Academic Excellence, the AVI Fellowship – Geneva award, the Warburg Prize, the Federman Foundation award, the State University of New York Research Foundation award, The Littauer Fund award, the Oxford Jerusalem Trust Visiting Fellowship, the Wolfson Foundation award and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Studies Fellowship. In 2006 the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities awarded her the Gershom Scholem Prize for Research in Kabbalah. Her book Israel Ba’al Shem Tov and His Contemporaries: Kabbalists, Sabbatians, Hasidim and Mitnaggedim was published in 2014 in Jerusalem by Carmel Publishing House.
Prof. Elior is a member of the international council of the New Israel Fund, the Council for Secular Judaism and the Tag Meir forum.
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