Littlewood R, Dein S
Department of Anthropology, University College London.
Cult Med Psychiatry. 1995 Sep;19(3):339-83. doi: 10.1007/BF01381917.
Testimonials of miraculous healing offered by Lubavitch Hasidim evoke images of exile and restitution which derive from Kabbalistic texts. Mediated practically through the person of the Rebbe, these testimonials articulate both immediate affliction and ultimate meaning, physical embodiment as well as symbolic representation, each constituting the other. Both Kabbalah and medical anthropology attempt to transcend not dissimilar epistemological dualisms: those characteristic of monotheism and contemporary science. Yet the 'lower root' of Kabbalah affirms a material reality known through immediate sensory experience which recalls the rationale of biomedicine.
卢巴维奇哈西德派提供的神奇治愈见证唤起了源自卡巴拉文本的流亡与复原的意象。这些见证实际上通过拉比这一人物进行传递，阐述了当下的苦难与终极意义、身体体现与象征表现，二者相互构成。卡巴拉和医学人类学都试图超越并非全然不同的认识论二元论：即一神论和当代科学所特有的二元论。然而，卡巴拉的“较低根源”肯定了一种通过直接感官体验所知的物质现实，这让人想起生物医学的基本原理。
