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Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781971325484
Publisher: Kudin & Sons Academic Press
Published: Jul 27 2026
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What does knowledge demand of the person who possesses it?
Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah are often assigned to separate worlds-one ruled by argument, the other by symbol, ritual, and hidden tradition. Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah restores them to their shared intellectual history.
From the Hebrew Bible, Philo, Saadia Gaon, Judah Halevi, Maimonides, and Spinoza to the Bahir, the Zohar, the kabbalists of Safed, and modern Jewish thought, Andrew V. Kudin traces a continuing struggle over revelation, law, knowledge, and human responsibility.
Philosophers and kabbalists faced the same burden: knowledge changes the person who possesses it. A conclusion about God reshapes prayer. An interpretation of Scripture alters conduct. A commandment binds the body; mystical intention reaches into the structure of the divine world. The clearer the sight, the heavier the demand.
The book follows Jewish thought through its encounters with Greek philosophy, Islam, Christianity, and modernity, separating genuine historical transmission from similarities that prove nothing. What emerges is a tradition unwilling to let knowledge remain innocent. To know something about God, law, creation, or the human soul is already to face the question of what that knowledge now requires of you.
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