Version of record first published: 29 May 2012. Download pdf of Kabbalah, Jungian Psychology and the Challenge of Atheism Kabbalah, Jungian Psychology, and the Challenge of Contemporary Atheism Abstract: The major symbols of the Lurianic Kabbalah are examined from both theological and psychological points of view. It is argued that these symbols, including Ein-sof (the […]
Read MoreIs There But One “Kabbalah”? The Kabbalah, like many of the world’s great spiritual and textual traditions, is multi-layered and multi-textured. Those who approach it must inevitably focus upon one or two of its several aspects, while de-emphasizing and even ignoring others. The result of this process of selection is that it can appear that […]
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Symbols of the Kabbalah: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (Jason Aronson, 2000) provides a philosophical and psychological interpretation of the theosophical Kabbalah. It shows that the Kabbalah, particularly as it is expressed in the school of Isaac Luria, provides a coherent and comprehensive account of the cosmos, and humanity’s role within it, that is intellectually, morally, and […]
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Kabbalah and Postmodernism: A Dialogue (Peter Lang, 2009). In this volume Dr. Drob examines the convergence between Jewish mystical ideas and the thought of Jacques Derrida, the founder of “deconstruction,” and puts this convergence in the service of a theology that not only survives the challenges of atheism, cultural relativism, and anti-foundationalism, but welcomes and includes […]
Read MoreThe soul-searching on the part of the Democratic Party after the 2004 election focused to a significant extent on the question of “values;” specifically why it was that 80% of the electorate for whom values was the primary issue in the election voted Republican. While at the ’04 Democratic National Convention Barack Obama’s declaration that “we worship an awesome God in the […]
Read MoreIt is now nearly two weeks after the tragic event that has completely rewritten the meaning of being a New Yorker and an American. Not only has there been a hitherto unfathomable destruction of human life and property, but there has also occurred what in Kabbalistic terms can only be described as an eruption of […]
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