Cynthia Ozick holds an ambiguous and even contradictory attitude towards idolatry, the concept she spares no effort to criticize. Ozick speaks of her anti-idolatry stance in the context of the Jewish tradition, but the inclusiveness and critical feature of the Jewish culture itself allows her to draw on the power of the idol in the process of her anti-idolatry criticism, and to gain an imaginative enhancement, a type of Kabbalistic version of the imagination. These factors are brought out in Ozick's critique of Harold Bloom and point in large part to Jewish Kabbalistic mysticism. The imagination required of writers becomes an idolatrous representation of God in the Kabbalistic context, which is reflected in Jewish Kabbalistic mysticism's embrace of idolatry and its emphasis on the divine nature of letters (i.e. language).