Philosophie Et Kabbale Research Papers

This is a numerical or numerological analysis of the GLGL Wheel mandala that I conducted in 2013. It shows the major numerological patterns that exist within the Wheel. These patterns are based on the numerical values of the Hebrew... more

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- by Patrick Mulcahy
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  Christian Kabbalah, Kabbalah, Lurianic Kabbalah, Cabala

Mystical Songs of Bratslav Hasidim
שיר ידידות לר' יחיאל מנדל ממדוודיוקה והתפתחות השיח הרדיקלי בחסידות ברסלב
(בסוף הקובץ צילום של עמוד מכתב היד)

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- by Jonatan Meir
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- 127
  Religion, New Religious Movements, History, Intellectual History

Extrait de Cabale et Cabalistes, petite anthologie ayant trait à la nature du monde divin par rapport à notre monde de matière par divers penseurs entre le IIème et le XVIIème siècle raéssemblée par Charles Mopsik publiées chez Bayard... more

Le Livre d’Adam de Charles d’Hooghvorst est une compilation exceptionnelle d’articles comprenant des textes traditionnels et leurs commentaires, qui permettront au lecteur de découvrir le lien qui unit les trois grandes religions... more

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- by ÉDITIONS BEYA
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  History of Religion, Study of Religions, History of Religions, Kabbalah

גרשם שלום -- תולדות התנועה השבתאית // History of the Sabbatian Movement was the first attempt by one of the giants of scholarship on Jewish mysticism, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), to present a comprehensive picture of Sabbatianism as a... more

גרשם שלום -- תולדות התנועה השבתאית //
History of the Sabbatian Movement was the first attempt by one of the giants of scholarship on Jewish mysticism, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), to present a comprehensive picture of Sabbatianism as a single narrative. The book is based on the series of lectures given at the Hebrew University during 1939-1940, which are of special importance in that they laid the foundation for all of Scholem’s research in the years to come, including his extensive monograph Sabbatai Sevi: the mystical Messiah, 1626-1676, first published in 1957. What follows is a sketch of the massive History of the Sabbatian Movement, over which Gershom Scholem toiled his whole life but never completed. The lectures are presented here for the first time based on the original manuscripts, alongside the text of an additional series of lectures that Scholem gave as part of the “Month of Study” organized by Berl Katznelson in 1941. These long-hidden texts reveal new facets of the Sabbatian movement and its history, as well as of Gershom Scholem as a historian, and serve as prologue to any further study of this most stormy and complicated episode in Jewish history. The new edition includes a comprehensive introduction by the editors on all of Gershom Scholem’s studies on Sabbatianism. //---//

Table of Contents:
“The Open Book” - Jonatan Meir and Shinichi Yamamoto /
Introduction /
Chapter One: The Faces of the Generation /
Chapter Two: The Messianic Movement from its Beginnings to its Height /
Chapter Three: The Twists and Turns of the Sabbatian Movement /
Chapter Four: The Historical Development of Sabbatianism /
Appendix A: Messianism from the Spanish Expulsion to the Eve of Emancipation (Month of Study, 1941) /
Appendix B: The Sabbatian Movement: Its Roots, Its Development, and its Aftermath (Introduction, 1942-45 /
Appendix C: Bibliography of Works by Gershom Scholem on Sabbatianism /
Index /
Notes on the Cover Image (from the collection of Paweł Maciejko)

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- by Jonatan Meir
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  Religion, History, European History, Intellectual History

In 1887, Paul Tannery suggested that some ancient Pythagoreans defended a form of atomism against which Eleatic philosophers such as Zeno of Elea reacted. Later, Democritus and Leucippus on one hand, Plato on the other, developed... more

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- by Aurélien Robert
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  History, Ancient History, European History, Intellectual History

ТОЛЬКО ОЗНАКОМИТЕЛЬНЫЙ ФРАГМЕНТ, электронная версия не распространяется. Ленен. Божественная каббала. — СПб.: Издательство «Академия исследования культуры», 2019. — 288 с. — (Серия Code Grimoire). ISBN 978-5-94396-218-9... more

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- by Boris Dvinyaninov
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  Angelology, Angels, Christian Kabbalah, Kabbalah

Amidst the rich panoply of Jewish Kabbalah, Abraham Abulafia (1240-1291) resonates the most with modern, philosophically minded seekers of direct mystical experience. Abulafia was unique amongst Jewish mystics in providing precise... more

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- by Avi Solomon
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- 64
  Religion, Philosophy, Yoga, Christian Mysticism

Le Titre et le Résumé en anglais et en français du livre LA MÉTAPHYSIQUE DE L’UNITÉ CHEZ LE RAMHAL de Mordékhai Chriqui. Title : Kabbalah as “metaphysics” of the Unity, as seen by Rabbi Moshe Ḥayyîm Luzzatto (Ramḥal) Summary : The... more

Le Titre et le Résumé en anglais et en français du livre LA MÉTAPHYSIQUE DE L’UNITÉ CHEZ LE RAMHAL de Mordékhai Chriqui.
Title : Kabbalah as “metaphysics” of the Unity, as seen by Rabbi Moshe Ḥayyîm Luzzatto (Ramḥal)
Summary : The litteral meaning of “Kabbalah” is tradition, but this word also includes many different shades, such as : Jewish mysticism, gnosis, theosophy, Jewish esotericism, as well as cosmogony, divine philosophy, etc. The only facet that has never been studied so far by any scholar is metaphysics, and even less, the metaphysics of the Unity.
A deep analysis of two fundamental works of the Ramḥal, Italian kabbalist of the XVIII century, will unveil for us a new perception of kabbalah ; the first one being Qalah, a lecture of the fundamental concepts of lurianic kabbalah, shaping anew the paradigms into a more comprehensible and coherent form, by means of logic. According to the Ramḥal, logic is more than a simple tool used to inquire about esotericism : it is the art through which we can introduce kabbalah as metaphysics science. The second work is called Sȏd ha-yîḥȗd, and deals with the Unity of God and the oneness of all existence. It is a return to the ancient kabbalah of the Zohar, with the Unity of God as the central theme, before the resurgence of the lurianic writtings.
I have engaged into this research because I wanted to present a better understanding of the theology of the Ramḥal, speaking first and foremost about a unique Being, unfathomable, but with two features : Essence and Will. Of the essence, we know nothing ; of the Will, our author attributes the Infinite and the Unity.
The sefîrôt are the first principles issued from the Will : all the beings created are its ramifications, and both sefirôt and created beings come from a unique substance, that broke in order to separate the divine world of Emanation from the worlds of the creatures. This is in this space, created by the hiatus, that an intelligent creature – man – was bound to the tiqqûn, repairing the world, by way of the return of all the creatures to the Unity. Luzzatto sets out this science in a very systematic way : he begins with the abstracts concepts of kabbalah (Ein-sof, ṣîmṣȗm, sefîrôt etc.), continues with his axioms, via his allegoric reading and demonstrations ; to come, finally, to a divine metaphysics of the Unity of God and the unicity of creation, without any mystical connotation.

keywords: Kabbalah, Zohar, Luria, Ramḥal, Ramchal, Luzzatto, logic, metaphysics, theology, Infinite, unicity (oneness) of creation, tiqqûn, repairing of the world, will, Unity of God.

