Cover Image
QR Code

Nth Power Lottery and Mimesis of the Future in Yom Kippur's Ceremonial Law, Hasidic Thought, and Early‐Modern Folklore.

In Nth power lottery, a lottery within a lottery, as envisioned by Deleuze, the frame, the pragmatic circumstances that surround the game (e.g., its rules), are also given to chance. I argue that both the ceremonial, Temple‐based, Yom Kippur lottery in the Bible and Talmud, and the subsequent idea o...

Full description

Published in:Heythrop Journal Vol. 66; no. 3; pp. 275 - 299
Main Author: Dickmann, Iddo
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell May2025
Subjects:
Lotteries
Bible
Phenomenology
Liturgics
Midrash
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=185839540&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: hlh
    uiTerm: 185839540
    longDbName: Humanities International Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        00181196
        D84
      jtl: Heythrop Journal
      issn: 00181196
      maglogo: Y
    pubinfo:
      dt: May2025
      vid: 66
      iid: 3
      pid: 480
      pub: Wiley-Blackwell
    artinfo:
      ui:
        185839540
        10.1111/heyj.14425
      ppf: 275
      ppct: 24
      formats:
        fmt:
          – @attributes:
              type: T
          – @attributes:
              type: P
              size: 258KB
      tig:
        atl: Nth Power Lottery and Mimesis of the Future in Yom Kippur's Ceremonial Law, Hasidic Thought, and Early‐Modern Folklore.
      aug:
        au: Dickmann, Iddo
        affil: Department of Philosophy and Religion, Nanjing University, Xue Guanglin Building, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023
      su:
        Lotteries
        Bible
        Phenomenology
        Liturgics
        Midrash
      sug:
        subj:
          Lotteries
          Bible
          Phenomenology
          Liturgics
          Midrash
      ab: In Nth power lottery, a lottery within a lottery, as envisioned by Deleuze, the frame, the pragmatic circumstances that surround the game (e.g., its rules), are also given to chance. I argue that both the ceremonial, Temple‐based, Yom Kippur lottery in the Bible and Talmud, and the subsequent idea of Yom Kippur as a heavenly lot‐casting day, as expressed in the Midrash, liturgy, Hasidic thought, and even folklore tales recounting games of chance during Yom Kippur, follow the Nth power paradigm. Reading these texts in light of this paradigm, and analysing this paradigm in light of the phenomenology of mise en abyme—a mimetic double at the heart of the imitatee—reveals a unique process‐theology, where the act of repentance is mise en abyme of a radically absent imitatee—the 'Before God'—and eventually an incarnation of it.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Article
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: Y
      custom: Copyright of Heythrop Journal is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.
      item: Heythrop Journal
      holder: Wiley-Blackwell
      dt:
        @attributes:
          year: 2025
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N