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1897–1982 Germany
Gershom Scholem (Hebrew: גרשם שלום — born Gerhard Scholem) (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982), was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian.
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The Kabbalah, literally 'tradition,' that is, the tradition of things divine, is the sum of Jewish mysticism.
On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism (1960)
A mystic is a man who has been favored with an immediate, and to him real, experience of the divine, of ultimate reality, or who at least strives to attain such experience.
On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism (1960)
The elements of the divine language appear as the letters of the Holy Scriptures.
On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism (1960)
No one has a right to speak who, in the midst of thinking, hasn't been overcome with the experience of glimpsing the essence of history.
We shall start from the assumption that a mystic, insofar as he participates actively in the religious life of a community, does not act in the void.
On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism (1960)