Résumé en français : « Kabbale », signifie littéralement tradition. Elle recouvre, cependant, de nombreuses nuances : mysticisme juif, gnose, théosophie, ésotérisme juif, mais aussi cosmogonie, philosophie du divin, etc. Si la kabbale exprime toutes ces facettes, aucun chercheur universitaire nʼa envisagé cette sagesse comme une métaphysique, et moins encore comme une métaphysique de lʼUnité.
Lʼanalyse de deux ouvrages fondamentaux du Ramḥal (Rabbi Moshé Ḥayyîm Luzzatto), kabbaliste italien du XVIIIe siècle, nous permettra de percevoir la kabbale sous un nouvel angle. Le premier livre : Qalaḥ, expose les concepts fondamentaux de la kabbale lurianique, en remodelant les paradigmes pour les rendre cohérents et formulables à partir de la logique. Pour le Ramḥal, la logique est plus quʼun outil dʼinvestigation de lʼésotérisme ; mais lʼart par lequel il est possible de présenter la kabbale sous la forme dʼune science métaphysique. Le second ouvrage Sȏd ha-yîḥȗd qui traite de lʼUnité de Dieu et de toute lʼexistence, marque un retour à la kabbale ancienne du Zohar, où lʼUnité de Dieu prend toute son ampleur avant la résurgence de lʼœuvre lurianique.
Cette recherche vise à comprendre la théologie du Ramḥal qui expose dʼabord un Être unique, insondable, admettant deux caractéristiques : lʼEssence et la Volonté. De lʼEssence, on ne sait rien ; à la Volonté, il attribue lʼInfini et lʼUnité. Les sefîrôt sont les principes premiers qui émanent de cette Volonté unique ; les êtres créés nʼen sont que les ramifications. Aussi bien les sefîrôt que les êtres créés, tous procèdent dʼune substance unique. Cette substance primordiale se brise pour séparer le monde divin de lʼÉmanation et les mondes des créatures. Ce hiatus donne une place à la créature intelligente - lʼhomme, afin quʼil puisse participer au tiqqȗn, la réparation du monde, par le retour de toutes les créatures à lʼUnité. Luzzatto expose cette science avec tout lʼappareillage systématique : commençant par les concepts abstraits de la kabbale (Ein-sof, ṣîmṣȗm, sefîrôt etc.), puis avançant ses axiomes, proposant son interprétation allégorique, et fournissant ses démonstrations. Il arrive ainsi à nous présenter manifestement, sans aucune résonance mystique, une métaphysique divine de lʼUnité de Dieu et de lʼunitude de la Création.
Mordékhaï Chriqui : Rabbin, chercheur, et conférencier dans le domaine de la kabbale et la métaphysique, il est le fondateur de lʼInstitut Ramhal à Jérusalem depuis 1990. Il a publié une trentaine dʼouvrages sur la kabbale et en particulier sur la vie et lʼœuvre de Rabbi Moshé Hayim Luzzatto (Ramhal).
Parallèlement à ses fonctions de Rabbin, il a mené des études sur la science des religions à Concordia University, où il est titulaire dʼun M.A en Sciences de Religions. Mordékhai Chriqui sʼintéresse depuis de nombreuses années à la pensée kabbalistique et à ses implications philosophiques dans lʼhistoire. Cet ouvrage a fait lʼobjet dʼune thèse de doctorat (Ph. D.) sur « La perception de la kabbale de Luzzatto en tant que Métaphysique de lʼUnité ».

Mots clés : Kabbale, Zohar, Luria, Ramḥal, Ramḥal, Luzzatto, logique, métaphysique, théologie, Infini, unitude (unicité) de la Création, tiqqȗn (tikoun), réparation du monde, Volonté, Unité de Dieu.

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- by MORDEKHAI CHRIQUI
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  Metaphysics, Kabbalah, Métaphysique, Lurianic Kabbalah

L’article a pour sujet la personnalité extraordinaire du kabbaliste le Rabbin Levi Isaac Krakovsky (1891–1966), un des étudiants oubliés du Rabbin Yehuda Leib Ashlag (1885–1955). Krakovsky diffusait l’enseignement de son maître en... more

Il Rabbino Qabbalista Isaac Luria è considerato il più grande e celebre studioso del pensiero mistico ebraico.Il principale divulgatore delle sue teorie fu Hayim Vital, . Nella lingua ebraica egli veniva chiamato e He-Ari (“Il Leone”)... more

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- by Fabio Milioni
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  Kabbalah, Lurianic Kabbalah, Kabbala, Zohar, Kabbalah

Tomando como punto de arranque las concepciones de Leo Strauss acerca de ‘la persecución y el arte de escribir’, y extendiéndolas a una comprensión más amplia de distintas artes de lenguaje (lengua, poética, escritura), el seminario... more

