| Title |
Doubt and certainty in Late Modern Kabbalah : a tale of two schools. |
|---|---|
| Original Library/publisher |
Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion. Vol. 1. Edited by Ze'ev Strauss. Leiden Boston: Brill, 2022 |
| Host Item |
Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion (2022) 79–106 |
| Description |
In this paper, two test-cases for examining the role of doubt in late modern Kabbalah are addressed and compared: R. Gershon Henikh Leiner (1839–1891), leader of the controversial Izbiche-Radzin school, and R. David Kohen (1887–1972), an important student of the famous R. Avraham Itzhak ha-Kohen Kook. In the former case, Leiner frames doubt, even with regard to God’s existence, as central to the existential human condition, and thus to divine worship. For Kohen, doubt was bound up in his very identity as a religious philosopher, as well as a constant companion of his often-frustrating quest for prophetic experience. He thus provides the most extensive explicit treatment of scepticism extant in kabbalistic literature. Based on these prominent examples, from adjacent yet discrete historical, cultural, and geographical settings, it is claimed that as modernity progressed, doubt occupied a more prominent and challenging place in Kabbalistic writing and experience. |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
997013545289905171 |
| Links |
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