I remember at the Kabalah yeshiva in the Old City the Rashash guys always asking for someone to come in off the street for kadish. I went in once because,hey, it's just for kadish how long could it take...
When Bet El started its intellectual decline (it took a few generations to finish working through the Rashash's system) it was replaced by the Sadeh and his Talmidim. Notably, the haskamos to Sadeh are from the European Leshem and Munkatcher. He revived intellectual stimulation (and acceptance of Ashkenazi mekubalim) and together with others like Emes Leyaakov who worked with the Toras Chochom, caused the revival of both creativity and personal growth.
After reading this exhaustive and well done analysis of what appears to a modern critical thinker as a combination of escapism and science fiction via Judaism ( in name at least) you thank הקב״ה that this stuff is basically the domain today of a few obscurantists and a small group of individuals who still need the escapist outlook .
I am inspired by the lofty thoughts of a Ramban ( with his Kabbalah tied down where it belongs ) Ibn Ezra , Radak , Abravanel , Ramban , Rashi, Rashbam and the modern likes of Hirsch , Netziv , Malbim and whole host of others . A Judaism of this world by this world and of this world.
1) That problematic millenarian / apocalyptic / antinomian tendencies equally existed in pre-Zoharic Judaism.
2) That rabbis such as Rabbis Sasportas and Hagiz x 2 were 'zoharists' who were nevertheless opposed to the millenarian / apocalyptic / antinomian tendencies of the Sabbateans.
3) That Rabbis Luria and Sharabi innovated so much out of whole cloth in developing their systems that, despite their claims of lineal descent, in reality they are not zoharists, and may have claimed lineal descent for reasons of rabbinic convenience.
I remember at the Kabalah yeshiva in the Old City the Rashash guys always asking for someone to come in off the street for kadish. I went in once because,hey, it's just for kadish how long could it take...
When Bet El started its intellectual decline (it took a few generations to finish working through the Rashash's system) it was replaced by the Sadeh and his Talmidim. Notably, the haskamos to Sadeh are from the European Leshem and Munkatcher. He revived intellectual stimulation (and acceptance of Ashkenazi mekubalim) and together with others like Emes Leyaakov who worked with the Toras Chochom, caused the revival of both creativity and personal growth.
After reading this exhaustive and well done analysis of what appears to a modern critical thinker as a combination of escapism and science fiction via Judaism ( in name at least) you thank הקב״ה that this stuff is basically the domain today of a few obscurantists and a small group of individuals who still need the escapist outlook .
I am inspired by the lofty thoughts of a Ramban ( with his Kabbalah tied down where it belongs ) Ibn Ezra , Radak , Abravanel , Ramban , Rashi, Rashbam and the modern likes of Hirsch , Netziv , Malbim and whole host of others . A Judaism of this world by this world and of this world.
https://youtu.be/4VabfmZjSrc?si=yLkBuTFXweMTaStX
It's interesting to see that nowadays bet-el is an epicenter of messianic baboonism..
“Wow. I don’t even know where to start”.
I would start by reading the entire article, and then organising your response into paragaphs, preferably with one main theme or argument in each one.
1) That problematic millenarian / apocalyptic / antinomian tendencies equally existed in pre-Zoharic Judaism.
2) That rabbis such as Rabbis Sasportas and Hagiz x 2 were 'zoharists' who were nevertheless opposed to the millenarian / apocalyptic / antinomian tendencies of the Sabbateans.
3) That Rabbis Luria and Sharabi innovated so much out of whole cloth in developing their systems that, despite their claims of lineal descent, in reality they are not zoharists, and may have claimed lineal descent for reasons of rabbinic convenience.