Tomando como punto de arranque las concepciones de Leo Strauss acerca de ‘la persecución y el arte de escribir’, y extendiéndolas a una comprensión más amplia de distintas artes de lenguaje (lengua, poética, escritura), el seminario examinará el legado de la gaya scienza de los trovadores y de la gramatología de los cabalistas. El intento es discernir cómo en estas dos artes radicales de lenguaje –que nacen en un mismo lugar y tiempo a contramano del poder y de las formas de representación de la ontología dominante– el nuevo régimen de lo sensible que determinan unos y otros –una ‘desmesura de los sentidos’ donde confluyen lo sensorial y lo semántico– lleva a forjar formas crecientemente sofisticadas de significación poética, de una parte, y hermenéuticas, de otra, una serie de coartadas de lenguaje que inauguran posibilidades inauditas para la poesía y la exégesis occidental, y que han vuelto a tomar relevancia ante la crisis del sentido moderno.
Tras una introducción a las hipótesis de trabajo a partir de los escritos pertinentes de Leo Strauss –fundamentalmente, su ensayo la “La persecución y el arte de escribir”– el grueso del seminario estará programado en base a una lectura en contrapunto entre las fuentes medievales y recepciones contemporáneas de las mismas –estas últimas, pasajes o textos breves de Stendhal, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Pound, Barthes, Lacan, Borges, Bloom, Derrida, Agamben y otros– todos autores que han adoptado ciertas estrategias o hecho ver cómo el gai saber de los trovadores y la gramatología cabalista contenían una suerte de crítica in nuce a la constitución del sentido moderno (y del sentido de lo moderno), para, en palabras de Nietzsche, ‘bailar sobre la moral en un perfecto estilo provenzal’.
En cuanto a la gaya scienza de los trovadores, tras delimitar el alcance de la inversión general de los valores y subversión a la ontología que implicaba su cosmovisión naturalista, verificando cómo nace en una poesía abiertamente provocadora (Guilhem de Aquitania y otros), el objetivo es ir examinando cómo, ante la persecución creciente, este gai saber se va disfrazando y comunicando a través de formas cada vez más sofisticadas de significación poética, las cuales llegan al límite en el llamado trobar clus. Se acordará especial atención al corpus de 18 poemas de Arnaut Daniel –il miglior fabbro, en palabras de Dante– el cual resume toda la evolución del arte poético provenzal, desplazándose desde la simplicidad inicial hasta los juegos de lenguaje más complejos del trobar ric: formas de significación poético-musicales que llevan a ciertos extremos nunca antes ni después alcanzados en la lírica occidental.
En cuanto a los cabalistas, tras examinar también los alcances subversivos de sus doctrinas sobre lo real –donde confluyen, junto a una concepción de la ‘diferencia sexual’ que se cruza con la de los trovadores mismos, un nihilismo metafísico y semántico a ser ejemplificados en su nacimiento en el Libro Bahir y otros– se privilegiará el examen de Las Siete Vías de Abraham Abulafia, obra que presenta un ascenso por la serie de niveles hermenéuticos desarrollados para ‘justificar’ sus doctrinas, desde las formas más literales a aquellas más catastróficas de producción del sentido de un texto.
En el entendido de que el vínculo entre ‘persecución’ y ‘desarrollo de formas complejas de significación’ es una constante a través de los tiempos, el seminario tendría que permanecer en todo momento atento a los cruces posibles entre los resultados obtenidos de la lectura de las fuentes medievales/contemporáneas y las estrategias de producción de sentido discernibles en nuestro contexto más inmediato (desde ya, por ejemplo, en las formas de producción artística y crítica que ganaron un cierto momentum en la década de los años ochenta).

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- by Andrés Claro
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  Crusades, Poetics, Exile, Naturalism

The Haskalah, or “Jewish Enlightenment,” is often considered to be a secularizing trend within modern European Judaism. Yet as recent studies have begun to show, this characterization ignores the Romantic and religious attitudes of many... more

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- by Jonatan Meir
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- 66
  History, Intellectual History, Eastern European Studies, Jewish Studies

Bref aperçu de la façon dont certains des grands voient la «science» - selon les mots d'Einstein, Hume, Damasio, le Dr Paul Wong, Carl Jung, Tolstoy, Pargament, Mahoney, etc. Einstein a observé: "Essayez de pénétrer avec nos moyens... more

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- by Charles E . Peck Jr.
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- 19
  Quebecois Literature, Québec Studies, Quebec, Philosophie

ULTIMI CINQUE VOLUMI PUBBLICATI: VOLUME X (APRILE 2017) 1. MICHELE CURNIS, Filologia platonica del XX secolo. Tradizione indiretta. (85) 2. ALESSIO FAEDDA, Le citazioni omeriche in Platone. Effetti della tradizione orale o... more

ULTIMI CINQUE VOLUMI PUBBLICATI:

VOLUME X (APRILE 2017)
1. MICHELE CURNIS, Filologia platonica del XX secolo. Tradizione indiretta. (85)
2. ALESSIO FAEDDA, Le citazioni omeriche in Platone. Effetti della tradizione orale o intenzionali adattamenti. (86)
3. GABRIELE PAPA, Un exemplum della ricezione della filosofia di Platone nel mondo islamico: il Kitāb al-ğāmiʽ di Abū Nasr al-Fārābī e il primato di Aristotele nella storia. (87)
4. GIAMPIERO CHIVILÒ, Alexandre Kojève interprete di Platone. (88)
5. RODOLFO SIDERI, Filosofia come pathos. Platone negli scritti giovanili di Nietzsche. (89)
6. ALFIO RIZZO NAZARENO, Oltre la filosofia. Platone e Nietzsche nel pensiero di Giorgio Colli. (90)
7. ALESSANDRO RAFFI, Da Aristotele a Platone. L’interpretazione heideggeriana del Sofista. (91)
8. PIETRO CONSOLE, «La più alta personalità filosofica di tutti i tempi». Platone secondo l’esistenzialismo neoilluministico di Nicola Abbagnano. (92)
9. SARA DE LEONARDIS, Il Grillo. Una battaglia per la paideia platonica. (93)
10. ROSSANO DE LAURENTIIS, Platone e la storia della scienza secondo Maria Timpanaro Cardini (per i tipi di Carabba). (94)
11. DARIO ZUCCHELLO, Arendt di fronte a Platone. Politica e filosofia. (95)
12. MARINA PAOLA BANCHETTI-ROBINO, Il neoplatonismo nell’ontologia chimica di Jan Baptista van Helmont. (96)

