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Music and Prophetic Kabbalah
Abstract
The association between prophecy and music in prophetic kabbalah presents two aspects. On the one hand, music served as an analogy for the technique giving rise to prophecy and the prophetic experience; and on the other, it was an important element of the technique itself of Abulafia and his students. We shall first consider music as an analogy.