From Neoplatonism to Kabbalah: A Mystical Exploration

Neoplatonism and Jewish Mysticism, an introduction. Exploring the debated origins of Kabbalah. Presenting Scholem’s Gnosticism and Neoplatonism origin hypothesis, Idel’s rejection of it and his own more nuanced theory.

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00:00 Disclaimer
00:45 Shout out
02:06 Where does Kabbalah come from?
04:44 a word from our sponsors
05:21 Kabbalah as a Historical Phenomena
07:37 What is Kabbalah?  
08:28 Why then, why so?
09:57 Gershom Scholem
11:55 What is Neoplatonism?
14:20 From Scholem to Idel
15:23 Moshe Idel
18:55 Idel’s Theory
22:01 Thank you and shout out

Sources and Further Reading
• Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah, 1974, pp. 45, 98.
• Gershom Scholem, Major Trends, 1941, pp. 74-75.
• Gershom Scholem, Origins of the Kabbalah, 1987, pp. 269, 363.
• Moshe Idel, "On Binary 'Beginnings' in Kabbalah-Scholarship", in Aporemata. Kritische Studien zur Philologiegeschichte 5 (2001): Historicization-Historisierung, pp. 322-25
• Moshe Idel, Kabbalah: New Perspectives, 1988, pp. 30-2
• Moshe Idel, “Jewish Kabbalah and Platonism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance” in Lenn Goodman, Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought, State University of New York Press, 1992, pp. 318-9
• Lloyd P. Gerson, Foreword, Neoplatonism (Hackett Classics) 2nd Edition, by Lloyd P. Gerson and R. T. Wallis
• Pauliina Remes and Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, “Introduction: Neoplatonism today,” in The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism by Pauliina Remes and Svetla Slaveva-Griffin (eds.)



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