VOLUME XI (APRILE 2017)
1. ROBERTA GALLUZZO, Il Platonismo nel pensiero mistico di Meister Eckhart. (97)
2. LUCA SOCCI, Sperimentare l’eterno. Dalla metafora all’incarnazione tra Platone e Dante. (98)
3. ALESSANDRO RAFFI, Dante e il Timeo nel canto IV del Paradiso. (99)
4. TOMMASO GHEZZANI, Rassegna di studi sul platonismo di Vico. (100)
5. ALESSIO MARCHETTI, Platone e Marx. (101)
6. MARIO LUPOLI, Platone e il concetto di ragione in Horkheimer e Adorno. (102)
7. ANTONELLA FERRARIS, Padre di tutte le Utopie. La persistenza dell’archetipo platonico in Ernst Bloch. (103)
8. ILARIA NIDASIO, Oralità e scrittura. Gadamer e la reinterpretazione, in chiave ermeneutica, della nota tematica. (104)
9. ROBERTA RIO-FRANCESCO ALESSANDRINI, La Dottrina delle Idee e il processo di formazione del pensiero. (105)
10. AURORA CAPORALI, Corneille. Il teatro francese del Seicento dai frammenti de L’illusion cominque, un testo esemplare di platonizzazione. (106)
11. FEDERICA SCOGNAMIGLIO, Il Platone di Forster. Introduzione alla filologia ed agli studi platonici tra Settecento e Ottocento. (107)
12. FEDERICO ZANCANER, Platone e Nietzsche. Aspetti di etica. (108)
13. OLIMPIA ZINZI-MARGHERITA CAPONE, Platone e Nietzsche tra corpo e anima. (109)
14. MAURO MURZI, Aspetti dell’influenza del Timeo sulla scienza occidentale. (110)
15. MARCO DAMONTE, La presenza di Platone nel nachlass di Wittgenstein. (111)
16. GIUSEPPE IURATO, Un raffronto critico fra la teoria platonica delle idee ed il paradosso di Kripke-Wittgenstein. (112)
17. ELENA RUFFONI, Il Menesseno e la funzione critica della storia di Atene nel logos epitaphios platonico. (113)
18. ANTONELLA SENATORE, Un discorso οὐ παντάπασιν ἀπίθανος. Note sulla retorica di Platone. (114)

VOLUME XII (NOVEMBRE 2017)
1. DAVIDE PENNA, Noticiam dei non ratiocinando sed bene vivendo. Presenze platoniche nella Theologia Summi Boni di Pietro Abelardo. (115)
2. FRANCESCO FIORENTINO, Giovanni Duns Scoto di fronte a Platone sulle idee divine. (116)
3. ALBERTO FRANCESCATO, Antropologia dell’Esaltato. Platone fra Hume e Kant. (117)
4. ERICA GAZZOLDI, Laisse du vieux Platon se froncer l’œil austère… Platonismo e suo rifiuto nell’eros di Baudelaire. (118)
5. MARIO LUPOLI, Dmitry Pisarev lettore di Platone. (119)
6. GABRIELE ORNAGHI, Austin e il completamento del pensiero platonico. (120)
7. ALESSANDRO PRATO, Platone e la condanna della retorica. (121)
8. ALBERTO LABELLARTE, Erotica, giustizia e passioni in Platone. (122)
9. LUCA VALENTINI, Sulla tripartizione statuale in Platone, nel mondo indoeuropeo e nel microcosmo umano. (123)
10. MARCO GRUSOVIN, Socrate ebreo. Sul platonismo ebraico di Moses Mendelsshon. (124)
11. Laura Zavatta, Nietzsche nella caverna di Platone. La missione legislatrice dei filosofi. (125)
12. IVAN POZZONI, Il contratto sociale come fondamento del diritto criminale nel momento socratico di Platone. (126)

VOLUME XIII (DICEMBRE 2017)
1. ROSSELLA ATTOLINI, Ἒρως e χωρισμός. Giorgio Colli interprete di Platone. (127)
2. CLAUDIA MAGGI, Il «qualcosa» in Soph. 237c e in Enn. VI 6. (128)
3. ENRICO FALBO, Il rapporto psyche-organi corporei nel Teeteto. (129)
4. PAOLA SCOLLO, Platone e la poesia. La discussione sugli eroi di Omero nell’Ippia Minore. (130)
5. MARCO POTENZA, Gregor Samsa e K. Percezione della realtà platonica in Kafka. (131)
6. ANNA DI SOMMA, Il ruolo di Platone nell’onto-antropo-logia di Ernesto Grassi. (132)
7. ALBERTO LABELLARTE, L’idea di Giustizia in Platone. (133)
8. LOREDANA FILIPPI, Platone e le nuove frontiere della scienza. Dal superamento del dualismo alla fisica dei quanti: verso una nuova escatologia dell’esistenza. (134)
9. NICOLÒ SAMBO, Platone in The Great Chain of Being di Arthur O. Lovejoy. (135)
10. GIOVANNI COVINO, Platone e Tommaso d’Aquino. L’importanza metafisica della nozione di partecipazione. (136)
11. STEFANO ZEN, Riscoperta di Platone e teologie della Riforma: il caso di Thomas Müntzer tra millenarismo e cristianesimo rivoluzionario. (137)
12. ALESSANDRO BATTISTELLI, La questione della tecnica. Dalla techne platonica al dislivello prometeico di Günther Anders. (138)
13. EMANUELE STRACCHI, La Musica in Platone e Nietzsche. (139)
14. EUGENIO CAPITANI, L’universo non gioca a dadi. Principio antropico e cosmologia nel Timeo di Platone. (140)
15. ALDO MECCARIELLO, Un’idea di catastrofe. Platone negli abissi di Atlantide. (141)

VOLUME XIV (MARZO 2018)
1. MARIAPAOLA BERGOMI, Platone a Bisanzio (142)
2. VINCENZO NUZZO, Un’unitaria metafisica filosofico-religiosa entro la continuità tra neoplatonismo pagano e cristiano. Il caso di Gregorio di Nissa (143)
3. CHIARA GELMETTI, Geometria sacra e movimento corporeo. Ripresa dell’ellenismo nelle coreografie del primo Novecento: riemergere del pensiero platonico e legami con la danza italiana del Quattrocento (144)
4. GABRIELE BURATTI, Aspetti di Filosofia della matematica: platonismo e anti-platonismo in Mark Balaguer (145)
5. YURI CONTI, L’interrogazione socratica nei dialoghi platonici: riprese contemporanee ed origini storiche (146)
6. PAOLO GIOVE, Pedagogia della significazione. Strategie paideutiche del dialogos in Platone (147)
7. ELEONORA SELVATICO, Platone e la nascita della metafisica: l’interpretazione heideggeriana del mito della caverna e del Teeteto (148)
8. LUCA PANTALEONE, Il sentiero della verità. Svelatezza e correttezza nel pensiero di Platone (149)
9. PIERO DE COLOMBANI, Il platonismo bifronte di Carlo Michelstaedter (150)
10. VIŠNJA BANDALO, Concetti platonici nell’espressione letteraria di Cristina Campo (151)
11. CHARLOTTE ERRIGHI, La carne, l’ombra e l’armonia. Echi platonici nella riflessione di Denis de Rougemont (152)
12. FRANCESCO LUIGI GALLO, Il Platonismo e la Massoneria. Analisi introduttiva di alcune essenziali corrispondenze (153)

