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Gershom Scholem · 1941
Scholem's canonical 1941 lecture series — the foundational modern scholarly treatment of Jewish mysticism: Merkabah, Hasidei Ashkenaz, early Kabbalah, Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah, Sabbatianism, Hasidism. Indispensable companion to the Zohar volumes (ZOHAR-1/3/11).
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What this book knows
Jewish mysticism is not irrational residue but a living counter-history of Judaism, where myth reclaims what philosophy repressed.
faith-and-doubt
the revenge of myth upon its conqueror is clear for all to see … it is this contradiction which more than anything else explains the extraordinary success of Kabbalism in Jewish history.
SCHOL-MTJM-RC-019the chief peculiarity of this form of mysticism, its emphasis on God's might and magnificence, opens the door to the transformation of mysticism into theurgy.
SCHOL-MTJM-RC-083obedience-and-authority
the mystic succeeds in adapting himself to the 'orthodox' vocabulary and uses it as a wing or vehicle for his thoughts. As a matter of fact, this is what many Kabbalists have done.
SCHOL-MTJM-RC-033the whole world of religious law remained outside the orbit of philosophical inquiry … It is not as if the philosopher denied or defied this world.
SCHOL-MTJM-RC-053self-and-identity
The prophets who draw from the knowledge of the true name are at the same time, to his mind, the true lovers. The identity of prophecy with the love of God.
SCHOL-MTJM-RC-170the body becomes a throne for the soul … and the soul a throne for the light of the Shekhinah which is above him.
MTJM-RC-041Illuminates
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