By Paul Mendes-Flohr
ISBN-10: 0791421252
ISBN-13: 9780791421253
Within the early a part of the 20 th century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) based the tutorial self-discipline of the examine of Jewish Mysticism. In so doing, he not just broke new scholarly flooring; yet he additionally revolutionized the sector of Judaic experiences as an entire and left an indelible mark at the examine of faith.
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We are no less legimate than our forefathers, they simply had a clearer text. We are perhaps anarchists, but we are opposed to anarchy. For the full citation and a commentary, see P. Mendes-Flohr, Divided Passions: Jewish Intellectuals and the Experience of Modernity, Detroit 1991, pp. 4OOf. 17 Paul Mendes-Flohr Give then, Lord, that he may wake Who was struck through by your nothingness. Only so does revelation Shine in the time that rejected you. Only your nothingness is the experience [Erfahrung] It is entitled to have of you.
399; cited and translated in Myers, 'From Zion' (above, note 57), p. 323. 24 The Spiritual Quest o/the Philologist tion,' Scholem insisted, 'arises not from denying one's tradition,' but from a dialectical affirmation, or 'metamorphosis of tradition. '62 Although scholarship was to be pursued according to the strictest canons of objective, scientific inquiry, it was no mere archival ordering of artifacts of the past. 63 On the contrary: the academic study of Judaism, as Scholem envisioned it, was a propaedeutic for Jewish renewal, a preparatory exercise indispensable for the genuine efflorescence of Judaism as a vital, living culture.
Tishby, The Wisdom a/the 2ohar, Oxford 1989, 3 vols. (translation from the Hebrew Mishnat ha-zohar, Jerusalem 1948/9). 1 2 41 Isaiah Tishby apparently of Moses de Leon's circle. (2) The Midrash ha-ne'lam, written in a mixture of Hebrew and Aramaic and full of Tibbonite philosophical terminology, is the earliest part oftheZohar. (3) Moses de Leon wrote the greater part of his pseudepigraphic work before his Hebrew compositions, which bear dates from 1286 through 1293. (4) The Midrash ha-ne'lam was written before 1280, the other sections of the Zohar between 1280 and 1286.
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