VOLUME XV
1. MARINA PAOLA BANCHETTI-ROBINO, Il minimo, l’unità, e l’universo infinito nella cosmologia vitalistica di Giordano Bruno (154)
2. MARIANNA CERNO, Frater, socius et amicus: l’amicizia nell’agiografia martiriale italiana dell’alto medioevo (155)
3. SERENA CANÈ, L’anima platonica e il “Messaggio di Laodicea”. “Giudaizzanti” di Novgorod: F. Kuritsyn ed altri (156)
4. PAOLA SCOLLO, I sofismi di Socrate. La poetica dello specchio da Aristofane a Platone (157)
5. LUIGI D’ANTO’, Il pastore ed il sarto: “iconologia” della sovranità in Platone (158)
6. MARCO DAMONTE, La presenza di Platone nella Virtue Ethics (159)
7. PAOLO MENEGHETTI, Il demiurgo di Platone ha l’idea di artisticità sui numeri idealmente contratti (160)
8. IGOR TAVILLA, La ricezione di Platone nell’opera di Julius Evola. Una nota interpretativa (161)
9. GIORGIO PANNUNZIO, Qualche riflessione semasiologica sullo pseudo-Platone epigrammista tradotto da Salvatore Quasimodo (162)
10. ANNALISA CHESSA, Immagini nella caverna: la cornice simbolica del mito in Platone e nei suoi “allievi” (163)
11. PAOLA SCOLLO, Il gioco di natura: nostra morte, sua vita. Platone e la dialettica tra uomo e ambiente nel mondo greco (164)
12. OMAR BRINO, Una “voce profetica” in “un’età altrettanto oscura”. Piero Martinetti lettore di Platone (165)
13. NICOLÒ TARQUINI, Platone, il nichilismo e l’Occidente. L’interpretazione della filosofia platonica nel pensiero di Emanuele Severino (166)
14. PIERO DE COLOMBANI, L’eco dell’agathon platonico nel più recente Cacciari (167)
Capitoli Platone voll. I-XIV (fino a Marzo 2018)

This article investigates Moses de León's early kabbalistic thought through a cluster of his unsigned works in manuscript, some of which have only recently come to light, and others of which have not received any scholarly attention at... more

This article investigates Moses de León's early kabbalistic thought through a cluster of his unsigned works in manuscript, some of which have only recently come to light, and others of which have not received any scholarly attention at all. The analysis of these works reveals an intermediate stage of his thought that bridges his earlier eso-teric writing with the later, and more familiar, theosophical compositions that bear his name. The folia of these unsigned works are replete with speculations concerning the letters of the Hebrew alphabet and the names of God, through which de León expressed a unique blend of theology and angelology that was shaped, mainly, by Aristotelian paradigms. Scholars previously posited that de León, and other kabbalists active in roughly the same time and place, abruptly and mysteriously abandoned this worldview for a new one predicated on the theosophical foundation of a multiplicity of attributes or sephirot within the emanated Godhead. Through careful study of these works in manuscript, particularly a neglected work in MS Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibl., hebr. 47, the author recovers a transitional period in de León's thought, when he had not quite given up one conceptual paradigm for the other. A new historiographical account is then proposed, according to which Castilian kabbalists living in the generation of the Zohar absorbed the new theosophy slowly and tried to incorporate it into existing paradigms, resulting in unique hybrids, even as they also consolidated new modes of speculation. This article therefore provides an alternative account of a critical stage in the history of medieval kabbalah, one which concerns the fundamental stratum of the so-called Sepher ha-Zohar. In addition to deepening our knowledge of the conceptual humus from which the Zohar's foundational concepts germinated, the findings of this study force us to reconsider what we know about the appearance of the most canonical work in Kabbalistic literature.

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Cet article examine la pensée kabbalistique de Moïse de León à travers un ensemble de ses oeuvres manuscrites non signées, dont certaines n'ont été découvertes que récemment et d'autres n'ont fait l'objet d'aucune étude scientifique. L'analyse de ces oeuvres met à nu une étape intermédiaire de sa pensée qui fait le lien entre la doctrine reflétée par ses premières oeuvres ésotériques et les compositions théosophiques plus tardives et plus familières qui portent son nom. Les pages de ces oeuvres non signées renferment des spéculations sur les lettres de l'alphabet hébraïque et les noms de Dieu, à travers lesquelles Moïse de León exprime un mélange original de théologie et d'angélologie s'inscrivant pour l'essentiel dans un cadre aristotélicien. Les chercheurs ont jusqu'ici considéré que Moïse de León et d'autres kabbalistes actifs à peu près à la même période et au même endroit avaient brusquement et mystérieusement aban-donné cette vision du monde pour une autre, reposant sur le fondement théosophique d'une multiplicité d'attributs ou sephirot émanés au sein de la divinité. En étudiant attentivement ces oeuvres manuscrites, en particulier un traité négligé présent dans le ms. Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibl., Cod. hebr. 47, l'auteur de cet article retrouve une période de transition dans la pensée de Moïse de León, alors qu'il n'avait pas tout à fait abandonné le premier paradigme conceptuel. Un nouveau récit historiographique est alors proposé, selon lequel les kabbalistes castillans vivant dans la génération du Zohar ont lentement absorbé la nouvelle théosophie et ont essayé de l'incorporer aux paradigmes existants, ce qui a donné lieu à la production de pensées hybrides origi-nales et à l'élaboration de nouveaux modes de spéculation. Cet article présente donc une nouvelle façon de rendre compte d'une étape critique de l'histoire de la Kabbale médiévale, concernant la strate fondamentale du Sepher ha-Zohar. En plus d'appro-fondir notre connaissance du terreau conceptuel sur lequel ont germé les concepts fondateurs du Zohar, les résultats de cette étude nous conduisent à penser à nouveaux frais l'apparition de l'oeuvre canonique entre toutes de la littérature kabbalistique.

