Gershom Scholem - Kabbalah, Jewish Mysticism - 5 books
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Five books by the great Kabbalah scholar Gershom Scholem: Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (epub, mobi - high quality source) On the Kabbalah and Its Symoblism (pdf - new scan) Origins of the Kabbalah (pdf - reprocessed older scan) Kabbalah (pdf - new scan) Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and Talmudic Tradition (pdf - reprocessed older scan) The pdf files are all searchable (clearscan), with contents in bookmarks, accurate pagination and metadata, etc. about the author (from wikipedia): Gershom Scholem (December 5, 1897 – February 21, 1982), was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah, becoming the first Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His close friends included Walter Benjamin and Leo Strauss, and selected letters from his correspondence with those philosophers have been published. Scholem is best known for his collection of lectures, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941) and for his biography Sabbatai Zevi, the Mystical Messiah (1973). His collected speeches and essays, published as On Kabbalah and its Symbolism (1965), helped to spread knowledge of Jewish mysticism among non-Jews. Various stories and essays of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges were inspired or influenced by Scholem's books. He has also influenced ideas of Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, Harold Bloom, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, and George Steiner. American author Michael Chabon cites Scholem's essay, The Idea of the Golem, as having assisted him in conceiving the Pulitzer-Prize winning book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
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workerbee at 2013-06-29 17:56 CET:
A simply outstanding compilation. Thank you very much for this!
C'mon.... This is the mystical nonsense that many jews waste their lives about, throwing away ten or twelve hours of their lives nodding away reading this nonsense that leads nowhere.... Pathetic really.....
workerbee at 2013-07-08 01:04 CET:
Scholem's research on the Kabbalah, to which he devoted a lifetime, represents scholarship of the very highest order. Potential readers should not be dissuaded by Sakstroy's casual dismissal of these books as "mystical nonsense". Whether you are a person of faith or not, anyone interested in Jewish history and culture will be immeasurably enriched by the encounter with Scholem's work, especially his groundbreaking "Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism".
sakstroy, you sound as if you wasted only 5 minutes of your life on it, certainly didn't understand it, and now being mad at it doing the last thing you can to fullfill yourself: rant at it. Now, this is exactly what kabbalah teaches to be free of, unconscious meaningless actions, being thoughts, being reactions, being the world, being.. utmost external things that make an angry crybaby out of you now. And yet i'm not trying make fun of you, i'm just showing to you what might be hiding beneath that pile of nonsense that you're so angry at now. Cause i know you tried to study it, but at some point gave up. Otherwise... how did you happen to be here?
And thanks to uploader, great release indeed.
Thank you very much!
Sakstroy - Kabbalah holds a panentheistic worldview, wherein reality is but a mode of God's existence. We exist on a select set of Sefirot (attributes) held by the single substance in existence, God, who possesses unending (Ein Sof - Unending) attributes. If you've had any cursory experience with philosophy, this would sound very similar to the theories expressed by Baruch Spinoza (a Sephardic Jew).
Spinoza created an overwhelming critique of Descartes. He has been called the Prince of Philosophy. He is a father of atheism and modern science. He brings to the Enlightenment the ideal of a separation between religion and government. He is the beginning of Biblical criticism. It has been said, "You are either a Spinozist or not a philosopher at all." What was the philosophy that Spinoza created that accomplished so much? Spinoza believed that reality is but a mode of existence based upon a select set of attributes possessed by the only existing substance. This substance, in turn, possesses infinite other attributes. As such, reality exists within the substance, but the substance transcends reality (panentheism). Spinoza created Rational Kabbalah, and Rational Kabbalah created the modern world. You call that "nonsense that leads nowhere"?
Spinoza created an overwhelming critique of Descartes. He has been called the Prince of Philosophy. He is a father of atheism and modern science. He brings to the Enlightenment the ideal of a separation between religion and government. He is the beginning of Biblical criticism. It has been said, "You are either a Spinozist or not a philosopher at all." What was the philosophy that Spinoza created that accomplished so much? Spinoza believed that reality is but a mode of existence based upon a select set of attributes possessed by the only existing substance. This substance, in turn, possesses infinite other attributes. As such, reality exists within the substance, but the substance transcends reality (panentheism). Spinoza created Rational Kabbalah, and Rational Kabbalah created the modern world. You call that "nonsense that leads nowhere"?
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