---
_id: '50097'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>An examination of a passage from
    the Zohar on Exodus (2:218b‐219b) provides Jewish mystical perspectives on disease,
    which may help inform a Christian response of solace and healing to illness and
    suffering in general, and to the COVID‐19 pandemic in particular. The aforementioned
    passage in the Zohar describes the preparation of incense. The primary purpose
    of the portion maintains that incense has special healing powers that even relieve
    people from severe diseases. The relating Midrash Ha‐Ne'lam explains the passage
    further by referring to the 4th century Palestinian Rabbi Aha arriving at a town
    that struggles with an epidemic. It describes how R. Aha initiates a ritual containing
    a study of the Talmud on incense, after which the village is healed from the epidemic.
    The Jewish theological background and reception of the passage may shed new light
    on how ritual and sensory experience can alleviate the experience of disease and
    suffering.</jats:p>
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Domenik
  full_name: Ackermann, Domenik
  id: '103893'
  last_name: Ackermann
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3453-4989
citation:
  ama: 'Ackermann D. The Offering of Incense: Jewish Mystical Perspectives on Disease
    and Healing*. <i>Dialog</i>. 2022;61(2):119-124. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12730">10.1111/dial.12730</a>'
  apa: 'Ackermann, D. (2022). The Offering of Incense: Jewish Mystical Perspectives
    on Disease and Healing*. <i>Dialog</i>, <i>61</i>(2), 119–124. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12730">https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12730</a>'
  bibtex: '@article{Ackermann_2022, title={The Offering of Incense: Jewish Mystical
    Perspectives on Disease and Healing*}, volume={61}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12730">10.1111/dial.12730</a>},
    number={2}, journal={Dialog}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Ackermann, Domenik},
    year={2022}, pages={119–124} }'
  chicago: 'Ackermann, Domenik. “The Offering of Incense: Jewish Mystical Perspectives
    on Disease and Healing*.” <i>Dialog</i> 61, no. 2 (2022): 119–24. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12730">https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12730</a>.'
  ieee: 'D. Ackermann, “The Offering of Incense: Jewish Mystical Perspectives on Disease
    and Healing*,” <i>Dialog</i>, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 119–124, 2022, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12730">10.1111/dial.12730</a>.'
  mla: 'Ackermann, Domenik. “The Offering of Incense: Jewish Mystical Perspectives
    on Disease and Healing*.” <i>Dialog</i>, vol. 61, no. 2, Wiley, 2022, pp. 119–24,
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12730">10.1111/dial.12730</a>.'
  short: D. Ackermann, Dialog 61 (2022) 119–124.
date_created: 2024-01-03T00:50:45Z
date_updated: 2024-01-24T08:00:00Z
doi: 10.1111/dial.12730
intvolume: '        61'
issue: '2'
keyword:
- Religious studies
language:
- iso: eng
page: 119-124
publication: Dialog
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 0012-2033
  - 1540-6385
publication_status: published
publisher: Wiley
status: public
title: 'The Offering of Incense: Jewish Mystical Perspectives on Disease and Healing*'
type: journal_article
user_id: '103893'
volume: 61
year: '2022'
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