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  Jewish Mysticism, Kabbalah, Zohar, Zohar, Kabbalah

Theological Debates among the Masters of Niqqud in the Works of Joseph Gikatilla's "Disciples" Avishai Bar-Asher In the early 1270s, R. Joseph b. Abraham Gikatilla wrote a number of works dedicated to the secrets of the Tiberian Hebrew... more

Theological Debates among the Masters of Niqqud in the Works of Joseph Gikatilla's "Disciples" Avishai Bar-Asher In the early 1270s, R. Joseph b. Abraham Gikatilla wrote a number of works dedicated to the secrets of the Tiberian Hebrew vowel points. In them, he developed an exegetical approach that derives theological meaning from the character of the vowel points, and the relevant theology is built on Aristotelian metaphysics and cosmology. Gikatilla's extant compositions on the subject include: (1) the so-called Sefer ha-Niqqud, of which both a long and short version are known (also preserved in Latin translation); (2) the third and final part of his popular Ginnat Egoz; and (3) a short, late revised version of Sefer ha-Niqqud titled Sha'ar ha-Niqqud which was reworked into the framework of theosophical Kabbalah.
This article discusses a series of anonymous, short compositions on the vowel points written in the wake of Gikatilla's, beginning in the 1270s and continuing for a generation or two. The nameless authors drew on his work and further developed his approach, and in so doing interpreted each in their own way his conceptions of theology and metaphysics, language, and cosmology.

The first part of the article identifies these short tracts scattered among other anonymous treatises in manuscript, some new to scholarship and some having been discussed only in very general terms.
The second part turns to the content of these works and analyzes their absorption and modification of Gikatilla's thought. At the heart of the discussion is a theological dispute among these authors about the very possibility of representing the transcendent deity and the sub-divine cosmological realm through the set of signs that are the Hebrew vowel points, particularly the ḥolem (or ḥolam). These writers ranged across time and space, so an examination of how they adapted Gikatilla's thought and one another's interpretations is crucial for drafting a more accurate reception history of Gikatilla's early writings. Notably, these "successors" of Gikatilla did not identify terminology or ideas from theosophical Kabbalah in his treatment of the vowel points. The theosophy of the sefirot rarely appears in these works, and when it does it is marginal and a glaringly late interpolation.
The extensive investigation of these sources reveals an unknown stage in the dissemination and exposition of Gikatilla's early writings. It further informs the ongoing discussion about distinct conceptual stages in Gikatilla's intellectual biography, and helps to remap Gikatilla's connections with other kabbalists and kabbalistic works (Abulafia, de Léon, the Zohar, and others).

Editions of six of the works discussed in the article are included in appendices.

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The concept of infinity (ein-sof) is one of the cornerstones of Kabbalistic thought. This paper aims at examining its theoretical and theological characteristics, and to probe its presence in the works of Jorge Luis Borges. Previously... more

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  Mysticism, Jorge Luis Borges, Kabbalah, Infinity

Review "This excellent study is [...] recommended for academic libraries." Daniel Scheide, Florida Atlantic University, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews, Volume VII, No. 2... more

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"This excellent study is [...] recommended for academic libraries."
Daniel Scheide, Florida Atlantic University, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews, Volume VII, No. 2
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Abstract
It is difficult to ignore the diversity of the kabbalah or both its modest and coarse manifestations over the course of the twentieth-century – phenomena that have latterly garnered considerable attention in both the lay and research literature alike. That said, it appears that the historical background for these current developments, namely the world of the kabbalists in the late 1800s and early 1900s, has yet to merit an in-depth study. The dozens of hagiographies that are now being written by the progeny and admirers of the said kabbalists paint a romantic picture of a “glorious past.” In these books, the early twentieth century is described as a kabbalistic renaissance that is on equal footing with the days of Isaac Luria in Safad. Surprising as it may be, the Hebrew and Yiddish belles-lettres and, following in their footsteps, the research literature from Gershom Scholem onwards has left the impression that kabbalah deteriorated in the beginning of the twentieth century to the point of nearly vanishing of the world stage. According to this same narrative, only the efforts of a few surviving kabbalists—a sort of dying elite—kept the flame from expiring. On those rare occasions in which scholars bring up these practitioners, they are referred to as “the remnants of the kabbalists” or similar epithets. This characterization was painted in even louder colors upon describing the era’s Jerusalem-based kabbalists. At one and the same time, then, there are descriptions of both a great awakening and steep decline. The author’s attempt to make sense of this contradiction is one of the catalysts behind the present study. Its origins aside, the book focuses on the kabbalah seminaries (Yeshivot or academies) in Jerusalem from 1896 to 1948 as well as the various manifestations of kabbalah within traditional Jewish society.
Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem breaks new ground on the robust activities of Jerusalem’s kabbalistic yeshivot, foremost among them Beit el, Rehovot haNahar, and Sha'ar haShamayim. By virtue of these institutions’ publications and the unearthing of tens of documents and manuscripts that were deposited in sundry archives, the book surveys the daily schedule and methodology of these yeshivot; their methods for disseminating kabbalah books; the dynamics between revelation and concealment that undergirded all the kabbalists’ endeavors; the arrangement of the RaShaSh Siddur’s first print run; the messianic outlooks that were espoused in this community regarding the attempts to discover the Sambatyon River and the lost tribes; and the content and assorted roles of the Tikkunim literature. What is more, the author explores the disagreements between competing groups—most notably, the feud over the extent to which occult wisdom should be exposed to the general public—and the various gradients of Jewish mysticism within these seminaries.
Against this backdrop, shedding light on Jerusalem’s kabbalist circles between the years 1896 and 1948 opens a door to the wider world of the myriad kabbalistic streams in East Europe and Arab lands, the Maghreb included. The foundations that were laid by these yeshivas in the early twentieth century also paved the way for the contemporary blossoming of kabbalah in many and manifold circles. In this sense, retracing the pertinent developments in the Land of Israel at the outset of the twentieth century is imperative not only for repairing the distorted picture of the past, but for understanding the ongoing surge in kabbalah study
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This book endeavors to fill a lacuna in the literature on early twentieth-century kabbalah, namely the lack of a comprehensive account of the traditional kabbalah seminaries (Yeshivot) in Jerusalem from 1896 to 1948 as well as the various manifestations of kabbalah within traditional Jewish society. The foundations that were laid in the early twentieth century also paved the way for the contemporary blossoming of kabbalah in many and manifold circles. In this sense, retracing the pertinent developments in Palestine at the outset of the twentieth century is imperative not only for repairing the distorted picture of the past, but for understanding the ongoing surge in kabbalah study.

