2.4.3 Kabbalists and mystics
One sect of Judaism are the Kabbalists, a group of mystics. In the Middle Ages, the Kabbalistic books were very anthropomorphic. For example, the book Shi’ur Qomah, appearing some time in the 12th century, goes so far as to give names and gigantic lengths to every part of God’s body. An example of a measurement would be: From God’s ankles to His knees, which, according to the Kabbalists, the height is “nineteen thousand ten thousands and four parasangs, both right and left. The name of His left leg is QaNaGaGY, MaHaraYaH, TaSaSaQo(V)Ma, and of the right leg is MaMaGA, o(V)Zo(V)YA.” The Shi’ur Qomah includes its own definition of a parasang, i.e. 90,000 times the width of the Earth (a normal parasang is about 3 miles).
Modern Kabbalists believe that visions of God are the cause of references to anthropomorphism in the Tanakh. The modern Hasidic movement is related to the Kabbalists from the Middle Ages, so anthropomorphism is clearly still not dead.
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