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  Religion, New Religious Movements, History, Modern History

published without the knowledge of the author - . not proofread by the author. an updated and corrected version of the article will appear in my book - Wrestling with the Esoteric (2017) הדברים נדפסו שלא בידיעתי וללא הגהה מצידי. אין... more

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  Religion, Christianity, New Religious Movements, History

UPDATED: 22JUL22. This paper explores the esoteric meaning behind the order of the letters of the Hebrew alefbet. It focuses on the astrological correspondences attached to the Hebrew letters and the reason for their disjointed sequences.... more

Résumé: Lʼhumanité dans son ensemble poursuit une histoire universelle. Cette histoire qui se veut lʼexpression de lʼévolution de la révélation de lʼUnité de Dieu progresse en adéquation avec les créatures et les évènements historiques.... more

Résumé: Lʼhumanité dans son ensemble poursuit une histoire universelle. Cette histoire qui se veut lʼexpression de lʼévolution de la révélation de lʼUnité de Dieu progresse en adéquation avec les créatures et les évènements historiques.
Pourtant, la deuxième guerre mondiale, dont le tribut sʼélève à plus de soixante millions de morts, montre le fossé qui sépare les peuples et les nations. Jamais le monde nʼa été aussi divisé, jamais le peuple juif nʼa été aussi sélectionné. Cette distinction nʼa pas commencé avec la haine raciale de Hitler, ou avec ʼAmaleq, Haman le Perse, Isabelle la Catholique, etc. (la liste nʼest malheureusement pas exhaustive). Selon une approche exotérique, cʼest avec la révélation sinaïtique du Dieu-Un au peuple juif - qui vient récemment de sortir dʼEgypte - que sʼinstallera une haine chez les peuples, à cause de la singularité que Y.H.V.H lui-même lui conféra. Cʼest là peut-être le sens du verset : « Mais pour Toi nous subissons chaque jour la mort ; on nous considère comme des brebis destinées à la boucherie » (Psaumes 44, 23).
Mais alors pourquoi lʼÉternel (et pour les pseudo-philosophes : pourquoi la religion juive) sépara le peuple juif de lʼuniversel ?
Disons le dʼemblée, notre approche, ne sera ni dualiste, ni exotérique.
Nous allons essayer de comprendre cette Unité de la souveraineté de Dieu - dans le contexte du Tikoun Olam - même dans le cas le plus absurde de lʼhistoire en général, et de lʼhistoire juive en particulier : la Shoah.
Nous expliquerons lʼontologie du mal, ainsi que le mal moral dans lʼhistoire de la Révélation de la souveraineté de Dieu.
Nous comprendrons alors la distinction subtile entre Israël et les Nations ainsi que leur rôle commun dans la Réparation du monde.
P.S. Cet article est tiré de mon dernier ouvrage : Tikoun Olam - La Réparation du Monde, Éd. Auteurs du Monde , Paris 2016.

Summary: Humanity as a whole pursues a universal history. This story, which is the expression of the evolution of the revelation of the Unity of God, progresses in line with historical creatures and events.
Yet the Second World War, whose tribute amounts to more than sixty million dead, shows the gap between peoples and nations. Never has the world been so divided, nor has the Jewish people been so selected. This distinction did not begin with the racial hatred of Hitler, or with'Amaleq, Haman the Persian, Isabella the Catholic, and so on. (The list is unfortunately not exhaustive). According to an exoteric approach, it is with the Sinaite revelation of the One God to the Jewish people - which has just emerged from Egypt - that a hatred of peoples will arise, because of the singularity which Y.H.V.H himself conferred upon him. This is perhaps the meaning of the verse: "But for You we suffer death every day; We are considered to be sheep for the slaughter "(Psalms 44, 23).
But then why did the Lord (and for the pseudo-philosophers: why the Jewish religion) separate the Jewish people from the universal?
Let us say the approach, our approach, will be neither dualist nor exoteric.
We will try to understand this Unity of God's Sovereignty - in the context of Tikun Olam - even in the most absurd case of history in general, and Jewish history in particular: the Shoah.
We will explain the ontology of evil, as well as moral evil in the history of the Revelation of God's sovereignty.
We will then understand the subtle distinction between Israel and the Nations as well as their common role in the World's Repair.
P.S. This article is taken from my last book: Tikoun Olam - The Reparation of the World, Ed. Auteurs du Monde, Paris, 2016.

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  Kabbalah, Judaism, Lurianic Kabbalah, Philosophie Et Kabbale

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Conference dedicated to the figure of R. Nathan of Gaza, Shabbetai Tsevi’s prophet. Skopje, Macedonia, 10 - 12 July 2018.
Academic Committee: Eliezer Papo, Haviva Pedaya, Jonatan Meir

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  Religion, History, Intellectual History, Cultural History

In parallel with his prolific work on Kabbalah, Gershom Scholem delivered many public lectures. He usually chose to lecture on subjects he was researching at the time, in conjunction with his courses at the Hebrew University. These... more

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  History, Modern History, Intellectual History, Cultural History

השכלה ואזוטריקה בגליציה: כתביו הגנוזים של אליקים המילזאהגי

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  Critical Theory, Religion, History, Intellectual History

This short treatise explores (using polyhex mathematics) the special relationship that exists between the kabbalistic Tree of Life diagram and the geometry of the simple hexagon. It reveals how the ten sefirot and the twentytwo pathways... more

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  Christian Kabbalah, Kabbalah, Lurianic Kabbalah, Cabala

"Journeys of the Soul: Concepts and Imageries of Paradise in Medieval Kabbalah" covers the most decisive period in the history of Jewish speculation about the Garden of Eden. The heart of the book is a thorough analysis of the... more

L'ALBERO DELLA VITA Sappi che, prima che le emanazioni fossero emanate e le creature create, la semplice Luce Superiore colmava tutta l'esistenza. Non esisteva nessun posto libero né di aria vuota e né spazio, ma tutto era colmo di quella... more

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  Kabbalah, Esotericism, Western Esotericism, Lurianic Kabbalah

Résumé : Cet article est un préambule de la IIIe partie de notre thèse - LA KABBALE EN TANT QUE « MÉTAPHYSIQUE » DE LʼUNITÉ CHEZ RABBI MOÏSE ḤAYYÎM LUZZATTO - qui présente le tikoun comme : la réparation du monde. Le Ramhal perçoit dans... more

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  Kabbalah, Philosophie Et Kabbale, Ramchal, Ramhal

Elijah Benamozegh (Livorno, 1823-1900) was a highly-respected Italian rabbi of Moroccan heritage. He was well-versed in Kabbalah, the study of Jewish mysticism and, in his works, connected Kabbalistic and philosophic sources to delineate... more

Michael Levi Rodkinson (1845–1904) was a journalist, author, and publisher whose literary projects spanned numerous countries and continents. Hero to some and scoundrel to others, Rodkinson was a polemical figure whose beliefs underwent... more

Michael Levi Rodkinson (1845–1904) was a journalist, author, and publisher whose literary projects spanned numerous countries and continents. Hero to some and scoundrel to others, Rodkinson was a polemical figure whose beliefs underwent many transformations over the course of his life, most significantly from Hasidism to combative Haskalah to eventually anticipating the neo-Romantic trends of the early twentieth century. Throughout his career, Rodkinson’s writing challenged the familiar genres of the literature of Hasidism and the Haskalah, shaping the religious realities of his readers and articulating a spiritual and community life among Jews, who took his ideas to heart in surprising ways.Today, Rodkinson is frequently referred to as a minor Hasidic author and publisher, a characterization based on the criticism of his opponents rather than on his writings. In Literary Hasidism, Meir draws upon those writings and their reception to present a completely different picture of this colorful and influential writer. Examining Rodkinson’s lifelong role as a catalyzing agent of different cultural phenomena, his diverse publishing activities, and his writings in their respective stages, Meir grants readers a provocative new vantage point from which to consider this divisive, enigmatic figure.
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“A must read for anyone interested in the history of Hasidic literature. Jonatan Meir masterfully tells the story of late nineteenth-century eastern
European Jewish scholarship through the bruising battles, big ideas, and petty intrigues of Michael Levi Rodkinson.”
—Eliyahu Stern, Yale University
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Jonatan Meir portrays the career of one of the most ambivalent characters of the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, Michael Levi Rodkinson, and his move from the propagation of popular Hasidism to his more grandiose attempts to reframe and restructure the entire Jewish canon. This look into the world of the late nineteenthcentury Jewish Enlightenment will be an eye-opener."—Pinchas Giller, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, American Jewish University
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"Meir has taken the relatively neglected figure of Rodkinson and created a detailed and fascinating portrait. He ably demonstrates that the boundaries between Hasidism and Haskalah were frequently crossed, and this markedly improves our understanding of the dynamics of Jewish intellectual history in the crucial period of the late nineteenth century."—Ira Robinson, Concordia University

Quelques réflexions sur la figure exceptionnelle de Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai (Ie siècle) et Lag baomer par Mordékhai Chriqui.
Tribune Juive , Mai 2009

La contemplation de son histoire conduit nécessairement le peuple juif à abandonner définitivement tout espoir de trouver grâce aux yeux des nations, car cette histoire n’inspire qu’une seule et unique conclusion qui est que le seul moyen... more

Je cite ici librement, sans exactitude, cela vient de ce que la parole doit être méditée et intériorisée pour devenir féconde et efficace. J'interroge la possibilité d'un Jésus gnostique, et cela dès le texte canonique des Évangiles, mais... more

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  Gnosticism, Jewish Mysticism, Early Christianity, Mysticism

מבוא לספרו של גרשם שלום, תולדות התנועה השבתאית, ירושלים ותל אביב תשע"ח, עמ' 43-9

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  Religion, History, Intellectual History, Cultural History

https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH000979166/NLI

This Galgal Wheel World Calendar Chart is a visual aid to help understand the structure of the Galgal Calendar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKA8_FxZNY&feature=youtu.be&t=1950 ר' יהודה ליב אשלג והקבלה בפולין ההרצאה תתמקד בפעילותו המוקדמת של הרב יהודה ליב אשלג בתוך ההקשר החסידי-קבלי בפולין בראשית המאה העשרים. פן זה בדמותו של אשלג לא נחקר כלל... more

[fr] Ce mémoire porte sur un recueil de quatre romans dits cabalistiques, qui ont été réédités en 1788 par l’éditeur parisien Garnier, dans une partie de collection qui comprend uniquement des œuvres à caractère occulte. Cette recherche... more

« La cabbale de Jean Thenaud, un éclairage sur le chiffre de François Ier » de François Parot et Thibaud Fourrier (Tours, CESR-CESM). Ce compte rendu rapporte l'intervention et les conclusions de François Parot et de Thibaud Fourrier,... more

« Kabbale », signifie littéralement, réception, tradition. Elle recouvre, cependant, de nombreuses nuances : mysticisme juif, gnose, théosophie, ésotérisme juif, mais aussi cosmogonie, philosophie du divin, etc. Si la kabbale exprime... more

« Kabbale », signifie littéralement, réception, tradition. Elle recouvre, cependant, de nombreuses nuances : mysticisme juif, gnose, théosophie, ésotérisme juif, mais aussi cosmogonie, philosophie du divin, etc. Si la kabbale exprime toutes ces facettes, aucun chercheur nʼa envisagé cette sagesse comme une métaphysique, et moins encore comme une métaphysique de lʼUnité. Cet ouvrage est le résultat dʼune recherche se basant sur lʼoeuvre de Rabbi Moshé Ḥ ayyîm LUzzatto (RaMḤaL), kabbaliste italien du XVIII e siècle – qui vise à comprendre la théologie de cet auteur prolifique. La doctrine du RaMḤaL expose dʼabord un Être unique, insondable, admettant deux caractéristiques : lʼEssence et la Volonté. De lʼEssence, on ne sait rien ; à la Volonté, il attribue lʼInfini et lʼUnité. De lʼUnité, dʼoù tous les êtres créés procèdent, émane le Bienfait qui dirige le monde pour lʼamener à sa complétude. LUzzatto expose cette science avec tout lʼappareillage systématique : commençant par les concepts abstraits de la kabbale (Ein-sof, ṣîmṣȗm, sefîrôt, etc.), puis avançant ses axiomes, proposant son interprétation allégorique, et enfin fournissant ses démonstrations et ses conclusions. Il arrive ainsi à nous présenter manifestement, sans aucune résonance mystique, une métaphysique divine de lʼUnité de Dieu et de lʼunitude de la Création.
Mordékhaï CHRIQUI : Rabbin, docteur en sciences des religions, et conférencier dans le domaine de la kabbale et la métaphysique, il est le fondateur de lʼInstitut Ramḥal à Jérusalem depuis 1990. Il a publié une trentaine dʼouvrages sur la kabbale et en particulier sur la vie et lʼoeuvre de Rabbi Moshé Ḥayyîm Luzzatto (RaMḤaL). Parallèlement à ses fonctions de rabbin, il a mené des études sur la science des religions à Concordia university, où il est titulaire dʼun M.a. en Sciences de Religions. Mordékhaï ChriquI sʼintéresse depuis de nombreuses années à la pensée kabbalistique et à ses implications philosophiques dans lʼhistoire.

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  Metaphysics, Kabbalah, Métaphysique, Lurianic Kabbalah

Kabbalah and Judaism by Yakov Shechter
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  Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Spirituality, Monster Theory

Philosophie Et Kabbale

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